Despite the Africa Senior Athletics Championships being postponed due to the surge of coronavirus, Athletics Kenya will hold national trials for championships. On Wednesday, the Confederation of Africa Athletics (CAA) postponed the biennial championships that were to be hosted in the Algeria capital, Algiers on 24th to 28th June to unknown dates. But AK will […]
Eldoret City marathon organisers have remained adamant that they will not extend registration time to avoid last minute rush. Race director Moses Tanui assured that that date for dateline registration is June 2nd 2021 ahead of the race on 6th June 2021 in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County. The two time Boston marathon champion said that […]
The African Championships (seniors), which were to take place in Algiers from June 22 to 26, have been postponed to a later date, due to the health situation linked to the Covid-19 pandemic and following “the recommendations “of the scientific committee for monitoring the evolution of the pandemic, the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MJS) […]
Former world 800m champion Janeth Jepkosgei has embarked on nurturing junior runners to advance in their studies as they focus on develop their track and field talents. The “All For Running” initiative targets talented athletes in secondary schools to help them successfully combine academics and sports. “Right now am working on a project called All […]
Athletics Kenya president Jack Tuwei is optimistic that the World Under 20 championships will be one of the most prestigious event come August at the Kasarani stadium. As the event’s Local Organizing Committee chairman, Tuwei has assured the rest of the world that the country is on course. He said they are still waiting for […]
World Athletics Under-20 Championships Local Organizing Committee (LOC) chairman Mike Rabar is optimistic that the championships will be successful. With barely 100 days to the championships set for August 17th to 22nd at Nairobi’s Kasarani stadium, Rabar said that the LOC is keen to host a memorable event devoid of adverse incidents resulting from the […]
World 10km record holder Rhonex Kipruto won the 10,000m title at the Fernanda Ribeiro Gold Gala in Portugal. The reigning world 10,000m bronze medalist led a 1-2 podium finish for Kenyan athletes with Shardack Koech coming in second position. Kipruto, the 10,000m under 20 champion clocked 27:11.01 ahead of training mate Koech who was second in […]
Gladys Mumbe and Emmanuel Lemama scooped double titles at the Athletics Kenya Southern Region World under 20 Athletics championships pre-trials held at the Machakos Boys’ high school grounds. While Leakey Kamina and Sharon Ndanu, all from Machakos county were the winners in the 5,000m titles. Coming from Machakos, Mumbe won the 400m and 200m while […]
Two time world marathon champion Abel Kirui has set his focus to compete at the Milano marathon following the suspension of Mumbai Marathon. The May 16th competition was a reprieve for 2016 Chicago marathon champion after missing a slot for the Olympic Games marathon team. The 2012 Olympic Games marathon silver medalist has abandoned the […]
World marathon champion Ruth Chepngetich is the Sports Journalists Association of Kenya (SJAK) and LG Sports personality of the month award in the Month of April. The world half marathon record holder produced a superb performance in the month of April winning Kolay Istanbul Half Marathon with 21km world record 64:02 to beat Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf […]