Francis Mutuku makes pitch for NOC-Kenya presidency
The succession of legendary Paul Tergat as president of National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) gathers pace as Francis Mutuku formally enters the race for the top position.
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The succession of legendary Paul Tergat as president of National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) gathers pace as Francis Mutuku formally enters the race for the top position.
From 2025, there will also be a select number of Diamond+Disciplines – four at the series meetings and eight at the Final – in which athletes can earn higher prize money.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe says that cases of confirmed age cheating could lead to the stripping of medals and nullification of results.
Five-time World Cross-Country champion, Paul Tergat, calls on African Athletics officials to bolster the Continental Cross-Country Championships.
The women’s race promises to be the star of the 18th edition of the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon on Saturday morning, with both race favourites, Ethiopians Germawit Gebrzhair and…
A true game-changer on the track, Letsile Tebogo represents more than just raw talent; he’s a glimpse of the charisma and potential that may redefine African athletics.
When it comes to athletics, the Tola-Dida family from Ethiopia could be considered royalty. They have a particular fondness for the Dubai marathon, which marks its 25th anniversary with this Sunday’s race.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)’s 2025 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List) and the 2025 Monitoring Programme come into force on 1 January 2025.
This annual digital campaign, Play True Day, unites the global anti-doping community in raising awareness of the importance of clean sport.
Can Tigist Ketema become the latest Ethiopian woman to cause a sensation in Berlin? – 50th BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on Sunday 29 September, 2024.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) responds to a Reuters story of 7 August 2024 exposing a scheme whereby the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) allowed athletes who had doped, to compete for years without sanction.
Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei finally secured Olympic gold in the men’s 10,000m event, breaking a 16-year-old Olympic record after a fierce competition with Ethiopian top runners and USA’s Grant Fisher.
The World Anti-Doping Agency will have its Athlete Engagement and Major Event Anti-Doping Legacy (MEAL) Programme teams on site for the Games.
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.
Samwel Mailu promises to support Kenyan talents after breaking the course record in Vienna.
The newly-minted women’s 100m hurdles world champion only got into hurdling through a quirk of fate, having started out as a sprinter and long jumper as a youngster in Nigeria.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) signs agreement with the Commonwealth Games Federation in lead up to the 22nd Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
African champion and record-holder, Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya, arrived in Oregon barely 3 hours before taking his spot on the starting line of the men’s 100m heats at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Here are the FIVE must visit beautiful places and scenery in Mauritius that you should visit if you are coming to Maurice 2022 on Sport Trips with Athletics Africa.
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.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) to deliver e-learning course for athletes and coaches ahead of 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, UK.
After the cancellation of the 2020 CAA African Senior Athletics Championships at the Stade Olympique d’Oran in Algeria, the 22nd edition will now hold at Côte d’Or National Sports Complex, Mauritius in 2022.
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.
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.
Former marathon world record-holder, Tegla Chepkite Loroupe of Kenya, bared her mind in this interview at the ANOC World Beach Games – Qatar 2019.
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.
African athletes will once again file out in a contest for pride and honours at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha.
LIVE Blog on Day 5 of track and field action at the 21st CAA African Senior Athletics Championships (#Asaba2018) from the mainbowl of the Stephen Keshi stadium in Asaba, Nigeria – Sunday 5 August, 2018.
As it happens LIVE on Day FOUR of track and field action at the 21st CAA African Senior Athletics Championships (#Asaba2018) from the mainbowl of the Stephen Keshi stadium in Asaba, Nigeria – Friday 3 August, 2018.
Africa Championships 2018…As it happens LIVE on Day TWO of track and field action at the 21st CAA African Senior Athletics Championships (#Asaba2018) from the mainbowl of the Stephen Keshi stadium in Asaba, Nigeria – Thursday 2 August, 2018.
LIVE Blog of Day ONE of track and field action at the 21st CAA African Senior Athletics Championships (#Asaba2018) from the mainbowl of Stephen Keshi stadium in Asaba, Nigeria – Wednesday 1 August, 2018.
On a night of sensational running at a hot and humid Stade Louis II, Kenya’s Beatrice Chepkoech produced the crowning performance of the tenth IAAF Diamond League meeting of the season as she took more than eight seconds off the women’s world 3000m steeplechase record, coming home, alone and triumphant, in 8:44.32.
Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge’s aim at the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on September 16 this year is clear cut: to break his personal best. Given that Kipchoge is the Olympic champion and acknowledged to be the number one for the distance in recent years, this suggests the 33-year-old is ready to produce something special.
LIVE Blog of Day SEVEN of Athletics action at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (#GC2018) from inside the Carrara Stadium, Gold Coast, Australia – Saturday 14 April, 2018.
LIVE Blog of Day SIX of Athletics action at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (#GC2018) from inside the Carrara Stadium, Gold Coast, Australia – Friday 13 April, 2018.