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.
This year's jubilee edition will see a clash of the past two champions, who had both improved the course record by a significant margin: Kenyans Wilson Kipsang and Gilbert Kirwa will return for the 30th BMW Frankfurt Marathon on 30th October.
Kenyan Olympic marathon champion Samuel Kamau Wanjiru was killed when he jumped off the balcony of his home after a domestic dispute involving his wife and another woman, police in Kenya revealed today.
Half a dozen world records were broken at the BIG 25 Berlin so far. It was a year ago, when Germany's oldest big city road race had its greatest day regarding winning times.
The 31st edition of Germany's oldest major city road race, BIG 25 Berlin, should again produced very good times on Sunday May 8 after organisers confirmed the participation of two top Kenyan runners - William Kipsang and Filomena Chepchirchir.
Kenya's John Kiprotich and Fate Tola from Ethiopia were the unexpected winners of the 28th Vienna City Marathon, whilst Haile Gebrselassie cruised to a half marathon time of 60:18.
Kenyans Emmanuel Mutai and Mary Keitany produced two superb performances at the 2011 Virgin London Marathon today to win the men's and women's titles by impressive margins.
The 2011 Vienna City Marathon is set to boost the best ever men's field as Kenyan Paul Kirui goes for compatriot's Abel Kirui's course record, with strong Europeans - Baranovsky and Felix in tow.
Kenyan athletes led by former IAAF World Half Marathon Champion, Paul Kirui have been signed for the 28th edition of the Vienna City Marathon on April 17 to target the 2:07:38 course record and give Haile Gebrselassie quite a run through the Austrian capital.
The Kenyan team swept the podium at the 2011 Africa Cross Country Championships held in Cape Town, South Africa today.
The Athletics Kenya (AK) has selected the team to represent Kenya at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbría, Spain on 20 March 2011.
African runners stormed to World leading times at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham on Saturday with Abubaker Kaki in the men’s 1000m, Augustine Choge in men's 1500m, Abeba Aregawi in the women's and a superb women’s 3000m from Sentayehu Ejigu.
Kenya's Mary Jepkosgei Keitany today set a new women's Half Marathon world record with a time of One hour, five minutes and 50 seconds (65:50) at the 5th Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) Half Marathon in the United Arab Emirates.
BeyondWater seeks Kenyan athletes to join a small team of Australian athletes to run from Nairobi to Kilimanjaro and to participate for five (5) days in the Kili Challenge in September 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.
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.
Kenya's Leonard Komon established a German Allcomers 10K Record of 27 minutes and 12 seconds at the ASICS Grand 10 in Berlin on Sunday October 10, 2010.
Kenya's Samuel Wanjiru outran Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia in the final half mile on Sunday to win a second straight Bank of America Chicago Marathon.
With half a dozen runners featuring personal bests of sub 2:08 and another eight runners having achieved sub 2:10 times so far the Commerzbank Frankfurt Marathon 2010 promises to produce yet another thrilling and high-class men's race.
Kenya's World 10,000m champion Linet Masai has won the 13th annual adidas Women's 5k Challenge at Hyde Park in London.
Kenya's reigning African champion, David Rudisha, lowered his own world record in the men's 800 metres for the second time in a week to 1 minute 41.01 seconds at the IAAF World Challenge meet in Rieti, Italy today.
The African champion, David Lekuta Rudisha of Kenya today set a new 800 metres World Record with a stunning time of 1 minute and 41.09 seconds at the 69th International Stadium Festival (ISTAF) meeting inside the Olympiastadion in Berlin.
Two world-class runners from Kenya, Wilson Kipsang and Wilfred Kigen, are the first signings for this year’s Commerzbank Frankfurt Marathon, which will be staged on October 31st.
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.
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.
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.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Local Organising Committe (LOC) for the 17th African Athletics Championships in Nairobi, David Okeyo has said the country is ready and expects all African countries to be in attendance.
After her phenomenal 25k World record at the BIG 25 Berlin, Mary Keitany is looking ahead to her next big goal, which will be her debut in the full marathon and possibly an attempt at that record too.
Kenyans duo of Samuel Kosgei and Mary Keitany crowned the jubilee edition of the BIG 25 Berlin yesterday with unique double world record performances at the German 25k road race.
The official mascot for the 17th edition of the Africa Senior Athletics Championships in Nairobi, Kenya - Shujaa has been launched. The word 'Shujaa' in Kiswahili means Champion.
The outstanding Kenyan athlete Mary Keitany has been awarded one of the most highly coveted accolades in world road running, the AIMS/ASICS World Athlete of the Year Award, during a ceremony on Thursday 6th May 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
Three Kenyan top stars will run the 30th edition of the BIG 25 Berlin this Sunday: Mary Keitany, Paul Kosgei and Gilbert Kirwa are ready for fast times.
Kenya's Wilfred Kigen claimed the Mobel Kraft Hamburg Marathon 2010 after overcoming the challenge of Norway's Urige Arado Buta in a sprint finish.
Kenyan 21-year-old Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot easily won the 114th Boston Marathon today setting a new course record with a victory in 2 hours, 5 minutes and 52 seconds.
Kenyans took both wins in the 2010 Vienna City Marathon for the first time in the history of the event. Henry Sugut was a surprise winner with 2:08:40 while Helen Kimutai clocked 2:31:08.
Ethiopia's Meseret Defar has become the first three-time women's champion of the Carlsbad 5000, sponsored by Nuvasive, after winning the women's elite invitational in a time of 15 minutes and 4 seconds over the 3.1 mile course yesterday.
Kenya’s Felix Limo will head a strong men’s field that include Luke Kibet, Paul Biwott and eight runners with sub 2:10 run at the 27th Vienna City Marathon on April 18.
Reigning World Half Marathon champion Mary Keitany of Kenya will be gunning for the World 25Km record at the 30th edition of the BIG 25 Berlin on May 9th.
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.
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.
Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot, will tussle with Ethiopia's double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba in the two-mile race at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham on Saturday with Ethiopian Meseret Defar's world record of 9:06.26 minutes in their sights.
Kenya's David Rudisha, the fastest man over 800m in the world in 2009 will throw down the gauntlet to Australia's top track athletes when he lines up at the Sydney and Melbourne legs of the Australian Athletics Tour across two fast and furious nights of track and field action.