Kenyan midfielder Francis Kahata joined his Tanzanian club Simba SC ahead of Tanzanian league restart following the suspension due to coronavirus. The Harambee Stars player joined the Tanzanian side a year ago, travelled yesterday to Tanzania for the league following the announcement by President John Magufuli that allowed all sporting activities to resume this month […]
Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge and Berlin marathon champion Kenenisa Bekele are set to battle in the Virtual Marathon Relay in June. According to BBC, Kipchoge from Kenya, Bekele of Ethiopia will be joined by Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei and world half marathon record holder. The race is set to be run between June 7th and […]
Olympic Games 1,500m silver medalist Nancy Chelang’at Koech was born blind but her brother, now her guide Geoffrey Rotich advised her to take on athletics. Through that she has made a name for herself in the athletics world competing in T11 Koech wants to break her time in 1,500m. Full Report https://www.the-star.co.ke/sports/athletics/2020-05-19-koech-hopeful-of-breaking-the-record-despite-covid-19/
Professional athletes who are experiencing financial hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic will be able to register for a one-off welfare grant from today until May 31. Two weeks ago World Athletics and the International Athletics Foundation (IAF) announced that a Sh54 million welfare fund had been created to support professional athletes who have lost a substantial […]
Former Cecafa secretary general Nicholas Musonye will be chasing the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) presidential post when elections will be recalled. The veteran football administrator will be facing off with incumbent Nick Mwendwa as well as former chairman Sam Ntamweya. Musonye led CECAFA for 21 years who said: “There is no doubt about my experience […]
When the International Paralympics Committee (IPC) changed his T46 category, Paralympian Abraham Tarbei almost gave up running but his resilience kept him going, changing into marathon. He made his debut at Nairobi Standard Chartered marathon finishing 10th, running with normal athletes, which was his achievement. Full report https://www.the-star.co.ke/sports/athletics/2020-05-13-paralympian-tarbei-keen-to-leave-a-mark-in-marathon/
Kenya National Football Coaches Association (Kenfoca) chairman Robert Matano has called on Football Kenya Federation (FKF) to allow the association to vet foreign tacticians before they are allowed to handle the national team and league clubs. According to Daily Nation, Kenfoca, which was recently registered, is an independent entity that comprises elite coaches. It is […]
Sports cabinet secretary Amina Mohammed has defended the move that Olympic marathon champion is distributing food to North Rift regions only in the fight against coronavirus pandemic. “We are happy to collaborate with Eliud Kipchoge in extending the Sports Covid-19 stimulus and food programme to athletes in the North Rift region. We are targeting at […]
World Athletics has released new dates for the World Athletics championships after postponing with a year. In a news update today, the world athletics governing body said the world Athletics championships to be held in Oregon USA has been postponed from 2021 to 2022 to avoid a clash with new Olympic and Paralympic Games dates. The […]
Kenya’s sprinter Alex Lerionka Sampao has set a target of planting over 3,000 trees on the family land as a way of killing boredom during this hard trying of coronavirus pandemic that has rendered them to stay at home without competition or group training. Sampao, who has begun to compete in 800m, with ambitions of […]