Blessing Okagbare (Nigeria) is the 2014 Commonwealth Games Champion
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare smashed the 12-year-old Commonwealth Games Record to win the women’s 100m in 10.85 secs at the Hampden Park stadium in Glasgow.
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare smashed the 12-year-old Commonwealth Games Record to win the women’s 100m in 10.85 secs at the Hampden Park stadium in Glasgow.
Eliud Kipchoge and Dalilah Muhammad have been named the male and female World Athletes of the Year at the World Athletics Awards 2019, held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on Saturday.
World Athletics has announced details of the 2020 World Athletics Continental Tour, a series of the world’s best one-day meetings outside the Diamond League.
Months after staging the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships, the Dubai Club for People of Determination will again receive the best athletes in the planet for the first stop of the 2020 Grand Prix circuit between 14 and 17 March.
At least US$2.5million in extra revenue will be made available for a comprehensive integrity programme for road running in 2020, under a new funding scheme announced by World Athletics and the Athletics Integrity Unit last June.
Three-time Paralympic medallist, Samwel Kimani defended his World title to give Kenya their first gold medal on the penultimate day of the Dubai 2019 World Athletics Championships.
South Africa’s first gold medal at the Dubai 2019 World Championships came through a familiar face with a different name. Anrune Weyers winning the women’s 400m T47 with a championship record of 55.79.
At the age of 42 Kenyan John Komen came through to upset the favourites and win the Athens Marathon with 2:16:34.
Dubai stage is perfectly set for SA’s Ntando Mahlangu, the current T61 100m, 200m, 400m and long jump world record holder, to show his prowess ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Games, where he is already tipped as the firm favourite.
This year’s World Marathon Champions Lelisa Desisa (Ethiopia) and Ruth Chepngetich (Kenya) are the Marathon Runners of the Year 2019.
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) fifth World Conference on Doping in Sport concluded today in Katowice, Poland with WADA’s Foundation Board approving the World Anti-Doping Code (Code) and the Executive Committee (ExCo) approving the International Standards.
The Kenyan favourites Daniel Muteti and Rhonzas Kilimo have set their sights on breaking the course record in the “Athens Marathon – The Authentic” on Sunday.
Valary Aiyabei smashed the 2:20 barrier in the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon, achieving the greatest sporting moment in the 38th edition of Germany’s oldest city marathon.
The Diamond League General Assembly has today agreed on 14 meetings and 1 final for the 2020 season, which includes all current meetings.
Ethiopia’s Tsehay Gemechu retained her Airtel Delhi Half Marathon title but added lustre to her triumph by smashing the course record she had set 12 months ago in the Indian capital when she ran 66:00 on Sunday.
Former marathon world record-holder, Tegla Chepkite Loroupe of Kenya, bared her mind in this interview at the ANOC World Beach Games – Qatar 2019.
Eliud Kipchoge broke one of the greatest barriers in sport history in a thrilling performance in Vienna when 34-year-old Kenyan became the first to run the classic marathon distance in under two hours – in 1:59:40.2 at the INEOS 1:59 Challenge in Vienna’s Prater Park on Saturday.
Kenya’s Brigid Chepchirchir Kosgei broke the world record at the 2019 Chicago Marathon, winning the IAAF Gold Label road race in 2:14:04, on Sunday.
Course Record Holder Meskerem Assefa returns to defend the women’s title, while Junior World Record Holder Tsegaye Mekonnen joins the men’s field at the 2019 Mainova Frankfurt Marathon.
Photo gallery: African athletes compete at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Champonships in Doha, Qatar on 27 September – 6 October, 2019.
For Lelisa Desisa, victory on Doha’s famous Corniche not only ended a 42-kilometre road race, but a six-year journey to redemption following his narrow defeat at the Moscow 2013 World Championships.
Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei won what is regarded as the toughest race on the planet at the World Cross Country in Denmark in March, and needed to draw on the same resources to win his first world 10,000m title in Doha on Sunday.
Kenya’s Hellen Obiri successfully defended her 5000m title in Doha, setting the pace for much of the race, then pouring on the pressure on the last lap to win comfortably in a championship record of 14:26.72.
Kenya’s Conseslus Kipruto came from behind to snatch his second successive world title on the finish line in the men’s 3000m steeplechase at Doha 2019 World Athletics Championships.
Favour Ofili is the reigning youth Olympic champion from Buenos Aries 2018 and topped the bill in the 400m final as well at the African Youth Games in the same year.
Ethiopia’s Muktar Edris, Beatrice Chepkoech of Kenya, and Halimah Nakaayi of Uganda blaze through to earn their respective African countries gold medals on Day four at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar.on Monday.
More than a few athletics journalists were wondering before the race if the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on Sunday was going to mark the end of Kenenisa Bekele’s remarkable career as one of the long distance greats.
Burkina Faso toasted its maiden World Championships medal as Hugues Fabrice Zango leaped 17.66m for a historic bronze in the men’s Triple Jump, improving his African record by 0.16m.
South African sprinters, Clarence Munyai and Anaso Jobodwana, kept the SA flag flying on day 3, with both athletes coasting through the opening round of the men’s 200m event at the IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar on Sunday.
Ethiopia’s distance running great, Kenenisa Bekele, made a sensational return to his international best with victory at the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON, missing the world record by just two seconds on Sunday.
Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich clocked an impressive 2:32:43 in sweltering heat to win the first World Athletics Championships Women’s Marathon Final at Doha 2019.
Distance running great Kenenisa Bekele will lead the Ethiopian charge for world class times at the 46th edition of the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on Sunday September 29, 2019.
African athletes will once again file out in a contest for pride and honours at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha.
IAAF President Sebastian Coe was elected for a second term at the 52nd IAAF Congress in Doha on Wednesday, while Ximena Restrepo, Sergey Bubka, Geoffrey Gardner and Nawaf Bin Mohammed Al Saud were elected Vice Presidents.
Kenya’s Geoffrey Kamworor took 17 seconds off the world record at the Copenhagen Half Marathon on Sunday, winning the IAAF Gold Label road race in 58:01.