April 2010

Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) spokesperson says some officials are undergoing injury management course at Med Rescue.

The World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Executive Committee and Foundation Board will meet respectively on Saturday, May 8, and Sunday, May 9, 2010 in Montreal, Canada.

The 2010 National Athletics Championship kicked off at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi on Friday with the Ashanti Region putting up a splendid performance to claim honours in the Under-17 and Under-19 categories of the competition.

Olympic bronze medallist Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia ended Kenya's hope of a seventh successive London men's marathon title with a dominant victory at the 2010 Virgin London Marathon in two hours, five minutes and 19 seconds.

Kenya's Wilfred Kigen claimed the Mobel Kraft Hamburg Marathon 2010 after overcoming the challenge of Norway's Urige Arado Buta in a sprint finish.

Athletics Namibia President, Frank Fredericks has announced the junior and senior national teams that will compete at international athletics meetings in the coming months.

Syracuse University Senior Uhunoma Osazuwa is set to compete at the Penn Relays 2010 beginning tommorrow at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pa.

Diamond League Ambassador Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia will clash over 5000m with 2007 World 1500m and 5000m champion, Bernard Lagat at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games, the 3rd leg of the 14 meeting IAAF Diamond League series, which takes place on Friday June 4 in Oslo, Norway.

Kenyan 21-year-old Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot easily won the 114th Boston Marathon today setting a new course record with a victory in 2 hours, 5 minutes and 52 seconds.

Doha World Indoor 2010 60m semi-finalist, Ogho-Oghene Egwero's 10.32 secs 100m win, Chinazor Amadi 6.37 metres Long Jump and Margaret Etim of Ondo -State 200m (23.99 secs) and 400m (52.77 secs) double victory are the highlights of the 2nd AFN Golden League meet at the Liberty Stadium in Ibadan last weekend.

Kenyans took both wins in the 2010 Vienna City Marathon for the first time in the history of the event. Henry Sugut was a surprise winner with 2:08:40 while Helen Kimutai clocked 2:31:08.

The participation of two of the IAAF Diamond League's Ambassadors at this year's Rome Golden Gala was announced this morning to the national media in Rome by FIDAL (the Italian Athletics Federation), who are the organisers of the 4th leg of the inaugural IAAF Diamond League, which will be held on 10 June.

The Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the IAAF World Championships, Daegu 2011, is today celebrating ‘500 days to go' to their hosting of the championships next year (27 August to 4 September 2011).

The Athletic Federation of Nigeria (AFN) is considering the U.J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar, to host the National Mobil Championships scheduled for June to select athletes for the African Championships in July and the Commonwealth Games in October.

World 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has been left out of a preliminary South Africa squad to compete at the African Athletics Championships in Nairobi, Kenya in July despite having qualified since last year.

Rodger Haitengi was the star performer at the Bank Windhoek National Athletics Championships on Saturday as he leapt to a new Namibian triple jump record of 16.74m.

Ethiopia's Meseret Defar has become the first three-time women's champion of the Carlsbad 5000, sponsored by Nuvasive, after winning the women's elite invitational in a time of 15 minutes and 4 seconds over the 3.1 mile course yesterday. 

Namibian athletics fans will be in for a great treat this weekend as top junior and senior athletes slug it out at the Coca-Cola Frank Fredericks Invitational Meet and the Bank Windhoek Senior National Championships in Windhoek.

Botswana's track athletes Gable Garenamotse and Amantle Montsho are front runners in the race to be named the nation's best sportsperson of last year.

Kenya’s Felix Limo will head a strong men’s field that include Luke Kibet, Paul Biwott and eight runners with sub 2:10 run at the 27th Vienna City Marathon on  April 18.

South Africa's 800m world champion, Caster Semenya, has set her sights to return to the athletics track at the EAA meeting, VII Reunión Internacional de Atletismo - Gobierno de Aragón, in Zaragoza, Spain on June 24th.

Reigning World Half Marathon champion Mary Keitany of Kenya will be gunning for the World 25Km record at the 30th edition of the BIG 25 Berlin on May 9th.

A couple of talented Libyan athletes are in Nigeria for warm-weather preparations ahead of the 17th African Senior Athletics Championships scheduled for Nairobi, Kenya this summer.

Lesotho's Mabuthile Lebopo won the 41st Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon in three hours, six minutes and 18 seconds on Saturday in what proved to be one of the fastest races of recent years in the South African cape province.

Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare, a senior from University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) blew away the field in the women's Long Jump to set a new mark and Myers stadium record on Friday at the 83rd Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays.

Rodger Haitengi was Namibia’s star performer at the fourth leg of the South African Yellow Pages Athletics Series in Johannesburg on March 24, setting a new national triple jump record.