Botswana
Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo announced as the overall World Athlete, and Male track athlete of the Year, while Ethiopians Tamirat Tola and Sembo...
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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
Africa
Kenya's Sabastian Sawe wins the 2024 Valencia Marathon in a world leading time of 2:02:05 while Ethiopia’s Megertu Alemu was victorious in the women’s...
Ethiopia
Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa will return to the scene of one of his most memorable victories when he joins the elite field of world-class athletes...
Kenya
Kenyan government set up Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and enhance safeguarding in sports committee with athletics legend Catherine Ndereba among the members.
East Africa
Moses Kipsiro, will lead the senior men's team to the 3rd Africa Cross Country Championships at Kololo Memorial grounds in Kampala, Uganda on Sunday...
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...
Djibouti
Djibouti’s Ayanleh Souleiman won his tiny East African country’s first ever gold medal in a global athletics competition when he sped to victory in...
Africa
The IAAF World Indoor Championships 2014 starts tomorrow in the Polish city of Sopot and will run till Sunday March 9th. Here are some...
Africa
The Queen’s Baton Relay tour visited all 18 African Commonwealth nations and territories some time ago, beginning in Aberdeen – Aberdeen, Sierra Leone that...
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...
Nigeria
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) is expecting a huge turn-out of Nigerian athletes at its maiden competition of 2014, the Over-Distance Races and...
RSA
Paralympic 400m champion, Oscar Pistorius, has reached an out-of-court settlement with a woman who laid an assault charge against him after a party at his...
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...
Nigeria
Former Nigerian athlete [link id=”383″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Ambrose Monye”] and co accused Andre Gouws have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Chanelle Henning...
Nigeria
The board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) presented to the media American Eric Campbell as the high performance director in Abuja on Tuesday....
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,...
RSA
Athletics South Africa’s suspension has been lifted, the South Africa Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) said on Wednesday. Sascoc said the decision “would give...
Nigeria
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) will hold the 2014 AFN All-Comers Over-distance and Distance Relays at the Gateway Stadium in Sagamu, Ogun-State on...
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...
Africa
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded the broadcast rights in Sub-Saharan Africa to Infront Sports & Media AG and SuperSport International for the...
Africa
The deadline for the submission of bids and letters of guarantee to host the 3rd and 4th editions of the African Youth Games, scheduled...
Botswana
The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) recently organised a seminar for Chefs de Mission of various delegations that will take part...
East Africa
Kenyan Javelin star, Julius Yego, is looking forward to a tough 2014 as he continues to make inroads in a discipline hardly considered to...
East Africa
World marathon record holder Wilson Kipsang is eyeing to set a new course record when he lines up for the 2014 London Marathon race...
Nigeria
Nigerian 400m champion Regina George clocked an African indoor record of 1:25.76 to win the women’s 600m, by almost four seconds, at the Arkansas...
RSA
SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) has said the process followed at an Athletics SA (ASA) annual general meeting to oust its board was...
Angola
Ethiopian and Kenyan athletes dominated the Luanda International Meeting tagged ‘Demóstenes de Almeida’, held at the Coqueiros Stadium, in Luanda on Thursday. Ethiopian Yenew Gelahum...
Angola
António Wassamba won the fourth athletics competition organised in honour of the late endurance runner José Muanbunji in Saurimo City, eastern Lunda Sul province on...
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...
North Africa
French athlete Larby Sraidi took the men’s race clocking 2:20:58 and Moroccan Khedija Laaribi won the women’s marathon in 2:56:09 at the second edition of...
East Africa
Kenyan runners have an imposing record of success in the major city marathons in recent years but Dubai is an exception to the rule....
Africa
Wilson Kiprop, Petro Mamu and Maryam Jamal are set to participate in the 2013 BOclassic international New Year’s Eve Run in Bozen/Bolzano. With two...
East Africa
Kenya’s [link id=”298″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Geoffrey Kipsang” target=”_blank”] and compatriot [link id=”139″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Lucy Kabuu” target=”_blank”] will storm the 2013 Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on...
Africa
The IOC, the Olympafrica Foundation and the FC Barcelona Foundation (FFCB) have announced a new agreement to bring sport to people of all ages...
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...
RSA
Athletics South Africa (ASA) president [link id=”172″ tax=”post_tag” text=”James Evans” target=”_blank”] says the annual general meeting (AGM) held on Saturday where the federation’s entire...
RSA
Athletics South Africa (ASA) has suspended five of the country’s regional athletics boards – Boland Athletics, Central Gauteng Athletics, KwaZulu-Natal Athletics, Athletics South Western District...
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