Fitwi and Ringer choose Frankfurt for autumn marathon
German marathon stars Samuel Fitwi and Richard Ringer will run the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon on 25th October. With times of 2:04:45 and 2:05:46 Samuel Fitwi and Richard Ringer are number…
German marathon stars Samuel Fitwi and Richard Ringer will run the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon on 25th October. With times of 2:04:45 and 2:05:46 Samuel Fitwi and Richard Ringer are number…
Kenyan-born star distance runner and Kinesiology Major at the University of Louisville, Elsingi Kipruto, signs with Swiss sports brand On.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation and Golazo have joined forces to launch the Nelson Mandela Marathon, a new global running movement rooted not in performance, but in purpose.
Côte d’Ivoire delivered a surprise victory in the men’s 4x100m, breaking their national record to beat defending champions Ghana and Nigeria at the African Senior Athletics Championships Accra 2026.
Host nation Ghana claimed a silver and two bronze medals on day three of the African Senior Athletics Championships 2026, kicking off their medal haul.
President of the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) and World Athletics Council Member Hamad Kalkaba Malboum died on Wednesday 13 May at the age of 75.
Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) Council selects Botswana and Mauritius to host the African Athletics Senior Championships in 2028 and 2030, respectively.
Wanda Diamond League and Zeekr partner to support performance at the highest level of athletics.
The first relay teams have qualified for the World Athletics Ultimate Championship Budapest 26 after the mixed 4x100m and mixed 4x400m finals at the Debswana World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26 on Sunday.
Challa Gossa and Stacy Ndiwa denied the defending champions, Evans Mayaka and Emmah Ndiwa, the titles at the 2026 Cali Marathon in Colombia on Sunday May 3.
Live Updates of the final day of competition from the Debswana World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26 at the national stadium in Gaborone, Botswana on Sunday May 3.
The first eight teams in each relay event at the Debswana World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26 have secured their places for the World Athletics Championships Beijing 27 following the opening day of competition on Saturday
Live Updates of the first day of competition from the Debswana World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26 at the national stadium in Gaborone, Botswana on Saturday May 2.
Participating nations at this weekend’s Debswana World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26 will be hoping to secure their qualification for the 2027 World Athletics Championships in Beijing.
History will be made in Botswana this weekend as the Debswana World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26 sees the global competition take place in Africa for the first time.
Olympic champion Winfred Yavi and world champion Faith Cherotich will go head to head in a thrilling 3000m steeplechase clash at the Diamond League meeting in Xiamen.
Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games organisers unveils historic and ‘standout’ prize medal, designed to celebrate achievement, inclusion and the city of Glasgow, at the Glasgow School of Art.
Kenya’s Mathew Kipchumba Kipsang won the men’s title, while Italy’s Nadia Battocletti retained the women’s overall title in the 2025/26 World Athletics Cross Country Tour.
The medals that the world’s best relay runners will compete for at the Debswana World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26 have been unveiled, with 10 days to go to the global event on 2-3 May.
The World Athletics Nationality Review Panel refuses the applications of 11 athletes seeking to transfer their allegiance to Türkiye.
In the 2026 season, individual athletes will be able to earn up to 20,000 US dollars (USD) at series meetings and up to 60,000 USD at the Wanda Diamond League Final, the highest level in the series’ 17-year history.
The Mazzraty Doha Meeting was originally scheduled to take place at the Qatar Sports Club on May 8 as the opening event of the 2026 Wanda Diamond League season.
Sprint stars Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and Letsile Tebogo to kick off campaign at World Athletics Relays, celebrating five years of Kids’ Athletics Day on May 7, 2026.
Athens emerges as preferred host for inaugural edition; Athens Marathon The Authentic achieves Elite Label status as plan launches to secure hosting rights.
Competing on the same track as elite professional athletes from around the world, children will have an opportunity to display their talent in a range of sprint races from 60 metres to 100 metres for kids between the U7 and U15 age groups.
A record number of meetings will feature in the 2026 World Athletics Continental Tour with four meetings on the African continent out of more than 280 meetings.
Kenyan distance legend Eliud Kipchoge has announced the 2026 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon on May 24 as the first stop on his World tour.
Two time champion Bernard Koech returns to the Haspa Marathon Hamburg in 2026 and the Kenyan will not be the only one who comes back with great memories.
A small number of refinements have been made to the women’s 400m and 400m hurdles schedule, while round one of the men’s 1500m has moved to the afternoon session on day two of competition.
The Ultimate Championship?will assemble world champions, Olympic champions, Wanda Diamond League winners and the year’s best performing athletes for an epic clash of titans on 11-13 September 2026.
The World Athletics Indoor Tour will return in 2026, featuring a packed calendar of almost 80 meetings across all levels.
The 2026 Wanda Diamond League calendar is out. Sport’s biggest names will hope to make history as athletics’ premier one-day series returns for its 17th season.
Running legend and former world record holder Paul Tergat has been named the International Ambassador for the 2025 Bra?ov Running Festival.
Kenyan Rosemary Wanjiru knows the course of the BMW BERLIN MARATHON well. Three years ago she ran a strong marathon debut in Berlin, finishing second in 2:18:00.
More than 2000 athletes from almost 200 nations will compete for medals in 49 disciplines between 13-21 September at the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo.
A prototype of the technology will be on display at the TDK booth inside Tokyo’s National Stadium during the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 from 13-21 September.
Botswana’s Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo led a Kids’ Athletics activation at the?Minato City Takanawadai Elementary School on Tuesday.
The exclusive two-part documentary Built for Speed: The Letsile Tebogo Story tells the story of a sprinter who continues to carry the hopes of his nation.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has selected 15 athletes to represent Team Nigeria at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan from 13-21 September.
Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo won the Jesse Owens Rising Star Award again at the 2025 Diamond League Final in Zurich on Thursday.
Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo, the world half marathon record-holder, won the 21K de Buenos Aires – a World Athletics Label road race – in Argentina on Sunday.
The three-day competition, which will be held at the Arena Torun from 20-22 March 2026, will get underway with action in the men’s heptathlon on the morning of the first day.
On signings Doris Lemngole (Kenya) and Ezekiel Nathaniel (Nigeria) impress with debut professional win at the 50th Athletissima – Wanda Diamond League in Lausanne.
World Athletics opens the host selection process for the 2028 edition of the World Athletics Ultimate Championship.
Nigerian athlete Ezekiel Nathaniel set a national record of 47.31 seconds in the men’s 400m hurdles at the 2025 Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia.
The 2027 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships awarded to South African city of Cape Town, marking the first time the event will be held in Africa.
The Ultimate Championship launches in Budapest in 2026, when the world’s greatest will settle the debate across three sessions of action from 11-13 September.
On strengthens collegiate roster, adding three of NCAA’s most exciting distance runners from Kenya – Doris Lemngole, Marion Jepngetich, and Joy Naukot to its NIL roster.
The 2025 Wanda Diamond League event will kick off with the pole vault competition at the City Event on 19 August, in Ouchy (Lausanne), on the shores of Lake Geneva.
CAA Region II Senior Championships in Accra rescheduled to 18-19 August, 2025 following the deaths of Ghana’s military and political leaders in a helicopter crash.
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