Celebrated Joyce Chepchumba has been trending this week after Virgin London marathon ceebrated her as the first Kenyan and African won to win the London marathon. The ‘missing’ Chepchumba, who has not been in public since she won both Lisbon and Berlin half marathons. Chepchumba won the title in 1997 as the first African and […]
World under 20 3,000m silver medalist Leonard Bett and World cross country junior champion Beatrice Chebet won silver at the 89th edition of Cinque Mulini ran today San Vittore Olona in Italy. Bett, who failed to defend his title finished the race second benidn the champion Melak Nibret from Ethiopia. The 20-year-old Bett, who won the […]
Former World half marathon record holder Geoffrey Kamworor and cureent world half marathon record holder Peres Jepchirchir will lead other kenyas at the Istanbul Half marathon set for April 4th. Kamworor (58:01) will be facing off with current world half marathon record holder Kibiwott Kandie (57:32) in men’s race alongside former Africa Cross country champion […]
Athletics Kenya has announced that all sprinters currently in the Tokyo Olympic “bubble” camp at Kasarani will not break despite the postponement of the World Relays national ahead of World Relays championships to be staged at the Silesia, in Poland. The federation had set that the national trials were to be held this weekend on […]
Athletics Kenya has postponed the planned weekend World Athletics Relays national trials until further notice. Today, the federation announced that the event, without giving any reason to postpone the championships to unknown date. In a communique today, the athletes’ federation wrote: “We would like to inform the public that the Athletics Kenya trials for 2021 […]
Kenya triumphant Paralympic team returned into the country following their dominance at the Para-Athletics championships in Tunis, Tunisia. The kenya team, which will be preparing for Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan will be heading to Paris World Para-Athletics Grand Prix slated for April 30 to May 9. In the team, Erick Sang won silver in […]
Wilson Bii started his road to Tokyo Paralympics Games on a winning note at the ongoing World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Tunis, Tunisia. The Nandi based runner, competing in T11 led a 1-2 podium finish for Kenyan runners in the 5,000m race. He bagged first gold for Kenya in the opening day in 15:56.20 […]
The government through the ministry of Sports has allocated more money to renovate Kasarani stadium ahead of the postponed World Under-20 Athletics Championships will be well remembered. While releasing the cash, sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed said that she is optimistic that the championships will be successful despite the Covid-19 pandemic hitting the world. Amina […]
Boston Marathon will allow 20,000 participants as a way of controlling the spread of coronavirus pandemic. Race organizers said the they will allow a small manageable number in the race set for October 11th, which is 33 per cent below the typical number of runners at one of the world’s most prestigious marathons. The Boston […]
Gaming firm Mozzartbet is set to organize a marathon in the north rift region as part of their Corperate Social Responsibility in Kenya. While donating hospital equipment to fight coronavirus at the Iten Referral Hospital, Mozzartbet Marketing manager Frank Okoth Ochieng. “This is the region well known in athletics especially in the north rift counties […]