Reigning Cape Town marathon champion Lydia Naliaka Simiyu has been dropped from the winners list for doping agents. Simiyu, who finished second at the Poznan half marathon in women’s race, the test showed some doping agants hence dropped. Today, the Poznan marathon in a twitter handle announced… The test results of sample A of the […]
Former Olympic Games 800m champion Wilfred Bungei has announced that he will not be vying for the Emgwen parliamentary seat in the August 9th elections. More to follow
Reigning Olympic Games 100m champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs is the latest international track superstar to check in for Saturday’s Kip Keino Classic Continental Tour Gold Label meet in Nairobi, Kenya. Italian hero Jacobs, who was forced to sprints after a knee injury saw him put aside his hopes of excelling as a Long-jumper in 2019, […]
Three time Olympic Games 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has landed in the country ahead the third edition of Kip Keino Classic, the World Athletics Continental gold tour set for this Saturday at the Kasarani stadium. The Jamaican landed in Kenya on Wednesday evening promising a hard fight against Kenyans where she intends to start her […]
Athletics Kenya on Tuesday night received a team of junior athletes who jetted back into the country from Miramas, France. The team of 11 sprinters and field athletes has been undergoing a specialized training at the Miramas Athletics Club to sharpen their skills ahead of this summer’s World Junior Championships to be staged in Cali, […]
American Olympic 100m silver medalist, Fred Kerley, is a man on a mission, with Saturday’s third edition of the Kip Keino Classic in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi the latest stop for the sprinter hailed as one of most consistent on the international circuit. Kerley, 26, is a headline act in what on paper, has […]
Former Senior Africa Athletics championships relay team silver medalist Boniface Mtunga Mweresa is back into the national team after serving his two-year ban for the use of prohibited substances in sports ahead of the Africa championships in Reduit, Mauritius. After three years of absent, Mweresa will be competing in 400m alongside Collins Omae and William […]
Two time Olympic Games 5,000m silver medalist Hellen Obiri will be chasing the Bengaluru 10km title in two weeks’ time in India. The race set for 15th May 2022 will attract top runners from across the world with Obiri seeking to continue from where she left when she ran the 10th fastest-ever time for women’s […]
Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed, in a company of Athletics Kenya officials today launched the Nairobi City marathon, the highest paying marathon in Africa. The race, dubbed Uhuru Classic set to be held on May 8th at the newly constructed Nairobi Expressway has been categories into four levels: marathon, half marathon, 10km and 5km where […]
Africa 100m record holder Ferdinand Omurwa Omanyala, world cross country junior champion Beatrice Chebet and double Africa 20km race walk champion Samuel Gathimba registered victroies in today’s final day of Athletics Kenya national championships cum trials for Senior Africa Athletics championships. The Kenya’s number one sprinter won the title in 10.03 beating Ugandan Benson Okoth […]