ATHLETICS

Reigning World Mountain running champion Patrick Kipngeno and double world mountain running champion Joyce Njeru will lead nine athletes at this year’s Mountain and Trail Running championships that will be staged at the Innsbruck-Stubai, Austria. The championships set for next week, starting from June 6th to 10th will see Kenya present a nine member team […]

Two time Olympic Games 1,500m champion Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon set the new world record at the Rome/Florence Diamond League held yesterday in Rome, Italy. The double world champion in 1,500m set the new world record in her favourite race 3:49.11, lowering Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba’s time of 3:50.07 at the Monaco Diamond league in 2015. The […]

Double Olympic Games 1,500m champion Faith Kipyegon won the Rome/Florence Diamond League held today in Italy. The world champion clocked 3:49.11 for the title ahead of Great Britain’s Laura Muir in 3:57.09 and Australian Jessica Hall was third at 3:57.29. Commonwealth Games 100m champion Ferdinand Omanyala lost his second race to American Fred Kerley. The […]

Reigning London Marathon champion Kelvin Kiptum and world marathon record holder Brigid Kosgei will lead Kenya’s marathon at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Kiptum will lead the men’s team that includes two time New York City Marathon Geoffrey Kamworor and Titus Kipruto who finished fourth at this year’s Tokyo Marathon while Timothy Rono […]

Chief Administrative Secretary in the Ministry of Sports Wesley Korir has called for the closure of some athletics training camps to prevent vulnerability and unwanted exposure of junior athletes. Speaking in Nandi County over the weekend, Korir said that there is a need for organisers and sponsors to come in handy to support initiatives to […]

Reigning World Athletics 5,000m silver medalist Jacob Krop will be making his maiden appearance of Diamond League this season at the Rome/Florence meeting this weekend in Iten. The Friday June 2nd encounter has attracted top athletes, Krop will be battling for the 5,000m title as part of preparations for this year’s World Athletics championships in […]

Reigning Commonwealth Games 800m champion Mary Moraa registered her third victory this season with the win at the Rabat Diamond League in Morocco. The world 800m bronze medalist Moraa won the two lap race title in 1:58.72 beating Australian Catriona Bisset (2:00.11) and American Sage Hurta-Klecker (2:00.62) for third position. Moraa retained her title after […]

American Fred Kerley ran the fastest race to win the 100m title at the Rabat Diamond League in Morocco. Kerly (9.94) won the men’s title after edging out former Commonwealth Games 100m champion Akan Simbine (9.99) from South Africa finishing second before the reigning Commonwealth Games champion and Africa 100m record holder Ferdinand Omanyala completed […]

Fresh from winning the Kip Keino Classic title, former world under 20 800m champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi won the 800m title at the second leg Diamond League in Rabat, Morocco this evening. Wanyonyi edged out two time Commonwealth games 800m champion Wycliffe Kinyamal to second. The Nandi based athlete won the title after clacking 1:44.36 with […]