In Pictures: Kamila Skolimowska Memorial – Wanda Diamond League Silesia 25
Gallery: African athletes in action at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial – Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia, Poland, on Saturday 16 August, 2025.
Gallery: African athletes in action at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial – Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia, Poland, on Saturday 16 August, 2025.
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon clocked 8:07.04, the second-fastest time in history, smashing the African 3000m record at the 2025 Wanda Diamond League in Silesia, Poland.
Gallery: African athletes in action at the London Athletics Meet – Wanda Diamond League meeting in London, UK on Saturday 19 July, 2025.
Gudaf Tsegay smashed the Ethiopian Mile record, while Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi held on to beat a strong men’s 800m field at the sold-out Novuna London Athletics Meet, a Wanda Diamond League meeting in London, on Saturday.
Kenyan Beatrice Chebet became the first woman in history to break 14 minutes for 5000m, clocking 13:58.06, at the 50th Prefontaine Classic in Eugene on Saturday.
Kenyan star Beatrice Chebet became the second-fastest woman in history with a meeting record at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Rome on Friday.
How to Watch World record-holder Gudaf Tsegay and Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet clash at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea – Wanda Diamond League in Rome, Italy, on Friday 6 June 2025.
Find out where and how to watch Gudaf Tsegay run, and follow the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold – Boris Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb.
The middle-distance race will feature the current world record holders in the women’s 5,000m and 10,000m, both of which were set at The Prefontaine Classic.
How to Watch: The 2025 Wanda Diamond League kicks off in Xiamen, China with an incredible line-up on Saturday 26 April 2025.
After the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, Guangzhou will host the World Athletics Relays in May and then the World Athletics Championships will take place in Tokyo in September.
Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia set a new championship record of 3:54.86 to claim the 1500m gold ahead of compatriot Diribe Welteji at the World Indoor Championships Nanjing 25.
All the latest news, action highlights and behind the scene gists about African athletes at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 – from 19-27 August, 2023.
Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay takes gold in women’s 5,000m; Kenyan Emmanuel Korir triumph in the men’s 800m; Hugues Fabrice Zango of Burkina Faso soars to triple jump silver while Tobiloba Amusan smashes the African record in women’s 100m hurdles heats on Day 9 at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Two-time Olympic 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon strikes Kenya’s first gold in the women’s 1500m, clocking a blistering time of 3:52.96 to regain her world 1500m title, at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon on Monday.
The 25-year-old eclipsed the championship record of 3:59.75, held by compatriot Gelete Burka, to lead an Ethiopian clean sweep of the women’s 1500m, crossing the line in 3:57.19.
African athletes Gudaf Tsegay, Beatrice Chepkoech and Kibiwott Kandie’s respective marks over 1500m, 5km and the half-marathon have been ratified.
World bronze medallist Gudaf Tsegay sets the track alight at the Meeting d’Athletisme Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais – a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting.
Ethiopian Lemlem Hailu’s world U20 indoor 1500m record of 4:01.57, set at the World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting in Lievin on 19 February 2020, has been ratified.
Kenya’s Hellen Obiri successfully defended her 5000m title in Doha, setting the pace for much of the race, then pouring on the pressure on the last lap to win comfortably in a championship record of 14:26.72.
Two silver medals by Burundi’s Antoine Gakeme and Ethiopia’s Dawit Seyaum, and a bronze medal by Gudaf Tsegay highlight African performances on day 3 of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 on Saturday.
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