Kenyans Bethwel Yegon and Edith Chelimo were the best Kenyans at the Berlin Marathon held today in Berlin, Germany. Yegon, despite being the lowly ranked runner on the course finished second behind Guye Adola with the race favourite Kenenisa Bekele finishing third. In women Edith Chelimo was 4th in a race that was dominated by […]
Former Rotterdam marathon Marius Kipserem will lead top ten Kenyan athletes will chasing men’ Berlin marathon title set for this Sunday in Germany. Kipserem will be leading Kenyans Eliud Kiptanui, Philemon Kacheran, Festus Tallam, Michael Njenga, Josephat Boit, Bethwel Yegon, Bernard Kimeli, Abraham Kipyatich and William Wanjiku. Men’s Berlin marathon line-up Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) Guye […]
Reigning Ras AL Khamah Half marathon champion Fancy Chemutai will be battling out with former Barcelona Marathon champion Ruth Chebitok for Sunday’s Berlin Marathon. As much as they are less celebrated unlike the Ethiopian Hiwot Gebrekidan, Shure Demise, Helen Tola and Bethelhem Moges. Chemutai and Chebitok will be marshalling Kenyan forces alongside two time Baringo […]
Helah Kiprop, who competed at the virtual Boston marathon last year, will be competing against top athletes at the 2021 race set for October 11th. The former Tokyo marathon champion has intensified her training in Iten under head coach David Marus. She will be facing off with former champion Ednah Kiplagat, Diana Chemtai, Purity Changwony, […]
Ethiopian Super Star Kenenisa Bekele will be the man to watch at Sunday’s Berlin Marathon in Germany as world majors Marathon starts this weekend . The second fastest marathon in the world after running the 2019 edition with 2:01.41, Bekele failed to break Eliud Kipchoge’s world record with two seconds in 2:01.39 set in 2018. […]
World under 20 1,500m champion Vincent Kibet Keter and World under 20 800m bronze medalist Noah Kipruto Kibet led other junior runners to dominate the Kip Keino Classic, the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold Meeting at the Kasarani stadium on Saturday. As it was written, the top juniors, who won the overall title at the […]
Africa 100m record holder Ferdinand Omanyala Omurwa has hinted that he will be breaking his Africa record set last year at the Kip Keino Classic last Saturday. Speaking on Citizen TV by Jeff Koinange, Omanyala said that the record will not take him a year to break his record that has stayed for only five […]
World marathon record holder Mary Keitany has announced her retirement from athletes after long period In a press release by her management, the Gianni Demadona, reported that the seven-time World Marathon Majors winner announced her retirement today after a stellar career which saw her win the London Marathon on three occasions and the New York […]
A Moldovan doctor has been given a life ban from sports related activities after he was found guilty of arranging for lookalikes to give drug testing samples under the names of real weightlifters heading for the world championships. The International Testing Agency (ITA) said that Dr. Dorin Balmus represented three Moldovan athletes in 2015 when […]
Three time world cross country champion Geoffrey Kamworor was spotted harvesting mushroom at his backyard in Elgeyo marakwet County. The two time New York City marathon champion, who missed to represent the country at the Olympic Games in Tokyo due to the injury, will use the delicacy, which is nutritious in nature. More to follow