Athletes who had already qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics before they were postponed will keep their places when the showpiece takes place in 2021, sources told AFP on Thursday. Around 57% of the 11,000 scheduled participants for Tokyo had already made sure of taking part when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) pushed the Games […]
After graduating for 800m to 5,000m, World under 18 800m silver medalist Lydia Jeruto was set to run at the global stage at the Doha Diamond League but her the journey was cut short due to the spread of coronavirus pandemic. She ran in her first 5,000m, finishing 4th during the opening leg of Athletics Kenya […]
The Kenyan government through the ministry of sports has postponed the highly anticipated World Athletics Under 20 championships that were to be held in July in Nairobi, Kenya due to the spread of Coronavirus pandemic. Through the statement, the event, which was to be held between July 7 to July 12th at the Moi Sports […]
World Athletics president Lord Coe has insisted that the Olympic Games in Tokyo should be postponed due to coronavirus pandemic. Coe’s letter to International Olympics Committee president Thomas Bach said: “No-one wants to see the Olympic Games postponed but as I have said publicly, we cannot hold the event at all costs, certainly not at […]
Reigning All Africa Games 1,500m gold medalist Quailyne Kiprop will be chasing a world record when the season resumes after the coronavirus pandemic. The Baringo based runner, while talking to the Star Newspaper said she was to compete at the start of Diamond League in Doha that was postponed due to the pandemic was optimistic […]
World half marathon record holder Geoffrey Kamworor has vowed to continue training ahead of any race after the World Health Organization (WHO) would declare the coronavirus Pandemic is over. The three-time world half marathon champion was set to defend his 4th title on 24th March but the World Athletics had to cancel the event due to the […]
Athletics Kenya has ordered closure of all training camps in the country to control the spread of coronavirus Today, the federation’s chief administrative officer Susan Kamau said in a statement said that athletes should continue with individual training programmes with coaches encouraged to continue monitoring their athletes for the next 30 days. At the same […]
With coronavirus biting across the world, the Eastern region joined the rest of the regions in the country in closing down all the athletes training camps as part of measures to contain the pandemic. Machakos, Kitui and Makueni counties that have enjoyed a good number of athletes like Patrick Makau, joined the athletics mad region […]
Coronavirus has dealt a double tragedy for Kenyan juniors, who have taken up running as their career at their tender age. In the first tragedy, the juniors, who had the dream to run for the country at the Africa Cross country championships, came to a test when the Confederation of Africa Athletics (CAA) postponed the […]
2020 timetable season Athletics Diamond Leagues have been suspended in response to the growing global crisis around the new coronavirus. Due to the growing number of countries affected by the COVID-19 virus, the first three meetings of the 2020 Wanda Diamond League season, scheduled for 17th April in Qatar, 9th and 16th May 2020 in […]