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Nigerian reigning 100m champion Adeseye Ogunlewe, popular music star Olamide Adedeji (Olamide YBNL) and media celebrity Jimi Disu have all signed on for the 6 February, 2016 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon.
Continue readingLiquid Sports Ghana announces the first ever annual Ghana athletics award dubbed, the ‘Liquid Sports Ghana Athlete of the Year’ to honour and give recognition to deserving athletes.
Continue readingSenegalese Papa Massata Diack, the son of former IAAF President Lamine Diack, and two Russian athletics officials have been banned from the sport for life by the IAAF Ethics Commission.
Continue readingThe International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Ethics Commission has announce the appointment of South African Justice Catherine O’Regan to the Commission.
Continue readingNigerian athletes participating in the 2016 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon seek to lower the national record and qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Continue readingNigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has commended the efforts of the Lagos State government for bringing back the Lagos City Marathon.
Continue readingTwenty-five elite runners from the High Altitude Athletics Club of Jos in Plateau State have signed up to participate in the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon on February 6, 2016.
Continue readingEthiopians Tamirat Tola and Netsanet Gudeta took the honours to hand Ethiopia a first double victory at the 41st Boclassic New Year’s Eve Race in Bolzano in northern Italy on Thursday.
Continue readingOlympic relay gold medalist, Enefiok Udo-Obong, believes the 2016 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon will not only be well organized, but that it will also be glamorous.
Continue readingSome of the world’s top marathoners as well as the IAAF President, Lord Sebastian Coe are expected to participate at the maiden edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon scheduled for February 6, 2016.
Continue readingThe Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the maiden edition of the Access Bank Lagos International Marathon was unveiled on Tuesday in Lagos, Nigeria.
Continue readingSouth African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been granted bail on the provision he surrenders his passport and wears an electronic tag while he awaits sentencing for the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
Continue readingIAAF Ethics Commission provisionally suspends Isaiah Kiplagat, David Okeyo and Joseph Kinyua from any IAAF or Athletics Kenya position “in the interests of the integrity of the sport”
Continue readingEthiopia’s Birhanu Legese and Kenya’s Cynthia Limo came out on top after thrilling battles over the last kilometre for both the men’s and women’s titles at the 2015 Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on Sunday.
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Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba was named the female IAAF World Athlete of the Year for 2015 while compatriot Almaz Ayana won the Adidas golden shoe award on Thursday 26 November.
Continue readingKenyan steeplechaser Ezekiel Kemboi is one of the six new members of the IAAF Athletes’ Commission appointed by the IAAF Council on Thursday November 26.
Continue readingMore athletes from across the world are expected to take part in the 4th Sfax Marathon International Olive Trees race which has been listed among the Certified Marathon Courses in 2015.
Continue readingAthletes under the aegis of Professional Athletes’ Association of Kenya (PAAK) protested at AK office, demand Isaiah Kiplagat and David Okeyo step aside for full investigations into corruption allegations against them.
Continue readingThe Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) believes its officials are targeted negatively in the fight against doping that is bedeviling track and field discipline at the moment.
Continue readingKenenisa Bekele, one of the world’s greatest ever distance runners, is the 2015 Airtel Delhi Half Marathon Event Ambassador and will attend the race on Sunday 29 November.
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