Nigeria announces team of 35 for Paris 2024 Olympics
Commonwealth Games champions Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume are among the 35 athletes named on the Nigerian team for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games from 1-11 August.
Commonwealth Games champions Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume are among the 35 athletes named on the Nigerian team for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games from 1-11 August.
South Africa’s Jacques Freitag, who won the world high jump title in 2003, has died of multiple gunshot wounds at the age of 42.
The Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) dismissed the appeal for sanction sought by World Athletics and WADA against Nigerian athlete Tobiloba Amusan.
The Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) selects Madagascar to host the CAA African Athletics U18/U20 Championships in 2025.
World Athletics set to become the first international federation to award prize money at an Olympic Games, starting at this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris.
Kenya’s silver medallist from 2023 World Half Marathon Championships, Daniel Ebenyo, is regarded as the favourite at the 2024 Generali Berlin Half Marathon.
Burundi’s Rodrigue Kwizera and Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet led the 2023-2024 World Athletics Cross Country Tour honours list.
Photo Gallery of the Athletics competition at the African Games, Accra 2023 – 18-22 March 2024.
Kenya’s world 3000m steeplechase record-holder Beatrice Chepkoech demonstrated her dominance in her specialty event to win the gold at the African Games Accra 2023.
WATCH – Team Nigeria quartet clocked 3:13.26 to set a new African Record in Mixed 4x400m Relays at the African Games Accra 2023.
All eyes will be on junior star Viwe Jingqi in the women’s 200m after recovering from injury niggles that hampered her 2023 season.
Degitu Azimeraw and Tadesse Abraham emerged victorious at the Zurich Marató Barcelona – a World Athletics Gold Label road race.
The World Anti-Doping Agency will have its Athlete Engagement and Major Event Anti-Doping Legacy (MEAL) Programme teams on site for the Games.
The World Athletics Council has selected Beijing, China, to host the 2027 World Athletics Championships.
World Champion Hugues Fabrice Zango soars to a triple jump win and a last-gasp 400m defeat for Karsten Warholm at the hands of Belgium’s Alexander Doom ends Day 2 in Glasgow.
The agreement, which spans from 2024 to 2025, will cover the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25.
Photo gallery of African star athletes at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio, Brazil on August 12, 2016.
Part 3: “All we get from the Coaches is beef…we were training ourselves for this relay…”, watch this and more sad tales from Nigerian athletes – the 4x100m relay quartet – at the World U20 Bydgoszcz 2016.
Part 1: “Nobody cares about us…we didn’t eat for three days…not everybody can run with stress,” watch this and more sad tales from Nigerian athletes – the 4x100m relay quartet – at the World U20 Bydgoszcz 2016.
Senegalese Papa Massata Diack, the son of former IAAF President Lamine Diack, and two Russian athletics officials have been banned from the sport for life by the IAAF Ethics Commission.
Blessing Okagbare outlines her goals in new Nike women profile – to break 10.7 seconds in the 100m, 22.0 seconds in the 200m, and to jump 7.3m plus in long jump.
Ethiopia’s Bedatu Hirpa powered past Bahrain’s Dalila Abdulkadir Gosa to win gold in the girls’ 1500m at the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 on Saturday, her winning time of 4:12.92 a 2015 world youth lead.
Exclusive photos as Commonwealth and African women’s sprints champion, Blessing Okagbare, weds heartthrob – three-time capped Super Eagles and former Heartland FC of Owerri soccer player – Igho Jude Otegheri, in Sapele, Delta State, Nigeria this weekend.
Commonwealth and African sprints champion Blessing Okagbare has been joined in holy matrimony to former Super Eagles and Heartland FC of Owerri player, Igho Otegheri, at the St. Patricks Catholic Church in Sapele.
Photo Gallery – A cross-section of African athletes competing at the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland – July 27 to August 2, 2014
Watch the video highlights of the 2014 ExxonMobil Bislett Games – IAAF Diamond League meeting – in Oslo, Norway on June 11, 2014. Duration of video: 3:01.
Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, hosted Blessing Okagbare, Nigeria’s double silver medallist at the 2013 IAAF World Championships held in Moscow, Russia at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Ugonna Ndu, who turns 21 today, won her first national 100m hurdles title in her maiden appearance at the recently concluded All Nigeria Athletics Championship.