Southern Africa

Namibian Tjipekapora Herunga continued her good form when she won the 400m race in the Internationales Abendsportfest in Rhede, Germany recently.

Two athletes will represent Namibia at this year’s IAAF World Youth Championships which will be held in Lille, France from July 6 to 10 2011.

Reinhold Iita and Helalaia Johannes won the men and women’s categories respectively at the first leg of the 2011 Old Mutual Victory Races in Keetmanshoop on Saturday.

Namibian middle distance runner, Daniel Nghipandulwa, won the men's 1500m race in cold, wet and windy conditions on Thursday in Reid, Austria.

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).

Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) spokesperson says some officials are undergoing injury management course at Med Rescue.

Athletics Namibia President, Frank Fredericks has announced the junior and senior national teams that will compete at international athletics meetings in the coming months.

World 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has been left out of a preliminary South Africa squad to compete at the African Athletics Championships in Nairobi, Kenya in July despite having qualified since last year.

Rodger Haitengi was the star performer at the Bank Windhoek National Athletics Championships on Saturday as he leapt to a new Namibian triple jump record of 16.74m.

Namibian athletics fans will be in for a great treat this weekend as top junior and senior athletes slug it out at the Coca-Cola Frank Fredericks Invitational Meet and the Bank Windhoek Senior National Championships in Windhoek.

Botswana's track athletes Gable Garenamotse and Amantle Montsho are front runners in the race to be named the nation's best sportsperson of last year.

South Africa's 800m world champion, Caster Semenya, has set her sights to return to the athletics track at the EAA meeting, VII Reunión Internacional de Atletismo - Gobierno de Aragón, in Zaragoza, Spain on June 24th.

Lesotho's Mabuthile Lebopo won the 41st Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon in three hours, six minutes and 18 seconds on Saturday in what proved to be one of the fastest races of recent years in the South African cape province.

Rodger Haitengi was Namibia’s star performer at the fourth leg of the South African Yellow Pages Athletics Series in Johannesburg on March 24, setting a new national triple jump record.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two of South Africa's reigning world athletics champions, Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and Khotso Mokoena will make their season debut at an international team meeting in Scotland, on Saturday.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has confirmed that Caster Semenya's case will not be discussed at tomorrow's council meeting in Monaco pending completion of tests on the athlete.

The law firm representing world 800m champion Caster Semenya said on Saturday she was considering taking legal action against the UK's Guardian.

The suspended Athletics South Africa (ASA) board would convene a special general meeting with the federation's members next week.

Athletics South Africa (ASA) has apologised to World 800 metres champion Caster Semenya, her parents and the nation about its role in the handling of the athlete's gender row since the last World athletics championships.

Somali-born British distance runner, Mohammed "Mo" Farah, came from behind to score a spectacular victory over South Africa's Stephen Mokoka at the Bupa Great South Run 2009 in Portsmouth on Sunday.

Johannesburg mayor, Councillor Amos Masondo has assured that the 19th edition of the Nedbank Soweto Marathon would not be derailed by the taxi problems experienced in the past.

South Africa's World 800m champion Caster Semenya has debunked newspaper claims that she's not ready to write her first-year university examinations.

The International Amateur Athletics Federations (IAAF) President will visit World 800m champion Caster Semenya in her home in South Africa to explain the implications of her gender test results before the end of the month.

The African National Congress has established a task team to support athlete Caster Semenya and her family, it announced in Johannesburg on Monday.

A local strip club in Johannesburg is to pay World 800m champion Caster Semenya R20,000 [2,664 USD] because of a row over the club's 'gender testing' billboard.

South Africa's top marathon runners can come away from the 3rd Nedbank City of Cape Town marathon with stacks of incentive money above the race prize money, should they achieve the set performance standards.

The president of the Athletics South Africa (ASA) Leonard Chuene, is to return to the board of the International Association of Athletics Federations in order to fight for Caster Semenya.

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.

South African Stephen Mokoka ran seven seconds quicker than his personal best to clock 28 minutes 21 seconds to win the Nedbank SA 10 kilometres Championships at the Stellenbosch's Coetzenburg stadium.

The father of South African teenager, Caster Semenya, at the centre of a humiliating gender-test controversy has dismissed speculation his daughter is not a woman.

Frank Fredericks has been elected as the President of Athletics Namibia (AN) after seven of the eight regions in attendance voted for him in a rescheduled election at the Special Elective Congress in Otjiwarongo yesterday.

New officers to run the affairs of Athletics Namibia (AN) are to emerge today at the Special Elective Congress to be held in Otjiwarongo, Namibia.

Zimbabwe's Florida State University sophomore Ngonidzashe Makusha has retained his Long Jump title at the 2009 National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) outdoor track and field championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

South Africa topped the medals table with 12 gold, five silver and six bronze at the just concluded Southern Region Senior Championships in Gaborone, Botswana to reconfirm her leadership of the sport in the region.

Zimbabwean Stephen Muzhingi won the 2009 Comrades Marathon in time of 5:23:27, with defending champion and record holder, Leonid Shvetsov of Russia second in 5:33:10 and South African Charles Tjiane third in 5:34:21.

Athletics South Africa (ASA) announced today that Wouter le Roux and Samson Ngoepe both came second in their respective events at the IAAF Grand Prix Meeting in Dakar, Senegal, on Saturday.

Zimbabwe's Florida State University freshman Ngonidzashe Makusha sets a national Long Jump record with a huge 8.30 metres leap to earn FSU the first individual crown of the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa - USA.

The IAAF has announced that consequent upon the Court of Arbitration for Sport ("CAS") ruling today, South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is now eligible to compete in competitions under IAAF Rules, including the Beijing Olympics in August.

Athletics South Africa (ASA) will send a 66 member team to the upcoming 16th CAA African Senior Track and Field Championships.

Athletics South Africa (ASA) reelects unopposed for a third term it's president Mr. Leonard Chuene and his executive at a two-day Quadrennial General Meeting (QGM) held in Kempton Park, South Africa.