Beijing to host 2027 World Athletics Championships
The World Athletics Council has selected Beijing, China, to host the 2027 World Athletics Championships.
The World Athletics Council has selected Beijing, China, to host the 2027 World Athletics Championships.
All the latest news, action highlights and behind the scene gists about African athletes at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 – from 19-27 August, 2023.
Deviating from traditional medal designs, the emphasis was placed on representing the host country and capturing the essence of a sporting nation.
The newly-minted women’s 100m hurdles world champion only got into hurdling through a quirk of fate, having started out as a sprinter and long jumper as a youngster in Nigeria.
WATCH – Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan wins the gold medal in the women’s 100m hurdles final in a ‘world record time’, albeit windy, 12.06 (+2.5m/s) at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Nigerian dynamite Tobi Amusan put together a flawless race to set a new world record of 12.12 secs in the 100m hurdles semifinals at World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Sprinter Grace Nwokocha ran an outstanding anchor leg with 9.95 split to pulled the Nigerian women’s 4x100m relay quartet back into contention for third automatic spot for Saturday’s final at World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Sydney McLaughlin breaks the world 400m hurdles record for the fourth time of her career, obliterating her previous best with 50.68 to win her first world title in the event at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on Friday.
Liberia’s Joseph Fahnbulleh finishes just off the podium, clocking 19.84 secs, in the men’s 200 metres final at World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on Thursday.
Werkuha Getachew sets an Ethiopian record for silver while her compatriot Mekides Abebe took bronze as Kenyan-born Norah Jeruto set a World Championships record en route to winning the women’s 3,000 metres steeplechase gold at the World Athletics Championships, Oregon22 on Wednesday.
Two-time Olympic 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon strikes Kenya’s first gold in the women’s 1500m, clocking a blistering time of 3:52.96 to regain her world 1500m title, at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon on Monday.
Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali, the Olympic champion, is now the world champion after storming to world 3000m steeplechase gold in 8:25.13 at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
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 Oregon22 on Monday.
Uganda’s world record holder Joshua Cheptegei delivers a tactical masterclass to win a second successive world 10,000 metres gold – with compatriot Jacob Kiplimo settling for bronze – at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon on Sunday.
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 World Athletics Championships in Oregon 22.
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 the World Athletics Championships, Oregon22.
African champion and record-holder, Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya, arrived in Oregon barely 3 hours before taking his spot on the starting line of the men’s 100m heats at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Tokyo, Japan has been selected as the host city for the World Athletics Championships in 2025, after beating rival bids from Nairobi, Silesia and Singapore.
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