Top Stories and all the latest athletics news and information from the sub-continents and regions of Africa.
Leeds Beckett University, in cooperation with the IAAF, will carry out the biggest biomechanics research project ever conducted in athletics during next month’s IAAF World Championships London 2017.
Commonwealth Games double sprint champion, Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor and NCAA 100m hurdles champion Tobiloba Amusan will lead the Nigerian team comprising of 12 athletes to the IAAF World Championships London 2017 from August 4 to 13.
IOC award exclusive broadcast rights to DStv SuperSport, Econet Media and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) for the Olympic Winter and Summer Games 2018-2024 in Africa.
Kenya’s former World marathon record-holder, Wilson Kipsang, is hungry for success on his return to the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on September 24
Olympic and World champion David Rudisha will lead a strong 49-member Team Kenya to defend his men’s 800m title at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London next month.
Team South Africa has announced its final 24-member team for the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London, taking place from 4-13 August, 2017 at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Stratford.
Alhaji Ibrahim Shehu Gusau was on Friday sworn in as the president of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) after his election on June 13, 2017 was upheld, and the bye-elections ordered by the Appeals Committee was cancelled.
Caster Semenya broke her own South African record, taking a superb victory in the Women’s 800m race at the 11th leg of the IAAF Diamond League series in Monaco on Friday.
Kelechi Nwanaga breaks 15-year-old Nigerian Javelin record with 58.15m; Blessing Okagbare and Ogho-Oghene Egwero anchor 4x100m teams to victory at 2017 Warri Relays & CAA Grand Prix in Ozoro.
South African jumper Ruswahl Samaai emerge victorious in the men’s long jump at the 2017 IAAF Diamond League Meeting in Rabat, Morocco on Sunday 16 July.
The 2017 Warri Relays & CAA Grand Prix is set to hold today (Tuesday, 18 July) at the Delta State Polytechnic Stadium, Ozoro, Nigeria.
Seye Ogunlewe and Patience Okon George both completed a hat-trick of national titles at the 2017 All-Nigeria Track and Field Championship / National Trials held in the Nigerian capital, Abuja on 13-15 July.
South Africa dominate the Boys 200m final with Retshidisitwe Mlenga winning Gold 21.03 (-0.7m/s), reversing position with the 100m champion teammate Tshenolo Lemao.
South Africa’s Breyton Poole, standing at 1.72m, cleared a height of 2.24m to win the Boy’s high jump gold medal on Day 4 IAAF World U-18 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya.
Ethiopia’s Melese Nberet delivered a late kick to take gold in a world U18 lead of 1:47.12 at the IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017 on Saturday.
Botswana’s Isaac Makwala broke his national 200m record in 19.77, and 75 minutes later raced to a season’s best 43.92 in the 400m at the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Madrid on Friday 14 July.
Ethiopia’s Abersh Minsewo won Gold in 9:24.62, marginally beating the home favourite Emmaculate Chepkirui, on Day 1 of the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya on Wednesday.
Tshenolo Lemao led a South African 1-2 of the Boy’s 100m at the IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017 on Wednesday evening, becoming the first South African athlete to win a world title in the event.
South African Athletics governing body Athletics South Africa (ASA) have announced a 22-member preliminary team for next month’s IAAF World Championships, London 2017.
Kenya’s Hellen Obiri won the Women’s 1 Mile race at the 2017 Müller Anniversary Games leg of the IAAF Diamond League in London on Sunday, breaking her national record and setting a new meeting record of 4:16.56.
South Africa’s Olympic 400m champion, Wayde van Niekerk clocked the fastest time in the world in 2017 and broke the long-standing meeting record at the eighth leg of the IAAF Diamond League series in Lausanne, Switzerland on Thursday 6 June.
Athletics South Africa concluded a successful 2017 Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the OR Tambo International Hotel, Kempton Park in Johannesburg on Saturday 17 June.
The 2016 Olympic champion is aiming to run faster at the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on September 24 than his compatriot Dennis Kimetto who set the world record, 2:02:57, on the renowned fast course in 2014.
South African sprinters Wayde van Niekerk and Clarence Munyai set world best times in the 300m event at the 2017 IAAF World Challenge Meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic on Wednesday 28 June.
Stephen Mokoka and Cornelia Joubert secure gold at the 2017 ASA Half-Marathon Championships at the Nelson Mandela Bay in Port Elizabeth on Saturday 24 June.
The South African track and field team won 24 medals at the 2017 CAA Southern Region Senior Championships held in Harare, Zimbabwe on 10 and 11 June.
South Africa announced an eight-member track and field team as part of a 24-member Team SA for the IV Commonwealth Youth Games in Nassau, Bahamas from 19-23 July.
South African Olympic 110m Hurdles semi-finalist Antonio Alkana broke the African and South African records in his specialist discipline on Monday in Prague, Czech Republic.
Irene Cheptai and Alex Korio made it a Kenyan double at the TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2017 race, winning at the 10th edition of the race in 28:12 and 31:51 respectively.
Luvo Manyonga bettered his own African long jump mark by 3cm, launching a massive 8.65m leap to earn the gold medal in his very first attempt in Potchefstroom.
Kenya’s Mary Keitany took 41 seconds off the women’s-only world record at the Virgin Money London Marathon, running 2:17:01 at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race on Sunday 23 April.
Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei broke four world records at the 2017 Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon when winning the IAAF Gold Label Road Race in 1:04:52 on Saturday 1 April.
South African teenager Sokwakhana Zazini sets a new World Youth 400m Hurdles record, clocking 48.84 to win the Under-18 men’s final on the opening day of the Athletics Gauteng North (AGN) Championships in Tshwane on Friday 17 March.
Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir broke the world record in the women’s half marathon today, clocking 1:05:06 at the RAK Half half marathon in Ras al-Khaimah, UAE.
World 1500m champion Genzebe Dibaba added to her growing list of record-breaking achievements by breaking the world 2000m record at the 2017 Miting Internacional de Catalunya in the Spanish city of Sabadell on Tuesday Feb 2.
Tanzania’s Alphonce Simbu and Kenya’s Bornes Kitur take the honours and USD$42,000 first prize cheques at the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2017
From next season, athletes will earn points in the first 12 IAAF Diamond League meetings to qualify for two final meetings where $100,000 will be at stake in each of the 32 Diamond Disciplines, including $50,000 for each winner.
ASICS and the IAAF have announce a new multiple-year partnership with ASICS becoming the latest addition to the prestigious group of Official IAAF Partners.
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt and Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana have been named the male and female World Athletes of the Year at the IAAF Athletics Awards 2016, held at Sporting Monte Carlo
Rio 2016 Olympic Games marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge, from Kenya, triumphs at the 2016 Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in 59:44
Organisers of the Sfax International Marathon, Sports Med Events (SME) have announced the signing of a partnership with SOPAL as title sponsor ahead of the start of the 5th edition of the event.
South Africa finished eighth on the medals table at the 22nd edition of the IAAF World Masters Athletics Championships in Perth, Australia.
Aleck Skhosana and his entire Athletics South Africa (ASA) board have been re-elected for another four-year term at the federation’s quadrennial general meeting in Kempton Park on Saturday 22 October, 2016.
Athletics South Africa held a successful and peaceful Quadrennial General Meeting at the Garden Court Hotel, OR Tambo Hotel in Kempton Park, Johannesburg on Saturday.
South Africans, Wayde van Niekerk and Caster Semenya are among the seven African athletes that have been shortlisted for the 2016 IAAF World Athlete of the Year award.
Lausanne 2020 preparations for the 3rd Winter Youth Olympic Games have been deemed well under way by the IOC after just over a year since the city was chosen as host.
Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele wins a thrilling duel with Wilson Kipsang but misses the world record by just six seconds, with a time of 2:03:03, at the 2016 BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on Sunday.
David Manja and Kesa Molotsane crowned national champions with victories in the Senior Men’s and Women’s 10km races at the SA Cross Country Championships in George.
Kenya will host the last edition of the IAAF World U18 Championships after the IAAF Council decided to discontinue the youth championships after the 2017 edition in Nairobi.
Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge won the men’s marathon gold on the final day of competition at the Rio 2016 Olympics to maintain his dominance in the grueling distance event by winning in 2:08:44.
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