Athletics South Africa (ASA) has suspended five of the country’s regional athletics boards – Boland Athletics, Central Gauteng Athletics, KwaZulu-Natal Athletics, Athletics South Western District and Western Province Athletics – for…
Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) became the latest national IAAF Member Federation to activate IAAF / Nestlé Kids’ Athletics, the flagship of the IAAF School / Youth Programme, which is now…
Benjamin Kipkoech Limo will join an impressive line-up of speakers at the IAAF Global Seminar on Cross Country Running in the Serbian capital Belgrade on December 9, 2013. The 39-year-old Kenyan will…
The World 800m champion Mohammed Aman believes he has had the perfect year after his success in the Diamond league and at the World Championships in Moscow. Speaking to journalists ahead of the…
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)’s Foundation Board on Friday elected its next Chairman and Vice Chairman at the World Conference on Doping in Sport in Johannesburg, South Africa. Britain’s Sir Craig Reedie,…
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…
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has called for the common fight against doping to be stepped up and strengthened to protect the “majority of athletes who are…
Past and present performers at the forefront of distance running showed their support for the Athens Classic Marathon and its unique status among marathons this past weekend. Receiving his award…
South Africa’s Olympic long jump silver medallist Godfrey Khotso Mokoena will put his specialist event on the back burner to pursue triple jump glory in 2014. “I need a new…
South African women’s 10km Challenge road race champion Mapaseka Makhanya says she is motivated to raise the bar further in next year’s Grand Prix, after she was won a car…
More athletes are set to take part in the second edition of the Le Marathon International des Oliviers de Sfax on December 15, 2013 in Sfax Tunisia. The Marathon, which…
The 200-day countdown has begun to the inaugural IAAF World Relays, which will be held in Nassau, The Bahamas, on the weekend of May 24-25, 2014. The IAAF World Relays is…
Five African countries will compete for the US $65,000 at stake at the 5th African Mountain Running Championships which will hold alongside the Obudu international mountain race on Saturday, November…
Kenyans Geoffrey Mutai and Priscah Jeptoo won the men’s and women’s titles at the 2013 ING New York City Marathon on its return after a 1-year forced hiatus due to…