Former Africa 3,000m junior silver medalist Gladys Chesir is optimistic of winning her maiden marathon title when she lines up at the NN Mission Marathon in Enschede on Sunday. The former Commonwealth Youth Games 3,000m champion has high hopes to achieve high results in a race that was rescheduled for 11th April to 18th April 2021, […]
Former Guangzhou Marathon silver medalist Emmanuel Naibei won the sixth edition of the Lagos City Marathon held over the weekend in Nigeria. The Kenyan extended the nations dominance when he clocked 2:11.37 for the title. His win was an improvement after finishing The 2019 Guangzhou Marathon second placed Naibei defeated Ethiopian duo of Deresa Geleta […]
Former Venice marathon champion Angela Tanui and Eric Kiptanui won the Xiamen Marathon yesterday in Siena with course records. In the women category, Tanui ran with a course record, winning the race in 2:20:08 shading off five minutes off her personal best and reducing the all comers’ in the country set by Vivian Kiplagat’s 2:22:25 […]
Olympic Games marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge’s mission to compete at the Hamburg marathon in Germany has been moved to NN Mission Marathon at the Enschede in the Netherlands. The rescheduled race that was set to be run on 11th April was moved to April 18th in the Netherlands due to the upsurge of coronavirus in […]
Former world 800m silver medalist Joshua Tiampati Masikonde is confident that he will be back with bang when the sporting world returns to normalcy especially track and field. The lanky runner, who represented the country at various championships while in his junior ranks has been battling sickness as well as the injury that kept him […]
Former Prime Minister Raila Amollo Odinga, Uasin Gishui county governor Jackson Mandago, Harambee Stars striker Michael Olunga and Boxing Federation of Kenya (BFK) led a host of leaders to congratulate Ruth Chapengetich and Kibiwott Kandie for their victory at the 2021 Istanbul Half marathon ran today in Turkey. The world marathon champion, Chepngetich won the […]
q0is9 World marathon champion Ruth Chepngetich broke the world half marathon with her win at the Istanbul half marathon ran today in Turkey. In her third title win, Chepngetich smashes the world half marathon record in 64:02 as a new world record (mixed gender) beating then world record by 29 seconds that was held […]
World half marathon silver medalist Kibiwott Kandie led a podium sweep at the Istanbul Half marathon ran today in Turkey. The world half marathon led an all Kenyan podium sweep with former world half marathon record holder Geoffrey Kamworor in second and upstart Roncer Kipkorir in third for all Kenyan show. Kandie set a new […]
Beatrice Chepkoech and Kibiwott Kandie’s world records were ratified today by the athletics governing body world Athletics. The world 3,000m steeplechase record holder, Chepkoech broke the 5km world record during the Monaco Run on February 13 when she clocked 14:43. The win improved her previous women’s record in a mixed gender race of 14:48 set […]
Former Chicago marathon champion Abel Kirui has set his focus to earn good results when he lines up at the Mumbai marathon set for May India. The two time world marathon champion said he is training well for the race, expecting good results. Full report https://www.the-star.co.ke/sports/athletics/2021-03-30-kirui-eyes-mumbai-marathon-title-in-may/