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Athletics South Africa (ASA) welcomes timely thumbs-up from Confederation of African Athletics on the on-going preparations for the CAA 20th African Senior Championships to be held in Durban.
Continue readingKenya will be sending her largest ever African championships team to the 20th edition of the African Senior Athletics Championships in Durban, South Africa.
Continue readingFederation Senegalaise d’Athletisme will be represented by 14 athletes at the 20th CAA African Senior Athletics Championships in Durban, South Africa next week.
Continue readingWayde van Niekerk will lead a strong South African team of 96 athletes to the 20th CAA African Senior Athletics Championships in Durban, South Africa next week.
Continue readingWorld 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa has moved up to third on the all-time 300m list after clocking 31.03 for victory at the JN Racers Grand Prix in Kingston, Jamaica on Saturday night.
Continue readingCôte d’Ivoire’s Murielle Ahoure sets a new African 100m record with a blistering run of 10.78 (1.6m/s) at the Star Athletics Pro Meet at the Montverde Academy in Florida on Saturday.
Continue readingIsah Salihu was the star athlete at the third leg of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) Golden League series in Sagamu, Ogun State on Tuesday.
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The first four IAAF Diamond League meetings of 2016 have now been held, meaning every Diamond Race discipline has been contested at least once.
Continue readingRuth Chebet and Hyvin Kiyeng missed the existing record by only one second in Eugene, but have another chance at at BAUHAUS-galan – Stockholm’s Olympic Stadium.
Continue readingSouth African David Gatebe won the 2016 Comrades Marathon men’s race in 5:18:19 while Charne Bosman took the women’s in 6:25:55 at the 89km ultra-race from Pietermaritzburg to Durban on Sunday.
Continue readingEthiopia’s Muktar Edris sped to his second consecutive Diamond Race victory of 2016 at the Prefontaine Classic IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene on Saturday.
Continue readingKenyans World champion Hyvin Kiyeng and World silver medalist Faith Chepng’etich Kipyegon shatter their national records at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene on Saturday.
Continue readingRaymond Ekevwo and Anikeme Alphonsus were the star performers at the 6th edition of the Nigerian youth and junior championships which held at the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos last week.
Continue readingThe 9th Meeting International Mohammed VI d’athlétisme, which held in Rabat on Sunday, was the first African stage in the history of the IAAF Diamond League and it brought its share of sports performance with seven meeting records.
Continue readingSouth African hurdlers Antonio Alkana and Le Roux Hamman were the star performers among a large group of SA athletes who competed at the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Dakar, Senegal on Wednesday.
Continue readingSouth African Ruswahl Samaai jumped 8.38m to equal the African all-comers’ record and his own PB at the IAAF Diamond League Meeting in Rabat, Morocco on Sunday May 22, 2016.
Continue readingCote d’Ivoire’s Murielle Ahoure tops 100m field, Kenyans Hellen Obiri and Kipyegon Bett record victories at the 2016 IAAF World Challenge meeting in Beijing’s national stadium on Wednesday.
Continue readingLeading global athletes are set to compete at the 9th Meeting International Mohammed VI, the 3rd leg of the 2016 IAAF Diamond League series, scheduled for 22 May at the Prince Moulay Abdellah sports complex in Rabat, Morocco.
Continue readingEthiopian Mosinet Geremew and Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir powered to impressive victories, beating hot and humid conditions, at the ninth TCS World 10K in Bengaluru on Sunday.
Continue readingGhana’s Elizabeth Dadzie and Atsu Nyamadi won the heptathlon and decathlon respectively for the Middle Tennessee State University at the Conference USA Track & Field Championships in Murfreesboro, TN last week.
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