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In Pictures: AFN Nigeria World Championships and Commonwealth Games Trials, Benin 2022
In Pictures: Day 5 – African Athletics Championships Mauritius 2022
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Ethiopia
Reigning Dubai Marathon champion Dera Dida of Ethiopia will lead the women’s elite field when she returns for her title defence in Dubai in...
World
Athletes will compete for points in their chosen discipline at the 14 series meetings between April and September.
World
The 2024 World Athletics Continental Tour calendar is out, with the first Gold level meeting in Australia two months away.
RSA
Aleck Skhosana and his entire Athletics South Africa (ASA) board have been re-elected for another four-year term at the federation’s quadrennial general meeting in...
RSA
Athletics South Africa held a successful and peaceful Quadrennial General Meeting at the Garden Court Hotel, OR Tambo Hotel in Kempton Park, Johannesburg on...
RSA
South Africans, Wayde van Niekerk and Caster Semenya are among the seven African athletes that have been shortlisted for the 2016 IAAF World Athlete...
Europe
Lausanne 2020 preparations for the 3rd Winter Youth Olympic Games have been deemed well under way by the IOC after just over a year...
Ethiopia
Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele wins a thrilling duel with Wilson Kipsang but misses the world record by just six seconds, with a time of 2:03:03,...
RSA
David Manja and Kesa Molotsane crowned national champions with victories in the Senior Men's and Women's 10km races at the SA Cross Country Championships...
Kenya
Kenya will host the last edition of the IAAF World U18 Championships after the IAAF Council decided to discontinue the youth championships after the...
Kenya
Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge won the men's marathon gold on the final day of competition at the Rio 2016 Olympics to maintain his dominance in...
RSA
Caster Semenya broke the national 800m record to earn gold at the Rio Olympics on Saturday tearing down the home straight to secure the...
Kenya
Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot shocks World 10,000m record-holder Almaz Ayana to win her first Olympic gold medal in the Women's 5000m at the Rio 2016...
RSA
South Africa's Sunette Viljoen produced the performance of her career on Thursday night to secure the silver medal in the women's Javelin throw event...
Kenya
Conseslus Kipruto ran an Olympic record of 8:03.28 to win Kenya’s ninth consecutive gold medal in the men’s 3000m steeplechase on day 6 of...
Kenya
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon won the Olympic women's 1500m gold leaving Ethiopia’s world record holder Genzebe Dibaba trailing in her wake on Tuesday night.
Nigeria
Nigerian women will upgrade to the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 4x100m relay silver medal after the IOC stripped the Russian team of gold medal.
Kenya
Kenya's David Rudisha stormed to victory in 1:42.15 to retain his Olympic men's 800m title ahead of Algeria's Taoufik Mahkloufi at the Rio 2016...
RSA
South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk broke Michael Johnson’s world record to win the men's 400m gold at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in a...
Kenya
London marathon winner, Jemima Sumgong, became the first Kenyan woman to win the Olympics marathon title, clocking 2:24:04 for gold, at the Rio 2016...
RSA
South African Luvo Manyonga soared to a lifetime best jump of 8.37m on Saturday to bag South Africa's first track and field medal on...
Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana smashed the world record to win the 10,000m at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, clocking 29:17.45 to win the first athletics...
Botswana
Botswana's 800m runner Nijel Amos vows to deliver yet another medal for his country when the Athletics competition starts on Friday at 2016 Olympic...
Ethiopia
Kenyan Wilson Kipsang and Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele to duel on Berlin’s world record course at the 2016 BMW Berlin-Marathon on 25 September.
World
International Olympic Committee to add baseball/softball, karate, skateboard, sports climbing and surfing to the sports programme for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Kenya
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) removes Kenya from the World Anti-Doping Code’s non-compliant list of countries ahead of Rio 2016 Olympics.
Blogs & Comment
Liberian sprinter Phobay Kutu-Akoi narrates to us exclusively on AthleticsAfrica.com her neglect by the Liberian Athletics Federation and her 48-hours of hell en-route to...
Botswana
Botswana's wonder kid, Baboloki 'Hurricane' Thebe will take on board the lessons of Bydgoszcz disqualification to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
RSA
South Africa’s Stephen Mokoka and Irvette van Zyl secured national men's and women's titles at the Athletics South Africa (ASA) Half-Marathon Championships in Port...
Kenya
Amos Kirui kept Kenya’s perfect U20 World Championships streak in the 3000m Steeplechase alive for the 15th consecutive edition with victory in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Kenya
Kenya's Kumari Taki claims the men’s 1500m gold medal at the ongoing IAAF World U20 Championships at the Zawisza Stadium, in Bydgoszcz, Poland on...
Ethiopia
Ethiopia's Beyenu Degefa captured the women’s 3000m title, the first gold medal for her country, on Day 2 of the IAAF World U20 Championships...
Eritrea
Kenya’s Rodgers Chumo Kwemoi won the men's 10,000m title in a championship record of 27:25.23 at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships - Bydgoszcz...
Nigeria
Nigeria’s Stephen Mozia threw a huge 21.76 metres to extend his own national Shot put record set a few days ago at the 12th...
RSA
South African sprinter Akani Simbine broke his own national 100m record at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial meeting in Szekesfehervar, Hungary on Monday night.
RSA
South Africa's most promising athletes will be eager to showcase their immense potential when they compete at the five-day World U-20 Championships in Bydgoszcz,...
RSA
South Africa's Caster Semenya coasted to victory in the 800m at the Monaco IAAF Diamond League on Friday smashing her own national record in...
Nigeria
Nigeria's fastest sprinters Blessing Okagbare and Seye Ogunlewe top the list of Team Nigeria athletes to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.