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Top Stories and all the latest athletics news and information from the sub-continents and regions of Africa.
More than 2.4 million dollars will be paid as prize money by the IAAF to the leading athletes and teams at the 17th IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 from 1-4 March.
Continue readingBotswana’s Baboloki Thebe hopes of competing at the 2018 Athletix Grand Prix Series meeting in South Africa are up in smoke due to injury.
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IAAF Heritage sets out to preserve the legacy of Athletics, its heroes & heroines, their artefacts, and the documents, video & photographs that portray them and in turn engage with and inspire the stars and fans of the present and future.
Continue readingNigeria women’s 4x400m relay squad will be the sole African team to compete in the relay events at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 next week.
Continue readingThe Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) on Thursday announced a team of 37 athletes (20 female and 17 male) for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia from 4-15 April.
Continue readingWorld long jump bronze medallist, Ruswahl Samaai will open his 2018 season at the second Athletix Grand Prix Meeting on 8 March at Tuks Athletics Stadium in Tshwane.
Continue readingThe IAAF Doping Review Board has agreed to allow Russian athletes Maksim Afonin and Anna Krylova to compete in international competition as neutral athletes in 2018.
Continue readingAthletics South Africa have announced a team of seven athletes for the IAAF World Indoor Championships – Birmingham 2018 from 1-4 March.
Continue readingGenzebe Dibaba headlines the Ethiopian team to the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, UK, and will compete in the women’s 1500m and 3000m from 1-4 March.
Continue readingUganda’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.
Continue readingKenya’s 2015 World Javelin throw champion and 2016 Olympic Games silver medallist, Julius Yego, has been added to the growing list of global superstars for the 2018 Athletix Grand Prix Series meetings in South Africa.
Continue readingThe 2012 World Indoor 3000m champion, Hellen Onsando Obiri, will lead a seven-member Kenyan team to the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships from 1-4 March in Birmingham, UK.
Continue readingPatience Okon-George and Emmanuel Bamidele were the stellar performers at the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) Commonwealth Games 2018 Trials in Abuja 14-16 February.
Continue readingEthiopia’s Jemal Yimer and Ruti Aga, to headline the Ethiopian team to the 2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Valencia on 24 March.
Continue readingAthletics Kenya (AK) has selected a strong team with a good blend of youth and experience for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games after the Kenyan trials held at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani on Saturday.
Continue readingTop marathon runners from over 30 nations are expected on the starting line for the 4th edition of The Carthage Race 2018 International Marathon on Sunday, 25 February in Tunisia.
Continue readingAthletics South Africa (ASA) in conjunction with Stillwater Sports have unveiled PUMA South Africa as the official footwear and apparel partner of the 2018 Athletix Grand Prix Series.
Continue readingA 10-member national team has been named by Athletics South Africa for the IAAF World Half-Marathon Championships in Valencia, Spain on 24 March, 2018.
Continue readingSouth Africa’s double Olympic and triple World Champion, Caster Semenya will compete in the women’s 1000m, a rarely run event on the track, at the Tuks Stadium in Tshwane – the second of three Athletix Grand Prix Meetings – on Thursday, 8 March 2018.
Continue readingAthletics South Africa (ASA) has unveiled a nine-member South African team for the 2018 CAA Southern Region Cross Country Championships in Vacoas, Mauritius on February 24.
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