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World Athletics President Sebastian Coe and CAA President, Colonel Hamad Kalkaba Malboum at the CAA Council Meeting in Douala, Cameroon on Thursday 20 June, 2024 / Photo credit: AthleticsAfrica

Africa

Coe delighted by strong proposals to host African Championships

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe express delight at the quality of proposals by countries bidding to host the upcoming African Athletics Championships in 2025...

Yomi OmogbejaJune 21, 2024
Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana with her women's 10000m gold medal on Day 1 of Athletics competition at Rio 2016 / Photo credit: Getty Images / IAAF

World

World Athletics introduces prize money for Olympic gold medallists

World Athletics set to become the first international federation to award prize money at an Olympic Games, starting at this summer’s Olympic Games in...

Yomog Meje and World AthleticsApril 10, 2024

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Nigerian women, Ashley Anumba (centre), Obiageri Amaechi and Chioma Onyekwere receiving the women’s discus throw medals at the 23rd CAA African Athletics Championships Douala 24 / Photo: Neto Oluwasegun

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In Pictures: African Athletics Championships, Douala 2024

Photo Gallery of the 23rd African Athletics Senior Championships, Douala 24 – 21-26 June 2024.

Yomi Omogbeja and Oluwasegun NetoJune 27, 2024
Kenyan gold medallist Beatrice Chepkoech (350) and her compatriots in the women's 3000m S/C event at the African Games Accra 2023 / Photo credit: Yomi Omogbeja for AthleticsAfrica Kenyan gold medallist Beatrice Chepkoech (350) and her compatriots in the women's 3000m S/C event at the African Games Accra 2023 / Photo credit: Yomi Omogbeja for AthleticsAfrica

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In Pictures: African Games, Accra 2023

Photo Gallery of the Athletics competition at the African Games, Accra 2023 - 18-22 March 2024.

Motunde Smith and Yomi OmogbejaMarch 23, 2024
Team Nigeria’s quartet Ifeanyi Ojeli, Patience Okon-George, Sikiru Adeyemi, and Omolara Ogunmakinju / Photo credit: Yomi Omogbeja for AthleticsAfrica Team Nigeria’s quartet Ifeanyi Ojeli, Patience Okon-George, Sikiru Adeyemi, and Omolara Ogunmakinju / Photo credit: Yomi Omogbeja for AthleticsAfrica

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Video: Team Nigeria breaks mixed 4x400m African Record in Accra

WATCH - Team Nigeria quartet clocked 3:13.26 to set a new African Record in Mixed 4x400m Relays at the African Games Accra 2023.

Yomi OmogbejaMarch 20, 2024
Tobi Amusan of Team Nigeria poses with her world record in the Women's 100m Hurdles Semi-Final on day ten of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at Hayward Field on July 24, 2022 in Eugene, Oregon. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images for World Athletics) Tobi Amusan of Team Nigeria poses with her world record in the Women's 100m Hurdles Semi-Final on day ten of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at Hayward Field on July 24, 2022 in Eugene, Oregon. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images for World Athletics)

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Video: Tobi Amusan sets 12.12 world 100m hurdles record

WATCH - Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan wins the gold medal in the women’s 100m hurdles final in a ‘world record time’, albeit windy, 12.06 (+2.5m/s)...

Yomi OmogbejaJuly 27, 2022

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