Ethiopia's Meselech Melkamu Haileyesus set a new course record of 48 minutes and 57 seconds to win the women's race at the 6th Obudu International Mountain Race on Saturday at the Obudu Mountain Resort in Cross River State, Nigeria.
The 10th All-Africa Games (COJA 2011) will take place at the new 42,000-seat stadium constructed by the Chinese in the suburb of Zimpeto in Maputo, Mozambique from September 3 -18, 2011.
The Commonwealth Youth Games will take place on the Isle of Man from 7th to 13th September 2011.
The 10th CAA African Junior Championships in Athletics will be held in Gaborone, Botswana from May 12-15, 2011.
The 2011 IAAF World Youth Athletics Championships will be held in Lille, France from July 6-11, 2011.
Defending champion and Olympic bronze medalist, Edwin Soi from Kenya, has set a record win target for the 36th edition of the International New Year's Eve Run BOclassic in Bozen, Italy.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced that its Foundation Board selected Johannesburg, South Africa, to host the Fourth World Conference on Doping in Sport in late 2013.
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Foundation Board has endorsed a second three-year term for the Agency’s President, the Hon. John Fahey, and Vice-President, Prof. Arne Ljungqvist during its meeting on Sunday.
Azmeraw Bekele and Sule Utura were the men's and women's winners respectively at the 2010 Ethiopian Airlines Great Ethiopian Run 10km on the streets of Addis Ababa earlier on Sunday.
The World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Executive Committee and Foundation Board will meet respectively on Saturday, November 20, and Sunday, November 21, 2010, in Montreal to select 2013 World Conference on Doping in Sport Host City.
For the past four years the number one 100m sprinter of the season has gone on to become the World Athlete of the Year: Asafa Powell in 2006; Tyson Gay in 2007 and Usain Bolt the last two editions.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has announced a list of 594 ineligible athletes for the 2010 National Sports Festival.
The World Mountain Running Association (WMRA) President, Bruno Gozzelino, has confirmed that he would be at the 6th Obudu International Mountain Race on November 27 to offer technical support to the race's Local Organising Committee (LOC) at the Obudu Ranch Resort in Obudu, Cross River state, Nigeria.
Ethiopia's Gebre Gebremariam won the men's race on his marathon debut and Kenya's Edna Kiplagat took the women's title in her first New York race at the 2010 ING New York City Marathon on Sunday.
Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie has announced his retirement from competitive running after dropping out of the 2010 ING New York City Marathon and abandoned his plan to compete at the London 2012 Olympics, where he had hoped to win a third gold medal.
Wilson Kipsang obviously was in the focus of media interest after he propelled the Commerzbank Frankfurt Marathon into the group of the fastest marathons in the world last Sunday.
Over 240,000 people have applied to be London 2012 Games Makers, volunteering at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.