Kenya, Uganda and Egypt have all confirmed their participation in both men and women races at the 3rd African Nation's Mountain Running Championships set for November 28 at the Obudu Ranch Resort in Obudu, Cross River state of Nigeria.
World 800m record-holder and champion, David Rudisha of Kenya clocked an impressive 1:41.33 on a hot afternoon at the stadio Guidobaldi in Rieti, Italy yesterday.
As part of his visit to Africa, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has participated in the launch of a new Youth Sport Centre in Gatumba, Burundi, which is jointly funded by the IOC, UNDP (the United Nations Development Programme) and the government of Burundi.
The Olympic Day celebration in Lausanne included the presentation of the IOC's 2011 Women and Sport Awards, with Tegla Loroupe from Kenya winning the world trophy.
Munich 2018 vowed to build on the German Olympic Sports Confederation's (DOSB) 50-year programme of NOC outreach initiatives in Africa at a powerful presentation from a top-level team at the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) Extraordinary General Assembly in Lomé, Togo yesterday.
Sudan's Abubaker Kaki 1:43.68 in the 800m, South Africa's Caster Semenya's first sub 2 minutes in the womens and Botswana's Amantle Montsho stunning win over the Americans highlighted Africans performances at the Samsung Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon yesterday.
Ethiopians Abeba Aregawi and Meseret Defar led other Africans Abubaker Kaki, Richard Kiplagat and Ruddy Zang-Milama to victories at the Ericsson Globe Stockholm Indoor Grand Prix meeting on Tuesday.
The 36th edition of the international New Year's Eve run BOclassic in Bozen/Bolzano may more than ever be considered as the best cast in the world with Vivian Cheruiyot, Imane Merga and Edwin Soi in action.
Grace Kwamboka Momanyi led a Kenyan 1-2 to victory in the women's 10,000m; and Compatriot's Nancy jebet Lan'gat, South African Chris Harmse and Botswana's Amantle Montsho bagged Gold for African nations at the 19th Commonwealth Games in Delhi on Friday.
Kenya sweep in the 1500m and Morocco's 'new kid on the block' Halima Hachlaf held sway in the women's 800m to crown an impressive Africa performance at the 30th edition of the Golden Gala in Rome - the fourth stop of the IAAF Diamond League series.
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.
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.
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.
Nigeria's Vivian Chukwuemeka refutes alleged claims that she tested positive for an anabolic steroid during the Nigerian athletics seletion trials for the Berlin World Championships in Abuja last month.
African runners dictated the pace at the 48th IAAF Golden Spike meet (IAAF World Athletics Tour) in Ostrava, the Czech Republic.
Senegal took top honours at the 7th African Region 2 Athletics Championships which ended last night in Port Novo, Benin Republic after beating favourite and regional track and filed powerhouse Nigeria to the first position by just one gold medal.
Kenya's rookie teenager Pamela Jelimo and world champion Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei completes a Kenyan 1-2 sweep of the women's 800 metres at the Beijing's Bird Nest stadium today.
United Kingdom's Leeds Metropolitan University has bestowed an honorary doctorate degree on World distance running legend, Ethiopian Athlete Haile Gebresselase at the closing ceremony of the 16th CAA African Athletics championships in Addis Ababa.
Ethiopian World 10,000m record-holder Kenenisa Bekele wins, Former 800m champion Maria Mutola misses gold, as South Africa won the 16th CAA African Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Kenya and South Africa sweep the medals in the men’s 3000m steeplechase and the women’s high jump today, Day three, at the 16th CAA African Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa.
World Indoor 60m champion Olusoji Fasuba of Nigeria retains his African 100m crown and Ethiopian Meselech Melkamu defeated World champion Meseret Defar for the first time in the 5000m at the 16th CAA African Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia top the medals table at the end of day one of the 16th CAA African Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa, despite the absense of three-time 10000m champion, and defending champion Kenenisa Bekele.