The last batch of Team Nigeria’s contingent to this year’s IAAF World Youth Championship arrived Donetsk, Ukraine late Tuesday after spending about eleven hours in Istanbul, the Turkish capital. The delegation led by the Vice President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Tunde Abdulkareem left Lagos on Monday evening to join the athletes and […]
South African athletes put the troubles at home behind them to win two gold medals on day two of athletics at the 27th Summer Universiade / World University Games in Kazan, Russia on Monday. Anaso Jobodwana won the men’s 100m gold medal in a new lifetime best 10.10 seconds ahead of Japanese Ryota Yamagata and […]
Ethiopian star Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenyan Ezekiel Kemboi raced to new meeting records with comfortable performances for Africans in front of 50,266 spectators at the Meeting Areva/Diamond League inside the Stade de France in Paris on Saturday. Dibaba, the Olympic 10,000m champion, won the women’s 5,000m in 14:23.68, thus erasing Vivian Cheruyot’s previous record set […]
The IAAF World Youth Championships, which will take place from July 10-14, 2013 in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, is on course to become the biggest gathering of athletes in the history of the Championships. With the deadline for the Entries now closed, we are proud to announce that no fewer than 1532 athletes have been […]
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is delighted to announce that IAAF Kids’ Athletics | Nestlé Healthy Kids, the flagship development project of its School / Youth programme, will be demonstrated at the headquarters of Nestlé in Vevey, Switzerland on the morning of Friday 5 July. IAAF / Nestlé Kids’ Athletics, which is one […]
There are just two weeks to go before Donetsk, Ukraine stages the 2013 IAAF World Youth Championships, from 10-14 July, but memories are still fresh of the outstanding last edition of these Championships, held two years ago in the French city of Lille. World youth best performances were established by Kenyan 800m runner Leonard Kosencha, […]
At a time when most athletes are searching for greener pastures and seeking to run for other developed countries, US born, from Newark, NJ, Ugonna Ndu has dared to be different. Ndu, who turns 21 today, won her first national 100m hurdles title in her maiden appearance at the recently concluded All Nigeria Athletics Championship. For […]
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has released a provisional list of 19 athletes to represent Nigeria at the 2013 IAAF World Athletics championship in Moscow, Russia from August 10-18. As expected, Blessing Okagbare, who won three gold medals at the recently held All -Nigeria Championships and selection trials in Calabar lead the team, with many athletes […]
Mauritius has been picked to replace South Africa as the host of the postponed 11th Africa Junior Athletics Championships. The Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) confirmed in a statement on its website that Reduit City in Mauritius will be the next stop for the biannual championships, replacing Johannesburg, which pulled out after Athletics South Africa […]
Athletics South Africa (ASA) insisted on Monday that the country’s athletes will head to the IAAF World championships in Moscow as planned, despite the suspension of the federation by the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) on Sunday. ASA’s President James Evans had been at logger head with the SASCOC for months after he suspended seven […]
Calabar, Nigeria 19/06/13 – World Championships Trials – Official results 20 km Walk Women Final , Time :13:23 1 312 Asedo Queensly, Nigeria Police 26/2/1988 1:31.36 2 320 Queen Henshaw Nigeria Police 24/3/1984 1:36.59 3 65 Bolanle B. Kareem Civil Defence 31/8/1990 1:39.45 4 169 Osaremem Uwaifor Edo State 1:41.25 5 260 Rosemary Kure Mountaineer 20/5/1995 1:42.06 […]
The 67th CRS/AFN All Nigeria Athletics Championships have come and gone but the memories will surely linger on, writes Babatunde Eludini. While old guns like Blessing Okagbare, Ajoke Odumosu and Doreen Amata all held their own in their respective events; some new faces like Ugonna Ndu; a fast improving hurdler, Ese Brume in the jumps […]
Blessing Okagbare eased to victory in the women’s 200m in 22.65 seconds to complete a sprint double on the final day of competition at the 67th CRS/All Nigeria Athletics Championships in Calabar, Cross Rivers State. The duo of Miriam Bassey (23.74) and Janeth Amposah of Ghana (23.79) made it to the podium with the Beijing […]
Ogho-Oghene Egwero won Thursday’s top race with victory in the men’s 100m in 10.18 secs on day-two of the CRS/All Nigeria Athletics Championships in Calabar, Cross-Rivers State. The day produced some heart-warming results and some upsets as the battle to make Team Nigeria to the World Championships in Moscow Russia gets more intense. Egwero lived up […]
Blessing Okagbare won her fifth successive Nigerian women’s 100m title in 11.25 seconds on Wednesday at the ongoing All-Nigeria Athletics Championships in Calabar. Okagbare who held the pre-championship best in the 100m (11.00), 200m (22.31) effortlessly exerted her dominance in yesterday’s final race inside the UJ Esuene Satdium in Calabar, becoming the first woman in […]
Nigeria’s sprint queen and Beijing Olympics Long Jump bronze medallist, Blessing Okagbare has made a damming claim of neglect by the country’s administrators, labelling the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) ‘a big shame’. Whilst the thinking among the media and public was that Okagbare gets better attention from the AFN than her other colleagues, the […]
Former national 400m champion, Folasade Abugan, today made her much anticipated return to the tracks after serving out a 2-year doping ban. Abugan, a former World Junior champion ran in the Heat 2 of the 400m women’s event but failed to make it to the nextround after running a poor time of 55.01 seconds which […]
Top Nigerian athletes arrive in Calabar this week to compete for places in the team for the IAAF World Athletics Championships holding in Moscow, Russia from August 10 – 18, 2013. The 67th All Nigeria track and field championships will hold from tomorrow through to Friday the 21st of June at the Cross River state […]
Official Results – Warri Relays – 14/06/2013 5000 Meter Women (Promotional) 1 114 Amina Olowora NGR 17:48.25 2 133 Iwangar Akaha NGR 18:13.46 3 138 Mnguhenen Ishor NGR 19:46.10 Shot Put Men (National Event) 1 78 Nwoye Augustine NGR 15.48m 2 23 Osi Dennis NGR 14.41m 3 58 Godknows Ekanem NGR 14.27m 4 180 Emmanuel Okeke […]
Nigerian athletes cruised to victory in virtually all the events at the 2nd edition of the Warri Relays/CAA Grand Prix held in Warri, Delta State last Friday. The Meet held inside the magnificent Warri City Stadium had athletes from the United States, United Kingdom, Fiji Island, St. Vincent and a couple of other African countries […]
A new national record of 63.79m was set by Queen Obisesan in the Women’s Hammer event at the fourth leg of the AFN/Solid Works Golden League Meet held at the Sports Complex of the University of Ilorin. Nigerian Sports minster and chairman of the National Sports Commission, Bolaji Abdullahi was there to witness Obisesan erase […]
A handful of fairly impressive performances were over the weekend recorded in the third leg of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria /Solid Works Golden League held inside the University of Benin Sports Complex in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. The new track sensation on the home-front and 400m Women hurdler, Kemi Adekoya continued her steady rise […]
The IAAF World Championships, Moscow 2013, which takes place from 10 to 18 August, will be infused with memories of the last global athletics championship to be staged in the famous Luzhniki Stadium: the 1980 Olympic Games.
LJ Van Zyl’s performance at this weekend’s Great City Games in Manchester was outstanding as he not only beat Jack Green (GBR), but also Olympic gold medalist Felix Sanchez (DOM) in the men’s 200m hurdles. The SA 400m record holder crossed the line in 22.63sec with Green and Sanchez coming through in 22.64sec and 22.68sec […]
Both winners of the BIG 25 Berlin clocked world leading 25k times this Sunday despite warm weather conditions. While Kenya’s Richard Sigei crossed the line in the Olympic Stadium in 1:13:34 fellow Kenyan Lucy Kabuu ran 1:21:37. High temperatures during the race made it impossible for the 29 year-old to come closer to the world […]
Despite warm weather conditions both course records were broken in the TUI Marathon Hannover: South Africa’s Lusapho April clocked 2:08:32 while Ukraine’s Olena Burkovska crossed the line in 2:27:07. While temperatures climbed to over 20 Celsius during the final part of the race both winners ran the second half faster than the first and improved […]
Ethiopians Dereje Debele Tulu and Melkam Gizaw took the 11th edition of the METRO GROUP Marathon Duesseldorf on Sunday. In ideal weather conditions 26 year-old Dereje Debele Tulu broke the course record with 2:07:48. It was the first sub 2:08 time in Duesseldorf. Second placed Pius Ondoro clocked 2:08:17 while Duncan Koech (both Kenya) took […]
Tiaan Smit (WPA) broke the SA Record in the junior men’s 110m hurdles when he crossed the line in 13.51sec on the third day at the SA Sub-youth, Youth, Junior and Under 23 Championships at Pilditch stadium in Tshwane. The previous record of 13.71 was set by Tshepo Lefete’s on 3 April 2011 in Germiston. […]
Defending champion Henry Sugut from Kenya produced a result at the 30th Vienna City Marathon that fitted to the occasion. It was the 30th edition of Austria’s biggest sporting event and the 27 year-old added a piece of history to the event by becoming only the second athlete to win for a third time. Back in […]
The ageless [link id=”76″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Haile Gebrselassie”] will chase a fifth successive – and sixth in total – title on 26 May at the, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race. The Ethiopian superstar, who will celebrate his 40th birthday next month, admits his age is catching up on him, but is adamant that he has […]
Kenya’s Henry Sugut, VCM’s defending champion and course record-holder, will face tough oppositions as he return to the Vienna City Marathon on April 14. Among them is Jafred Chirchir Kipchumba, who features a personal best of 2:05:48. With this time the Kenyan will be the fastest runner ever entered into the marathon race. The 29 […]