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Kenya
Marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum and coach, Gervais Hakizimana, tragically killed in Kenyan road accident on Sunday.
World
Taking place from 1-3 March, the World Athletics Indoor Championships will feature more than 700 athletes as they compete across 26 events.
Kenya
Agnes Ngetich from Kenya broke the women's world record for the 10km distance, achieving a time of 28:46 at the 10K Valencia Ibercaja event...
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...
East Africa
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...
East Africa
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....
RSA
South Africa’s Olympic long jump silver medallist [link id=”230″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Godfrey Khotso Mokoena”] will put his specialist event on the back burner to pursue...
RSA
South African women’s 10km Challenge road race champion [link id=”333″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Mapaseka Makhanya”] says she is motivated to raise the bar further in next...
North Africa
More athletes are set to take part in the second edition of the Le Marathon International des Oliviers de Sfax on December 15, 2013...
World
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,...
Nigeria
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...
East Africa
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...
RSA
London 2012 Olympic silver medallist, [link id=”201″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Caster Semenya”] of South Africa, has her sights set on the world record and Commonwealth Games...
East Africa
Kenyans [link id=”210″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Vincent Kipruto” target=”_blank”] and [link id=”211″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Caroline Kilel ” target=”_blank”]triumphed in the 32nd BMW Frankfurt Marathon, where stormy and wet...
Mauritius
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...
Nigeria
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) will open a conditioning camp for athletes based in Nigeria on Sunday in a bid to ensure that...
East Africa
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...
East Africa
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...
East Africa
Gelete Burka of [link id=”82″ tax=”category” text=”Ethiopia” target=”_blank”] and Gilbert Kirwa from [link id=”81″ tax=”category” text=”Kenya”] will both wear the no 7 bibs for men...
East Africa
Ethiopian favourite Yemane Tsegay Adhane won a thrilling battle at the conclusion of the 2013 De Lage Landen Marathon Eindhoven, crossing the line in...
East Africa
Two years ago Berlin and Frankfurt produced two fascinating marathon races within an interval of just over a month. First [link id=”301″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Patrick...
East Africa
After spending two years being known as the man who came agonisingly close to matching the marathon world record, Wilson Kipsang of Kenya broke...
Europe
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...
East Africa
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,...
Namibia
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...
East Africa
Ethiopia’s distance running star Kenenisa Bekele bossed the field to win the men’s race at the [link id=”221″ tax=”post_tag” text=”2013 Bupa Great North Run”]...
Nigeria
Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday hosted [link id=”158″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Blessing Okagbare,”] Nigeria’s double silver medallist at last month’s IAAF [link id=”144″ tax=”post_tag” text=”World...
Nigeria
The technical director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Navy Commodore [link id=”148″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Omatseye Nesiama” target=”_blank”], has declared that the recent successes...
Egypt
Egypt’s Ahmed Hassan and South Africa’s Sabelo Ntokozo Ndlovu both set Championships records on day two of the [link id=”270″ tax=”post_tag” text=”11th African Junior Athletics Championships”]...
East Africa
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...
Nigeria
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...
North Africa
Le Marathon International des Oliviers de Sfax, [link id=”85″ tax=”category” text=”Tunisia”] have been granted the associate membership of the Association of International Marathons and...
World
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...
Uganda
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...