Another set of strong Kenyan runners have been added to the elite field of the 2009 Commerzbank Frankfurt Marathon, which will take place on 25 October, according to the organisers.
Two-times Olympic marathon silver medallist and world champion Catherine Ndereba will bid for the Bupa Great South Run title on Sunday 25 October in Portsmouth, says organisers.
The premier of Victoria - last host of the Commonwealth Games in Australia, John Brumby, has said he was very impressed with the architecture of the infrastructure coming up for the Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi, India next year.
New Commonwealth mountain running champion, Wilson Chemweno of Kenya, has been confirmed for the 5th Obudu Ranch International Mountain race in Obudu, Cross River, Nigeria.
The Senior African championships 2010 has been rescheduled from 28th April to 2nd May 2010 and will now take place from 28th July to 1st August 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) has pushed back the date of next year's Senior African Athletics Championships till the summer amid fears Kenyan organisers might not be ready.
Sammy Kitwara, the second fastest marathon runner in the world this year, will lead the Kenyan team to the IAAF / EDF Energy World Half Marathon Championships in Birmingham, UK next month.
South Africa's top marathon runners can come away from the 3rd Nedbank City of Cape Town marathon with stacks of incentive money above the race prize money, should they achieve the set performance standards.
The World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Executive Committee approves the List of Prohibited Substances and Methods for 2010, which will now be officialized and published on October 1, 2009 and takes effect from January 1, 2010.
Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie won his fourth successive Berlin Marathon title but missed out on breaking his own world record this morning.
Kenya's former world half marathon champion Martin Lel marked his recovery from hip injury to win the 2009 Bupa Great North Run, the world’s biggest half marathon, in Newcastle upon Tyne, today.
The 2009 Great Ethiopian Run 10k international road race on Sunday 22nd November 2009 is sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines.
More than 31,000 participants took part in the 2008 race - the biggest race ever on the African continent by participant numbers.
Organisers of the 18th IAAF/EDF Energy World Half-Marathon Championships to be held next month in Birmingham, UK are appealing for volunteers who can speak foreign languages to help runners feel at home.
The Local Organising Committee of the 5th Obudu International mountain Race has announced the opening of entries for this year's event taking place on the November 28, 2009.
Athletics South Africa (ASA) has announced a team of six men and three women for the 18th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships which will be held in Birmingham, England, on 11 October.
The president of the Athletics South Africa (ASA) Leonard Chuene, is to return to the board of the International Association of Athletics Federations in order to fight for Caster Semenya.
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I saw this coming. Since the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) inavertedly revealed that they were carrying out a gender verification test on 18-year-old winning athlete Caster Semenya, they committed the mistake that could have effectively ruined the life and athletic career of a young promising girl from rural South Africa.
The World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Executive Committee will meet on September 19, 2009, for the second time this year at the Agency's headquarters in Montreal, Canada.
In the lead-up to this meeting, WADA's President John Fahey will hold a press conference call on Thursday, September 17, at 11:00 am EST (Montreal time) to respond to journalists' questions about current issues.
As it is traditionally the case at its September meeting, the Executive Committee will consider the 2010 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List) for approval.
The Prohibited List is revised annually through a highly consultative process, beginning with the circulation of a draft List among more than 1,700 stakeholders. Comments received are considered by WADA's List Committee, who then presents its conclusions to WADA's Health, Medical and Research Committee.
The International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) has denied any knowledge of the purported result of Caster Semenya's recent gender verification test being spread by Australian and other European media organisations.
The 7th edition of the Standard Chartered Bank Nairobi International Marathon, Nairobi, Kenya on October 25th, 2009.
If you have not seen this yet, then you must see the recently-minted World 800m champion, Caster Semenya as you’ve never seen her before.
IAAF/VTB Bank World Athletics Final, Thessaloniki, Greece - Saturday September 12th - Sunday
September 13th, 2009.
For more information see organisers website
World 5000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot beat her Kenyan teammate Linet Masai in a sprint finish to win the adidas Women's 5k Challenge in London's Hyde Park today.
Ethiopian double world champion Kenenisa Bekele joins American Sanya Richards and Russian Yelena Isinbayeva as the 2009 IAAF One Million USD jackpot winners after winning their respective sixth event at the IAAF Golden League meeting in Brussels.
The official route for the 18th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, which will be held in Birmingham on Sunday 11th October, has been unveiled by the organisers.
The 18th IAAF/EDF Energy World Half Marathon Championships holds in Birmingham, United Kingdom on Sunday 11 October, 2009.
South African Stephen Mokoka ran seven seconds quicker than his personal best to clock 28 minutes 21 seconds to win the Nedbank SA 10 kilometres Championships at the Stellenbosch's Coetzenburg stadium.
Newly crowned world 10,000m champion Linet Masai, and 5000m world champion Vivian Cheruiyot, head a high-quality elite field for the adidas Women's 5k Challenge in Hyde Park, London, on Sunday 6th September.