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Happy new year and welcome to 2018 – the Commonwealth Games year. From all of us at AthleticsAfrica.com, we wish you a happy, healthy, prosperous and joy-filled 2018 season.
Continue readingLiberian sprinter Phobay Kutu-Akoi narrates to us exclusively on AthleticsAfrica.com her neglect by the Liberian Athletics Federation and her 48-hours of hell en-route to the African Championships in Durban, South Africa.
Continue readingDo you want to help mould the future of African Athletics? if yes, then join the conversation and help shape the direction of track and field in Africa on our Viber Public Chats platform.
Continue readingHello everyone! Happy New Year and an African welcome to 2016 – the Olympic and Paralympic year – from all of us here at AthleticsAfrica.
Continue readingLucy Mutisya is backing Kenyan javelin sensation, Julius Yego, to surprise many at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China from August 22-30, 2015.
Continue readingNigeria and African fastest woman, Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor, wishes new Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and new Delta-State governor Arthur Okowa Ifeanyi well on their inauguration into office.
Continue readingCarvin Nkanata rise to prominence proves one thing: If taken seriously and supported by AK, Kenya can enjoy greater success in sprinting, writes Lucy Mutisya
Continue readingWill Athletics Kenya be able to uphold the suspension of the two athletes’ agents, Federico Rosa of Rosa Associati and Gerard Van Dee Veen of Volare Sports, with little or no evidence against them at this time? asks Evelyn Watta.
Continue readingIOC President calls for sport to be included in UN Sustainable Development Goals during speech at UN headquarters on Wednesday April 15, 2015.
Continue readingInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach announces that the IOC will launch a free, online education service aimed specifically at Olympians, other elite athletes and their coaches.
Continue readingIn furtherance of it’s Olympic Agenda 2020 to protect clean athletes, the IOC launches whistle-blower hotline for competition manipulation and other ethical issues that threaten the integrity of sport.
Continue readingAthleticsAfrica.com team wishes you every happiness this holiday season and more prosperity in the New Year. Merry Christmas everyone, see you in 2015.
Continue readingToday marks a decade that AthleticsAfrica.Com website went live. 10 years of supporting and promoting Athletics in Africa. Happy Anniversary to us and a big thanks to all our supporters over the years.
Continue readingThe emergence of Kemi Adekoya in Bahraini colours at the IAAF Diamond League in Doha, Qatar last Friday shows there’s no end in sight to the talent drain of African athletes.
Continue readingAthleticsAfrica.com supports the first International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP 2014) taking place worldwide today, April 6, 2014.
Continue readingHello everyone, Welcome to 2014. As this is my first Editor’s note for this year, Let me begin by wishing you all, our dear readers, friends, administrators and track and field stakeholders in Africa and around the world a Happy…
Continue readingA few days ago, our good friend Roberto Mandje brought to our attention on his blog his mentee, Abreham Anderson from Ethiopia. Now Roberto is a trail/distance running star and a 2004 Athens Olympian in the 1500m event. Though born in Barcelona,…
Continue readingAgainst the backdrop of ‘s historic and sensational world record run at the BMW Berlin Marathon on Sunday was a side story of the little-known Kenyan, – the unknown runner. As the 31-year-old Wilson strode to the new 2:03:23 record,…
Continue readingIt’s that time again!! The World Championships are here once more and this time in Moscow, Russia. After the excitement of the last world championships in Daegu, South Korea it is safe to assume that this year it will be…
Continue readingThe 67th CRS/AFN All Nigeria Athletics Championships have come and gone but the memories will surely linger on, writes Babatunde Eludini. While old guns like Blessing Okagbare, Ajoke Odumosu and Doreen Amata all held their own in their respective events;…
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