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How juniors Keter, Were, Chepkoech, Chepkirui, Kibet shone at Kip Keino Classic

World under 20 1,500m champion Vincent Kibet Keter and World under 20 800m bronze medalist Noah Kipruto Kibet led other junior runners to dominate the Kip Keino Classic, the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold Meeting at the Kasarani stadium on Saturday. As it was written, the top juniors, who won the overall title at the […]

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Rising Starlets opponents Uganda jet in for world cup qualifiers

Rising Starlets, the Kenya under 20 soccer women team opponents Uganda arrived in the country this morning ahead of the Saturday’s first leg at the Nyayo stadium. Uganda and Kenya will be battling in pool A alongside Burundi, Malawi, Namibia, Angola, Botswana and Zambia at the World Cup qualifiers. The first leg is scheduled for […]

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Vihiga, Ulinzi Starlets to battle for FKF women Cup title

Former Kenya Women Premier League champions Vihiga Queens will be facing off with Ulinzi Starlets at the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) women Cup finals set for next month. Fresh from lifting the CECAFA CAF champions’ league qualifying title, Vihiga defeated Kayole Starlets 3-0 at Ruaraka Grounds in one of the semifinals while Starlets humiliated Kismu […]

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KPL’s MVP Kapaito joins Abra Minch City

Kenya Premier League (KPL) Most Valuable Player Erick Kapaito has joined Ethiopianleague side Arba Minch City. The club, which was promoted to the top flight league has signed the former Kariobangi Sharks midfielder Kapaito, for two year years. The Golden Boot winner on 24 goals for Sharks will be joining former Wazito captain Bernard […]

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Senegal, Mali to face off at Deaflympic football qualifying final

Senegal will be taking on Mali at the finals of the ongoing Africa Deaflympics Ball Games Qualifiers at the Moi International Sports Centre Kasarani on Saturday. Ten men Mali defeated Egypt 4-3 on post-match-penalties to book a final spot against Senegal. Following their 2-2 draw in regulation time, Malian goalkeeper saved Camara Diamane a penalty […]

Mozambique end Lionesses’ journey FIBA AfroBasket

Mozambique ended the journey of Kenya Lionesses, the national women basketball team at theongoing FIBA AfroBasket 2021 Women Championship pre-quarters in Yaounde, Cameroon. https://dailysport.co.ke/2021/09/21/lionesses-face-mozambique-in-quarterfinal-play-off-at-afrobasket-qualifiers/ Kenya lost 72-50 at the quarter finals qualifiers to cut short the George Mayienga’s coached side after finishing second in pool A encounter. The win has propelled Mozambigque and will […]

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I will break my 9.77 record- Omanyala

Africa 100m record holder Ferdinand Omanyala Omurwa has hinted that he will be breaking his Africa record set last year at the Kip Keino Classic last Saturday. Speaking on Citizen TV by Jeff Koinange, Omanyala said that the record will not take him a year to break his record that has stayed for only five […]

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Tusker beat Gor to lift Super Cup

Tusker FC beat Gor Mahia to win the Football Kenya Federation League super Cup title played today The Kenya Premier League champions won 8-7 in post-match penalties following one all draw in normal and extra time Samuel Onyango converted the first penalty to give former premier league champions the lead in the 54th minute […]

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Junior Starlets face Uganda in 2022 Women’s World Cup Qualifiers

Kenya’s Junior Starlets, the national under 17 soccer team will be chasing the the slot to represent Kenya at the 2022 Women’s World Cup Qualifiers. The under 17 side has been drawn against Rwanda, South Sudan, Eritrea, DRC Congo and Equatorial Guinea in pool A. The competition has 29 teams in contention, but only 10 […]

Mary Keitany, Mary Jepkosgey Keitany, Vivian Cheruiyot, Priscah Jeptoo, Magdalene Masai, Caroline Chepkoech, Great North Run half marathon, Great North Run, Charles Koech, Kenya’s Mary Keitany took 41 seconds off the women’s-only world record* at the Virgin Money London Marathon, running 2:17:01 at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race on Sunday (23). Keitany said in the build-up to this year’s race she was in shape to break Paula Radcliffe’s mark of 2:17:42 and while she demurred when asked about the possibility of bettering Radcliffe’s outright mark of 2:15:25, Keitany was running minutes inside Radcliffe’s schedule in the first half. Paced by her training partner Caroline Kipkirui, Keitany cut loose from arguably the most accomplished field in race history with an astonishingly fast third mile 4:37. Through 5km in 15:31 and 10km in 31:17, Keitany was running at close to 2:10 pace while the second group – which was already beginning to splinter – hit 10km in 31:31, exactly half a minute faster than Radcliffe in 2003. Keitany, who covered the fourth and fifth miles in 4:56 and 4:59 respectively, was still within sight of the second group at 10km but the 34-year-old was away and clear with a succession of mile splits faster than 5:10 through the 10-mile mark in 50:41. Her half marathon split of 1:06:54 was the fastest in marathon history (Radcliffe ran 1:08:02 in 2003) and her advantage had extended to 59 seconds over the chasers, including track greats Tirunesh Dibaba, Vivian Cheruiyot, former winner Aselefech Mergia and world silver medallist Helah Kiprop. “I know Mary is a fast runner and I was following my own pace and until halfway, I was on track but I was never expecting she would go that fast and maintain it,” said an incredulous Dibaba after the race. This early pace had already torn the second group asunder. Former winner Tigist Tufa and world champion Mare Dibaba had lost more than three minutes on the second group with the latter dropping out after the 30km mark. Keitany was also beginning to slow with a 14th mile of 5:21 before four successive miles in the 5:14-5:18 range. Through 30km in a pending world record of 1:36:05, Keitany was still 31 seconds faster than Radcliffe in 2003 but her preceding 5km split of 16:22 was her slowest thus far. Keitany’s mile splits had started to drift into the 5:20 range and while Dibaba seemed to be running with more fluidity, her lead stayed at more than one minute through 35km in 1:52:39. The overall world record was beyond reach but Keitany was still on course to smash Radcliffe’s women’s-only world record. Dibaba was running at a fantastic pace in just her second marathon, but after such a fast start she had to stop due to stomach cramps in the 23rd mile. She quickly gathered herself, but in spite of her fantastic credentials over the shorter distances there was no way she was going to catch Keitany. After covering the preceding two miles in 5:27 and 5:25 respectively, Keitany spurted again with a 26th mile in 4:56 to ensure she would take a sizeable chunk off Radcliffe’s 12-year-old women’s-only world record with 2:17:01, the second-fastest time in the history of women’s marathon running. “I want to thank the pacemaker who was taking me all the way to 14 miles,” said Keitany. “From there, I started to go alone and see how my body was.” Dibaba rallied in the closing stages to finish second in 2:17:56, taking more than a minute from Tiki Gelana’s Ethiopian record and becoming the third-fastest woman in history. “I haven’t decided yet but my gut feeling is I’ll be running the 10,000m on the track,” said Dibaba on her plans for the IAAF World Championships London 2017 this summer. Mergia was beset by leg cramps in the closing stages but the 2010 champion accrued another podium finish in third in 2:23:08 while Cheruiyot, who equalled her half-marathon lifetime best of 1:07:54 en route, faded to fourth on her debut in 2:23:50.

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Mary Keitany retires

World marathon record holder Mary Keitany has announced her retirement from athletes after long period In a press release by her management, the Gianni Demadona, reported that the seven-time World Marathon Majors winner announced her retirement today after a stellar career which saw her win the London Marathon on three occasions and the New York […]