Kipsiro leads Ugandan team to Africa Cross Country
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 March 16, 2014.
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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 March 16, 2014.
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 World Indoors Championships in Sopot, Poland on Sunday.
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 two Polish athletes in the final 50m to successfully defend his title from Istanbul 2012. The men’s 800m final was one of the most exciting events in the Ergo Arena this […]
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 3:37.52. More than 20 years have elapsed since the marathon silver medals by Ahmed Salah at the 1987 and 1991 World Championships, and he also got a bronze medal at the […]
The IAAF World Indoor Championships 2014 starts tomorrow in the Polish city of Sopot and will run till Sunday March 9th. Here are some of the top African athletes to watch out for at Sopot 2014: Genzebe Dibaba (Ethiopia, 3000m) Genzebe Dibaba has been in magnificent world record-breaking spree this winter across all her events. In […]
The Queen’s Baton Relay tour visited all 18 African Commonwealth nations and territories some time ago, beginning in Aberdeen – Aberdeen, Sierra Leone that is! This was an exciting start, as local people danced their way into the New Year. In Tanzania, children performed acrobatics and arranged themselves into a giant ‘G’ – the Glasgow […]
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 meeting in Birmingham on Saturday. [link id=”379″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Genzebe Dibaba” target=”_blank”], 23, who’s the younger sister of World and Olympic 10,000m champion, Tirunesh Dibaba, stormed to the finish line in 9:00.48 […]
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 Distance Relays, today at the Ijebu-Ode Stadium in Ogun State. As at noon on Friday, over 500 Nigeria-based athletes have registered to participate in the one-day AFN event which starts 9.00 am and […]
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 home after a four-year long legal battle. “The matter was settled between the parties last year,” Pistorius’s lawyer Brian Webber said on Wednesday. Webber however declined to give details of the settlement. […]
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 2014 Diekirch Euro Cross comfortably clocking a time of 20:28 over the 5.5km course ahead of 2012 winner Almensch Belete, from Belgium. Belete, 24, finished in second place in 20:48 with Sabrina Mockenhaupt from Germany completing […]
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 in Sweden on Thursday. Coming only five days after [link id=”7521″ text=”breaking the world indoor 1500m record with 3:55.17 in Karlsruhe”], Germany, the younger [link id=”379″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Dibaba” target=”_blank”] underlined her […]
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 in South Africa. The sentence for Henning’s murder was handed down in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday, Beeld reported. After months of denial, the two confessed to […]
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. AFN President, [link id=”271″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Solomon Ogba” target=”_blank”] also used the occasion to [link id=”7507″ text=”announce the federation’s 2014 programmes”] as well as inaugurates a new Technical Committee to work with […]
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, the reigning World Indoor world champion, dusted a quality field by almost 13 seconds, winning in 3 minutes and 55.17 seconds to erase the eight year-old record of 3:58.28 set by […]
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 our athletes the opportunity to represent our country at various international levels…”. At the end of June last year, Sascoc suspended [link id=”127″ tax=”post_tag” text=”ASA” target=”_blank”] after its members ignored sanctions […]
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 the weekend of February 14-15, 2014. According to a statement signed by the AFN’s assistant secretary, Umar Lambu, the events to be competed for include: 150m, 300m, 600m. 1000m, 300m hurdles, 4x400m […]
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 in Dubai. The [link id=”358″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon” target=”_blank”] has maintained that sequence and the tantalising prospect of a world record remains. The 15th edition will feature a men’s […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded the broadcast rights in Sub-Saharan Africa to Infront Sports & Media AG and SuperSport International for the XXII Olympic Winter Games in 2014 in Sochi, Russia; the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2014 […]
The deadline for the submission of bids and letters of guarantee to host the 3rd and 4th editions of the African Youth Games, scheduled for 2017 and 2021 respectively, is February 1, 2014 with the protocol agreement expected to be signed by March 30, 2014. The [link id=”313″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Association of National Olympic Committees of […]
The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) recently organised a seminar for Chefs de Mission of various delegations that will take part in the 2nd Youth Olympic Games (YOGs) scheduled for Gaborone, capital city of Botswana, from May 22 – 31, 2014. The seminar, which took place December 11-12, 2013 at the University […]
Kenyan Javelin star, Julius Yego, is looking forward to a tough 2014 as he continues to make inroads in a discipline hardly considered to be his country’s forte in athletics. [link id=”260″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Yego”], 25, has speared his way to the top of the pile in men’s javelin over the last two years, finishing just […]
World marathon record holder Wilson Kipsang is eyeing to set a new course record when he lines up for the 2014 London Marathon race on April 13. However, [link id=”299″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Kipsang” target=”_blank”] is alive to the calibre of challenge that he will face as the organizers have confirmed a list of elite runners that […]
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 Invitational, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR on Friday. George, a 2010 World Junior champion (4x400m) and former Razorback NCAA All-American, finished well ahead of compatriot and national team-mate [link id=”154″ […]
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 constitutional. “Both Sascoc and SRSA (Sport and Recreation SA) take note of the interim chair and committee, which was elected in a special general meeting of ASA,” Sascoc said in the […]
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 won the men’s 5000m with the time of 13:49.92 minutes, followed by the Kenyan Yusuf Biwott ( 13:51:22 ) and another Ethiopian Atsedu Tsegay (13:51.64). Ethiopian Kinde Atanew (8:03:74) took the […]
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 Tuesday. According to the Agencia Angola Press (ANGOP), the start shot for the 10k run was fired by the provincial governor, Cândida Narcisso, in Zorro ward and its finish line was […]
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 minutes and 43 seconds. Merga, who had already defeated Olympic champion Mo Farah in Bozen/Bolzano, stood up to 2010 World half marathon champion Wilson Kiprop (Kenya) to retain his 10km title by […]
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 the Le Marathon International des Oliviers de Sfax. The half marathon titles were retained by Moroccans with Taoufik Allem in 1:04:14 and her compatriot Ben Fethia Chatki in 1:17:25. Nearly 170 athletes representing fifteen […]
Kenyan runners have an imposing record of success in the major city marathons in recent years but Dubai is an exception to the rule. Ethiopians rule the roost when it comes to the men’s competition on this superfast course. Kenya has produced a men’s champion on just one of the past six occasions when David […]
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 weeks left before the 39th edition of the run in South Tyrol, Italy, the Organising Committee managed to pull off a coup – or better, three coups. Added to the two […]
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 December 15 looking for a fast race. The Kenyan pair won the men’s and women’s races at the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon in February, with world leading and personal best […]
The IOC, the Olympafrica Foundation and the FC Barcelona Foundation (FFCB) have announced a new agreement to bring sport to people of all ages and abilities throughout Africa. Following the success of a previous pilot programme, IOC President [link id=”336″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Thomas Bach” target=”_blank”], FC Barcelona Chairman Sandro Rosell, and IOC honorary member and President […]
Ethiopian Imane Merga and Kenyan Gladys Cherono will start as favourites at the 39th edition of the International New Year’s Eve Run – BOClassics in Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. Following the example of Sao Paolo, in 1975 the Runners’ Association of Bozen/Bolzano launched a New Year’s Eve Run in Bozen/Bolzano. Today, the BOclassic is considered the best cast […]
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 board was dissolved is ‘unconstitutional and invalid’. Neither Evans nor vice-president [link id=”233″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Hendrick Ramaala” target=”_blank”] were in attendance as they were appearing in a Johannesburg High Court to uphold […]
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 and Western Province Athletics – for acting outside the ASA constitution. ASA’s move came after the five provincial boards, led by Boland, had allegedly recruited 12 of the regional executives to […]