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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.
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.
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.
Photo Gallery of the AFN Nigeria World Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Games Trials – Benin 2022
Galleria: African 200m champion Aminatou Seyni arrives from the 22nd CAA African Championships Mauritius 2022 to a heroic welcome in Niger / Photo credit: Mami Seyni
Photo Gallery of Day 5 at the 22nd CAA African Athletics Championships, Maurice 2022 – Sunday 12 June 2022 from Cote D’or national sports complex in Mauritius.
Photo Gallery of Day 4 at the 22nd CAA African Athletics Championships, Maurice 2022 – Saturday 11 June 2022 from Cote D’or national sports complex in Mauritius.
Photo Gallery of Day 3 at the 22nd CAA African Athletics Championships, Maurice 2022 – Friday 10 June 2022 from Cote D’or national sports complex in Mauritius.
Photo Gallery of Day 2 at the 22nd CAA African Athletics Championships, Maurice 2022 – Thursday 9 June 2022 from Cote D’or national sports complex in Mauritius.
Photo Gallery of Day 1 at the 22nd CAA African Athletics Championships, Maurice 2022 – Wednesday 8 June 2022 from Cote D’or national stadium in Mauritius.
The Ethiopians led by Mogos Tiumay scooped the gold and silver medals ahead of rival Kenya in the first track final of the 22nd African Athletics Championships in Mauritius.
The 18-year-old school girl record run broke the 33-year-old national record of 9:41.28 in the event, which was set by Itsemhike Anwalimhobor on 22 March 1989 in Benin City.
WATCH: We caught up with Timothy Cheruiyot after he finished his first race of the season at the Doha Diamond League on Friday.
WATCH – Nigerian hurdler Tobiloba Amusan chats with journalists after her second place finish at the Wanda Diamond League 2022 season opener in Doha, Qatar.
World leading times for Olympic steeplechase champion Soufiane El Bakkali (Morocco) and Diamond League 5000m champion Francine Niyonsaba (Burundi) at the Ooredoo Doha Meeting, the 2022 Wanda Diamond League opener.
Photo Gallery of the Ooredoo Doha Meeting, first leg of the Wanda Diamond League 2022, held on Friday 13 May 2022 in Doha, Qatar.
Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir and Evans Chebet made it a double Kenyan celebration after scooping the elite titles at the 126th Boston Marathon on Monday April 18.
Zimbabweans Moses Tarakinyu and Fortunate Chidzivo dominated the 2022 TotalSports Two Oceans Half Marathon in CapeTown, South Africa on Saturday April 16.
After the cancellation of the 2020 CAA African Senior Athletics Championships at the Stade Olympique d’Oran in Algeria, the 22nd edition will now hold at Côte d’Or National Sports Complex, Mauritius in 2022.
Photo Gallery of African athletes at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22 from 18-20 March, 2022.
The 22-year-old Ethiopian edged out Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen to retain the world indoor 1500m title at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade.
The 25-year-old eclipsed the championship record of 3:59.75, held by compatriot Gelete Burka, to lead an Ethiopian clean sweep of the women’s 1500m, crossing the line in 3:57.19.
Ethiopians Lemlem Hailu and Ejigayehu Taye claim women’s 3000m podium finish at the World Athletics Indoor Championships, Belgrade 2022.
Photo Gallery of the 2022 Race to Equality Half Marathon race in Johannesburg, RSA on Saturday 12 March.
The Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) has announced a strong team of 77 athletes (35 Femmes / Women, 39 Hommes / Men, and three reserves) to represent Africa at the IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018 to be held on 8-9 September.
Gallery: African athletes compete inside the newly renovated Stephen Keshi stadium – venue of the 21st CAA African Senior Athletics Championships, Asaba 2018, in Asaba, Delta State from 1-5 August, 2018.
LIVE Blog on Day 5 of track and field action at the 21st CAA African Senior Athletics Championships (#Asaba2018) from the mainbowl of the Stephen Keshi stadium in Asaba, Nigeria – Sunday 5 August, 2018.
As it happens LIVE on Day FOUR of track and field action at the 21st CAA African Senior Athletics Championships (#Asaba2018) from the mainbowl of the Stephen Keshi stadium in Asaba, Nigeria – Friday 3 August, 2018.
Africa Championships 2018…As it happens LIVE on Day TWO of track and field action at the 21st CAA African Senior Athletics Championships (#Asaba2018) from the mainbowl of the Stephen Keshi stadium in Asaba, Nigeria – Thursday 2 August, 2018.
LIVE Blog of Day ONE of track and field action at the 21st CAA African Senior Athletics Championships (#Asaba2018) from the mainbowl of Stephen Keshi stadium in Asaba, Nigeria – Wednesday 1 August, 2018.
Photo gallery of African athletes at the Tampere 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships from the Ratina Stadium, Tampere, Finland – 10 July – 15 July 2018.
Photos of Day 4 of Athletics at the Gymnasiade 2018 World Schools Summer Games in Marrakech, Morocco. May 7, 2018.