Some top class athletics performances were on show in Windhoek over the weekend when the cream of Namibia's junior athletes competed at the Coca Cola National Athletics School Championships at Windhoek's Independence Stadium.
Coca Cola has announced a sponsorship of N$140 000 for the Coca Cola Frank Fredericks Invitational Athletics Meeting which will take place for the 14th consecutive year on Friday, April 9.
Event Name: 13ème Meeting International De Tunis (Meeting Silver CAA de Tunis)
Date: 19 June / Juin 2010
Venue / Lieu: Stade D'athlétisme Cité 7 Novembre 1987 De Rades (Tun)
Meet Director / Directeur Du Meeting: M. Salah Gadri
Telephone: (+216) 98 42 66 65 / 25 83 33 50 / 71 75 19 03 / 71 75 19 45
Fax: (+216) 71 75 59 00
Event Name: Meeting Grand Prix I/Caa De Bamako
Date: 27 April / Avril 2010
Venue / Lieu: Stade Modibo Keita, Bamako (Mali)
Meet Director / Directeur Du Meeting: M. Dramane Coulibaly
Telephone: (+223) 66 71 33 15 / (+223) 20 22 25 26 / (+223) 20 20 70 01
Fax: (+223) 20 22 25 26 / (+223) 20 20 70 01 / (+223) 20 20 02 57
Mail: mli@mf.iaaf.org , coulibaly_54@yahoo.fr
Events / Epreuves:
Men / Hommes: 100m, 200m, 400, 400m Hurdles / Haies, 800m, Long Jump / Longueur, Javelin Throw / Javelot
Women / Dames: 100m, 200m, 400m
Event Name: Mauritius International Meet
Date: 11 April / Avril 2010
Venue / Lieu: Stade Germain Comarmond (Mri)
Meet Director / Directeur Du Meeting: M. Vivian Gungaram
Telephone: (+230) 465 4322
Fax: (+230) 454 0392
Mail: athletics@intnet.mu
Events / Epreuves:
Men / Hommes: 100m, 200m, 400m, 400m Hurdles / Haies, 1500m, Long Jump / Longueur, High Jump / Hauteur
Women / Dames: 100m, 200m, 400m, Javelin Throw / Javelot
Date: 18 July / Juillet 2010
Venue / Lieu: Stade Marshan, Tanger (Morocco)
Meet Director / Directeur Du Meeting: M. Hicham El Gerrouj
Event Name: Meeting International D'athlétisme De La Ville De Brazzaville
Date: 06 June / Juin 2010
Venue / Lieu: Complexe Sportif Alphonse Massamba Debat, Brazzaville (Congo)
Meet Director / Directeur Du Meeting: M. Benjamin Alphonse Loukakou
Telephone: (+ 242) 545 55 55 / 670 35 35 / 404 04 77
Event Name: Abuja Super Grand Prix
Date: 03 July / Juillet 2010
Venue / Lieu: National Stadium, Abuja (Nigeria)
Meet Director / Directeur Du Meeting: Mrs. Maria Wophill
Telephone: +234 803 714 5357
Mail: ngr@mf.iaaf.org
Events / Epreuves:
Men / Hommes: 100m, 400m, 800m, 110m Hurdles / Haies, 5000m, Triple Jump / Triple Saut, Javelin / Javelot, 4x100m, 4x400m
Women / Dames: 100m, 400m, 1500m, 5000m, 100m Hurdles / Haies, Long Jump / Longueur, High Jump / Hauteur, Hammer / Marteau, Shot Put / Poids
Event Name: Meeting International Mohamed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat (Meeting IAAF Challenge de Rabat
Date: 06 June / Juin 2010
Venue / Lieu: Complexe Sportif Prince Mouley Abdellah, Rabat (Morocco)
Meet Director / Directeur du Meeting:
Telephone:
Mail: frma@menara.ma
Events / Epreuves:
Men / Hommes: 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m, 3000m Steeplechase, Long Jump / Longueur, Discus / Disque.
Women / Dames: 100m, 800m, 1500m, 400m Hurdles / Haies, Triple Jump / Triple Saut, Pole Vault / Perche, Javelin / Javelot.
Event Name: Meeting Grand Prix de Dakar (Meeting IAAF Challenge de Dakar)
Date: 24 Avril / April 2010
Venue / Lieu: Stade Leopold Sedar Senghor, Dakar (SEN)
Meet Director / Directeur du Meeting: M. Momar Mbaye
Telephone: (+ 221) 33 821 77 98
Mail: fedesa@orange.sn
Events / Epreuves:
Men / Hommes: 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 3000m Steeplechase, 400m Hurdles / Haies, Javelin / Javelot, Shot Put / Poids, Hauteur / High Jump, Long Jump / Longueur.
Women / Dames: 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 400m Hurdles / Haies, Long Jump / Longueur, Shot Put / Poids
Ogho-Oghene Egwero of Delta State made a good start to the start of the outdoor season by winning the 100 metres in the first leg of the newly introduced Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) Golden League which took place in Kaduna last weekend.
Kenya made a clean sweep of the IAAF World Cross Country championship in Bydgoszcz, Poland today with Joseph Ebuya, Emily Chebet, Caleb Ndiku and Mercy Cherono winning their respective events.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is calling on interested cities to bid for the hosting of the 4th World Conference on Doping in Sport, which WADA plans to organize in late 2013.
Here we go again, it's the time of the year isn't it. The World Cross Country Championships is here again, and as usual the campaign of calumny against the IAAF and African successes at these championships is at full flow.
With three days to go to the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz (28 March), Entry Lists for the men's and women's races (junior and senior) are now available.
The IAAF's annual worldwide festival of youth, the IAAF World Athletics Day, remains as popular as ever, with 161 of the 213 IAAF Member Federations requesting to participate in 2010.
Professor Mohamed Ali Mohammed was re-elected as President for another four-year term at the 6th election congress of the Somali Athletics Federation (SAF) which took place today at the Naasahablood Palace Hotel in Mogadishu.
Commonwealth champion LJ van Zyl bounced back from the disappointment of the South African championships last weekend by beating national champion Wouter le Roux at the 4th Yellow Pages Series athletics meeting in Johannesburg.
The Comrades Marathon Association have received 23,565 entrants for this year's Comrade Marathon race.
This is the second largest "potential" field of runners in history of the Comrades Marathon. In 2000, 24,500 started the race.
A record field of close to 21 000 runners, including the men and women's defending champions, and over 1 000 international runners, will line up in Newlands on Easter Saturday April 3 for the Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon.
A record field of close to 21,000 runners, including the men and women's defending champions, and over 1,000 international runners, will line up in Newlands on Easter Saturday April 3, 2010 for the Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon.
Peter Kamais of Kenya unexpectedly won the 2010 NYC Half-Marathon this morning on a day made for fast, competitive distance running.
Eritrean Zersenay Tadese struck 10 seconds from Sammy Wanjiru's three-year-old world record to win the EDP Lisbon Half Marathon today in 58:22.
Over 1,300 athletes and 700 officials from 54 nations are expected to travel to Nairobi for the 17th Senior African Athletics Championship, which will be staged at Nyayo National Stadium from July 28 to August 1.
The SA Marathon Trials will hold in East London, South Africa on Saturday April 24, 2010.
The Yellow Pages SA Youth and Junior Track and Field Championships will hold at the University of Johannesburg on Saturday April 10, 2010.
The Yellow Pages Series VI (Final) athletics meet will hold at the Pilditch Stadium, Tshwane on Tuesday April 6 , 2010.
The Yellow Pages Series V athletics meet will hold at the Coetzenburg Athletics Stadium, Stellenbosch on Tuesday March 30 , 2010.
Yellow Pages Series IV athletics meet will hold at the University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg on Wednesday March 24, 2010.
The Yellow Pages SA Senior Track & Field Championships will hold at the Kings Park Athletics Stadium, Durban on Saturday, March 20, 2010
Sudan's Abubaker Kaki became the first man since the Kenyan great Paul Ereng, in 1989 and 1991, to successfully retain the men's 800m title at the World Indoor Championships in Doha.
Ethiopian teenager Kalkidan Gezahegne stormed to victory ahead of defending champion Gelete Burka in the women's 1,500m to collect her first major medal at the World Indoor championships in Doha.
The Nigerian Athletics Federation (AFN) has invited 37 athletes to camp ahead of the 2010 Youth Olympic Games scheduled for August 14-26 in Singapore.
Nigeria and University of Texas El Paso's (UTEP) Blessing Okagbare etched her name in the college record books on Saturday night when she claimed her second gold at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Ethiopian Meseret Defar and Deresse Mekonnen blew away the opposition to win gold medals in their respective events at the Aspire Dome in Doha tonight.
South African reigning Olympic silver medalist Khotso Godfrey Mokoena earned a silver medal in the men's long jump final tonight, placing second behind Australian Fabrice Lapierre.
The women’s 3000m in Doha is shaping up to be a mouth-watering clash between the top four finishers from last year’s IAAF World Championships 5000m in Berlin.
Samuel Francis will be carrying the hope of his nation on his young shoulders when he steps onto the track at the Aspire Dome tommorrow, but he's remarkably relaxed ahead of his bid to become the first ever Qatari world indoor champion on Saturday.
The Provisional entry list for the IAAF World Indoor Championships, Doha, Qatar as @ 8 March 2010 is available below.
South African sports channel, SuperSport will provide an extensive coverage across territories in Sub Saharan Africa for the 13th World Indoor Championships, which begins in Doha, Qatar on Friday.
Africa 1,500 metres champion Haron Keitany will lead Kenya's men's charge at the 13th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha this weekend, according to the Kenyan Daily Nation's Jonathan Komen.
The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the 13th IAAF World Indoor Championships will meet with the local and international media covering the championships at Qatar's Olympic Commitee (QOC) headquarters in Doha on Thursday.
The IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha which will take place from 12 to 14 March 2010 are expected to become the biggest gathering in terms of participating nations in the history of these championships, exceeding the previous record set two years ago in Valencia.
As part of its efforts in the fight against doping, the Moroccan Ministry of Youth and Sports organised last week in Rabat a training session on ADAMS, in collaboration with the IAAF.