Dickson Nyakundi and Teresiah Omosa were top Kenyans at the Telesia 21km International half marathon held yesterday in Italy. In men, Nyakundo won silver at 62:35 behind Rwandese international Egide Ntakarurimana who won the race in 62:32 with hosts’ nakagenet Crippa completing the podium at 62:60. Hosts dominated the women race where Anna Arnaudo won […]
Elvis Kipchoge Cheboi won the Toronto waterfront marathon title ran yesterday in Toronto, Italy. He won the race in 2:09.20 with Adugna Takele Bikila spoiling s kenyan 1-2 podium finish when he finished second at 2:10.26 with Kenyan Alfred Kipchirchir Mukche completing the podium at 2:10.56. In women, no Kenyan finishe din top ten with […]
It was an all podium sweep for kenyan runners at the 2023 edition of Tokyo Legacy half marathon held yesterday in Tokyo, Japan. In men, Kenyans took nine positions out off 11 first finishers while women led an all podim finish. Evans Keitany Kiptum and Gladys Chepkurui led the onslaught to calim the positions. Selected […]
Former Africa under 20 5,000m silver medalist Sandra Chebet and Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) athlete Vincent Mutai were the winners of today’s opening leg of Athletics Kenya cross country championships held at the Machakos People’s Park in Machakos County. The 25 year has made her return into action on her way to compete at next […]
Former Boston marathon champion Caroline Rotich and Okpekpe 10km silver medalist Elvis Kipchoge Chebi will lead Kenyans at the Sunday’s Toronto waterfront marathon set for Sunday in Canada. Rotich, who has been dominating in major road running races, will be the only Kenyan women runner in a field full of Ethiopian top athletes in the […]
Kenya’s Reuben Kipyego will headline the 44th edition of the Istanbul Marathon set for November 5th. Kipyego, the 2019 Abu Dhabi Marathon champion, will face a strong deep elite field that includes the reigning Zurich Maraton de Sevilla champion Gadise Shumie of Ethiopian. The two will not have an easy time as they will have to […]
Fresh from setting the new world marathon world record, Kelvin Cheruiyot Kiptum has been nominated for this year’s World Athletics Awards. Kiptum is among the of 11 nominees for Men’s World Athlete of the Year in what has been a memorable year in athletics where records were broken. The nominees are
Sports Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba has announced his commitment to fight doping in the country. “As a country, we have declared total war on doping. This is because doping threatens that proud Kenyan heritage and the pedigree of Kenya as a nation that competes and wins clean,” he stated. “From the days of Wilson Kiprugut […]
World Athletics has nominated the two time Olympic Games 1,500m champion Faith Kipyegon to battle for the female World athlete of the year award. The two time world record holder was today announced to battle for the crown after the selection from an international panel of athletic experts. “World Athletics is pleased to confirm a list […]
Machakos will host the first event in the Athletics Kenya 2023/2024 season this weekend Machakos cross country meeting. The federation said yesterday that the event will start on October 14th at the Machakos People’s Park in Machakos County. After Machakos the meeting will head to Bungoma, Mt Elgon at the kapsokwaony a week later on […]