After series of training, trials by 33 sports association and screening of selected athletes by the Lagos State Sports Commission, the commission has concluded plans of moving the athletes and coaches to closed camping ahead of the 6th National Youths Games scheduled to hold on October 10-20, in Ilorin, Kwara State. The Lagos State athletes […]
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Paralympian Hermas Cliff Muvunyi has announced that he will retire after competing at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. The 32-year-old is the most decorated Paralympic player in Rwanda with 15 medals to his name so far, including nine gold medals. Some of his remarkable achievements include a gold medal he won in the T46 men’s 400 […]
The Rundu Town Council on Friday handed over two residential plots to sprinters Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi as reward for their exploits on the world athletics circuit. Handing over the plots located close to the University of Namibia’s Rundu campus, Rundu mayor Gabriel Kanyanga said council resolved to bestow the athletes with 622m2 residential […]
Watching the Games was too hard, but soon after they ended, Carina Horn got her running pass back. First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. Two weeks ago, the South African sprinter who couldn’t represent her country in Tokyo because of her provisional suspension while being investigated for a positive drugs test from […]
This year’s Berlin Marathon which goes down on Sunday will see new entrants compete and not the big names that usually race in the German capital. Berlin is where the men’s world marathon record has been broken severally and athletics fraternity will be watching the race closely to see what unfolds on Sunday. The race […]
Kenyan running great Mary Keitany has announced her retirement from athletics. Keitany had a stellar career that saw her win the London Marathon on three occasions and the New York Marathon four times, as well as triumph at the 2009 World Half Marathon Championships. Keitany, 39, still holds the marathon world record for a women-only […]
The Jomo Kenyatta International Airport will on Thursday be a beehive of activities with international foreign athletes checking in for the Absa Kip Keino Classic due Saturday at Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani. Meet director, Barnaba Korir disclosed that close to 53 athletes will arrive aboard various airlines planes starting at dawn across the day. […]
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics have come and gone. The games always motivate some young people to get into sports. But while there is glamour attached to sports participation, there are also well documented challenges with regard to administration and funding in Nigeria. Many of the athletes representing Nigeria in Tokyo experienced funding problems as a […]
Kenya is one of those countries that is known for producing top athletes year in and year out. In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Kenya managed to get a total of 10 Medals ( four gold, four silver, and two bronze) and in the 2016 Rio Olympics, Kenya managed to get six gold medals and a […]
The President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Tonobok Okowa has said that Tobi Amusan’s historic feat at the Diamond League final in Zurich last Thursday is the perfect way to close what has been a glorious year for Nigerian track and field. Amusan made history as the first Nigerian, man or woman to […]
It was a night that Kenyan athletes lived up to the championship’s name to sparkle as they dominated to win five events in Zurich during the 2021 Diamond League finale on Thursday. Olympic champions Faith Chepng’etich (1,500m) and Emmanuel Korir (800m) led compatriots Olympic 1,500m silver medallist Timothy Cheruiyot, Olympic 3,000m steeplechase bronze medallist Benjamin […]
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Africa’s Three Kings of MMA
Francis Ngannou, Kamaru Usman and Israel Adesanya are the current mixed martial arts champions in their weight divisions, bringing Africa well into the fight for recognition in the sport. Since its founding in 1993, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has grown to become the biggest and most prestigious mixed martial arts company in the world. […]
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has announced that it will be a third party in the appeal matter between 800m runner Caster Semenya and the Swiss Federal Supreme Court which will be heard at the European Court of Human Rights. Semenya is seeking to overturn a ruling by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court […]
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Zimbabwe: Mkandla Rallies Team Zim
THE Zimbabwe National Paralympic Committee vice president, Alexander Mkandla, is optimistic the country’s representatives at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games will make a good impression. Pamela Shumba will be the first in action, when she takes part in the 100m T12 event today at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. Shumba and Vimbai Zvinowanda are the […]
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Kenya Tops the World as U20 Champs End
Kenya finished at the top of the medal standings as the curtain was drawn on the 18th edition of the World Athletics Under-20 Championships at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani Sunday. The lovely sunny afternoon brought along seven medals; three gold, a silver and three bronze. That saw Kenya’s medal tally surge to 16; […]
It was another historic moment when Sheila Chelangat handed Kenya bronze in women’s 400m, the first ever by a Kenyan woman at any World Athletics Championships. Chelangat stepped on her gas pedal with 200m to go, swinging into third position before holding off stiff challenge from rivals to finish third in personal best 52.23 seconds. […]
Vincent Keter is the new World Athletics Under-20 Championships men’s 1,500m champion. Keter went for the title that his Rongai Athletics Club’s teammate George Manang’oi won in 2018 Tampere, clocking three minutes, 37.24 seconds at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani. Keter, who led through from 900m before taking the bell at 2:41.35, beat Ethiopia’s […]
Godson Oghenebrume’s bid to end Nigeria’s 25 year wait for a World Athletics U20 Championships gold medal failed yesterday on the track of Kasarani stadium in Nairobi, Kenya where the 18-year old stumbled out of the blocks and never found his ryhthm in a race he was joint favourite to win with Botswana’s Leslie Tebogo. […]