Reigning Olympic Champion Tirunesh Dibaba silenced the home crowd at the Nyayo Stadium today to give Ethiopia her first Gold medal of the 17th African Athletics Championships in Nairobi, Kenya.
Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria continued their dominance as the 17th African Senior Athletics Championships 2010 enters Day Three today at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya.
Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare championships record, Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot defeat of Ethiopian Meseret Defar and Ivorian Ben Youssef Meite's shock 100m win are highlights of the second day of the 17th African Athletics Championships at the Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi.
Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare set a new African Championships mark in the women's 100m after winning gold in 11.03 seconds at the17th African Athletics Championships in Nairobi, Kenya today.
South Africa, Senegal and the host Kenya were the first Gold medal winners on Day One of the 17th African Senior Athletics Championships held at the at Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya today.
African leading pay TV channel Supersport will broadcast live the 17th edition of the African Athletics Championships which begins on Wednesday) at Nyayo National Stadium.
Kenya and Ethiopia are set to renew their legendary rivalry as the 17th CAA African Senior Athletics Championships that gets underway at Nyayo Stadium tomorrow.
Some of the African champions and star athletes to watch out for as the 17th African Senior Athletics Championships begins at the Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Security has been beefed up in Nairobi as the city prepares to welcome over 1,500 athletes and officials who will be arriving for the Africa Athletics Championship due to begin next Wednesday.
South Africa's Luvo Mayonga won the Long Jump Gold medal with his very last effort in 7.99 metres at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada yesterday.
Luketz Swartbooi showed his younger opponents a clean pair of heels to win the second leg of the Old Mutual Victory Races in Swakopmund last Saturday with Helalia Johannes also showing her class.
Botswana's national athletics team coach Bobby Gaseitsiwe said they can improve on their feat at the previous Africa Senior Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa when the 17th edition kicks off at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi on July 28.
The Confederation of Africa Athletics (CAA) Council Meeting will be held in Nairobi on July 26 and 27 where ranging issues concerning the sport in Africa will be on agenda.
Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot, reigning world champion in the women's 5,000m, stormed to a World Lead and meet record at the Meeting Areva - Samsung Diamond League meeting at the Stade de France in Paris today.
Sudan's Abubaker Kaki Khamis has said he's not sure of competing at the 17th African Athletics Championships in Nairobi being held later this month at the Nyayo Stadium in the Kenyan capital.
Nigeria's Athens 2004 Olympics medallist, Uchenna Emedolu, has appealed to the National Sports Commission (NSC) to extend the ongoing reforms in the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to other sports.
South African world champion Caster Semenya made a happy return to the track by comfortably winning the women's 800m event in a time of 2:04.22 at the Elite Athletic Games in Lappeenranta, Finland today.
Kenya will send a complete contingent of 25 athletes their nine handlers to World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada after three officials who had earlier been denied entry visas for the event were issued with the same by the country's embassy in Nairobi on Wednesday.
Kenya will stage a dry run to fully test the equipment for the hosting of the 17th Senior Africa Athletics Championships at the Nyayo National Stadium, Nairobi on July 22.
World 800m champion Caster Semenya has been left out of the South African team to the 17th African Athletics Championships in Nairobi which start on July 28.
Kenya's David Lekuta Rudisha smashed his 800m personal best and posted a new African record of 1:41.51 - the fastest time in the world this year at the KBC Night of Athletics in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.
South African champion Sunette Viljoen continued her winning run with another victory over world record-holder Barbora Spotakova with a throw of 64.32 metres at the Aviva British Grand Prix - Samsung Diamond League event in Gateshed.
After several false starts, work has finally started on the organisation of the 17th Senior Africa Athletics Championship in Nairobi with officials certain they will beat the July 15 deadline.
Nigeria's Minister for Sports and Chair National Sports Commission (NSC), Alhaji Isa Bio, on Wednesday said that the country preparations for October's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi are well on course.
Uchenna Emedolu, a silver medalist at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games, on Wednesday, criticised the country's shoddy preparations towards the 2010 Commonwealth Games scheduled Delhi, India from October 3-14,2010.
South African world 800m champion Caster Semenya will return to competition next Thursday in the Finnish town of Lappeenranta, after an enforced break due to controversial gender tests, her agent said.
The Nigerian contingent to the 2010 IAAF World Junior Championships scheduled for Moncton, Canada are scheduled to depart for the championships next week.
The African Region Two Track and Field Championships, which holds this weekend in Makurdi, will be keenly contested following a record entry by nine West African countries.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) yesterday named 18 athletes for the 2010 IAAF World Junior Championships scheduled for Moncton, Canada from July 19-25, 2010.
South African World 800m Champion, Caster Semenya, has been given the all-clear to return to the sport with immediate effect by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
At the just concluded Mobil Track and Field Championship, held in Calabar, Obinna Metu posted a time of 10.25secs and 21.17secs to win the 100m and 200m respectively. Metu spoke of his fears and expectations in this interview with Athletics Africa.Com.
Tirunesh Dibaba is sometimes called the “Golden Girl” for all of the Olympic and World Championships gold medals she has won: two in the Beijing Olympics, two in the 2005 World Championships, and one each in Paris 2003 and Osaka 2007.
