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Ethiopia
Reigning Dubai Marathon champion Dera Dida of Ethiopia will lead the women’s elite field when she returns for her title defence in Dubai in...
World
Athletes will compete for points in their chosen discipline at the 14 series meetings between April and September.
World
The 2024 World Athletics Continental Tour calendar is out, with the first Gold level meeting in Australia two months away.
Africa
The Queen’s Baton Relay tour visited all 18 African Commonwealth nations and territories some time ago, beginning in Aberdeen – Aberdeen, Sierra Leone that...
East Africa
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba smashed another world Indoor record, her third in 2 weeks, this time the two-mile record at the British Indoor Grand Prix...
Nigeria
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) is expecting a huge turn-out of Nigerian athletes at its maiden competition of 2014, the Over-Distance Races and...
Europe
The marathon event at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland will start and finish in Glasgow Green covering a route that will take...
RSA
Paralympic 400m champion, Oscar Pistorius, has reached an out-of-court settlement with a woman who laid an assault charge against him after a party at his...
East Africa
German-based Ethiopian, Eleni Gebrehiwot, defended her title at the ING Euro Cross Country meeting in the Luxembourg town of Diekirch on Sunday. Gebrehiwot, 31, won the...
Europe
With one month to go to the IAAF World Indoor Championships Sopot 2014, Sopot is optimistic of world records performances. The athletics world has...
East Africa
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba broke the world indoor 3000m record with a stunning 8:16.60 run at the Stockholm’s XL Galan, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting...
Nigeria
Former Nigerian athlete [link id=”383″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Ambrose Monye”] and co accused Andre Gouws have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Chanelle Henning...
Europe
British Athletics and Sainsbury has confirmed that the London leg of the 2014 IAAF Diamond League meeting will now take place at the Hampden...
Nigeria
The board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) presented to the media American Eric Campbell as the high performance director in Abuja on Tuesday....
East Africa
Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba smashed the women’s 1500m World Indoor Record at the IAAF Indoor track and field meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany on Saturday. Dibaba,...
RSA
Athletics South Africa’s suspension has been lifted, the South Africa Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) said on Wednesday. Sascoc said the decision “would give...
Nigeria
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) will hold the 2014 AFN All-Comers Over-distance and Distance Relays at the Gateway Stadium in Sagamu, Ogun-State on...
East Africa
A combination of the biggest pot of prize money and most pancake-flat course among the major marathons means that extraordinary results can be expected...
Africa
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded the broadcast rights in Sub-Saharan Africa to Infront Sports & Media AG and SuperSport International for the...
Africa
The deadline for the submission of bids and letters of guarantee to host the 3rd and 4th editions of the African Youth Games, scheduled...
Botswana
The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) recently organised a seminar for Chefs de Mission of various delegations that will take part...
East Africa
Kenyan Javelin star, Julius Yego, is looking forward to a tough 2014 as he continues to make inroads in a discipline hardly considered to...
East Africa
World marathon record holder Wilson Kipsang is eyeing to set a new course record when he lines up for the 2014 London Marathon race...
Nigeria
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...
RSA
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...
Angola
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...
Angola
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...
East Africa
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...
North Africa
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...
East Africa
Kenyan runners have an imposing record of success in the major city marathons in recent years but Dubai is an exception to the rule....
Africa
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...
East Africa
Kenya’s [link id=”298″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Geoffrey Kipsang” target=”_blank”] and compatriot [link id=”139″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Lucy Kabuu” target=”_blank”] will storm the 2013 Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on...
Africa
The IOC, the Olympafrica Foundation and the FC Barcelona Foundation (FFCB) have announced a new agreement to bring sport to people of all ages...
World
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board (EB) will meet at the IOC headquarters in Vidy, Lausanne, on Tuesday December 10, 2013. The EB...
East Africa
Ethiopian Imane Merga and Kenyan Gladys Cherono will start as favourites at the 39th edition of the International New Year’s Eve Run – BOClassics...
RSA
Athletics South Africa (ASA) president [link id=”172″ tax=”post_tag” text=”James Evans” target=”_blank”] says the annual general meeting (AGM) held on Saturday where the federation’s entire...
RSA
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...
Ghana
Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) became the latest national IAAF Member Federation to activate IAAF / Nestlé Kids’ Athletics, the flagship of the IAAF School...