Van Niekerk lands historic sprinting mark in Bloemfontein
South 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.
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South 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.
Algeria’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.
Sprinter Sean Safo-Antwi has been cleared to switch his allegiance from Britain to ?Ghana? with immediate effect, British Athletics has announced.
Organisers 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.
South 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.
South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) launches #TeamSARise campaign ahead of Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil this summer.
Kenyan 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.
Here are the four new innovations which will be incorporated into the 16th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland 2016 from 17-20 March.
Rabat, Morocco replaces New York as host for 2016 as the prestigious IAAF Diamond League global series of one-day athletics meetings expands into Africa.
Kenya’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.
Kenyans 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.
More 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.
Genzebe 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.
East 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.
Kenyan 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.
Top African marathon stars have begin to arrive in Lagos, Nigeria for Saturday’s maiden Access Bank Lagos City Marathon 2016.
Doreen 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.
Nigeria’s Stephen Mozia set a new lifetime best, world lead and Nigerian indoor Shot Put record of 21.11m at the Vanderbilt Invitational in Nashville, Tennessee, USA on Saturday.
Ghanaian javelin record holder John Ampomah and national sprint queen Janet Amponsah have been crowned male and female Liquid Sports Ghana / Ethiopian Airlines Athletes of the Year 2015 respectively.
The 2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour will get underway in just over a week with the Karlsruhe indoor meeting in Germany set to raise the curtain on this new series on Saturday 6 February.
Organisers of the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Portland 2016, which will be staged between March 17-20, have released the official bulletin to mark the 50 days to go until the event.
Popular Nigeria dance-hall artiste Patrick Nnaemeka Okorie a.k.a Patoranking is the latest celebrity to sign on for the 2016 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon.
National record-holders Anaso Jobodwana and Henricho Bruintjies will feature on South Africa’s team for the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016.
Ethiopians Tesfaye Dibaba Abera and Tirfi Beyene Tsegaye were crowned winners at the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon in the United Arab Emirates on Friday.
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.
Liquid 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.
Portland set to host North America’s biggest ever IAAF World Indoor Championships with preliminary entries of 699 athletes (403 men, 296 women) received from 154 federations for 2016.
IAAF Council has announced the host cities for two 2016 IAAF World Athletics Series events: Rome will host the World Race Walking Team Championships and Bydgoszcz will host the World U20 Championships.
Senegalese 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.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Ethics Commission has announce the appointment of South African Justice Catherine O’Regan to the Commission.
Nigerian athletes participating in the 2016 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon seek to lower the national record and qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has commended the efforts of the Lagos State government for bringing back the Lagos City Marathon.
Twenty-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.
Ethiopians 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.
Olympic 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.
Some 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.
The IAAF received Letters of Interests from seven Member Federations interested in hosting the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships and the IAAF World U20 Championships.
The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the maiden edition of the Access Bank Lagos International Marathon was unveiled on Tuesday in Lagos, Nigeria.
South 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.
IAAF 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”
Ethiopia’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.
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.
Kenyan steeplechaser Ezekiel Kemboi is one of the six new members of the IAAF Athletes’ Commission appointed by the IAAF Council on Thursday November 26.
More 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.
Athletes 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.
The 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.
Kenenisa 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.
World record holders Zersenay Tadese (Eritrea) and Florence Kiplagat (Kenya) head the elite entry list for the 2015 Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on Sunday 29 November.
Namibia’s Frankie Fredericks has been named in the IAAF Inspection Team, and IAAF list the verification criteria to determine the qualification for membership of the IAAF by the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF).
Athletics Kenya vice president and IAAF Council member David Okeyo has reiterated that the Nike sponsorship deal was above board and executed with integrity.
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