Athletes from Elgeyo Marakwet County have urged Athletics Kenya (AK) to set up region or county offices as a way of reducing the gap between athletes and head office in Nairobi. Led by Abraham Chelang’a, the athletes questioned why there are no regional or county offices yet athletes are spread across the country, representing the […]
Doha Diamond League, the 5th of the series has been scheduled for 9 October after it could not be held as the traditional season opener in April, but will now take place instead on 25 September. The plan is to stage 12 disciplines. A list of athletes who will compete in the Qatari capital will […]
Shoe4Africa CEO Toby Tanser, mourned the fallen 1968 1,500m Olympic silver medallist Ben Jipcho, who was buried in his Kisawai home, Trans Nzoia County on Friday as a peacemaker. In long Facebook post, Tanser wrote that Jipcho, the All Africa Games champion executed this during the 2007/08 post-election violence that rocked the country following the […]
Top runners are set to battle for for 15th edition of Istanbul Half Marathon on Sunday morning in the Turkish town. The race which was previously scheduled for April 5, 2020, was delayed due to the global epidemic and was revised with the regulations. The Istanbul Half Marathon, which was elevated to the Golden Category […]
Kenya’s first Olympic Games 3,000m steeplechase champion Amos Biwott was full of praise for the fallen hero and two time Olympic Games champion Benjamin Jipcho. The two time Commonwealth Games champion Jipcho died on Friday in an Eldoret hospital where he was undergoing treatment with his burial set for Friday in his Kisawai land in […]
London marathon organizers are ser to make the decision if the race will go on as planned on 4th October following coronavirus pandemic. Today, they said tthey will be holding a meeting on 7th August to decide after the race that was to be held on 26th October was resechuled for October 4th and event […]
Two time Olympic champion Benjamin Jipcho is set to be buried next Saturday at his Kisawai home in Trans Nzoia County. According to funeral organizers, the late athletics hero will be laid to rest on 31st July 2020 following his death on Friday in an Eldoret hospital where he was admitted. The 1968 Olympics 1,500m […]
Deputy President William Ruto, Sports Cabinet secretary Amina Mohammed and National Olympics Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) president Paul Tergat have joined other sports men and women to mourn the death of former Olympics champion Ben Jipcho. Jipcho, the 1972 Olympics 3,000m steeplechase silver medalist died on Friday morning in an Eldoret hospital following his admission […]
Former Rotterdam marathon champion Kenneth Kipkemoi was handed a two ban by Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for flouting anti doping rules on Thursday 23rd July 2020. Kipkemoi says many Kenyan runners are falling prey to unscrupulous testing and serving a ban that they don’t deserve and because they don’t have a voice to air their […]
Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has today (Thursday 23rd) suspended former world 1,500m champion Elijah Manangoi for whereabouts. More to follow