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- NEWS
Tebogo and Hassan named 2024 World Athletes of the Year
Sawe sets world lead on marathon debut, Megertu wins in Valencia
Dubai Marathon 2025 – Lelisa Desisa targets winning return in Dubai
Kenya unveils GBV and safeguarding in sports committee to protect athletes
Tobi Amusan inducted into UTEP’s Hall of Fame – Class of 2024
- OPINION
20 Years of AthleticsAfrica – a vicennial celebration of African Athletics voices
Happy New Year Africa: Welcome to 2024 – our 20th anniversary year
Youth engagement and mobilisation at the core for Dakar 2026
Africa Day 2022: ANOCA calls for peace and unity in Africa, and beyond
World Athletics to celebrate Kids’ Athletics Day on 7 May
- MULTIMEDIA
Video: Highlights of the World Athletics Awards 2024
Video: Letsile Tebogo wins Men’s Track Athlete of the Year – World Athletics Awards 2024
Video: Tamirat Tola is Out of Stadium Athlete of the Year – World Athletics Awards 2024
Video: Almayew and Furlani named Rising Stars – World Athletics Awards 2024
Video: Hawi Feysa smashes course record with 2:17:25 in Frankfurt
Ethiopia
Ethiopia's Sembo Almayew is the only African athlete in the top three and stands a great chance to win the award.
Ethiopia
Ethiopian Dejene Debela prevails while Kenyan-born Bahraini Ruth Jebet continues marathon win streak at the 2024 Türkiye Is Bankasi Istanbul Marathon on Sunday.
Ethiopia
Ethiopian women continue to dominate the all-time list in the marathon with 17 of their compatriots among the 30 fastest runners ever.
Ethiopia
Ethiopian Getu Feleke clocked a superb course record of 2:05:41 to win the 31st Vienna City Marathon in good weather conditions on Sunday.
East Africa
Distance running legend Haile Gebrselassie will open the 2014 Virgin Money London Marathon Expo at London Dockland's Excel Exhibition Centre at 11am on Wednesday...
East Africa
Ethiopia's three-time Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele notched up another impressive milestone in an already glittering career by winning the Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris...
East Africa
Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba crowned a spectacular winter season with victory in the women's 3000m clocking 8:55.04 ahead of Kenyan Hellen Onsando Obiri at the...
East Africa
Ethiopia’s Mohammed Aman won back to back World Indoor 800m gold medal on Sunday at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland after overtaking...
East Africa
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba smashed another world Indoor record, her third in 2 weeks, this time the two-mile record at the British Indoor Grand Prix...
East Africa
German-based Ethiopian, Eleni Gebrehiwot, defended her title at the ING Euro Cross Country meeting in the Luxembourg town of Diekirch on Sunday. Gebrehiwot, 31, won the...
East Africa
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba broke the world indoor 3000m record with a stunning 8:16.60 run at the Stockholm’s XL Galan, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting...
East Africa
Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba smashed the women’s 1500m World Indoor Record at the IAAF Indoor track and field meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany on Saturday. Dibaba,...
East Africa
A combination of the biggest pot of prize money and most pancake-flat course among the major marathons means that extraordinary results can be expected...
East Africa
Ethiopian World cross-country vice champion Imane Merga celebrated his third victory at the BOclassic New Year’s Eve run after an incredibly thrilling finish in 28...
East Africa
Ethiopian Imane Merga and Kenyan Gladys Cherono will start as favourites at the 39th edition of the International New Year’s Eve Run – BOClassics...
East Africa
The World 800m champion Mohammed Aman believes he has had the perfect year after his success in the Diamond league and at the World Championships in Moscow....
East Africa
Gelete Burka of [link id=”82″ tax=”category” text=”Ethiopia” target=”_blank”] and Gilbert Kirwa from [link id=”81″ tax=”category” text=”Kenya”] will both wear the no 7 bibs for men...
East Africa
Ethiopian favourite Yemane Tsegay Adhane won a thrilling battle at the conclusion of the 2013 De Lage Landen Marathon Eindhoven, crossing the line in...
East Africa
Two years ago Berlin and Frankfurt produced two fascinating marathon races within an interval of just over a month. First [link id=”301″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Patrick...
East Africa
Defending champion Meselech Melkamu will return to the scene of her triumph last year when she runs the 32nd edition of the BMW Frankfurt Marathon,...
East Africa
Ethiopia’s distance running star Kenenisa Bekele bossed the field to win the men’s race at the [link id=”221″ tax=”post_tag” text=”2013 Bupa Great North Run”]...
East Africa
Meseret Defar’s outstanding 5000m win over her compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba was the highlights of the first of this season’s IAAF Diamond League finals on...
East Africa
Kenyan [link id=”255″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Milcah Chemos Cheywa”] led an African sweep of the women’s 3000m Steeplechase final and Ethiopian [link id=”256″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Mohammed Aman”]...
East Africa
Ethiopian reigning Olympic Champion, [link id=”249″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Tirunesh Dibaba”], won her third World 10,000m title at the [link id=”144″ tax=”post_tag” text=”14th IAAF World Athletics...
East Africa
Kenya’s [link id=”250″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat”] won the women’s marathon Gold medal on Saturday at the 14th [link id=”144″ tax=”post_tag” text=”IAAF World Championship”]s...
East Africa
Ethiopia’s Jillo Dube will speak on the Ethiopian method of training for middle and long distances at the 2nd IAAF World Coaches’ Conference scheduled...
East Africa
Ethiopian distance superstars, [link id=”76″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Haile Gebrselassie”] and [link id=”220″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Kenenisa Bekele”] will face Briton, Somali-born, Mohammed ‘Mo’ Farah in South Shields...
East Africa
Ethiopia’s Meresa Kahsay sets a World Youth best of 5:19.99 to win the boy’s 2000m Steeplechase Gold medal at the 8th IAAF World Youth Championships...
East Africa
Ethiopian star Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenyan Ezekiel Kemboi raced to new meeting records with comfortable performances for Africans in front of 50,266 spectators at...
East Africa
Ethiopians Dereje Debele Tulu and Melkam Gizaw took the 11th edition of the METRO GROUP Marathon Duesseldorf on Sunday. In ideal weather conditions 26...
East Africa
The ageless [link id=”76″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Haile Gebrselassie”] will chase a fifth successive – and sixth in total – title on 26 May at the,...
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