Uganda leads global leaderboard as world celebrate five years of Kids’ Athletics Day
Children around the world celebrate five years of Kids’ Athletics Day as the Road to two million campaign aims to inspire 700,000-plus kids to get moving in 2026.
News and sport stories from Kampala and Naboole in Uganda and other parts of the East Africa country.
Children around the world celebrate five years of Kids’ Athletics Day as the Road to two million campaign aims to inspire 700,000-plus kids to get moving in 2026.
The Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo took 10 seconds off Yomif Kejelcha’s official world record for the distance at the EDP Lisbon Half Marathon 2026.
Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo, the world half marathon record-holder, won the 21K de Buenos Aires – a World Athletics Label road race – in Argentina on Sunday.
Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo breaks the world half marathon record in 56:42 at the 2025 eDreams Mitja Marató Barcelona by Brooks, a World Athletics Gold Label road race, on Sunday.
Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who was admitted to hospital in Eldoret, Kenya for treatment for 80% burns on Sunday, has died from ‘organ failure’.
Uganda’s marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who was attacked and set on fire by her Kenyan boyfriend, is receiving treatment for burns on 75% of her body, police said.
Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei smashes the Olympic 10,000m record to win the first track and field final of the Paris 2024 Games.
Jacob Kiplimo clinches the gold medal in the men’s 10,000m at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, in a new Commonwealth Games record of 27:09.19, to maintain Uganda’s domination of the event in the absence of world champion Joshua Cheptegei.
Uganda’s world record holder Joshua Cheptegei delivers a tactical masterclass to win a second successive world 10,000 metres gold – with compatriot Jacob Kiplimo settling for bronze – at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon on Sunday.
Jacob Kiplimo took another step up in class on Sunday when the Ugandan became a world record-holder with his 57:31 victory at the EDP Lisbon Half Marathon.
Ugandan Victor Kiplangat takes debut win while Kenyan Sheila Jerotich comes from behind in stunning sister act at the 2021 N Kolay Istanbul Marathon.
Emmanuel Korir and Peruth Chemutai win first gold medals for Kenya and Uganda respectively on a great night for East Africa at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei won what is regarded as the toughest race on the planet at the World Cross Country in Denmark in March, and needed to draw on the same resources to win his first world 10,000m title in Doha on Sunday.
Ethiopia’s Muktar Edris, Beatrice Chepkoech of Kenya, and Halimah Nakaayi of Uganda blaze through to earn their respective African countries gold medals on Day four at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar.on Monday.
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.
Commonwealth Games 10,000m champion Stella Chesang from Uganda said she would be under pressure to deliver a gold medal when she lines up at the 21st CAA Africa Championships in Asaba, Nigeria from 1-5 August, 2018.
Uganda’s Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei completed a Commonwealth Games double in a new Games record on the sixth day of athletics competition with a resounding victory in the men’s 10,000m in Gold Coast on Friday.
Uganda’s Stella Chesang wins the women’s 10,000m women’s gold medal and Chukwuebuka Enekwechi earns Nigeria a first medal, a silver, with a best throw of 21.14m in the men’s Shot Put at the on-going 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia on Monday.
Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei sprinted clear to clinch the first track Commonwealth Games Athletics gold of Gold Coast 2018 in the men’s 5,000m at the Carrara stadium on Sunday.
Uganda’s Stephen Kiprotich, the 2012 Olympic gold medallist and the World Marathon champion, will return to the Haspa Marathon Hamburg on Sunday April 29.
Uganda’s Ronald Musagala has been added to a stellar line up of international stars competing at the 2018 Athletix Grand Prix Series and will run in the 1500m and 3000m.
Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei, the World 10,000m silver medallist, is the first big name announced to compete at the inaugural Athletix Grand Prix Series 2018 in South Africa next month.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has thrown out the appeal for disqualification of Ugandan athlete Ronald Musagala during the men’s 1500m heats.
The Ugandan Athletics coach, Peter Wemali, who was arrested for allegedly defiling and raping three female national runners, was said to have infected the athletes with the HIV virus, court heard on Thursday.
Ugandan athletics coach Peter Wemali, arrested for allegedly defiling and raping three teenage female national runners, was on Thursday evening ordered to be remanded in judicial custody for two weeks.
Kampala, Uganda to host the 2017 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, the IAAF Council announced at the Fairmont Hotel in Monaco on Tuesday.
Winnie Nanyondo of Uganda scores a surprise victory to win the women’s 800m in her first international competition in 1:59.27, misses national record by 0.19 seconds, at the 53rd Golden Spike athletics meeting in Ostrava.
Uganda team to the IAAF/AL-Bank World Half Marathon Championships 2014 in Copenhagen on Sunday will be led by double Commonwealth Games champion Moses Ndiema Kipsiro.
Kampala University student Winnie Nanyondo led Uganda to an individual podium sweep and team dominance at the just ended 19th World University Cross Country championships at the Entebbe Golf Course on Saturday.
Moses Kipsiro, will lead the senior men’s team to the 3rd Africa Cross Country Championships at Kololo Memorial grounds in Kampala, Uganda on Sunday March 16, 2014.
A quartet stacked with talent comprising Stephen Kiprotich and Wilson Kipsang on the men’s side and Edna Kiplagat and Priscah Jeptoo for the women are contenders for the AIMS Best…
Uganda’s World marathon champion, Stephen Kiprotich, said the IAAF World Championships gold is his best medal as compared to the one he won in the London 2012 Olympics Games. While…
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