Dida to defend Dubai Marathon crown in 2024
Reigning Dubai Marathon champion Dera Dida of Ethiopia will lead the women’s elite field when she returns for her title defence in Dubai in January.
Reigning Dubai Marathon champion Dera Dida of Ethiopia will lead the women’s elite field when she returns for her title defence in Dubai in January.
Athletes will compete for points in their chosen discipline at the 14 series meetings between April and September.
The 2024 World Athletics Continental Tour calendar is out, with the first Gold level meeting in Australia two months away.
High Altitude Athletics Club of Jos, announce intention to send 25 elite athletes to the 2023 ECOWAS Abuja International Marathon.
The role of the World Athletics commissions is to provide expertise and to advise the World Athletics Council
Hopes for records were ruined by the weather conditions as Panuel Mkungo clocked 2:10:35 while Beatrice Cheptoo crossed the line on Istanbul’s Sultanahmet Square after 2:27:09.
An initiative of the women’s 100m hurdles world record holder Tobi Amusan and quarter-miler Abiola Onakoya, the 2023 Tobi/Abiola Sprint and Relays Meet will hold in Ijebu-Ode from 3-4 November.
This week marks the opening of the voting process for the 2023 men’s World Athletes of the Year ahead of the World Athletics Awards 2023.
This week marks the opening of the voting process for the women’s 2023 World Athletes of the Year ahead of the World Athletics Awards 2023.
Kelvin Kiptum clocked a stunning 2:00:35 to take 34 seconds off the world record at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on Sunday.
Two young stars stole the show at the World Athletics Road Running Championships Riga 23, setting new world records in the electrifying mile races.
Bernard Muia and Catherine Cherotich take eventful races in Munich as the 2023 GENERALI MUNICH MARATHON produced a Kenyan double triumph on Sunday.
Ethiopian Tigst Assefa makes history with extraordinary World Record, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge triumphs once more, and Amanal Petros breaks German record at the 2023 BMW BERLIN-MARATHON.
The YOG Dakar 2026 will take place from 31 October to 13 November 2026, bringing together the world’s best young athletes to compete.
Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich smashed the women-only world 10km record at the Trunsylvania 10km, clocking 29:24 at the World Athletics Elite Label road race held on Sunday as part of the Brasov Running Festival in Romania
Ethiopia’s Guye Adola and defending champion Brimin Misoi of Kenya add their quality to the elite field for 40th Edition of the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon on October 29.
Ethiopian Letesenbet Gidey ran 14:08.79 at Berlin’s ISTAF Meeting, but missed reclaiming the 5,000m world record by four secs.
The 23rd Dubai Marathon will take place on January 7, 2024, returning to its traditional location in the city’s heart.
All the latest news, action highlights and behind the scene gists about African athletes at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 – from 19-27 August, 2023.
Deviating from traditional medal designs, the emphasis was placed on representing the host country and capturing the essence of a sporting nation.
The Kenyan runner ran 4:07.64 to break her third world record of the summer at Stade Louis II in Monaco on Friday
The renowned Kenyan athlete, aged 38, will be competing in the prestigious road race for the sixth time.
Athletics South Africa is thrilled to learn of the European Court of Human Rights declaration that the imposition of the DSD regulations on Caster Semenya was discriminatory and a violation of her human rights.
Taylon Bieldt scorched to a convincing victory in 12.76 secs to break the South African record in the women’s 100m hurdles at a meeting in Campo Scuola, Italy.
Thabang Mosiako and Glenrose Xaba claim the national men’s and women’s titles at the 2023 ASA Half-Marathon Championships in Gqeberha.
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon secured the world record she had been targeting, winning the women’s 1500m in an impressive 3:49.11 at the Golden Gala in Florence.
Athletics South Africa president, James Moloi, has expressed strong support for the South African athletes participating in the upcoming 2023 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Innsbruck-Stubai, Austria, which is set to begin in less than three weeks.
World athletics aiming to engage 400,000 kids in athletic activity to counter worrying global inactivity rates.
Qualification system for the World Athletics Relays Nassau 24 has been released.
Purity Komen causes an upset against Ruth Chepngetich, while Daniel Ebenyo emerges victorious at the 2023 Istanbul Half Marathon.
Samwel Mailu promises to support Kenyan talents after breaking the course record in Vienna.
South African newly minted record setter Leandri Geel turns her focus on to ASA Grand Prix 3 at the NWU MacArthur Athletics Stadium in Potchefstroom on Wednesday 26 April 2023.
The Dubai Marathon will return for a 23rd staging on Sunday, January 7, 2024.
Bernard Koech from Kenya won the Haspa Marathon Hamburg, setting a course record of 2:04:09 and is currently the fourth fastest runner globally this year.
Kenya’s Samwel Mailu broke the nine-year-old course record at the Vienna City Marathon, finishing in 2:05:08, with Austria’s President Alexander Van der Bellen holding the finishing tape.