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Tebogo and Hassan named 2024 World Athletes of the Year
Sawe sets world lead on marathon debut, Megertu wins in Valencia
Dubai Marathon 2025 – Lelisa Desisa targets winning return in Dubai
Kenya unveils GBV and safeguarding in sports committee to protect athletes
Tobi Amusan inducted into UTEP’s Hall of Fame – Class of 2024
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20 Years of AthleticsAfrica – a vicennial celebration of African Athletics voices
Happy New Year Africa: Welcome to 2024 – our 20th anniversary year
Youth engagement and mobilisation at the core for Dakar 2026
Africa Day 2022: ANOCA calls for peace and unity in Africa, and beyond
World Athletics to celebrate Kids’ Athletics Day on 7 May
- MULTIMEDIA
Video: Highlights of the World Athletics Awards 2024
Video: Letsile Tebogo wins Men’s Track Athlete of the Year – World Athletics Awards 2024
Video: Tamirat Tola is Out of Stadium Athlete of the Year – World Athletics Awards 2024
Video: Almayew and Furlani named Rising Stars – World Athletics Awards 2024
Video: Hawi Feysa smashes course record with 2:17:25 in Frankfurt
Ethiopia
Ethiopia's Sembo Almayew is the only African athlete in the top three and stands a great chance to win the award.
Ethiopia
Ethiopian Dejene Debela prevails while Kenyan-born Bahraini Ruth Jebet continues marathon win streak at the 2024 Türkiye Is Bankasi Istanbul Marathon on Sunday.
Ethiopia
Ethiopian women continue to dominate the all-time list in the marathon with 17 of their compatriots among the 30 fastest runners ever.
Ethiopia
Ethiopian Hawi Feysa wins the 41st Mainova Frankfurt Marathon with a superb course record, finishing in 2:17:25, and Kenyan debutant Benard Biwott wins the...
Ethiopia
Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha lowers the previous mark of 57:31 - recorded three years ago in Lisbon by Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda - by just...
Ethiopia
Ethiopian dominance as Yalemzerf Yehualaw breaks the course record in 2:16:52 whilst Tsegaye Getachew reclaims the men's title with 2:05:38 at the TCS Amsterdam...
Ethiopia
Ethiopians Tigist Abayechew and Yeshi Chekole are the two fastest entrants on the start list for the 41st Mainova Frankfurt Marathon on October 27.
Ethiopia
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...
Ethiopia
Ethiopians Milkesa Mengesha and Tigist Ketema sweep the top honours in the 50th anniversary race of the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON in the German capital.
Ethiopia
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...
Ethiopia
Ethiopia's Lemlem Hailu and Kenya's Grace Loibach Nawowuna to head the 2024 tRUNsylvania 10K women's field.
Ethiopia
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...
Ethiopia
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...
Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s Sembo Almayew sets a championship record in the 3000m steeplechase and South Africa's Udeme Okon wins the 400m gold on third day of...
Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s Medina Eisa secured the world U20 5000m title with record-breaking performance on first day of action at the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima...
Ethiopia
Fentaye Belayneh led an Ethiopian 1-2 in women's 5000m just like Nibret Melak in the men's 10,000m earlier on Saturday, while Hugues Fabrice Zango...
Ethiopia
Degitu Azimeraw and Tadesse Abraham emerged victorious at the Zurich Marató Barcelona - a World Athletics Gold Label road race.
Ethiopia
Tigist Ketema breaks debut world record while a former javelin thrower Addisu Gobena takes the men’s title at the 2024 Dubai Marathon.
Ethiopia
Reigning Dubai Marathon champion Dera Dida of Ethiopia will lead the women’s elite field when she returns for her title defence in Dubai in...
Ethiopia
Two young stars stole the show at the World Athletics Road Running Championships Riga 23, setting new world records in the electrifying mile races.
Ethiopia
Ethiopian Letesenbet Gidey ran 14:08.79 at Berlin's ISTAF Meeting, but missed reclaiming the 5,000m world record by four secs.
Ethiopia
Senbere Teferi, who holds the 5k world record, is part of a formidable group of African runners in the 2023 Vienna City Marathon's competitive...
Ethiopia
Ethiopia's star runner Lamecha Girma, known for his impressive collection of silver medals, added a shiny new world record to his trophy cabinet at...
Ethiopia
Tsegaye Mekonnen Asefa, former winner and unofficial junior world record holder, will participate in the 2023 Dubai Marathon on February 12th.
Ethiopia
Addisu Yihune of Ethiopia out-sprinted Merhawi Mebrahtu of Eritrea to claim the men’s 5000m title 14:03.05 to 14:03.33 at the World Athletics U20 Championships...
Ethiopia
Gotytom Gebreslase secures Ethiopia's second gold medal in the marathon, lowering the world championships record to 2:18:11 for victory, at the World Athletics Championships...
Ethiopia
Tamirat Tola led an Ethiopian 1-2 ahead of compatriot Mosinet Geremew, clocking 2:05:36, to smash the 13 year-old World championship marathon record at the...
Ethiopia
Ethiopian Letesenbet Gidey held off Kenyan duo of Hellen Obiri and Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi to win the gold medal in the women’s 10,000m at...
Africa
The Ethiopians led by Mogos Tiumay scooped the gold and silver medals ahead of rival Kenya in the first track final of the 22nd...
Ethiopia
When five of the world leading distance runners gathered ahead of TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2022 on Sunday, one common question for them was:...
Ethiopia
Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha wins the men’s 5km in 12:53 – the fastest debut in history – at the 2022 Adizero Road to Records event...
Ethiopia
World champions Muktar Edris (Ethiopia) and Hellen Obiri (Kenya) head to Bengaluru for the 2022 TCS World 10K race on Sunday 15 May.
Ethiopia
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...
Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s 10k world record holder Yalemzerf Yehualaw will run her much anticipated debut at the 36th Haspa Marathon Hamburg on Sunday April 24.
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