WADA will hold elections into the newly established 20-member Athlete Council in August to further enhance athlete representation within the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Akani Simbine will lead an 89-member strong SA team, which also features World and Olympic champion Caster Semenya, to the 22nd CAA African Championships in Mauritius next month.
The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) will today (25 May 2022) celebrate Africa Day, with a call for peace and unity.
Team Kenya to Maurice 2022 CAA African Senior Athletics Championships will take part in track and field events, and in the men and women’s 4x100m and 4x400m relay races.
Following her world title win in 2009, Caster Semenya was forced by the World Athletics federation, then known as IAAF, to take medication that artificially lowered her naturally high testosterone if she wanted to compete against other female runners.
The 18-year-old school girl record run broke the 33-year-old national record of 9:41.28 in the event, which was set by Itsemhike Anwalimhobor on 22 March 1989 in Benin City.
Kenyans Nicholas Kipkorir Kimeli and Irene Cheptai ran course records of 27:38 and 30:35 respectively at the 14th Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) World 10K Bengaluru 2022.
WATCH: We caught up with Timothy Cheruiyot after he finished his first race of the season at the Doha Diamond League on Friday.
WATCH – Nigerian hurdler Tobiloba Amusan chats with journalists after her second place finish at the Wanda Diamond League 2022 season opener in Doha, Qatar.
World leading times for Olympic steeplechase champion Soufiane El Bakkali (Morocco) and Diamond League 5000m champion Francine Niyonsaba (Burundi) at the Ooredoo Doha Meeting, the 2022 Wanda Diamond League opener.
Photo Gallery of the Ooredoo Doha Meeting, first leg of the Wanda Diamond League 2022, held on Friday 13 May 2022 in Doha, Qatar.
When five of the world leading distance runners gathered ahead of TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2022 on Sunday, one common question for them was: “How fast do you think you will run on Sunday?”
WATCH as Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala raced to a world lead of 9.85 seconds in the men’s 100m in Nairobi on Saturday 7 May, 2022
The Wanda Diamond League announced that due to travel restrictions and strict quarantine requirements for entry into China, the Diamond League meetings in Shanghai and Shenzhen will not take place this year.
The medals, which have been designed locally by students from the host city’s School of Jewellery for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, was revealed to the public for the first time.
Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha wins the men’s 5km in 12:53 – the fastest debut in history – at the 2022 Adizero Road to Records event in Herzogenaurach on Saturday.