Nkoka and Podnebesnova take Two Oceans Marathon crowns
Lesotho’s Lebenya Nkoka and Russia’s Nina Podnebesnova secure victories in the men’s and women’s races at the 56km Old Mutual Two Oceans ultra-marathon in Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday.
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Lesotho’s Lebenya Nkoka and Russia’s Nina Podnebesnova secure victories in the men’s and women’s races at the 56km Old Mutual Two Oceans ultra-marathon in Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has selected 20 athletes to compete at the 2014 Mt.Sac Relays this weekend at the historic Hilmer Lodge Stadium in Walnut, California
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.
Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge won the 34th ABN AMRO Rotterdam Marathon on Sunday, but failed in his bid to break the course record on a windy day in the Dutch port city.
Aderemi Kazeem of the Nigerian Police broke the Nigerian record in the 20km Men’s Walk race at 1st leg of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) Golden League Meet held at the Abuja National Stadium on Saturday.
Kenyans Edna Kiplagat and Wilson Kipsang claimed impressive victories at the 2014 Virgin Money London Marathon in front of Buckingham Palace, London on Sunday.
The ad hoc committee of Athletics South Africa (ASA) has announced that a special general meeting would be held on May 24 to elect a new ASA executive board.
African champion Simon Magakwe becomes the first South African to break the sub-10-second barrier in the 100 metres at the SA Athletics Championships in Pretoria on Saturday.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, on Thursday announced the appointment of former Olympics and World champion, Maurice Greene, as the relay coordinator of Team Nigeria track and field athletes.
Up and coming track star and renaissance man Amechi Egbe is crowd-funding in order to realise his dream to represent Nigeria at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Brasil.
The Technical Director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Navy Commodore Omatseye Nesiama, delegated to oversee the successful hosting of the first AFN Golden League meeting in Abuja on Saturday.
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 April 9, 2014.
African top marathon runners are ready to break Mohammed (Mo) Farah’s challenge, and the course record, at the 2014 Virgin Money London Marathon on Sunday, April 13.
Nigerian youth coach Rauf Abass has commenced plans to contest his life ban by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Athletics-Africa.com has learnt.
Reigning Olympic 800 metres champion and world record holder David Rudisha, from Kenya, will return to IAAF Diamond League action at the Doha 2014 meeting on Friday May 9th.
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 (Paris Marathon) on Sunday on his marathon debut.
Kenyan Joyce Chepkirui fulfilled the expectations and clocked a world-class time of 66:19 to win the Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon on Saturday.
Kenyan Leonard Komon wins the 34th Vattenfall Berlin Half Marathon, on his debut at the distance, with a world-class time of 59:14 edging out compatriot Abraham Cheroben in a sprint finish on Sunday.
Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor and Gladys Cherono led Kenyan men’s and women’s race victories at the 2014 IAAF/AL-Bank World Half Marathon Championships in Copenhagen on Saturday.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has announced the National Stadium, Abuja as the venue to kick off the 2014 Golden League series and the creation of a new ‘Athletics Twilight Meetings’ series.
Uganda team to the IAAF/AL-Bank World Half Marathon Championships 2014 in Copenhagen on Sunday will be led by double Commonwealth Games champion Moses Ndiema Kipsiro.
Only four messages out of 1,709 between murder-accused Oscar Pistorius and his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp could show an argument, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria heard on Tuesday.
Kampala University student Winnie Nanyondo led Uganda to an individual podium sweep and team dominance at the just ended 19th World University Cross Country championships at the Entebbe Golf Course on Saturday.
South African sports broadcaster Supersport and Botswana Television (BTV) have acquired the television rights to broadcast the 2014 Africa Youth Games (AYG) in Gaborone, Botswana.
The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has appointed Chris Essilfie as its new Chef de Mission for the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland from July 23 – August 3, 2014.
The President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Lamine Diack has again reiterated his plan to step down from the post in 2015.
The congress of the African chapter of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS), which started in Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday, has attracted a record attendance by not less than 21 countries.
Oscar Pistorius plans to sell the upmarket $460,000 Silver Woods Country Estate home in Pretoria, where he shot dead his girlfriend last year, to cover the legal fees for his murder trial.
Sally Kipyego sets a new course record (1:08:31) and Geoffrey Mutai clocked 1:00:50 ahead of Mo Farah (1:01:08) to win the women’s and men’s races respectively at the 2014 New York City Half Marathon.
Kenyan athletes swept the podium and clean team honours at the 3rd Africa Cross Country Championships at the Kololo Golf Course in Kampala, Uganda on Sunday.
Senegalese Tafsir Malick Ndiaye has been appointed into the IAAF Ethics Commission by IAAF Council for a four year term, following the approval by the IAAF Congress last year of the IAAF Code of Ethics which came into force on January 01, 2014.
The first police officer on the scene of Reeva Steenkamp’s killing destroyed the notes he made at the time, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria heard on Friday.
Five-time winner, Zersenay Tadese from Eritrea, vying for an unprecedented sixth individual gold medal at the 2014 IAAF/AL-Bank World Half Marathon Championships in Copenhagen – 15 days to go.
IAAF and its broadcasting partners EBU and Dentsu confirm Sopot 2014 were broadcast in over 200 countries worldwide with extensive coverage in Africa with Free-to-Air broadcasts in 19 territories as well as widespread Pay-TV coverage across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Kenya will bid for the 2017 IAAF World Youth Championships in Nairobi, Athletics Kenya (AK) President Isaiah Kiplagat announced on Monday.