The reigning Istanbul half marathon champion is the latest Kenyan athlete to be suspended by Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) for violating anti-doping rules. Mkungo, who has been representing the country in various events was named yesterday by ADAK in the list of four athletes that has sprinter Samuel Kimani Wanjiru. Wanjiru, who competes in […]
Athletics team for the Paris Olympic Games. Men (22): 100m: Ferdinand Omanyala 400m: Zablon Ekwam Zablon 400m hurdles: Wiseman Were 800m: Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Wycliffe Kinyamal, Koitatoi Kidali 1,500m: Reynold Kipkorir, Timothy Cheruiyot 3,000m steeplechase: Amos Serem, Simon Koech, Abraham Kibiwott 5,000m: Ronald Kwemoi, Jacob Krop, Edwin Kurgat 10,000m: Daniel Mateiko, Nicholas Kimeli, Bernard Kibet Race […]
Registration for this year’s Machakos 10km Great Run has started in earnest to attract many athletes, competing to conserve the environment. The race will also attract expectant mothers who will be competing in the 200m. With the race entering its 4th edition on July 20th 2024 at the People’s Park in Machakos county, race Director Philip Muia […]
Double world record holder Faith Kipyegon edged out the newly crowned world 10,000m record holder Beatrice Chebet to win the 5,000m title at the Athletics Kenya Olympic Games trials held at the Nyayo stadium. Kipyegon, the two time Olympic Games 1,500m champion won the 5,000m title in 14:46.28 ahead of Chebet’s 14:52.55 and World 10,000m […]
Newly crowned World 10,000m record holder Beatrice Chebet and Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) half marathon champion Daniel Mateiko will lead other runners at this year’s Olympic Games in the 10,000m that will be staged in Paris, France. The double world cross country champion Cehebt who clocked 28:54.14 to win the 10,000m race during the Prefontaine […]
With Africa 100m record holder Ferdinand Omanyala out of Africa Senior Athletics championships, Kenya’s Mark Otieno Odhiambo will lead the country at the championships set for June 21st to 26th in Duala, Cameroon. Otieno who is among 50 athletes named in the team by Athletics Kenya yesterday, will spearhead the nation in the 100m where […]
Former Eindhoven marathon champion Laban Mutai is set to redeem his time in the next marathon in search of good time that will earn him management to compete in major marathons across the world. Fresh from winning the bronze medal at the Ottawa marathon on Sunday, after returning from a five year hamstring injury, Mutai […]
Double Olympic Games marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge is focused to clinch the third title when he lines up at the 2014 Olympic Games in Paris, France come August. Speaking at the Eliud Kipchoge Library in his native County of Nandi over the weekend, Kipchoge said that he will not go for a world record by […]
Former World 1,500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot finished second at the Oslo Diamond League held today in Oslo, Norway. Cheruiyot as the top Kenyan athlete at the event finished behind the home boy and world 1,500 m record holders Jakob Ingebrigtsen. Ingebrigtsen won the race in 3:29.74 ahead of Cheruiyot’s 3:29.79 and French international Azeddine Habz […]
Fresh from winning Hamburg marathon, the former World Cross country champion Irene Chepet Cheptai will be competing at the Boson 10km and Peachtree 10km ahead of her next marathon. The Commonwealth Games 10,000m silver medalist will be returning into the former short races in the 10km with Boston set for June 23rd and Peachtree on July […]