Oran selected to host 2025 CAA African Athletics U18/U20 Championships
The CAA African Athletics U18/U20 Championships will now be held in Oran, Algeria from July 14 to 18, 2025.
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.
The official motto of WCH Tokyo 25, ‘Every second, SUGOI’, carries a powerful message – one that aspires to make the Japanese word ‘SUGOI’ a global expression of awe and inspiration.
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.
Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet was one of the stars of the Paris Olympics, becoming the only athlete to win two individual gold medals, but earlier in the season she hit the headlines after smashing the world 10,000m record in Eugene.
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.
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.
Tata Communications, the official broadcaster, and HBS are set to showcase the World Athletics Ultimate Championship to viewers worldwide, as the complete roster of events is revealed.
The Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) has been nominated by World Athletics for the Member Federations Award ahead of the World Athletics Awards 2024 in Monaco.
Ethiopia’s Sembo Almayew is the only African athlete in the top three and stands a great chance to win the award.
African stars Letsile Tebogo (Botswana), Ruth Chepngetich (Kenya), and Tamirat Tola (Ethiopia) are among the finalists announced for 2024 World Athletics Athlete of the Year awards.
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 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.
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.
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.
These medallists from Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games will make the two-day Memorial at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels on 13-14 September exceptional.
Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion Beatrice Chebet set a world-leading 14:09.52 meeting record at the 2024 Weltklasse Zurich, the penultimate Wanda Diamond League event of the season.
World champion Mary Moraa clocks world 600m best at the 2024 ISTAF – a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting – in Berlin.
Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo cruises to a 9.87 (+0.3) win over a packed men’s 100m field at the Golden Gala Diamond League meeting in Rome.
Photo Gallery of Day Five action at the World Athletics U20 Championships, Lima 24 / 27-31 August 2024.
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 U20 lead of 8:15.28 on the final day of the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24.
World U20 100m champion, Bayanda Walaza of South Africa clinched victory in the men’s 200m on Friday, adding to his 100m title from earlier in the week.
Photo Gallery of Day Four action at the World Athletics U20 Championships, Lima 24 / 27-31 August 2024.