Yomi is the founder of Africa’s number one track and field website – AthleticsAfrica. A multi award-winning editor, journalism innovator, media trainer, sports and digital transformation consultant.
The Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) President, Hamad Kalkaba Malboum, has been elected as one of the four vice presidents of the International Association of Athletics Associations (IAAF).
Nigeria’s Uhunoma Naomi Osazuwa on course to break her national Heptathlon record at the ongoing IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China.
With two weeks to the end of his 16-year tenure in office as IAAF President, Lamine Diack opens up on his career journey and other topics in this exclusive interview with AIPS Africa.
In this video interview with AthleticsAfrica.Com, Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare – Ighoteguonor says she’s looking forward to Beijing 2015 IAAF World Champs and her main goal is to win.
AthleticsAfrica team chats with South African jumpers Zarck Visser and Khotso Mokoena about their rivalry, goals and targets at the IAAF World championships in Beijing next month.
Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba smashed the outdoor World Record for the women’s 1500m in 3:50.07 at the Meeting Herculis, IAAF Diamond League in Monaco on Friday.
African champion Isaac Makwala of Botswana reclaimed the African 400m record in La Chaux-de-Fonds on Sunday, less than 24 hours after the mark was erased by South African Wayde van Niekerk.
Henricho Bruintjies sets a new South African record of 9.97 secs for men’s 100m at the 2015 Resisprint International meeting in the Swiss city of La Chaux-de-Fonds on Sunday
AthleticsAfrica crew had an exclusive chat with the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 800m hopeful, Alfred Chawonza of St George’s College in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Our exclusive chat with Arundel School’s sprint sensation, Rutendo “Chim” Chimbaru and Sixth former Princess Nwani in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Zimbabweans Nkosiyazi Sibanda and Thabitha Tsatsa claimed victories in the men’s and women’s races at the 2015 Econet Wireless Victoria Falls Marathon on Sunday.
Zimbabwean teenager Leon Tafirenyika could see his dream of competing at the 2015 IAAF World Youth Championships in Cali shattered due to lack of funds to travel to Colombia.
Complete results of the Diamond Race at the 50th ExxonMobil Bislett Games – IAAF Diamond League meeting in Oslo, Norway on Thursday 11 June, 2015.
More than $11,000 USD is on offer at the 2015 Econet Wireless Victoria Falls Marathon taking place in the Zimbabwean scenic resort town on Sunday 28 June, 2015.
Nigeria wins the women’s 4x200m gold in dramatic fashion while Kenya settles for silver in the women’s distance medley on the first day of the IAAF/BTC World Relays, Bahamas 2015.
Here’s the list of African athletes competing for their countries – Namibia, Nigeria, Kenya and Botswana – at the 2nd IAAF/BTC World Relays 2015 in Nassau, The Bahamas this weekend.
Leading South African sprinter and 2012 African 100m champion Simon Magakwe has been banned for two years following an unsuccessful out of competition doping test conducted under the authority of the IAAF on December 22, 2014.
Watch: Kenya’s world record-holder and Olympic gold medallist, David Rudisha take the 800m in 1:44.94 at the 2015 IAAF Melbourne World Challenge on Saturday March 21.
The world’s best track and field athletes will gather at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon in March 2016 to compete in the 16th IAAF World Indoor Championships – Portland 2016.
Watch the Skype interview with Mark Alexander, Durban 2022 Bid Committee chairman, after the South Africans submitted their official bid to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games in London on Monday.
Kenyan Rita Jeptoo, a three-time winner of the Boston Marathon and two-time Chicago Marathon champion, has been handed a two-year ban for doping violations.
As 2014 winds down, AthleticsAfrica editor, Yomi Omogbeja, caught up with Ghanaian sprinter Flings Owusu-Agyapong for a quick-fire chat. Her 2015 goal is to make a real impact at the World championships.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) approves the launch of a digital Olympic TV Channel, despite concerns raised by former Namibian sprinter Frankie Fredericks, at the 127th IOC Session in Monaco.
IOC President Thomas Bach called for safeguarding the Olympic values, increased participation and reach of sports, and promotion of the educational and health values of sport for all.
Leading Olympians and representatives of the global sporting movement have added their voices in support of Olympic Agenda 2020 as the 127th IOC Session gets underway in Monaco.
Moroccan distance running legend, Hicham El Guerrouj, said it would take another decade before an African federation can realistically bid for IAAF World Championships.
Commonwealth and African 800m champion Nijel Amos said the Glasgow 2014 men’s 800m final, where he out-kicked Kenya’s David Rudisha for the gold medal, was the hardest race of his life.
The South Sudan has been granted provisional membership of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) by the IAAF Council.
Nigerian-born Qatari sprint champion, Femi Seun Ogunode, says the decision to leave his fatherland and move to Qatar was a calculated risk and he’s so glad it all worked out in the end.
Follow AthleticsAfrica.Com Live Coverage of the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup (#Marrakech2014) from the Grand Stade de Marrakech, Morocco – September 13-14.
Photo Gallery – Some of the African champions from the 2014 African Senior Championships are back in Morocco for the IAAF Continental Cup in Marrakech.
Here are 12 things you never knew about Botswana’s quarter-miler Isaac Makwala, the African men’s 400m record-holder, outside of Track and Field.
Watch our video interview with Zambia women’s soccer team – Shepolopolo – captain Kabange ‘Kalaba’ Mupopo, Team Africa’s representative to the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup in Marrakech, Morocco.
Watch our video interview with Basant Mosaad Mohamed Hassane from Egypt, a Team Africa’s representative to the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup in Marrakech, Morocco this weekend.
Watch our video interview with Nigeria’s Chinwe Okoro, Team Africa’s representative in women’s Discus and Shotput at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup in Marrakech, Morocco.