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Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) became the latest national IAAF Member Federation to activate IAAF / Nestlé Kids’ Athletics, the flagship of the IAAF School / Youth Programme, which is now running in more than 120 countries, last Friday. Ghana joined Nigeria as the only countries in the Central and West African Region implementing the programme […]
Benjamin Kipkoech Limo will join an impressive line-up of speakers at the IAAF Global Seminar on Cross Country Running in the Serbian capital Belgrade on December 9, 2013. The 39-year-old Kenyan will take part in the seminar to discuss the major issues facing Cross Country participation, and Cross Country running in general. Limo won the men’s Short […]
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. Speaking to journalists ahead of the 2013 World Athletics Gala in Monaco about his season and plans for 2014, the 19-year-old Ethiopian said he learnt from his London 2012 meltdown and will […]
South Africa’s Olympic long jump silver medallist [link id=”230″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Godfrey Khotso Mokoena”] will put his specialist event on the back burner to pursue triple jump glory in 2014. “I need a new passion, triple jump has never left me and I’ve been practising it but I haven’t been competing in it,” Mokoena said. “I […]
South African women’s 10km Challenge road race champion [link id=”333″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Mapaseka Makhanya”] says she is motivated to raise the bar further in next year’s Grand Prix, after she was won a car for her efforts in this year’s series. Makhanya was crowned the 2013 Grand Prix champion at an awards ceremony in Johannesburg on […]
More athletes are set to take part in the second edition of the Le Marathon International des Oliviers de Sfax on December 15, 2013 in Sfax Tunisia. The Marathon, which was inaugurated in December 2012, has already attracted top elite athletes across the world including thousands of running enthusiasts that will gather on Tunisian soil to […]
Five African countries will compete for the US $65,000 at stake at the 5th African Mountain Running Championships which will hold alongside the Obudu international mountain race on Saturday, November 23 at the Obudu Ranch Resort in Obudu, Cross River state. Sir William Archibong, chairman of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the race, said that […]
Kenyans Geoffrey Mutai and Priscah Jeptoo won the men’s and women’s titles at the 2013 ING New York City Marathon on its return after a 1-year forced hiatus due to last year’s Boston Marathon bombing on Sunday. It’s the third time Kenyans swept both the men’s and women’s titles (2002, 2003). The only other country […]
London 2012 Olympic silver medallist, [link id=”201″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Caster Semenya”] of South Africa, has her sights set on the world record and Commonwealth Games triumph in [link id=”286″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Glasgow” target=”_blank”] next year, after almost a year’s break from the track. Semenya underwent surgery to her right knee for a long-term injury earlier this year and […]
Kenyans [link id=”210″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Vincent Kipruto” target=”_blank”] and [link id=”211″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Caroline Kilel ” target=”_blank”]triumphed in the 32nd BMW Frankfurt Marathon, where stormy and wet weather ruined hopes for record performances. Kipruto braved high winds to clock 2:06:15, beating fellow-Kenyan and debutant Mark Kiptoo by just one second. Elijah Kemboi finished third with 2:07:34. The women’s race also […]
The Association of African National Olympic Committees (ANOCA) has appointed the President of Mauritius Olympic Committee (COM), Philippe Hao Thyn Voon as head of the African Village at the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016. After the debacle that led to the shameful early closure of the African village at London 2012, ANOCA at their recent […]
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) will open a conditioning camp for athletes based in Nigeria on Sunday in a bid to ensure that her athletes make podium appearance at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. According to a statement signed by Head, Communication Media of AFN, Olukayode Thomas, a total of 74 male and female […]
Kenyan police pledged today to boost security for the 11th Standard Chartered Nairobi marathon on Sunday, being staged just over a month since Al-Qaeda linked gunmen killed at least 67 people in a shopping mall. [link id=”81″ tax=”category” text=”Nairobi ” target=”_blank”]is still reeling from the four-day siege on the upmarket Westgate shopping mall by Somali […]
A quartet stacked with talent comprising Stephen Kiprotich and Wilson Kipsang on the men’s side and Edna Kiplagat and Priscah Jeptoo for the women are contenders for the AIMS Best Marathon Runner (BMR) of the year Award, which will be presented in Athens to a male and a female athlete for the first time on […]
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 and women races at the 32nd edition of the BMW Frankfurt Marathon on Sunday. Christoph Kopp, the Elite Race Coordinator for the Frankfurt Marathon, has a habit of giving bib number 7, traditionally considered as […]
Ethiopian favourite Yemane Tsegay Adhane won a thrilling battle at the conclusion of the 2013 De Lage Landen Marathon Eindhoven, crossing the line in 2:09:11 and ending a 14-year Kenyan winning streak in the Dutch city on Sunday. Heavy rain meant that the course record of 2:05:46 was unlikely to be challenged this year but […]
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 Makau” target=”_blank”] ran a world record at the BMW Berlin Marathon, when he clocked 2:03:38. Then [link id=”299″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Wilson Kipsang” target=”_blank”] took the BMW Frankfurt Marathon, going agonisingly close to the […]
After spending two years being known as the man who came agonisingly close to matching the marathon world record, Wilson Kipsang of Kenya broke that record handsomely in Berlin on Sunday morning, clocking 2.03.23, thus taking 15 seconds off compatriot Patrick Makau’s 2.03.38, set in this same race two years ago. In only his second […]
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, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on October 27, 2013. The Ethiopian produced the third fastest marathon debut ever by a woman when setting a course record of 2:21:01 in 2012. […]
Five of Namibia’s top athletes left for Jamaica last week as part of a long term training programme with the aim of improving Namibia’s chances of winning medals at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Under the programme, the Namibian athletes will train with Jamaican superstars like Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake and Asafa Powell while they […]
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”] in a sprint finish ahead of Somali-born Briton Mohammed Farah on Sunday. The world 5000m and 10,000m record-holder won the 13.1-mile course across Newcastle and South Shields comfortably in 1:00:09, despite […]
Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday hosted [link id=”158″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Blessing Okagbare,”] Nigeria’s double silver medallist at last month’s IAAF [link id=”144″ tax=”post_tag” text=”World Championships “]held in Moscow, Russia, and her developmental coach Daniel Dan Etsebiminor at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. President Jonathan made a cash reward of 3 million naira (about US$20,000) to […]
The technical director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Navy Commodore [link id=”148″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Omatseye Nesiama” target=”_blank”], has declared that the recent successes for Nigeria in continental athletics championships are no fluke but dividends of concerted efforts by the Federation as well as other concerned government sports institutions. The AFN technical chief was speaking […]
Egypt’s Ahmed Hassan and South Africa’s Sabelo Ntokozo Ndlovu both set Championships records on day two of the [link id=”270″ tax=”post_tag” text=”11th African Junior Athletics Championships”] at the Stade Germain Comarmond in Bambous, Mauritius. [link id=”278″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Ahmed Hassan”] continues Egypt’s supremacy in the throws with a new championships record of 19.59m in the men’s Shot Put […]
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 Thursday, writes Phil Minshull for the IAAF and the IAAF Diamond League. [link id=”274″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Defar “]and [link id=”249″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Dibaba”], the 5000m and 10,000m gold medallists respectively from the 2013 IAAF […]
The President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Solomon Ogba, has explained the rationale behind dropping nine out of the 35 athletes originally selected to represent the nation at the [link id=”6830″ text=”2013 Africa Junior Athletics Championship”] in Bamboo, [link id=”173″ tax=”am_venues” text=”Mauritius”] this week. According to Ogba, who addressed journalist in Lagos, the dropped athletes were […]
Le Marathon International des Oliviers de Sfax, [link id=”85″ tax=”category” text=”Tunisia”] have been granted the associate membership of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) effective in 2013. The membership approval was communicated by the AIMS President, Paco Borao, to the Marathon Sfax organisers led by Messrs Naamen Bouhamed and M. Ahmed Oueslati. “I am pleased […]
Uganda’s World marathon champion, Stephen Kiprotich, said the IAAF World Championships gold is his best medal as compared to the one he won in the London 2012 Olympics Games. While responding to questions at a press conference in Moscow after his triumphant fete, the double gold medalist said he believes it’s the better of the […]
Kenya’s Ezekiel Kemboi won his third 3,000 metres steeplechase world title in convincing style at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow on Thursday August 15th. The 31-year-old, two-time Olympic champion, timed eight minutes 06:01 seconds to take gold while compatriot Conseslus Kipruto took silver in 8:06.37 and France’s two-time Olympic silver medallist Mahiedine Mekhissi was […]
The 2010 African Champion, Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed from Egypt, today set a national record of 83.62 metres in the men’s Javelin Throw qualification at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow. Competing in Group B inside the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, El Sayed only needed one throw to erase his old mark of 82.45 metres set […]
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”] won the men’s 800m title at the 14th [link id=”144″ tax=”post_tag” text=”IAAF World Championships in Moscow” target=”_blank”]. After two World bronze medals, Cheywa justified her favourite tag – in the absence […]
Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure ran a storming race to win the Silver medal in the women’s 100m final at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in [link id=”144″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Moscow” target=”_blank”], Russia. The 26-year-old Ivorian came through strong with 10 metres left to finished second in 10.93 seconds and thus became the first African woman […]
Blessing Okagbare spoke with the IAAF tv after winning the silver medal in women’s Long Jump at the 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia
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 Championships in Moscow” target=”_blank”] on Sunday. Displaying her trademark kick, the 27-year-old sped away from the field at the bell with an effortless 59.96 seconds last lap to regained the title […]
Video Interview with Ivorian sprinter Murielle Ahoure after the 100m Heats today at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia.