60 seconds with Ghana’s Flings Owusu-Agyapong
As 2014 winds down, AthleticsAfrica editor, Yomi Omogbeja, caught up with Ghanaian sprinter Flings Owusu-Agyapong for a quick-fire chat. Her 2015 goal is to make a real impact at the World championships.
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As 2014 winds down, AthleticsAfrica editor, Yomi Omogbeja, caught up with Ghanaian sprinter Flings Owusu-Agyapong for a quick-fire chat. Her 2015 goal is to make a real impact at the World championships.
A model way athletics facilities – long jump runway – for children is funded in the UK, and a good idea that African athletics federations can copy to promote healthy lifestyles and bring the local community together.
World marathon record-holder, Dennis Kimetto, from Kenya was inspired by listening to athletics commentary on radio, and he thought athletics was the way to escape poverty.
The men’s course record is not the only sign of upward trend in Athens as the organisers celebrate a successful culmination to the 32nd edition of the Authentic Marathon on Sunday, writes Andy Edwards.
Commonwealth and African sprints champion Blessing Okagbare has been joined in holy matrimony to former Super Eagles and Heartland FC of Owerri player, Igho Otegheri, at the St. Patricks Catholic Church in Sapele.
Barely hours after he had taken the marathon into a new territory, with his 2:02:57 to win the 2014 Berlin Marathon, Kenyan Dennis Kimetto warns rivals to expect another decade of his marathon virtuosity.
Caleb Ndiku hosted to an ultimate homecoming welcome party on Wednesday by his people as he arrived at his home town in Machakos County, Kenya.
Follow AthleticsAfrica.Com Live Coverage of the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup (#Marrakech2014) from the Grand Stade de Marrakech, Morocco – September 13-14.
Here are 12 things you never knew about Botswana’s quarter-miler Isaac Makwala, the African men’s 400m record-holder, outside of Track and Field.
Turkey donates US $250,000 to WADA as part of a global government initiative to match the IOC’s pledge to invest US $10 million in innovative anti-doping research.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) seeks nominations for candidates to sit on its four standing committees in 2015 in accordance with its policy for committee composition and rotation.
Follow AthleticsAfrica.Com Live Coverage of the 19th African Senior Athletics Championships in Marrakech, Morocco – August 10-14, 2014.
Follow #AthleticsAfrica Live Coverage from the 20th Commonwealth Games Athletics competition at the Hampden Park Stadium in Glasgow, Scotland – July 27-August 3, 2014.
Botswana’s budding 400m runner Pako Seribe tells AthleticsAfrica’s Tunde Eludini, in this exclusive interview, about his progression from the youth ranks to seniors, challenges and prospects for the future.
Ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland, Spain-based Nigerian jumper Samson Idiata says he’s happy to be back and better after earning a spot on the Nigerian team to Glasgow 2014.
Athletics Federation of Nigeria’s Technical Director, Navy Commodore Omatseye Nesiama, spoke to AthleticsAfrica about the gains of Warri Relays/CAA Grand Prix and other issues in Nigerian athletics.
Follow #AthleticsAfrica Live Coverage from the inaugural edition of the IAAF World Relays on May 24-25, 2014 at the Thomas A. Robinson Stadium in Nassau, The Bahamas.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Play True Magazine recently interviewed WADA Vice President’s, Reverend Dr. Makhenkesi Stofile from South Africa, about his illustrious career combining sport, politics and education.
In an interview with AthleticsAfrica’s Tunde Eludini, AFN’s Technical Director, Navy Commodore Omatseye Nesiama says the Athletics federation expect better results at the 2nd AFN Golden League meet in Ilorin this weekend.
On the sidelines of the 1st AFN Golden League meet, recently held in Nigeria’s Federal Capital, Abuja, Athletics Africa’s Tunde Eludini caught up with the National High Performance Director, Angie Taylor.
For 27 year-old Getu Feleke, Vienna was a major step back into world-class. Running the second fastest time of his career it was the third time he registered a sub 2:06 result.
Follow AthleticsAfrica.Com Live Coverage from Pretoria, South Africa as Paralympic World champion Oscar Pistorius appears in court accused of murder.
#Follow AthleticsAfrica.Com Live Coverage from the 15th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics (#SOPOT2014) being held at the ERGO ARENA in Sopot, Poland from March 7-9, 2014. The IAAF World Indoor Championships 2014 will feature over 600 competitors from 138 countries competing for honours. [hr style=”striped”] #Sopot2014 [tabs] [tab title=”RESULTS”] DAY 1 – March 7, 2014 […]
There’s little or no sympathy for convicted former Nigerian athlete Ambrose Monye among Nigerian residents in South Africa, AthleticsAfrica findings has revealed. Speaking with a cross-section of Nigerians abroad including the President of the All Nigerian Nationals in the Diaspora (ANNID) South Africa branch, Emeka Johnson Ukwuoama, the consensus was that Monye deserved what he […]
In its ongoing effort to support athletes and doping-free sport, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has launched the free ADAMS app for smartphones to more than 25,000 athletes worldwide. The app, which is available immediately to athletes using iPhone devices at the iTunes App Store will be of particular interest to those athletes in a registered […]
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, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President, was, as a representative of the sport movement, appointed WADA’s next Chair. The 72-year-old will begin a two-year term to […]
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 clean”. Speaking at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)’s 2013 World Conference on Doping in Sport in Johannesburg, South Africa, the President told delegates that the […]
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 as the AIMS Best Male Marathon Runner of the Year on Friday evening in Athens, the current world record holder, Wilson Kipsang of Kenya, hinted […]
Last year, on May 25th, Hirum Wandangi, from Kenya, went to run Ruaha Marathon in Iringa, Tanzania. He didn’t win … but his commitment and his efforts to head the group for the first half of the race have been rewarded by the organization with a special prize: a flight ticket and invitation to run in […]
Following approval by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Executive Committee on September 11, the 2014 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods has now been published by the agency.
#Follow AthleticsAfrica.Com DAILY Live Coverage of the 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics from the magnificent Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow from August 10-18, 2013.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council and Congress this morning ratified the new World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code, signifying a return to 4 year sanctions for serious doping offences. According to a statement released following the second day’s working session of the 49th IAAF Congress in Moscow, Russia, the Code was approved by acclamation. Also on the […]
A comprehensive blood testing programme will be organised at the IAAF World Championships, Moscow, Russia, as part of a sophisticated anti-doping programme for the 14th edition of the championships which take place from 10th to 18th August 2013. Two years ago the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) collected blood samples from all athletes taking […]
At a time when most athletes are searching for greener pastures and seeking to run for other developed countries, US born, from Newark, NJ, Ugonna Ndu has dared to be different. Ndu, who turns 21 today, won her first national 100m hurdles title in her maiden appearance at the recently concluded All Nigeria Athletics Championship. For […]