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Photo gallery of African athletes on Day 8 and 9 of Athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the...
Kenya
Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge won the men's marathon gold on the final day of competition at the Rio 2016 Olympics to maintain his dominance in...
RSA
Caster Semenya broke the national 800m record to earn gold at the Rio Olympics on Saturday tearing down the home straight to secure the...
Kenya
Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot shocks World 10,000m record-holder Almaz Ayana to win her first Olympic gold medal in the Women's 5000m at the Rio 2016...
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Photo gallery of African star athletes on day six and seven of athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from...
RSA
South Africa's Sunette Viljoen produced the performance of her career on Thursday night to secure the silver medal in the women's Javelin throw event...
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Photo gallery of African star athletes on day four and five of athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from...
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Photo gallery of African athletes on day 3 of athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium...
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Photo gallery of African star athletes on day two of athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic...
Kenya
Conseslus Kipruto ran an Olympic record of 8:03.28 to win Kenya’s ninth consecutive gold medal in the men’s 3000m steeplechase on day 6 of...
Kenya
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon won the Olympic women's 1500m gold leaving Ethiopia’s world record holder Genzebe Dibaba trailing in her wake on Tuesday night.
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Photo gallery of African star athletes at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio, Brazil on August...
Kenya
Kenya's David Rudisha stormed to victory in 1:42.15 to retain his Olympic men's 800m title ahead of Algeria's Taoufik Mahkloufi at the Rio 2016...
RSA
South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk broke Michael Johnson’s world record to win the men's 400m gold at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in a...
Kenya
London marathon winner, Jemima Sumgong, became the first Kenyan woman to win the Olympics marathon title, clocking 2:24:04 for gold, at the Rio 2016...
RSA
South African Luvo Manyonga soared to a lifetime best jump of 8.37m on Saturday to bag South Africa's first track and field medal on...
Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana smashed the world record to win the 10,000m at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, clocking 29:17.45 to win the first athletics...
Botswana
Botswana's 800m runner Nijel Amos vows to deliver yet another medal for his country when the Athletics competition starts on Friday at 2016 Olympic...
World
International Olympic Committee to add baseball/softball, karate, skateboard, sports climbing and surfing to the sports programme for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Blogs & Comment
Liberian sprinter Phobay Kutu-Akoi narrates to us exclusively on AthleticsAfrica.com her neglect by the Liberian Athletics Federation and her 48-hours of hell en-route to...
Features and Reports
IOC's new digital-first platform will be available anytime, anywhere and on any device, at the conclusion of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on 21...
Botswana
Botswana's wonder kid, Baboloki 'Hurricane' Thebe will take on board the lessons of Bydgoszcz disqualification to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Nigeria
Nigeria's fastest sprinters Blessing Okagbare and Seye Ogunlewe top the list of Team Nigeria athletes to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
RSA
A 39-member SA athletics team was named for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Thursday after the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee...
Kenya
Athletics Kenya (AK) have announced a strong team of 50 athletes to represent the East African nation at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games from...
Special Reports
Five years ago no one ever thought that Botswana’s athlete Baboloki Thebe will be a house hold name, but remained patient, humble and worked...
Anti-Doping
International Olympic Committee (IOC) says reanalysis of the “A” samples from 23 athletes in five sports and from six NOCs who competed at the...
News
South African Lusapho April took the HAJ Hannover Marathon for the third time after 2011 and 2013, his time of 2:11:27 clinching him a...
RSA
South Africa sprint champion Akani Simbine broke the SA 100 metres record by 100th of a second at the 1st ASA's Night Series meeting...
RSA
South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) launches #TeamSARise campaign ahead of Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil this summer.
Nigeria
Doreen Amata improved her Nigerian indoor record to 1.93m at the 22nd Banskobystricka latka High Jump Meeting in the Slovak city of Banska Bystrica...
Nigeria
Nigerian athletes participating in the 2016 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon seek to lower the national record and qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Nigeria
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has released entry standard for athletes seeking to represent Nigeria at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de...
Features and Reports
After celebrating his biggest triumph at the 2015 Vienna City Marathon, Ethiopia's Sisay Lemma targets a Vienna return and qualification for Rio 2016 Olympics.
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