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Francine Niyonsaba won the women’s 800m gold in a world-leading national indoor record of 2:00.01 for Burundi on final day at Portland 2016 – IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Continue readingTwo silver medals by Burundi’s Antoine Gakeme and Ethiopia’s Dawit Seyaum, and a bronze medal by Gudaf Tsegay highlight African performances on day 3 of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 on Saturday.
Continue readingKenya’s Solomon Kirwa Yego clocked a world-leading time of 58:44, and Ethiopia’s Worknesh Degefa ran 1:07:08 to win at the 42nd Roma-Ostia Half Marathon on Sunday.
Continue readingKenyan athletes won every available title at the 4th edition of the African Cross Country Championship in Yaoundé, Cameroon on Saturday 12 March, 2016.
Continue readingSouth African World 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk claimed a historic sprinting landmark after clocking 9.98 PB at the Free State Championships in Bloemfontein on Saturday.
Continue readingAlgeria’s Larbi Bourrada has accepted the official invitation from the IAAF to compete in the combined events at the IAAF World Indoor Championships – Portland 2016.
Continue readingSprinter Sean Safo-Antwi has been cleared to switch his allegiance from Britain to Ghana with immediate effect, British Athletics has announced.
Continue readingOrganisers of the annual Okpekpe 10km Road Race in Nigeria have announced a new prize money outlay for the fourth edition of the race scheduled for Saturday 7 May, 2016.
Continue readingSouth Africa sprint champion Akani Simbine broke the SA 100 metres record by 100th of a second at the 1st ASA’s Night Series meeting at the Pitditch Stadium in Pretoria on Tuesday night.
Continue readingSouth African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) launches #TeamSARise campaign ahead of Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil this summer.
Continue readingKenyan reigning Olympic champion, David Rudisha, began the 2016 Olympic year with a win in the men’s 800m at the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Melbourne on Saturday.
Continue readingRabat, Morocco replaces New York as host for 2016 as the prestigious IAAF Diamond League global series of one-day athletics meetings expands into Africa.
Continue readingKenya’s Levy Matebo Omari will take his bow at the 2016 Vienna City Marathon on 10 April and will be the fastest man in the field at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race.
Continue readingKenyans Eliud Kipchoge and Mary Keitany, the world’s best Male and Female marathoners for 2015, earned $1 Million total prize purse for winning the Abbott World Marathon Major Series IX.
Continue readingMore than 600 runners from across the world will be taking part in the second edition of The Carthage Race International Marathon in Tunisia on 28 February, 2016.
Continue readingGenzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia broke the world indoor mile record (4:13.31) while Ayanleh Souleiman of Djibouti set a new mark over 1000m (2:14.20) in Stockholm on Wednesday February 17, 2016.
Continue readingEast Africans dominate the maiden edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon with Kenyan Abraham Kiptum and Ethiopian Halima Hussen taking top honours in Lagos.
Continue readingKenyan former World marathon record-holder Wilson Kipsang will clash with his African compatriots at the 2016 Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) Half Marathon in the United Arab Emirates on February 12.
Continue readingTop African marathon stars have begin to arrive in Lagos, Nigeria for Saturday’s maiden Access Bank Lagos City Marathon 2016.
Continue readingDoreen Amata improved her Nigerian indoor record to 1.93m at the 22nd Banskobystricka latka High Jump Meeting in the Slovak city of Banska Bystrica on Thursday, but misses out on the African indoor record.
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