Ethiopia’s star runner Lamecha Girma, known for his impressive collection of silver medals, added a shiny new world record to his trophy cabinet at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais, smashing the world indoor 3000m record in a jaw-dropping 7:23.81!
Tsegaye Mekonnen Asefa, former winner and unofficial junior world record holder, will participate in the 2023 Dubai Marathon on February 12th.
As an ambassador for the World Athletics Cross Country Championships Bathurst 23, Tergat will play a crucial role in promoting and supporting the prestigious event.
The world 10km record set by Yalemzerf Yehualaw in Castellon in February and the world 50km record set by Stephen Mokoka in March has been ratified.
Qualification system for athletics competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, to be held between 2-11 August 2024 published.
The fourth meeting of the IOC Coordination Commission Dakar 2026 , held virtually on 13 October, focused on the latest activities of the Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (YOGOC).
Both course records were smashed during the comeback of international elite runners at the GENERALI MUNICH MARATHON.
Mbuleli Mathanga and Glenrose Xaba delivered in style to win the national senior titles at the ASA Cross Country Championships in Rustenburg on Saturday.
Glenrose Xaba and Andries Sesedi secure the South African women’s and men’s titles, respectively at the 2022 ASA 10km Championships at Pilditch Stadium, Tshwane.
Botswana star Letsile Tebogo smashes his world U20 100m record, clocking 9.91 (0.8m/s) to retain his title, at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia.
Jacob Kiplimo clinches the gold medal in the men’s 10,000m at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, in a new Commonwealth Games record of 27:09.19, to maintain Uganda’s domination of the event in the absence of world champion Joshua Cheptegei.
The reigning African champion Chioma Onyekwere becomes the first Nigerian woman to win Commonwealth Games gold in the Discus Throw event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Tuesday.
Addisu Yihune of Ethiopia out-sprinted Merhawi Mebrahtu of Eritrea to claim the men’s 5000m title 14:03.05 to 14:03.33 at the World Athletics U20 Championships Cali22 on Monday.
Team Kenya grabs the first gold medal of the World Athletics U20 Championships Cali22 after Betty Chelangat won the women’s 3000m final in 9:01.03 on Monday.
The newly-minted women’s 100m hurdles world champion only got into hurdling through a quirk of fate, having started out as a sprinter and long jumper as a youngster in Nigeria.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) signs agreement with the Commonwealth Games Federation in lead up to the 22nd Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
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) at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan wins gold, her compatriot Ese Brume, Jacob Krop and Mary Moraa of Kenya, and Uganda’s Oscar Chelimo scoop minor medals on final day at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on Sunday July 24.
Nigerian dynamite Tobi Amusan put together a flawless race to set a new world record of 12.12 secs in the 100m hurdles semifinals at World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
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.
Sprinter Grace Nwokocha ran an outstanding anchor leg with 9.95 split to pulled the Nigerian women’s 4x100m relay quartet back into contention for third automatic spot for Saturday’s final at World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Sydney McLaughlin breaks the world 400m hurdles record for the fourth time of her career, obliterating her previous best with 50.68 to win her first world title in the event at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on Friday.
British High Commissioner, Catriona Laing, hosted a farewell reception for Birmingham Commonwealth Games bound Nigerian athletes, alongside the Minister of Sports and the President of the Nigerian Olympic Committee in Abuja.
Liberia’s Joseph Fahnbulleh finishes just off the podium, clocking 19.84 secs, in the men’s 200 metres final at World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on Thursday.
Werkuha Getachew sets an Ethiopian record for silver while her compatriot Mekides Abebe took bronze as Kenyan-born Norah Jeruto set a World Championships record en route to winning the women’s 3,000 metres steeplechase gold at the World Athletics Championships, Oregon22 on Wednesday.
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.
Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali, the Olympic champion, is now the world champion after storming to world 3000m steeplechase gold in 8:25.13 at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Gotytom Gebreslase secures Ethiopia’s second gold medal in the marathon, lowering the world championships record to 2:18:11 for victory, at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on Monday.
Uganda’s world record holder Joshua Cheptegei delivers a tactical masterclass to win a second successive world 10,000 metres gold – with compatriot Jacob Kiplimo settling for bronze – at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon on Sunday.
Tamirat Tola led an Ethiopian 1-2 ahead of compatriot Mosinet Geremew, clocking 2:05:36, to smash the 13 year-old World championship marathon record at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon 22.
Ethiopian Letesenbet Gidey held off Kenyan duo of Hellen Obiri and Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi to win the gold medal in the women’s 10,000m at the World Athletics Championships, Oregon22.
African champion and record-holder, Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya, arrived in Oregon barely 3 hours before taking his spot on the starting line of the men’s 100m heats at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Mine de Klerk and Benjamin Richardson lead 47-member strong South African team to the World Athletics U20 Championships taking place in Cali, Colombia from 1-6 August, 2022.
Tokyo, Japan has been selected as the host city for the World Athletics Championships in 2025, after beating rival bids from Nairobi, Silesia and Singapore.
Kenyan superstar Eliud Kipchoge will return to the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on 25 September 2022, four years after his spectacular world record there.