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The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has launched an app for the iPod, iPad and Android devices ahead of the 14th IAAF World Championships starting in Moscow, Russia on Saturday August 10. The IAAF App will be the official Live results, statistics…
Continue readingEthiopia’s Jillo Dube will speak on the Ethiopian method of training for middle and long distances at the 2nd IAAF World Coaches’ Conference scheduled for Moscow on Monday August 19, 2013. The 2nd IAAF World Coaches’ Conference will present the…
Continue readinghas selected a team of 27 athletes to participate at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia from 10-18 August 2013. The team of 21 track & field athletes, four marathoners and two race walkers, includes 14 athletes…
Continue readingwill send a team of 21 athletes, 14 men and seven women to take part in the in Athletics to be held from August 10 to 18 next month in the Russian capital, Moscow. The contingent from the country to…
Continue readingEthiopian distance superstars, and will face Briton, Somali-born, Mohammed ‘Mo’ Farah in South Shields at the 2013 Bupa Great North Run on Sunday, September 15. The two former Olympic 10,000m champions and the reigning one will contest the same race for…
Continue readingThe dwindling fortunes being witnessed in Nigeria’s athletic scene could soon be a thing of the past with the newly activated Nestle/IAAF Kids Athletics programme, stakeholders have posited. At the official launching of the global initiative in Lagos Nigeria on…
Continue readingNigeria’s Blessing Okagbare twice lowered the African women’s 100m record to beat a star-studded line-up at the Sainsbury Anniversary Games – IAAF Diamond League meeting in London today. Okagbare first erased the 14 year-old mark of 10.90 secs, set by compatriot…
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A comprehensive blood testing programme will be organised at the IAAF World Championships, Moscow, Russia, as part of a sophisticated anti-doping programme for the 14th edition of the championships which take place from 10th to 18th August 2013. Two years…
Continue readingTwo former champions will return to the BMW Frankfurt Marathon while the silver medallist of the World Championships’ Marathon from Daegu 2011 has also been confirmed for the race on October 27th. Gilbert Kirwa won Germany’s oldest city marathon in 2009….
Continue readingWorld Champion Amantle Montsho of Botswana and Côte d’Ivoire’s Murielle Ahoure stormed to national records while Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare soared over seven metres twice at the Herculis Meeting – Diamond League in Monaco. Montsho, won the 400m in a national…
Continue readingAlgeria’s Olympic 1500m champion Taoufik Makhloufi on Thursday withdrew from next month’s IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow because of a viral infection, El Watan newspaper reported on its website. The 25-year-old had a difficult start to his outdoor season,…
Continue readingCaster Semenya won her first race after a lengthy injury layoff on Wednesday night, but fell well short in her attempt to qualify for next month’s IAAF World Championships. The South African clocked a pedestrian 2:06.58 to win the women’s…
Continue readingKenyan reigning World and Olympic champion David Rudisha has pulled out of the 800 metres at 2013 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia with a knee injury. Rudisha, 24, bruised the bone in his right knee at the Adidas…
Continue readingNestle Nigeria will launch the Nestlé/IAAF Kid’s Athletics Programme, in partnership with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), in Lagos on July 25. The programme, aimed at promoting the development of athletics in schools for children between ages 6 to…
Continue readingEthiopia’s Meresa Kahsay sets a World Youth best of 5:19.99 to win the boy’s 2000m Steeplechase Gold medal at the 8th IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine. Kaysay was seventh at the world juniors last year and took silver medal…
Continue readingLittle-known Kenyan girl, Lilian Kasait Rengeruk, announced herself on the big stage on Wednesday, winning the girls 3000m with a World Youth leading time of 8:58.74 on the first day of the 8th IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine….
Continue readingSouth African sprinter Anaso Jobodwana, who won the men’s 100m title on Monday, completed the double with a dominant performance to win the 200m title at the 27th Summer Universiade / World University Games in Kazan, Russia.
Continue readingThe International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has announced that, with one month to go until the IAAF World Championships, Moscow, Russia, 10 to 18 August 2013, the pinnacle competition of the IAAF World Athletics Series has extended its global…
Continue readingThe last batch of Team Nigeria’s contingent to this year’s IAAF World Youth Championship arrived Donetsk, Ukraine late Tuesday after spending about eleven hours in Istanbul, the Turkish capital. The delegation led by the Vice President of the Athletics Federation…
Continue readingSouth African athletes put the troubles at home behind them to win two gold medals on day two of athletics at the 27th Summer Universiade / World University Games in Kazan, Russia on Monday. Anaso Jobodwana won the men’s 100m…
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