Kenyan Yego targets a pivotal year on the field
Kenyan Javelin star, Julius Yego, is looking forward to a tough 2014 as he continues to make inroads in a discipline hardly considered to be his country’s forte in athletics.…
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Kenyan Javelin star, Julius Yego, is looking forward to a tough 2014 as he continues to make inroads in a discipline hardly considered to be his country’s forte in athletics.…
World marathon record holder Wilson Kipsang is eyeing to set a new course record when he lines up for the 2014 London Marathon race on April 13. However, Kipsang is…
Nigerian 400m champion Regina George clocked an African indoor record of 1:25.76 to win the women’s 600m, by almost four seconds, at the Arkansas Invitational, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville,…
SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) has said the process followed at an Athletics SA (ASA) annual general meeting to oust its board was constitutional. “Both Sascoc and SRSA (Sport…
Ethiopian and Kenyan athletes dominated the Luanda International Meeting tagged ‘Demóstenes de Almeida’, held at the Coqueiros Stadium, in Luanda on Thursday. Ethiopian Yenew Gelahum won the men’s 5000m with the…
António Wassamba won the fourth athletics competition organised in honour of the late endurance runner José Muanbunji in Saurimo City, eastern Lunda Sul province on Tuesday. According to the Agencia Angola…
Ethiopian World cross-country vice champion Imane Merga celebrated his third victory at the BOclassic New Year’s Eve run after an incredibly thrilling finish in 28 minutes and 43 seconds. Merga, who had…
French athlete Larby Sraidi took the men’s race clocking 2:20:58 and Moroccan Khedija Laaribi won the women’s marathon in 2:56:09 at the second edition of the Le Marathon International des Oliviers de…
Kenyan runners have an imposing record of success in the major city marathons in recent years but Dubai is an exception to the rule. Ethiopians rule the roost when it…
Wilson Kiprop, Petro Mamu and Maryam Jamal are set to participate in the 2013 BOclassic international New Year’s Eve Run in Bozen/Bolzano. With two weeks left before the 39th edition…
Kenya’s Geoffrey Kipsang and compatriot Lucy Kabuu will storm the 2013 Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on December 15 looking for a fast race.
The IOC, the Olympafrica Foundation and the FC Barcelona Foundation (FFCB) have announced a new agreement to bring sport to people of all ages and abilities throughout Africa. Following the…
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board (EB) will meet at the IOC headquarters in Vidy, Lausanne, on Tuesday December 10, 2013. The EB is scheduled to receive reports from…
Ethiopian Imane Merga and Kenyan Gladys Cherono will start as favourites at the 39th edition of the International New Year’s Eve Run – BOClassics in Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. Following the example…
Athletics South Africa (ASA) president says the annual general meeting (AGM) held on Saturday where the federation’s entire board was dissolved is ‘unconstitutional and invalid’. Neither Evans nor vice-president were…
Athletics South Africa (ASA) has suspended five of the country’s regional athletics boards – Boland Athletics, Central Gauteng Athletics, KwaZulu-Natal Athletics, Athletics South Western District and Western Province Athletics – for…
Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) became the latest national IAAF Member Federation to activate IAAF / Nestlé Kids’ Athletics, the flagship of the IAAF School / Youth Programme, which is now…
Benjamin Kipkoech Limo will join an impressive line-up of speakers at the IAAF Global Seminar on Cross Country Running in the Serbian capital Belgrade on December 9, 2013. The 39-year-old Kenyan will…
The World 800m champion Mohammed Aman believes he has had the perfect year after his success in the Diamond league and at the World Championships in Moscow. Speaking to journalists ahead of the…
South Africa’s Olympic long jump silver medallist Godfrey Khotso Mokoena will put his specialist event on the back burner to pursue triple jump glory in 2014. “I need a new…
South African women’s 10km Challenge road race champion Mapaseka Makhanya says she is motivated to raise the bar further in next year’s Grand Prix, after she was won a car…
More athletes are set to take part in the second edition of the Le Marathon International des Oliviers de Sfax on December 15, 2013 in Sfax Tunisia. The Marathon, which…
The 200-day countdown has begun to the inaugural IAAF World Relays, which will be held in Nassau, The Bahamas, on the weekend of May 24-25, 2014.
Five African countries will compete for the US $65,000 at stake at the 5th African Mountain Running Championships which will hold alongside the Obudu international mountain race on Saturday, November…
Kenyans Geoffrey Mutai and Priscah Jeptoo won the men’s and women’s titles at the 2013 ING New York City Marathon on its return after a 1-year forced hiatus due to…
London 2012 Olympic silver medallist, Caster Semenya of South Africa, has her sights set on the world record and Commonwealth Games triumph in next year, after almost a year’s break from…
Kenyans Vincent Kipruto and Caroline Kilel triumphed in the 32nd BMW Frankfurt Marathon where stormy and wet weather ruined hopes for record performances.
The Association of African National Olympic Committees (ANOCA) has appointed the President of Mauritius Olympic Committee (COM), Philippe Hao Thyn Voon as head of the African Village at the Olympic Games…
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) will open a conditioning camp for athletes based in Nigeria on Sunday in a bid to ensure that her athletes make podium appearance at…
Kenyan police pledged today to boost security for the 11th Standard Chartered Nairobi marathon on Sunday, being staged just over a month since Al-Qaeda linked gunmen killed at least 67…
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…
Gelete Burka of and Gilbert Kirwa from Kenya will both wear the no 7 bibs for men and women races at the 32nd edition of the BMW Frankfurt Marathon on Sunday. Christoph Kopp,…
Ethiopian favourite Yemane Tsegay Adhane won a thrilling battle at the conclusion of the 2013 De Lage Landen Marathon Eindhoven, crossing the line in 2:09:11 and ending a 14-year Kenyan…
Two years ago Berlin and Frankfurt produced two fascinating marathon races within an interval of just over a month. First ran a world record at the BMW Berlin Marathon, when…
After spending two years being known as the man who came agonisingly close to matching the marathon world record, Wilson Kipsang of Kenya broke that record handsomely in Berlin on…
The Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) Best Marathon Runner of the Year award will be presented to a male and female athlete for the first time on November…
Defending champion Meselech Melkamu will return to the scene of her triumph last year when she runs the 32nd edition of the BMW Frankfurt Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race,…
Five of Namibia’s top athletes left for Jamaica last week as part of a long term training programme with the aim of improving Namibia’s chances of winning medals at the…
Ethiopia’s distance running star Kenenisa Bekele bossed the field to win the men’s race at the 2013 Bupa Great North Run in a sprint finish ahead of Somali-born Briton Mohammed…
Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, hosted Blessing Okagbare, Nigeria’s double silver medallist at the 2013 IAAF World Championships held in Moscow, Russia at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
The technical director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Navy Commodore , has declared that the recent successes for Nigeria in continental athletics championships are no fluke but dividends…
Egypt’s Ahmed Hassan and South Africa’s Sabelo Ntokozo Ndlovu both set Championships records on day two of the 11th African Junior Athletics Championships at the Stade Germain Comarmond in Bambous, Mauritius. Ahmed…
Meseret Defar’s outstanding 5000m win over her compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba was the highlights of the first of this season’s IAAF Diamond League finals on Thursday, writes Phil Minshull for the IAAF…
The President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Solomon Ogba, has explained the rationale behind dropping nine out of the 35 athletes originally selected to represent the nation at the …
Le Marathon International des Oliviers de Sfax, Tunisia have been granted the associate membership of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) effective in 2013. The membership approval…
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has said that at the conclusion of the final competition session, 268,548 stadium spectators had attended the eight evening sessions at the 14th…
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…
Kenya’s Ezekiel Kemboi won his third 3,000 metres steeplechase world title in convincing style at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow on Thursday August 15th. The 31-year-old, two-time Olympic champion,…
The 2010 African Champion, Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed from Egypt, today set a national record of 83.62 metres in the men’s Javelin Throw qualification at the IAAF World Championships in…
Kenyan Milcah Chemos Cheywa led an African sweep of the women’s 3000m Steeplechase final and Ethiopian Mohammed Aman won the men’s 800m title at the 14th . After two World…
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