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Favour Ashe and Grace Nwokwocha Saturday claimed their first national titles on Day two of action at the 2022 AFN Nigerian Championships in Benin City.
Galleria: African 200m champion Aminatou Seyni arrives from the 22nd CAA African Championships Mauritius 2022 to a heroic welcome in Niger / Photo credit: Mami Seyni
South African Athletics team return with 36 medals from the 22nd CAA African Senior Championships in Mauritius on Tuesday.
The Ethiopians led by Mogos Tiumay scooped the gold and silver medals ahead of rival Kenya in the first track final of the 22nd African Athletics Championships in Mauritius.
Melikhaya Frans and Glenrose Xaba emerge victorious in the men’s and women’s races at the ASA Half-Marathon Championships 2022 in Gqeberha, South Africa on Saturday.
Team Nigeria to Maurice 2022 includes four defending African champions and World medallists such as: Ese Brume (Long Jump), Tobiloba Amusan (100m hurdles), Chioma Onyekwere (Discus Throw) and Chukwuebuka Enekwechi (Shot Put).
Akani Simbine will lead an 89-member strong SA team, which also features World and Olympic champion Caster Semenya, to the 22nd CAA African Championships in Mauritius next month.
Team Kenya to Maurice 2022 CAA African Senior Athletics Championships will take part in track and field events, and in the men and women’s 4x100m and 4x400m relay races.
Following her world title win in 2009, Caster Semenya was forced by the World Athletics federation, then known as IAAF, to take medication that artificially lowered her naturally high testosterone if she wanted to compete against other female runners.
The 18-year-old school girl record run broke the 33-year-old national record of 9:41.28 in the event, which was set by Itsemhike Anwalimhobor on 22 March 1989 in Benin City.
Kenyans Nicholas Kipkorir Kimeli and Irene Cheptai ran course records of 27:38 and 30:35 respectively at the 14th Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) World 10K Bengaluru 2022.
World leading times for Olympic steeplechase champion Soufiane El Bakkali (Morocco) and Diamond League 5000m champion Francine Niyonsaba (Burundi) at the Ooredoo Doha Meeting, the 2022 Wanda Diamond League opener.
When five of the world leading distance runners gathered ahead of TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2022 on Sunday, one common question for them was: “How fast do you think you will run on Sunday?”
Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha wins the men’s 5km in 12:53 – the fastest debut in history – at the 2022 Adizero Road to Records event in Herzogenaurach on Saturday.
World champions Muktar Edris (Ethiopia) and Hellen Obiri (Kenya) head to Bengaluru for the 2022 TCS World 10K race on Sunday 15 May.
Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw dominated the women’s race from the beginning, producing a sensational marathon debut, to win 2022 Haspa Marathon Hamburg in 2:17:23 on Sunday.
Kenyan Vibian Chepkirui breaks the course record with 2:20:59 to retain her title while compatriot Cosmas Muteti wins the men’s race with 2:06:53 at the 2022 Vienna City Marathon on Sunday.
Talented 20-year-old Sinesipho Dambile won the men’s 200m gold in 20.55 seconds, holding off a challenge from national record holder and pre-race favourite Clarence Munyai in Cape Town.
Defending champion Vibian Chepkirui (Kenya) hopes to make another big step at the Vienna City Marathon, aiming to win her second race at the classic distance, on Sunday April 24.
Prudence Sekgodiso and Nkosinathi Sibiya won hard-fought battles to secure the women’s and men’s 1500m titles at the ASA Senior Track and Field National Championships on Friday,
Ethiopia’s 10k world record holder Yalemzerf Yehualaw will run her much anticipated debut at the 36th Haspa Marathon Hamburg on Sunday April 24.
Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir and Evans Chebet made it a double Kenyan celebration after scooping the elite titles at the 126th Boston Marathon on Monday April 18.
Zimbabweans Moses Tarakinyu and Fortunate Chidzivo dominated the 2022 TotalSports Two Oceans Half Marathon in CapeTown, South Africa on Saturday April 16.
Ofili, 19, breaks Blessing Okagbare’s Nigerian 200 metres national record of 22.04, which had stood since 2018, at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational in Gainesville, Florida on Friday.
Adamu Shehu Muazu made history in the ancient town of Isonyin after he emerged the winner of the 1st MASA Isonyin Half Marathon on Saturday, April 16.
Kenyan Ferdinard Omanyala wins the men’s 100m in 9.98 ahead of South African Akani Simbine, who came second in 10.11 at the ASA Grand Prix Series 4 meeting in Germiston, South Africa.
Both men and women course records could become a target at the 2022 Vienna City Marathon, which features strong elite races on Sunday 24 April.
Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala storms to victory in 10.11 seconds to win the men’s 100m race at the third leg of 2022 ASA Athletics Grand Prix series in Potchefstroom, South Africa.
Viwe Jingqi, Ashley Erasmus and Benjamin Richardson ended a ground-breaking week with another spectacular performance on the third and final day of the ASA National U16, U18 and U20 Track And Field Championships in Potchefstroom.
Viwe Jingqi lowers the SA U18 100m record three times in one day at the 2022 ASA U16, U18 (Youth), and U20 (Juniors) Track and Field Championships at the NWU Mc Arthur Athletics Stadium, Potchefstroom on Thursday.
Competing in her first collegiate season as a freshman at the University of Oregon, De Klerk produced a 54.22m heave to win the discus throw competition at the Aztec Invitational meeting in San Diego, California.
South African Caster Semenya raced to a new personal best of 8:54.97 in the women’s 3,000m race at the second leg of the ASA Athletics Grand Prix Series in Cape Town, RSA.
Trust Hove and Phillipa Dube crowned champions in the men’s and women’s races of the 2022 CBZ Marathon at Old Georgians Sports Club in Zimbabwe.
The 22-year-old Ethiopian edged out Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen to retain the world indoor 1500m title at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade.
The 25-year-old eclipsed the championship record of 3:59.75, held by compatriot Gelete Burka, to lead an Ethiopian clean sweep of the women’s 1500m, crossing the line in 3:57.19.