Birmingham, United Kingdom — At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Wyclife Kinyamal beat the then defending champion Nijel Amos to rack up his first major gold medal. This was incidentally Kenya’s first gold medal of the 2018 edition of the Club Games where his compatriots were yet to bag any of the long […]
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Commonwealth Games Kiplimo 3.08.08 Kimeli 13:08.19 Krop 13:08.48 World Under-20 Championships W 5000m final Prisca Chesang Birmingham, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | The look on Nicholas Kimeli’s face (photo above) said it all. Jacob Kiplimo can only be a human running machine! For the second final in a row, Uganda’s Kiplimo stepped on the pedal […]
Long distance runner, Jacob Kiplimo did it again on Saturday when he won yet another gold medal for Uganda in the 5000m race at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Having earlier won gold in the men’s 10,000m final, the 21 year old Ugandan runner reciprocated the form, beating Kenyans to the podium and showing them […]
Nairobi — Nicholas Kimeli clinched silver while Jacob Krop earned bronze as Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo beat Kenyan opposition again, clinching the Commonwealth Games 5,000m title in Birmingham on Saturday night. Kiplimo also beat Kenyan opposition to clinch the 10,000m title, and now flies back to Kampala as a double Commonwealth Games champion. The Kenyan duo […]
Nairobi — Jackline Chepkoech tore the field apart as she clinched Kenya’s second gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, clocking a new Games Record time of 9:15.68 to clinch the women’s steeplechase title on Friday night. Chepkoech, the 2021 World Under-20 Champion was Kenya’s lone representative in the race after injury barred Celiphine […]
Birmingham, United Kingdom — There is an old adage in athletics that success comes and goes in cycles! Rightly so, Jackline Chepkoech won the 3000m Steeplechase gold at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham to reclaim the title that Jamaica surprisingly won in the last edition. She is now brimming over with new-found confidence after […]
The 2022 World Athletics Championships ended in relative disappointment for Kenya, which continued its decline in the overall medal standings. Since the 2005 championships in Helsinki, when Kenya ranked ninth with only seven medals, the team has been exceptionally consistent. It has ranked in the top three in all subsequent competitions. This year Kenya won […]
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Namibia: Winning Start for Mboma
CHRISTINE Mboma made a triumphant return to the track when she comfortably won her 200m heat at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham to qualify for tonight’s semifinals. Mboma didn’t have a great start, but her customary late surge once again came to the fore as she pulled away over the final stretch, before cruising to […]
Nairobi — Reynold Cheruiyot lived up to the billing of comparisons with his namesake, 2019 World Champion Timothy Cheruiyot, as he sensationally put up a superb sprint to win Kenya’s second gold in the men’s 1500m at the World Under-20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, Thursday morning. Cheruiyot glided to victory in 3:35.83, beating Ethiopia’s Ermias […]
Cape Town — It’s Silver for Simbine at Commonwealth Games 2022 Akani Simbine, 28, fought hard to win the silver medal in the men’s 100m final at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Wednesday evening. Simbine had to settle for second behind Kenyan Ferdinand Omanyala – Africa’s fastest man – after being unable to defend […]
Birmingham — After being humbled once again by Ferdinand Omanyala, South African sprint star Akani Simbine has heaped praise on the Kenyan, noting that he is in a class of his own. Simbine was dethroned the Commonwealth Games title in Birmingham by Omanyala (10.02 Secs), settling for silver in 10.13 Secs. Coincidentally, it is the […]
Nairobi — Ferdinand Omanyala promised and he has delivered. The 26-year-old has become the first ever Kenyan in 60 years to win the Commonwealth Games 100m title after blistering through the final on Wednesday night. Seraphino Antao was the first and only Kenyan to win the 100m sprint at the Club games in 1962, when […]
Birmingham — Kenya’s men 800m and 3000m steeplechase teams have been boosted after the organisers of the Commonwealth Games accepted the entries of Cornelius Tuwei and Abraham Kibiwot. As Kenya gears up to start its men’s 800m gold defence tomorrow (Wednesday) in the heats, finally Tuwei will be in the start list, replacing World Under-20 […]
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Nigeria: A New Star Is Born!
There was celebration amongst the stars. It had been long in coming. For several years, a young Nigerian female athlete had been knocking on the door of success, to be let in. It was always so close that it became only a matter of time before she was going to make it, and to win […]
Addis Abeba — Athletics has been one of the top global events that made Ethiopia recognized through its world-class athletes; since the Olympic gold medalist Abebe Bikila won his and Africa’s first gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, running barefoot, and later his second gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the […]
Addis Abeba — In an extraordinary win in its history of athletics, Ethiopia bagged a total of 10 medals, including four gold, four bronze, and two silver at the 18th World Athletics Championship of Eugene, in Oregon, USA. This put Ethiopia second only to the United States in the overall medal table. Competing under Ethiopia’s […]
Eugene — Newly-crowned world 5000m silver medalist Jacob Krop says the teamwork strategy they had hatched alongside Daniel Simiyu and Nicholas Kimeli failed to work in the finals of the men’s 5000m. Whereas Krop cruised to a first ever medal at the international stage, Kimeli and Simiyu clocked 13:11.97 and 13:16.64 respectively to finish a […]
Nairobi — Jacob Krop won Kenya’s ninth medal at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, clinching silver in the men’s 5,000m after losing a sprint finish to Norwegian Jacob Ingebrigtsen. The 21-year old had looked strong all through the race, but it was Ingebrigtsen, silver medalist previously in the men’s 1500m who would come […]