Chicago marathon champion Brigid Kosgei ended the 2018 on a high note by winning the San Silvester Vallecana Madrid 10km road race defeating Commonwealth Games 5,000m champion Hellen Obiri who was making a debut in road running. Experienced road runner Kosgei led a 1-2 finish for Kenyan runners in the Spanish Capital on Monday night […]
Former world half marathon silver medalist Bedan Karoki will be targeting Tokyo marathon following his exploits at the inaugural Nyahururu 10km road race. Karoki, who finished second behind compatriot in the 2016 world half marathon in Cardiff, clocked 28:22.6 to win the race as part of his preparations for Tokyo marathon in February in the […]
Reigning 5,000m Commonwealth Bronze medalist Edward Pingua Zakayo has set his focus on the 2019 world cross country and world championships following his good run in the 2018. The Form Three student at Kapsait secondary school in Elgeyo Marakwet was on top of his career at a tender age and wants to extend his good […]
Olympic 5,000m silver medalist Hellen Obiri and reigning Chicago marathon champion Brigid Kosgei will be facing off at the new year’s opener San Silvester vallecana 10km race, the IAAF Silver Label road race. The Kenyan duo will be facing off with ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba. Obiri, the 5000m Commonwealth Games champion and the African 5,000m champion […]
Kenyan athletes are mourning the death of former National Olympics Committee (NOC-K) chairman Charles Mukora. Mukora who served as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) member died on Thursday evening was the pioneer athletics coach who boasts to having coached some of Kenya’s greatest athletes among them Kipchoge Keino. At 83, Mukora stepped down as NOCK […]
As 2018 comes to an end, Mary Keitany has been a stand out athlete in the country following her fourth victory at the New York City Marathon in November. Keitany ran four races in the whole year collecting maximum accolades across the world but she dedicated her achievements to her family and running mates who […]
Former world cross country silver medallist Leonard Patrick Komon has saluted the new world 15 km record holder Joshua Cheptegei for his excellent run last month. A man who ran away from the killer militia, Sabaot land Defence Forces (SLDF) that was led by his elder brother Wycliffe Komon alias Matwakei, Komon who held the […]
Olympic Games 10,000m silver medalist Paul Tanui and World half bronze medalist Pauline Kamulu will be competing at this weekend’s IAAF Northern Ireland International Cross country meeting. Tanui took the silver medal in the senior men’s race at the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and went on to earn three successive world bronze medals […]
Reigning Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge joined other top athletes in opening up a new athletes’ training camp today in Kapseret, Uasin Gishu County. The world marathon record holder(2:01.39) was also named the brand ambassador of the launched Isaiah Kiplagat Foundation Athletics Training Camp. With school going children enjoying holiday, the programmed caters for such […]
Mary Keitany received news that she was the winner of the 2018 New York Road Runners Pro Performer of the Year Award with great celebrations. The two times London marathon winner won her fourth title after 2:22:48, which was the second fastest time in women’s marathon in US. Keitany lost last year’s race by 61 […]