African Voices – London 2017 IAAF World Championships
African Voices – Viewpoints, interviews and sound-bites from top African athletes competing at the London 2017 IAAF World Championships – Live from the London Stadium, Stratford.
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African Voices – Viewpoints, interviews and sound-bites from top African athletes competing at the London 2017 IAAF World Championships – Live from the London Stadium, Stratford.
Live Blog of Day 7 at the 2017 IAAF World Championships inside the London Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford.
Botswana’s star athlete Isaac Makwala has been declared medically fit to compete in the men’s 200m at the IAAF World Championships in London tonight.
Live Blog of day six at the 2017 IAAF World Championships inside the London Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford – London
The IAAF defends the decision of its Medical Delegate to withdraw Botswana’s star athlete Isaac Makwala from the Ongoing IAAF World Championships in London.
Botswana’s Isaac Makwala, one of the medal favourites in both the men’s 200m and 400m at the IAAF World Championships in London has been struck down with a stomach bug.
Live Blog of day five of action at the 2017 IAAF World Championships inside the London Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford – London.
Live Blog of Day Four of action at the 2017 IAAF World Championships inside the London Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford.
Live Blog of Day Three of action at the 2017 IAAF World Championships inside the London Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford.
Watch Olympic champion Wayde van Niekerk from South Africa edged out Botswana’s Isaac Makwala 43.73 to 43.84 to win the men’s 400m at the IAAF Diamond League in Monaco on Friday 21 June, 2017.
Watch South Africa’s Caster Semenya blitzed to an amazing 1:55.27 to win the women’s 800m race at the 2017 Meeting Herculis, IAAF Diamond League in Monaco on Friday 21 July, 2017.
Alhaji Ibrahim Shehu Gusau was on Friday sworn in as the president of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) after his election on June 13, 2017 was upheld, and the bye-elections ordered by the Appeals Committee was cancelled.
Kenya’s Hellen Obiri won the Women’s 1 Mile race at the 2017 Müller Anniversary Games leg of the IAAF Diamond League in London on Sunday, breaking her national record and setting a new meeting record of 4:16.56.
South Africa’s Olympic 400m champion, Wayde van Niekerk clocked the fastest time in the world in 2017 and broke the long-standing meeting record at the eighth leg of the IAAF Diamond League series in Lausanne, Switzerland on Thursday 6 June.
Luvo Manyonga bettered his own African long jump mark by 3cm, launching a massive 8.65m leap to earn the gold medal in his very first attempt in Potchefstroom.
Aleck Skhosana and his entire Athletics South Africa (ASA) board have been re-elected for another four-year term at the federation’s quadrennial general meeting in Kempton Park on Saturday 22 October, 2016.
Kenya will host the last edition of the IAAF World U18 Championships after the IAAF Council decided to discontinue the youth championships after the 2017 edition in Nairobi.
Photo gallery of African athletes on Day 10 of Athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio, Brazil on August 21, 2016.
Photo gallery of African athletes on Day 8 and 9 of Athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio, Brazil on August 19 and 20, 2016.
Photo gallery of African star athletes on day six and seven of athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 17 and 18, 2016
Photo gallery of African star athletes on day four and five of athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 15 and 16, 2016.
Photo gallery of African athletes on day 3 of athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio, Brazil on August 14, 2016.
Photo gallery of African star athletes on day two of athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio, Brazil on August 13, 2016.
Nigerian women will upgrade to the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 4x100m relay silver medal after the IOC stripped the Russian team of gold medal.
Photo gallery of African star athletes at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio, Brazil on August 12, 2016.
Best moments of African junior stars at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships – Bydgoszcz 2016 – from the Zawisza stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland from July 19 – 24, 2016.
Best moments and photos from the 20th African Senior Athletics Championships – Durban 2016 in Durban, South Africa from June 22 – 26, 2016.
Live coverage of the 20th CAA African Senior Athletics Championships at the Kings Park Athletics Stadium in Durban, South Africa from June 22-26, 2016.
Host South Africa got the party started with two gold medals on day one of the 20th CAA African Senior Championships – Durban 2016 at the Kings Park Athletics Stadium in Durban.
Wayde van Niekerk will lead a strong South African team of 96 athletes to the 20th CAA African Senior Athletics Championships in Durban, South Africa next week.
Complete results of the 2016 IAAF Diamond League meeting held at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, United Kingdom on Sunday 5 June, 2016.
World 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa has moved up to third on the all-time 300m list after clocking 31.03 for victory at the JN Racers Grand Prix in Kingston, Jamaica on Saturday night.
Côte d’Ivoire’s Murielle Ahoure sets a new African 100m record with a blistering run of 10.78 (1.6m/s) at the Star Athletics Pro Meet at the Montverde Academy in Florida on Saturday.
Complete results of the fourth Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) Golden League meeting in Akure, Ondo-State of Nigeria on Monday 6 June, 2016
Complete results of the third Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) Golden League meeting in Sagamu, Ogun-State of Nigeria on Tuesday 31 May, 2016.