AllAfrica News: Athletics
Gold medals are rare commodities for Kenyan sprinters on the international track.
Kenya: Sprinters Target Rare Medals After Great Day Out
Litttle-known Wilson Kiprop, stunned favourites Mathew Kisorio and Moses Kipsiro of Uganda to clinch 10,000 gold as the Senior Africa Athletics Championship started on Wednesday at the Nyayo National Stadium here in Nairobi.
Kenya: Kiprop Wins Country's First Gold at Africa Meet
World 5,000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot wound up her training on Wednesday with an assurance that she will claim one of the medals missing from her glittering collection, as the 17th Safaricom Senior Africa Athletics Championship enters its second day at the Nyayo National Stadium.
Kenya: World Champ Cheruiyot on Golden Course
THERE was little to brag about as far as Rwanda's performance on the opening day of the 17th African championship in Nairobi is concerned.
Kenya: Athletes Toil in Nairobi
ATHLETICS Namibia (AN) will send two teams to represent the country at international meets in September and October.
Namibia: Athletes Off to International Meets
President Mwai Kibaki on Wednesday opened the 17th Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) Senior Championships in Nairobi, Kenya.
Nigeria: Kibaki Flags-Off African Athletics Championships
When it comes to field events, especially men's discus and women's pole vault, the hosts have little to discuss as far as previous performances are concerned.
Kenya: Hosts Upbeat Over Field Events
TANZANIA started on a wrong foot its campaign for laurels at the 17th Senior Africa Athletics Champions, after all her 100-metre sprinters failed to qualify for the semi-finals.
Tanzania: Dull Day One for Tanzanian Athletes
Nigeria's quest for a return to the summit of African Athletics via the 17th edition of the African Championships in Athletics begins this morning inside the Nyayo National stadium in Niarobi, Kenya.
Nigeria: Country Begins Battle for Top Spot in African Athletics
Justine Bayigga believes that the opportunity is now for her to win an individual medal at a continental meet when she competes in the 17th edition of the Africa Athletics Championships that starts today in Nairobi.
Africa: Bayigga Guns for Title At Africa Meet
Nigerian athletes competing in the opening day of the 17th African Championships in Athletics which start today inside the Nyayo National Stadium here in Nairobi,Kenya will have to use their old kits if they still keep them or appear in kits supplied by their various clubs following the non-arrival of the kits sent by Nigeria's official kitters, NIKE.
Nigeria: No Kits for Athlets as African Festival of Athletics Begins
AT least seven Tanzanian runners are expected to be in action today as the 17th edition of the Africa Senior Athletics Championship gets underway at the Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya.
Tanzania: Athletes Brace for Africa's Medal Rush
RWANDA will this afternoon send a team of 13 athletes to Nairobi to compete in the 17th African Championships set for July 28 to August 1 at Nyayo Stadium.
Africa: Athletes Depart for Nairobi Meet
As the curtains go up on Wednesday to usher in the 17th Senior Africa Athletics Championship in Nairobi, doubts still linger over the host of the next event in 2012.
Africa: Nairobi All Set, Doubts Over Benin
Africa's greatest track rivalry will be played out again on Wednesday when Kenya lead and Ethiopia lead the rest of the field in the men 10,000m final as the curtains go up on the 17th Senior Africa Athletics Championship at Nyayo National Stadium.
Africa: Team Seeks Revenge for 2008 Humiliation
Over the recent past, there's one area Kenyan athletics have had a rough time to maneuver: sprints.
Kenya: Hosts Out to Restore Lost Glory
The official slogan of the Local Organizing Committee of the 17th African Senior Athletics Championships beginning today aptly captures the mood pervading Nairobi, the host city of the biggest track & field fiesta in the continent: Africa is running to Nairobi.
Africa: Team Set for Athletics Championships
Africa is on show. Over 43 countries are assembling at Nyayo stadium this morning for the biggest continental athletics meeting - the Africa Senior Championships.
Uganda: Kipsiro Brightest Prospect for Medal
Angola breaks record of participants at the level of six editions of the Portuguese-speaking Countries Community (CPLP) games, instituted in 1990.
Angola: Athletes Breaks Record at CPLP Games
On the final day of the World Junior Athletics Championships that ended in Moncton Canada, USA were all packing their bags, having won the overall title.
Kenya: Joy as Youths Beat Track Bigwigs U.S.
The Angolan delegation made up of 114 people, 70 of whom are athletes, left this Tuesday for Maputo City, Mozambique, to participate in the 7th Games of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP).
Angola: Delegation to CPLP Games Leaves for Maputo
The fact that Ugandan World Junior Athletics Championships medallist Annet Negesa has no trainer nor a well documented training programme touched many coaches and managers attending the event. Many are betting on her becoming another Maria Mutola in the 800m event.
Uganda: Negesa's Lack of Trainer Touches Coaches
Jacob Araptany limped to a bronze medal in the men's 3000m steeplechase, also Uganda's second medal, at the World Junior athletics Championships that concluded Sunday.
Uganda: Arap Limps to Bronze in Canada
Nigerian athletes to the IAAF world junior championships in Moncton, Canada are expected back in the country Wednesday after winning three silver medals at the meet.
Nigeria: Athletes Finish World Junior Campaign On Silvery Note
Twenty Tanzanian athletes depart for Nairobi today to take part in the 17th edition of the African Senior Athletics Championship that gets underway tomorrow.
Africa: Athletes Ready for African Tourney
Nigeria's golden girl of the moment, Blessing Okagbare yesterday arrived Team Nigeria's Hillpark Hotel camp here in Nairobi, Kenya, two days to the start of the 17th African Senior Athletics Championships. The University of El Paso at Texas general Studies major who, ten days ago, won the 200m event of the Lignano Meet in Italy in 22.71 and also added the long jump silver to it with a 6.53m jump, is Nigeria's biggest hope for medal hauls at the championships.
Nigeria: Okagbare Arrives Kenya
At least 10 athletes of the national males and female teams were summoned in order to represent the country in the games of the 7th edition of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP), set for 27 July to 7 August in Maputo, Mozambique, ANGOP learnt from an official source.
Angola: At Least 10 Athletes Summoned for CPLP Games
THE national athletics team is expected to leave for Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday for the Senior African championships 2010 rescheduled from Wednesday to August 1, this year.
Tanzania: Athletes Off to Regional Meet
Kenya beat track and field bigwigs USA and Germany to clinch an unprecedented third overall title, collecting 15 medals as the curtains came down on the week-long World Junior Athletics Championship in Moncton, Canada, on Sunday.
Kenya: Juniors Bring Home Third Victory
It was three years ago, on April 27, 2007, that Athletics Kenya secretary David Okeyo announced from Dakar, Senegal, during a break at the Africa Athletics Confederation (AAC) Congress that Kenya would host the 2010 Africa Senior Athletics Championships.
Kenya: On Your Marks, Set - Country Ready on Eve of Games