Hailu clocks one of fastest 3000m times in history at Czech Indoor Gala in Ostrava
World indoor 1500m champion Freweyni Hailu dominated the women’s 3000m at the Czech Indoor Gala in Ostrava, running 8:24.17, one of the fastest times in history.
World indoor 1500m champion Freweyni Hailu dominated the women’s 3000m at the Czech Indoor Gala in Ostrava, running 8:24.17, one of the fastest times in history.
The CAA African Athletics U18/U20 Championships will now be held in Oran, Algeria from July 14 to 18, 2025.
Prudence Sekgodiso smashes the South African women’s short track 800m national record with 2:02.30 at the 2025 World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Belgrade, Serbia.
Auburn University’s track and field freshman Brenda Jepchirchir (Kenya) has been designated as the Southeastern Conference’s women’s Freshman of the Week, with Mississippi State’s Adekalu Fakorede (Nigeria) taking the men’s crown.
Nigerian Samuel Ogazi achieved eighth place with a time of 34.11 secs in the 300m race while compatriot Adekalu Fakorede secured seventh in the 200m final, clocking 21.16 at the Orange and Purple Invitational in Clemson, South Carolina on Saturday.
World Athletics Continental Tour unveils 2025 Gold calendar featuring 13 elite meetings with the Botswana Continental Tour in Gaborone on April 12 and Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi set for May 31.
Beatrice Chebet, a two-time Olympic gold medallist, ended her year triumphantly by setting a new 5km road race world record at the Cursa dels Nassos in Barcelona on new year’s eve.
WATCH – Extended highlights of the World Athletics Awards 2024 ceremony in Monaco on Sunday 1 December.
WATCH – Letsile Tebogo of Botswana receiving recognition as the men’s track athlete of the year at the World Athletics Awards 2024 in Monaco.
WATCH – Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola receiving recognition as the out of stadium athlete of the year at the World Athletics Awards 2024 in Monaco.
WATCH – Ethiopian Sembo Almayew and Italian Mattia Furlani receiving recognition as the Rising Stars of the year at the World Athletics Awards 2024 in Monaco.
Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo announced as the overall World Athlete, and Male track athlete of the Year, while Ethiopians Tamirat Tola and Sembo Almayew carted away other awards at the 2024 World Athletics Awards ceremony in Monaco.
This annual digital campaign, Play True Day, unites the global anti-doping community in raising awareness of the importance of clean sport.
Kenyan government set up Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and enhance safeguarding in sports committee with athletics legend Catherine Ndereba among the members.
Tobiloba Amusan claimed the national 100m hurdles title (12.57) at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships, earned three all-American honours, and secured second place in the event at the 2016 NCAAs during her two-year stint (2016-17) with the UTEP Miners.
Ethiopia’s Sembo Almayew is the only African athlete in the top three and stands a great chance to win the award.
Guangzhou will welcome the world’s best sprinters on 10-11 May 2025 as countries compete for relay places at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25.
The qualification system is based on a dual pathway, with 50% of athletes qualifying through entry standards and the remaining 50% qualifying through top lists.
The upcoming World Athletics Indoor Tour begins on 2 January in Tallinn, Estonia, and ends on 13 March in Uppsala, Sweden.
Glasgow 2026 will take place from July 23 to August 2, featuring a 10-sport programme across four venues within an eight-mile corridor, with more than 500,000 tickets made available for spectators.
Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo and Kenyans Beatrice Chebet, Faith Kipyegon, and Emmanuel Wanyonyi have been nominated for the 2024 World Athletics male and female Track Athlete of the Year Awards.
The vote to determine the Track Athlete of the Year finalists is now open on World Athletics social media platforms, closing on 27 October 2024.
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.
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.