Kampala University student Winnie Nanyondo led Uganda to an individual podium sweep and team dominance at the just ended 19th World University Cross Country championships at the Entebbe Golf Course on Saturday.
South African sports broadcaster Supersport and Botswana Television (BTV) have acquired the television rights to broadcast the 2014 Africa Youth Games (AYG) in Gaborone, Botswana.
The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has appointed Chris Essilfie as its new Chef de Mission for the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland from July 23 – August 3, 2014.
The President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Lamine Diack has again reiterated his plan to step down from the post in 2015.
The congress of the African chapter of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS), which started in Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday, has attracted a record attendance by not less than 21 countries.
Oscar Pistorius plans to sell the upmarket $460,000 Silver Woods Country Estate home in Pretoria, where he shot dead his girlfriend last year, to cover the legal fees for his murder trial.
IAAF Official channel interviews reigning African 100m champion, Ruddy Zang Milama of Gabon at the 2014 IAAF world Indoor championships in Sopot, Poland
IAAF Official channel interviews World Indoor 60m silver medallist, Murielle Ahoure of Ivory Coast at the 2014 world Indoor championships in Sopot, Poland
IAAF Official channel caught up with World Indoor record-holder, Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia, at the 2014 world Indoor championships in Sopot, Poland.
The 2013 World Student sprint double champion, Anaso Jobodwana of South Africa, tells Athletics Africa editor, Yomi Omogbeja, in Moscow about running with Usain Bolt, setting new personal bests and targets for 2014.
Nigeria’s 400m champion, Regina George, chats with AthleticsAfrica.com after the women’s 4x400m relay at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow 2013.
Sally Kipyego sets a new course record (1:08:31) and Geoffrey Mutai clocked 1:00:50 ahead of Mo Farah (1:01:08) to win the women’s and men’s races respectively at the 2014 New York City Half Marathon.
Kenyan athletes swept the podium and clean team honours at the 3rd Africa Cross Country Championships at the Kololo Golf Course in Kampala, Uganda on Sunday.
Senegalese Tafsir Malick Ndiaye has been appointed into the IAAF Ethics Commission by IAAF Council for a four year term, following the approval by the IAAF Congress last year of the IAAF Code of Ethics which came into force on January 01, 2014.
The first police officer on the scene of Reeva Steenkamp’s killing destroyed the notes he made at the time, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria heard on Friday.
Five-time winner, Zersenay Tadese from Eritrea, vying for an unprecedented sixth individual gold medal at the 2014 IAAF/AL-Bank World Half Marathon Championships in Copenhagen – 15 days to go.
IAAF and its broadcasting partners EBU and Dentsu confirm Sopot 2014 were broadcast in over 200 countries worldwide with extensive coverage in Africa with Free-to-Air broadcasts in 19 territories as well as widespread Pay-TV coverage across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Kenya will bid for the 2017 IAAF World Youth Championships in Nairobi, Athletics Kenya (AK) President Isaiah Kiplagat announced on Monday.
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 […]
A total of US$2,464,000 is on offer from the IAAF as prize money at this weekend’s IAAF World Indoor Championships, in Sopot, Poland – March 7-9, 2014. Over 600 competitors from 138 countries will be competing for honours at the IAAF World Indoor Championships 2014 being held at the Ergo Arena. As has become traditional, there is […]
Follow AthleticsAfrica.Com Live Coverage from Pretoria, South Africa as Paralympic World champion Oscar Pistorius appears in court accused of murder.
The Official Results from the 4th D. K. Olukoya National U-18 Championships held at the Dipo Dina Stadium in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria from 26- 27th February 2014. Selected Results 5000 Meter Race Walk Girls Final Olude Fadekemi Elele 27:58.01 Akinde Olaitan, Elele, 32:31.57 Nwaokoro Blessing, Lagos, 33:07.99 Uba Glory Adaeze, Abia, 34:00.32 Jhon Faith, SB […]
#Follow AthleticsAfrica.Com Live Coverage from the 15th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics (#SOPOT2014) being held at the ERGO ARENA in Sopot, Poland from March 7-9, 2014. The IAAF World Indoor Championships 2014 will feature over 600 competitors from 138 countries competing for honours. [hr style=”striped”] #Sopot2014 [tabs] [tab title=”RESULTS”] DAY 1 – March 7, 2014 […]
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 […]
The marathon event at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in Scotland will start and finish in Glasgow Green covering a route that will take in iconic Glasgow landmarks and give spectators a superb chance of seeing the race. The Local Organising Committee revealed last Friday the full route which will see elite runners from around […]
There’s little or no sympathy for convicted former Nigerian athlete Ambrose Monye among Nigerian residents in South Africa, AthleticsAfrica findings has revealed. Speaking with a cross-section of Nigerians abroad including the President of the All Nigerian Nationals in the Diaspora (ANNID) South Africa branch, Emeka Johnson Ukwuoama, the consensus was that Monye deserved what he […]
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 […]
With one month to go to the IAAF World Indoor Championships Sopot 2014, Sopot is optimistic of world records performances. The athletics world has been treated to two world indoor records already this year, courtesy of [link id=”379″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Genzebe Dibaba” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”], so hopes are high that there will be more record-breaking performances in […]