Jobodwana leads Team South Africa to Portland 2016
National record-holders Anaso Jobodwana and Henricho Bruintjies will feature on South Africa’s team for the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016.
National record-holders Anaso Jobodwana and Henricho Bruintjies will feature on South Africa’s team for the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016.
Ethiopians Tesfaye Dibaba Abera and Tirfi Beyene Tsegaye were crowned winners at the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon in the United Arab Emirates on Friday.
Nigerian reigning 100m champion Adeseye Ogunlewe, popular music star Olamide Adedeji (Olamide YBNL) and media celebrity Jimi Disu have all signed on for the 6 February, 2016 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon.
Liquid Sports Ghana announces the first ever annual Ghana athletics award dubbed, the ‘Liquid Sports Ghana Athlete of the Year’ to honour and give recognition to deserving athletes.
Portland set to host North America’s biggest ever IAAF World Indoor Championships with preliminary entries of 699 athletes (403 men, 296 women) received from 154 federations for 2016.
IAAF Council has announced the host cities for two 2016 IAAF World Athletics Series events: Rome will host the World Race Walking Team Championships and Bydgoszcz will host the World U20 Championships.
Senegalese Papa Massata Diack, the son of former IAAF President Lamine Diack, and two Russian athletics officials have been banned from the sport for life by the IAAF Ethics Commission.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Ethics Commission has announce the appointment of South African Justice Catherine O’Regan to the Commission.
IAAF President Sebastian Coe has set out his road map for athletics to restore trust, confidence and deliver a vision for attracting more young people.
Nigerian athletes participating in the 2016 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon seek to lower the national record and qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has commended the efforts of the Lagos State government for bringing back the Lagos City Marathon.
Twenty-five elite runners from the High Altitude Athletics Club of Jos in Plateau State have signed up to participate in the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon on February 6, 2016.
Ethiopians Tamirat Tola and Netsanet Gudeta took the honours to hand Ethiopia a first double victory at the 41st Boclassic New Year’s Eve Race in Bolzano in northern Italy on Thursday.
Hello everyone! Happy New Year and an African welcome to 2016 – the Olympic and Paralympic year – from all of us here at AthleticsAfrica.