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A thrilling 5000m final at the IAAF World U20 Championships Tampere 2018 which was won by Kenya’s Edward Zakayo would have been good enough to grace any Diamond League meeting both in terms of the line-up and ensuing spectacle.
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South Africa closed their campaign in style, bagging two more medals from Sokwakhana Zazini (Gold) and Breyton Poole (Bronze), at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland on Saturday 14 July.
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Caster Semenya broke another national record in Rabat, Morocco on Friday evening, surging to a comfortable victory in the women’s 1000m race at the ninth leg of the 2018 IAAF Diamond League series.
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Celliphine Chepteek Chespol of Kenya retains her World U20 Women’s 3000m Steeplechase title, her third gold medal since 2015, in a new Championships record time of 9:12.78 at the IAAF World U20 Championships Tampere 2018.
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Zeney van der Walt earned South Africa’s second gold medal of the IAAF World U20 Championships on Friday night, charging to a commanding victory in the 400m Hurdles Women final in Tampere, Finland.
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Kenya’s George Manangoi did his family name proud in the men’s 1500m final in Tampere on Thursday night, finding unfathomable reserves of speed and stamina to forge his way to victory in 3:41.71, outlasting Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who took silver in 3:41.89.
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Diribe Welteji opened Ethiopia’s gold medal account of the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland on Thursday with a stunning victory in the Women’s 800m final, crossing the finish-line in 1:59.74 – the first sub-two-minute clocking in the 32-year history of the championships.
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World and Olympic 800m champion, Caster Semenya, will lead a three-member South African contingent to the ninth leg of the 2018 IAAF Diamond League series in Rabat, Morocco on Friday night.
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Rhonex Kipruto and Beatrice Chebet earned Kenya two gold medals on the opening day of competition at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland on Tuesday.
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Kayle Blignaut opened South Africa’s campaign at Tampere 2018 in style on Tuesday, securing a gold medal by a centimetre to win the men’s Shot put final at the IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland.
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Vivian Gungaram, the president of Mauritius Athletics Association (MAA), vice-president and technical director of the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) has expressed satisfaction with the level of preparedness of the Delta-State govt and Asaba 2018 LOC for the 21st African Senior Championships in Asaba, Nigeria.
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42 African countries were present in Asaba, Delta State on Tuesday for the Delegates Registration Meeting (DRM) as the countdown to the 21st African Senior Athletics Championships (ASAC) Asaba 2018 continues.
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Athletics South Africa (ASA) on Sunday bid farewell to a modest sized but strong 19-member team departing for the IAAF World U20 Championships, which holds in Tampere, Finland from 10-15 July, 2018.
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Kenyan national junior team head coach Robert Ngisirei said they aim to reclaim the overall title at this year’s IAAF World U-20 Championships in Tampere, Finland from 10-15 July.
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The planned test competition to serve as a dress rehearsal for the 21st CAA African Senior Championships will take place at the newly-completed Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba Delta State on Wednesday, 18 July, 2018.
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Ugandan star athlete, Jacob Kiplimo, said his main focus is on winning medals for his country at the 2018 IAAF World U-20 Championships in Tampere, Finland next week.
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The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the CAA Asaba 2018 African Senior Athletics Championships will hold a fund-raising dinner on Thursday 12 July at the Grand Hotel, Asaba, featuring the creme de la creme of Delta State and sports in Nigeria.
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Rikenette Steenkamp produced another breakthrough performance on Sunday, obliterating her own South African 100m Hurdles record with a sterling performance at the Resisprint International Track and Field Meeting in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
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Caster Semenya broke her own South African record with a gun-to-tape victory in the women’s 800m event at the 2018 IAAF Diamond League Meeting in Paris, France on Saturday.
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A blend of experienced and promising individuals will be flying the Kenyan flag in pursuit of medals at the 21st edition of Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) Africa Senior Championships in Asaba, Nigeria from 1-5 August, 2018.
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