Andre Olivier sets SA 600m record in Birmingham
South Africa’s middle-distance runner Andre Olivier set the fastest ever time by a South African athlete over the unofficial 600m distance at the Sainsbury’s Birmingham Grand Prix on Sunday.
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South Africa’s middle-distance runner Andre Olivier set the fastest ever time by a South African athlete over the unofficial 600m distance at the Sainsbury’s Birmingham Grand Prix on Sunday.
Ethiopia’s Muktar Edris won the men’s 5000m in a world season’s best of 12:54.83 at the 2014 DN Galan IAAF Diamond League meeting in Stockholm on Thursday.
Today marks exactly one year to go to the start of the 15th IAAF World Championship, Beijing 2015 which will take place from August 22 to 30, 2015 at the Bird’s Nest.
Nigerian sprinter Gloria Asumnu has been selected as one of the inductees into the Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2014 to be held on Thursday November 13, 2014.
Kenyan Leonard Komon, the 10km and 15km world record-holder on the roads, will make his marathon debut at the 2014 De Lage Landen Marathon Eindhoven on October 12.
Ethiopia’s Atsedu Tsegay and Philemon Limo of Kenya will race each other at the Mattoni Usti nad Labem Half Marathon in the Czech Republic on September 14, 2014.
Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai will take on newcomer and compatriot Geoffrey Ronoh at the Birell Prague Grand Prix, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, in Prague on September 6, 2014.
South African tops Marrakech 2014 medals table, Eunice Sum and Grace Wanjiru add to Kenyan haul, Nigeria wins women’s 4x400m relay on the final day of the 19th African Senior Athletics Championships in Marrakech.
South Africa Cheyne Rahme breaks the championships record on day 4 of the 19th African Senior Athletics Championships, Marrakech 2014, while Nigeria swept the men’s 110m hurdles medals.
Kenya swept men’s 3000m steeplechase, Chinwe Okoro gave Nigeria Discus gold, and Cornel fredericks, Hellen Obiri and Botswana duo of Isaac Makwala and Nijel Amos won on day 3 at Marrakech 2014 – the 19th African Athletics Championships.
The 2nd day of the 19th Africa senior championships, Monday 11 August, confirmed the new supremacy of Nigeria’s and Ivory Coast’s sprinters on the continent.
Nguse Amlosom of Eritrea made history by winning his country’s medal at the African Senior Athletics Championships with the men’s 10,000m gold medal on the 1st day of competition in Marrakech.
The Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) on Thursday signed a protocol agreement (d’un protocole d’accord) with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) on the establishment of a high performance training centre (HPC) at the University of Port-Harcourt.
Commonwealth Games double sprint champion, Blessing Okagbare, will lead the Nigerian team comprising of 30 athletes to the 2014 African championships in Marrakech, Morroco.
Director-General of the National Sports Commission, Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye expressed satisfaction with the performance of the Nigeria Athletics team in Glasgow and said the development bodes well for the country’s chances at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
South Africa’s new crop of talented athletes delivered on the promise they possess as they contributed three of the four medals in the track and field at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games on Wednesday.
The recently-concluded IAAF World Junior Championships (Oregon 2014) in Eugene led to a huge increase in the IAAF website’s usage when compared to the previous edition two years ago in Barcelona.
Kenyans Joyce Chepkirui, Florence Kiplagat and Emily Chebet blew the field away for a clean sweep of the women’s 10,000m medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Tuesday.
Blessing Okagbare smashes the Commonwealth Games 100m record to give Nigeria her first Athletics gold medal of the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Monday.
Athletics South Africa’s selection committee has been asked to reassess the final team for the African Championships, less than two weeks before the continental event in Marrakesh.
Kenyan Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku won the men’s 5,000m gold and compatriot Flomena Cheyech Daniel took the women’s marathon gold on day 1 of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Alemitu Haroye led an Ethiopian one-two and outsprinted her team-mate Alemitu Hawi in the final stretch to win the women’s 5000m at the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships in Oregon.
Kenyan Margaret Nyairera wins the women’s 800m in a personal best time of 2:00.49 at the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene – Oregon 2014.
Ethiopia’s world youth 3000m champion Yomif Kejelcha led for most of the last kilometre to win the men’s 5000m in 13:25.19 at the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
Alfred Kipketer restored Kenya’s dominance in the 800m with an impressive 1:43.95, the second-fastest time in the history of the IAAF World Junior Championships.
African athletes storm to three national records, a World Junior Record and various world-leading times on a record-breaking night at the 2014 Meeting Herculis – IAAF Diamond League in Monaco on Friday.
David Rudisha lived up to his promise at the Sainsbury’s Glasgow Grand Prix on Saturday with a commanding 800m performance to equal the time his Kenyan compatriot Asbel Kiprop ran in Paris last week.
With a total of 1546 athletes entered from 175 IAAF member federations, Oregon 2014 is set to be one of the biggest ever editions of the IAAF World Junior Championships.
Botswana’s Isaac Makwala smashed the African men’s 400m record at the 35th Résisprint international athletics meeting in the Stade de la Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland on Sunday.
South-African 400m Hurdler, Cornel Fredericks, continued his steady rise in the global rankings with another solid performance at the 2014 Meeting Areva – IAAF Diamond League meeting in Paris.
Egypt’s Abdelrahman El Sayed bounced back to win the men’s Javelin; Blessing Okagbare, Asbel Kiprop, Hiwott Ayalew, Edwin Cheruiyot Soi shine at the Meeting Areva 2014 – IAAF Diamond League in Paris.
Nigerian Olympian Enefiok ‘Enee’ Udo-Obong and AISTS course-mates joined the IOC President Thomas Bach to kick-off the 2nd edition of the Olympic Capital Run before Bach hosted the Olympic Day celebrations at the IOC headquarters today.
Africa’s fastest woman, Blessing Okagbare, will lead the Nigerian athletics team to the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next month and the Africa Athletics Championships, in Marrakech.
New Nigerian athletics champions, Mark Jelks, Tosin Oke and Nicole Denby, have all set medal targets for themselves at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, in Glasgow, Scotland next month.
Isaac ‘Izak’ Makwala lowered the Botswana national record for the men’s 400m to 44.83 seconds at the 53rd Golden Spike athletics meeting in Ostrava on June 17.
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.
South Africa sprint prodigy Wayde van Niekerk breaks the 15-year-old South African men’s 400m record at the 2014 adidas Grand Prix, IAAF Diamond League in New York on Saturday June 14, 2014.
Nigerian athletes Nicole Denby and Amaechi Cristian Cuevas Morton were among the winners at the 4th Warri Relays/Golden League meet held at the Warri Township Stadium, Warri, Delta State on Friday.
Glasgow 2014 organisers on Monday June 9 outlined changes to the provision of Wi-Fi access for accredited media at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) on Sunday congratulated Aleck Skhosana on his appointment as the new president of Athletics South Africa (ASA).
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba, put her patchy outdoor season form behind her with a strong performance to win the women’s 5000 metres at the IAAF Diamond League – Golden Gala meeting in Rome on Thursday.
South Africa’s Bongmusa Mthembu claimed his maiden Comrades Marathon title after clinching the 2014 ‘down run’ title by a comfortable margin, while Eleanor Greenwood won a dramatic women’s race in Durban on Sunday.
Johan Cronje lowers the 27-year-old South African record in the men’s mile to 3:50.70 on Saturday night at the 40th Prefontaine Classics – IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon.
World indoor champion Ayanleh Souleiman sets a new Djibouti mile record with a world leading time of 3:47.32 at the 40th Prefontaine Classic – IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday.
Kenya’s quartet of Collins Cheboi, Silas Kiplagat, James Magut and Asbel Kiprop sets a new World record of 14:22.22 in the Men’s 4x1500m at IAAF World Relays in Nassau.
Kenya wins the first gold medal at the inaugural IAAF World Relays in Nassau with an emphatic victory in the men’s 4x800m final, crossing the line in 7:08.40 and taking the US$50,000 first place prize money.
Kenyan women’s 4x1500m quartet of Mercy Cherono, Faith Kipyegon, Irene Jelagat and Hellen Obiri smashed the 4x1500m World Record at the IAAF World Relays in Nassau, The Bahamas on Saturday.
South Africa’s Andre Olivier wins the men’s 800m in 1:44.88; Morocco’s Rababe Arafi takes 1500m win in PB 4:02.71; Kenyans Paul Kipsiele Koech and Purity Kirui dominate the Steeplechase at Beijing’s IAAF World Challenge meeting.
Athletics fans in sub-Saharan Africa will be able to watch the inaugural IAAF World Relays, this weekend in Nassau, The Bahamas Live on the internet and also on SuperSport.
A total prize purse of USD $1.4million will be paid by the IAAF for the men’s and women’s races at the inaugural IAAF World Relays in Nassau, The Bahamas, on May 24-25, 2014.
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