Reigning world 10,000m bronze medalist Rhonex Kipruto and former Africa 3,000m steeplechase champion Norah Jeruto will be yearning for Valencia Ibercaja 10km on Sunday morning. Kipruto, the reigning world Under-20 10,000m will take on European half marathon record-holder Julien Wanders from Switzerland (27:25), Ethiopia’s Chala Regasa who is the reigning champion Ethiopia (27:23), Brits Callum […]
Two time New York City Marathon champion Geoffrey Kamworor and Jackline Cherotich won the National Police Serice Cross country titles ran today at Ngong Racecourse. The three time world half marathon champion edged his opponents to win his 7th national police serice cross country title 30:04.32 ahead of Josphat Boit who was second in 30:14.94 […]
Volare Sports, the management of suspended athlete Wilson Kipsang, has responded by defending their athlete saying they have received the information. On Friday, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) suspended former Olympic marathon silver medalist Kipsang for failing to state his whereabouts. According to their communiqué, the management respondent: “ As the management of Mr Wilson […]
Two time New York City marathon champion will be defending his title during the National Police Serice Cross country championships set for Saturday. The three time world half marathon champion edged out Josphat Boit to win the his 6th title then claimed the Kenya Police and National 10,000m titles in July and August. The world […]
Former world marathon record holder was provisionally suspended for violating anti-doping rules. According to Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) Kipsang, the 2012 Olympic marathon champion failed to declare his whereabouts. The 37-year-old Kenyan was suspended “for whereabouts failures and tampering”, both violations of World Athletics’ anti-doping rules, the AIU announced on Twitter. The two time London […]
Former Africa Athletics 10,000m silver medalist Wilfred Kimitei has started his long journey to represent Kenya at the Olympic Games set for Tokyo, Japan this year. Kimitei, the former First Lady Half marathon champion will this Saturday run the Kenya Prison Cross country at Ruiru Training ground as his major race to kick-start the year. […]
World steeplechase record-holder Beatrice Chepkoech to battle compatriot Winny Chebet a the second leg of World Athletics Indoor Meeting in Karlsruhe on January 31. The duo will be chasing 1,500m titles as Chepkoech, who finished third in Karlsruhe in 2018 and went on to win in Dusseldorf and Glasgow, breaking the Kenyan record on both […]
John Langat and Miriam Ebongon will lead top Kenyan runners at the Houston marathon set for January 19. Langat, who has a personal best of 2:08:39 will lead men’s title chase in marathon with compatriot Paul Maina (2:08:49) and Dominic Ondoro(2:08:51) for company in the race. In the women’s category, Ebongon will be the sole […]
Kenya 3,000m steeplechase runner Kenneth Muriithi Njiru died yesterday in a road accident along Nyeri-Nyahururu highway. Njiru, who competed for Kenya Defence Forces, died on the spot when his car collided head-on with another vehicle to end the life of a promising runner. more to follow
Recovering from a knee injury that kept him away from defending his world 1,500m title, Elijah Manangoi has set his eye to win his first Olympic Games medal next year in Tokyo, Japan. The 2018 Commonwealth Games 1,500m champion described his nagging injury as a monster in his career but had to forget about the […]