NEWS

Ethiopia's Tsegaye Kebede unleashed a late surge to regain the men's title at the 2013 Virgin London Marathon as Priscah Jeptoo led a Kenyan one-two to add the women's crown to the Olympic silver medal she won on the same London streets last August.

A chase for the master world records is on Ethiopian Legend Haile Gebrselassie’s agenda as he runs the OMV Champions Race at the 30th Vienna City Marathon on Sunday.

The technical committee of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria releases an adjusted programme for the year and made changes to the rules of the 2013 AFN Golden League events.

Gerhard de Beer, World Junior Championships bronze medalist in the discus throw, will be one of the athletes amongst the men to defend his title at the SA Sub-Youth, Youth, Junior and Under 23 Championships.

Final flurry of gold medals on the last day of competition propels Nigeria to the top of medals table in the maiden Africa Youth Athletics Championships which concluded at the Warri Township Stadium in Delta-State on Sunday.

Nigeria - Egypt consolidated their lead with two more gold medals from combined events at the 2013 African Youth Athletics Championships inside the Warri Township stadium on Saturday.

Nigerians Divine Oduduru and Deborah Adewale emerged African Youth sprint champions; and Ethiopians strike a 1-2 finish in girls 800m to highlight day two at the African Youth Athletics Championships (AYAC) in Warri, Delta-State, Nigeria.

Egypt's Amira Khaled Mahmoud won the first gold medal of the maiden edition of the Africa Youth Athletics Championships (AYAC 2013) on Thursday in Warri, Delta-State. Nigeria also got Gold in boys Long Jump.

The annual SA Sub-Youth, Youth, Junior and Under 23 Championships is set to take place at the Pilditch stadium in Pretoria from 4-6 April 2013, an opportunity for the youth athletes to qualify for the World Youth Championships taking place in Ukraine in July.

Warri - Nigeria: Delta State's Ese Brume keeps sealed lips over her shock exclusion from the Team Nigeria contingent at the maiden Africa Youth Athletics Championships 2013.

Nigeria's Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Thursday visited the Nigerian youth athletes at their Hotel Excel abode in Warri Delta State and charged them to maintain discipline at the maiden edition of the Africa Youth Athletics Championships (AYAC) 2013.

Globine Mayova continued her excellent form of late when she broke the Namibian 100m record at the Central Gauteng Provincial Championships in Germiston, South Africa.

Namibia - Sprinter Globine Mayova improved on her national 200m record to 23.34 secs, while winning both short sprint races, at the Athletics Gauteng North (AGN) Youth, Junior and Senior League meeting at the University of Pretoria sport stadium on Saturday.

Ghana will not be sending her junior athletes to the maiden African Youth Athletics Championship to be held March 27-31, 2013 in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria.

A new Nigerian 2,000m Steeplechase girls record by Olamide Oluwaseun, a storming 100m win by Divine Oduduru and a soaring High and Long jump double for Ese Brume highlights the two-day AFN/Daniel Kolawole Olukoya U-18 Athletics Championships concluded at the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos on Friday March 8, 2013.

Jamaican Olympic double sprint silver medallist, Yohan Blake, will attempt to break the meeting record held by Nigerian Olusoji Fasuba (9.85 set in 2006) when he opens his 2013 Samsung Diamond League campaign at the Doha Meeting in Qatar on Friday May 10.

The 2013 Longtom Ultra and Half Marathons have been officially cancelled due to financial constraints and contracting of a major corporate title sponsor for the event has been postponed to the 2014 budgetary year.

Magistrate Desmond Nair of the Pretoria Magistrate's Court has granted South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius bail set at R1-Million following three and a half days of dramatic testimony and argument.

South African Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius tells the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Tuesday in an affidavit his version of how he shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's day, February 14, 2013.

Athletics South Africa (ASA) president, James Evans, is confident he will retain his position despite an attempt by more than half of its board to have him impeached.

Côte d'Ivoire's Murielle Ahoure upsets the favourites Carmelita Jeter (USA) and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jamaica) to win the women's 60 metres with an All-Comers record and personal best 6.99 seconds while Genzebe Dibaba narrowly miss out on 1500m World record today at the British Athletics Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today that Buenos Aires (ARG), Glasgow (GBR), and Medellín (COL) have been shortlisted in the bid to host the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in 2018.

Athletics South Africa (ASA) has confirmed that one province and two clubs have stepped forward to host Permit Meetings during the months of March and April 2013.

Ethiopian distance-running legend Haile Gebrselassie, one of the greatest athletes of all time, will attempt to win for the third time in the Austrian capital when he competes in the half marathon staged parallel to the Vienna City Marathon on April 14th.

The Unknown Runner documentary is about a Kenyan athlete, Geoffrey Kipsang and the road he had to take to make his debut on the marathon of Berlin and the film project is now looking for a final round of funding to finish the post-production.

Hitjiverue Kaanjuka, Charlene Engelbrecht, Daniel Nghipandulwa and Globine Mayova took double honours at the second leg of Bank Windhoek Grand Prix meet at the Independence Stadium on Saturday.

Athletics Namibia increases its prize money for the second leg of Bank Windhoek Grand Prix Series as a record number of Namibia's elite athletes battle inside Windhoek's Independence Stadium on Saturday January 12, 2013.

The well-known Kenyan distance runner Felix Limo announced his international retirement on Thursday, after a top-level career that spanned more than a decade.

Ethiopia’s Imane Merga, the 2011 Cross-Country World champion and Kenya’s Sylvia Kibet celebrated their second victory at the Bozen/Bolzano’s New Year’s Eve run on Monday as the duel between Kenya and Ethiopia ended in a tie.

Olympic bronze medalist Thomas Longosiwa (Kenya) to face World Champion Imane Merga (Ethiopia) at the 38th edition of the international New Year's Eve Run BOclassic in Bozen/Bolzano.