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A few days ago, our good friend Roberto Mandje brought to our attention on his blog his mentee, Abreham Anderson from Ethiopia. Now Roberto is a trail/distance running star and a 2004 Athens Olympian in the 1500m event. Though born in Barcelona, Spain, Rob compete internationally for Equatorial Guinea, his mother’s birthplace. Thus Rob introduced his new […]
The Association of African National Olympic Committees (ANOCA) has appointed the President of Mauritius Olympic Committee (COM), Philippe Hao Thyn Voon as head of the African Village at the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016. After the debacle that led to the shameful early closure of the African village at London 2012, ANOCA at their recent […]
Against the backdrop of [link id=”299″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Wilson Kipsang”]’s historic and sensational world record run at the BMW Berlin Marathon on Sunday was a side story of the little-known Kenyan, [link id=”298″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Geoffrey Kipsang”] – the unknown runner. As the 31-year-old Wilson strode to the new 2:03:23 record, taking 15 seconds off Kenyan colleague […]
Following approval by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Executive Committee on September 11, the 2014 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods has now been published by the agency.
The 2010 African Champion, Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed from Egypt, today set a national record of 83.62 metres in the men’s Javelin Throw qualification at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow. Competing in Group B inside the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, El Sayed only needed one throw to erase his old mark of 82.45 metres set […]
Kenyan [link id=”255″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Milcah Chemos Cheywa”] led an African sweep of the women’s 3000m Steeplechase final and Ethiopian [link id=”256″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Mohammed Aman”] won the men’s 800m title at the 14th [link id=”144″ tax=”post_tag” text=”IAAF World Championships in Moscow” target=”_blank”]. After two World bronze medals, Cheywa justified her favourite tag – in the absence […]
Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure ran a storming race to win the Silver medal in the women’s 100m final at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in [link id=”144″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Moscow” target=”_blank”], Russia. The 26-year-old Ivorian came through strong with 10 metres left to finished second in 10.93 seconds and thus became the first African woman […]
Ethiopian reigning Olympic Champion, [link id=”249″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Tirunesh Dibaba”], won her third World 10,000m title at the [link id=”144″ tax=”post_tag” text=”14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow” target=”_blank”] on Sunday. Displaying her trademark kick, the 27-year-old sped away from the field at the bell with an effortless 59.96 seconds last lap to regained the title […]
Kenya’s [link id=”250″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat”] won the women’s marathon Gold medal on Saturday at the 14th [link id=”144″ tax=”post_tag” text=”IAAF World Championship”]s in Athletics being held in [link id=”238″ tax=”am_venues” text=”Moscow”], Russia. The 33-year-old, who led home a clean Kenyan podium sweep in the event in Daegu 2011, made history as the first […]
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council and Congress this morning ratified the new World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code, signifying a return to 4 year sanctions for serious doping offences. According to a statement released following the second day’s working session of the 49th IAAF Congress in Moscow, Russia, the Code was approved by acclamation. Also on the […]
[link id=”94″ tax=”category” text=”Morocco”] will send a team of 21 athletes, 14 men and seven women to take part in the [link id=”144″ tax=”post_tag” text=”14th IAAF World Championships”] in Athletics to be held from August 10 to 18 next month in the Russian capital, Moscow. The contingent from the [link id=”5370″ text=”North African”] country to […]
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare twice lowered the African women’s 100m record to beat a star-studded line-up at the Sainsbury Anniversary Games – IAAF Diamond League meeting in London today. Okagbare first erased the 14 year-old mark of 10.90 secs, set by compatriot Glory Alozie (now of Spain) in La Laguna, Mexico on May 6, 1999, with a […]
World Champion Amantle Montsho of Botswana and Côte d’Ivoire’s Murielle Ahoure stormed to national records while Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare soared over seven metres twice at the Herculis Meeting – Diamond League in Monaco. Montsho, won the 400m in a national record of 49.33 secs, the fastest time in the world this year, a national record […]
Ethiopia’s Meresa Kahsay sets a World Youth best of 5:19.99 to win the boy’s 2000m Steeplechase Gold medal at the 8th IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine. Kaysay was seventh at the world juniors last year and took silver medal at this year’s African Youth Championships in Warri, but this time he won the one […]
South African sprinter Anaso Jobodwana, who won the men’s 100m title on Monday, completed the double with a dominant performance to win the 200m title at the 27th Summer Universiade / World University Games in Kazan, Russia.
South African athletes put the troubles at home behind them to win two gold medals on day two of athletics at the 27th Summer Universiade / World University Games in Kazan, Russia on Monday. Anaso Jobodwana won the men’s 100m gold medal in a new lifetime best 10.10 seconds ahead of Japanese Ryota Yamagata and […]
Ethiopian star Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenyan Ezekiel Kemboi raced to new meeting records with comfortable performances for Africans in front of 50,266 spectators at the Meeting Areva/Diamond League inside the Stade de France in Paris on Saturday. Dibaba, the Olympic 10,000m champion, won the women’s 5,000m in 14:23.68, thus erasing Vivian Cheruyot’s previous record set […]
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has released a provisional list of 19 athletes to represent Nigeria at the 2013 IAAF World Athletics championship in Moscow, Russia from August 10-18. As expected, Blessing Okagbare, who won three gold medals at the recently held All -Nigeria Championships and selection trials in Calabar lead the team, with many athletes […]
Top Nigerian athletes arrive in Calabar this week to compete for places in the team for the IAAF World Athletics Championships holding in Moscow, Russia from August 10 – 18, 2013. The 67th All Nigeria track and field championships will hold from tomorrow through to Friday the 21st of June at the Cross River state […]