Kenyans target a double hat-trick at Munich Marathon 2024
Cosmas Birech and Shamilah Kipsiror are heading the start list at the 38th edition of the GENERALI MUNICH MARATHON on Sunday October 13th.
Cosmas Birech and Shamilah Kipsiror are heading the start list at the 38th edition of the GENERALI MUNICH MARATHON on Sunday October 13th.
Ethiopia’s Abebe Negewo and Kenneth Kipkemoi of Kenya lead the elite men’s start list at the 46th Türkiye Is Bankasi Istanbul Marathon on 3rd November.
Ethiopians Tigist Abayechew and Yeshi Chekole are the two fastest entrants on the start list for the 41st Mainova Frankfurt Marathon on October 27.
The calendar and the allocation of disciplines for the 2025 Wanda Diamond League season have now been published
The Prefontaine Classic returns to Hayward Field at the University of Oregon on Saturday, July 5, 2025 for the 50th edition of the meet.
After Tigst Assefa improved the course record to 2:15:37 in 2022 and pulverised the world record with 2:11:53 in Berlin last year, her training partner Tigist Ketema took the crown in 2024.
Ethiopians Milkesa Mengesha and Tigist Ketema sweep the top honours in the 50th anniversary race of the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON in the German capital.
As many as 14 runners have personal best times of under 2:06 in Sunday’s BMW BERLIN-MARATHON, making the 2024 edition the highest quality men’s field in the history of the event.
Can Tigist Ketema become the latest Ethiopian woman to cause a sensation in Berlin? – 50th BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on Sunday 29 September, 2024.
Deep fields are assembled with 14 men who have already run sub 2:06 as the 50th edition of the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON promises fast and exciting elite races.
Kenya’s Daniel Kinyanjui and Loice Chemnung are victorious in the Brasov Running Festival 2024’s tRUNsylvania 10K on Sunday.
The Wanda Diamond League will increase athlete prize money to the highest levels in the series’ history beginning with the 2025 season, the league offices announced today.
Herpasa Negasa of Ethiopia remains the favourites in the field with his world-class personal best of 2:03:40, while Kenyan Elisha Rotich, with a PB of 2:04:21, is among the new additions.
The 2024 track and field season concluded with the thrilling Wanda Diamond League finale at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme in Brussels on Saturday.
Faith Kipyegon claimed her fifth Diamond League title, and with her compatriot Beatrice Chebet, broke the meeting records in their events on the second day of the Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels on Saturday.
The announcement of the marathon and race walk courses forms part of the local organising committee’s celebrations marking one year to go to the global event.
Kenya’s Amos Serem shocked Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali to win his first men’s 3000m Steeplechase Diamond League title at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme – Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels.
The reigning Olympic 200m champion, who has been in excellent form since the end of Paris 2024, said in Brussels that he’s prepared to run in any weather conditions.
The Jesse Owens Rising Star Award will honour the best performing male and female athletes aged 23 or under at each Wanda Diamond League Final, starting with this year’s edition in Brussels on 13-14 September.
Three Kenyan runners with personal bests slightly over 2:08:00 will be on the start line besides the Olympic Stadium.
Ethiopia’s Lemlem Hailu and Kenya’s Grace Loibach Nawowuna to head the 2024 tRUNsylvania 10K women’s field.
These medallists from Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games will make the two-day Memorial at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels on 13-14 September exceptional.
Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion Beatrice Chebet set a world-leading 14:09.52 meeting record at the 2024 Weltklasse Zurich, the penultimate Wanda Diamond League event of the season.
Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who was admitted to hospital in Eldoret, Kenya for treatment for 80% burns on Sunday, has died from ‘organ failure’.
With Ethiopia vs Kenya in the men’s Valencia Half race, women’s 10K record holder Agnes Jebet Ngetich will make her debut at 21.1km in the city where she achieved her world record in January.
Uganda’s marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who was attacked and set on fire by her Kenyan boyfriend, is receiving treatment for burns on 75% of her body, police said.
Paris 2024 Olympic medallist Ronald Kwemoi and defending champion Weldon Langat on the start line for 2024 tRUNsylvania 10K on Sept 22.
The future of the sport, on and off the field of play, has been shaped during the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24.
World champion Mary Moraa clocks world 600m best at the 2024 ISTAF – a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting – in Berlin.
Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo cruises to a 9.87 (+0.3) win over a packed men’s 100m field at the Golden Gala Diamond League meeting in Rome.
Photo Gallery of Day Five action at the World Athletics U20 Championships, Lima 24 / 27-31 August 2024.
Abdisa Fayisa wins men’s 1500m final and Saron Berhe takes the women’s gold for Ethiopia, whilst Kenyan Edmund Serem tops the steeplechase with world U20 lead of 8:15.28 on the final day of the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24.
World U20 100m champion, Bayanda Walaza of South Africa clinched victory in the men’s 200m on Friday, adding to his 100m title from earlier in the week.
Photo Gallery of Day Four action at the World Athletics U20 Championships, Lima 24 / 27-31 August 2024.
Photo Gallery of Day Three action at the World Athletics U20 Championships, Lima 24 / 27-31 August 2024.