Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge will be facing off with world footballer of the year Lionel Messi at the 2019 Laureus Sportsman of the year award. The world marathon record holder was nominated in a six-man shortlist for the award alongside Barcelona great and reigning Balon d’Or winner Messi. Among those nominated are American Tiger […]
Kenya national men’s basketball team The Morans won their second match in the ongoing Afro-Africa pre-Olympic qualifiers against Tanzania at Nyayo National stadium. The Cliff Owuor led side kept their hunt for a slot at next year’s FIBA Afro-basket Championship alive after winning their second consecutive pre-qualification match, beating Tanzania 95-59. Having beaten Eritrea 112-64 […]
Samuel Mushai and Vincent Mutai will be chasing the people living with disabilities at the Soya awards next weekend. More to follow
Morans, the national men’s basketball team started on a higher note winning the first match in the ongoing Afro-basketball Pre-Olympic games qualifiers at Nyayo stadium. Today, Kenya beat Eritrea 112-64 in the opening match as they are set to make two out of two wins against the Tanzanians today. The Cliff Owuor led side won […]
President Uhuru Kenyatta has today reshuffled the cabinet with Sports Principal Secretary Kirimi Kaberia being replaced by Joe Okudo. While addressing the state in Mombasa, Kenyatta moved Kaberia to the Ministry of Mining under a similar position as Okudo takes charge at the sports ministry from the Tourism ministry where he held a similar position. […]
Kenya will face Eritrea, Tanzania, Somalia, South Sudan at the Afro-basket Zonal pre-qualifiers tournament, the Olympic games pre-qualifiers at the Nyayo National Stadium tomorrow afternoon. Seven zones will play the pre-qualifiers in five groups across the continent this month with five winners progressing to the next stage, where they will join 15 teams that took part […]
Imperious Patrick Nderitu Gitonga edged out Michael Gongolo on point difference to win the Kenya National Scrabble opening tournament that came to an end on Sunday at Standard Chartered headquarters in Westlands, Nairobi. After finishing in the second position in opening day, Ndeiru started the second day on high, winning 13 out of 18 with […]
Kenya will face Africa champions Egypt at the men’s handball Olympic Games qualifiers set for next week in Tunis, Tunisia. The team under the tutelage of Peter Mwathi, currently training at Kasarani leads pool A alongside champions Egypt, Congo DRC and Guinea that starts on January 15th to 25th. Kenya will begin their qualifier against […]
Phineas Kimathi was named the KMSF Motor Sports Personality of the Year, 2019 as the annual awards ceremony at Nairobi’s Carnivore celebrated a strong year of sporting achievement. Kimathi, who is also the CEO of the WRC Safari Rally Project, spearhead the campaign which won Kenya the World Rally Championship. Kenya returned to the WRC […]
Francis Wachira started the year on high, taking the lead at the first tournament of Kenya Scrabble championships currently happening at Nairobi at Standard chartered headquarters in Westlands. Playing at home, Wachira took day one lead ahead of Sunday’s final in the two-day extravaganza when he won 7.5 matches out of the possible 10 played […]