Double Olympic Games 1,500m champion Faith Kipyegon Chepngetich, Olympic 1,500m silver medalist Timothy Cheruiyot and former world junior 2,000m steeplechase champion Norah Jeruto ended the Diamond League a high note by winning the Zurich meetings today evening. Kipyegon won the title in 3:58.33 beating her new rival Sifan Hassan to second after setting the Olympic […]
Olympic Games 800m semifinalists Mary Moraa has set her focus for the 2021 World Athletics Continental Tour meeting to be staged at the Kasarani stadium. Dubbed KipKeino Classic, the September 18th encounter will see top world track athletes converge at the facility to mark the end of the track and field season. Moraa, who made […]
Olympic Games 5,000m silver medalist Hellen Obiri lost the 5,000m title to Burundian Francine Niyonsaba in day one of Zurich Diamond league yesterday night in Switzerland. Niyonsaba won the title in 14:28.98 ahead of Obri’s 14:29.68 to settle second with Ethiopian Ejgayehu Taye finishing third in 14:30.30. World 5,000m silver medallist Margaret Chelimo was 4th […]
Kenyan athletes will be chasing various titles as Diamond League series comes to an end on Thursday at the Zurich meeting in Belgium on Thursday after kicking off today. After winning 1,500m silver at the Olympic Games, world champion Timothy Cheruiyot will renew his rivalry with Olympic 1,500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtset. Others in the 1,500m […]
Nymira governor Amos Nyaribo today launched the inaugural Nyamira Great Run, where elite athletes will be competing in half marathon and 10km cross country. The October 31st race was officially launched today where the 21-km will start at Chepilat on the border of Nyamira/Bomet Counties and finish at Ikonge Primary School. Both men and women […]
World Athletics has announced new dates for World Race Walking championships. The world athletics governing body announced that the championships will be held Oman between 4th and 5th March 2022. More to follow
Olympic 5,000m bronze medalist Hellen Obiri and former Africa junior champion Nicholas Kimeli will be chasing the 5,000m title at the Zurich, the penultimate of Diamond League series on Wednesday. The two day event in Switzerland that kicks off on Wednesday to Thursday will see Obiri take on fellow Kenyans led by word cross country […]
Kenyans Moses Kibet and Betty Lempus won the Paris Half marathon after leading compatriots in podium sweep with course records on Sunday. On the men’s side, Kibet won the title with a course record of 59:42 leading Kenyans with podium sweep with Hillary Kipkoech in second and Justus Kangogo completing the podium with 59:44 and […]
Reigning Commonwealth Games 800m champion Wycliffe Kinyamal was on top of his heels winning the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, the World Athletics Continental Tour in Silesia, Poland. Kinyamal, who missed to compete for Kenya in men’s 800m at the Tokyo Olympic Games, cruised to victory in a meeting record of 1:44.63 managing to off home boy […]
Two weeks after winning the world under 20 3,000m, Tadese Worku proved his worth by winning the Kamila Skolomowska Memorial, the World Athletics Continental Tour in Silesia, Poland. The Ethiopian Worku, who won the title in 7:36.47, which was the meeting record was in his superlative form, beating Olympic Games 3,000m steeplechase champion Soufiane El-Bakkali who […]