Murielle Ahoure blasted out of her blocks to lead Ivory Coast to a 1-2 after scorching to a historic gun-to-tape victory in the women's 60m at the world indoors on Friday.
Ahoure, with two previous world indoor silvers to her...
South Africa's speed sensation Caster Semenya, will again attempt the 800 metres and 1500m double at next year’s Commonwealth Games before setting her sights on a world record.
The 26-year-old won gold in the shorter distance and a surprise bronze...
An athletics disciplinary tribunal upheld on Thursday a ban on former Namibian sprinter and IAAF Council member Frankie Fredericks pending an investigation into potential ethics violations.
Fredericks, a multiple Olympic sprint silver medalist and a rising star among international sports...
The Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF) has named the final squad that will represent the country at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London.
Namayo Mawerere, the UAF publicity secretary told Xinhua that they have selected the best 20 athletes that...
Eliud Kipchoge ran the quickest recorded marathon on Saturday, crossing the line at the Monza Formula One track in two hours and 25 seconds but missing out on an ambitious attempt to break the two-hour barrier.
The 32-year-old's time smashed...
Geoffrey Kirui and Edna Kiplagat produced a Kenyan sweep at the Boston Marathon, winning the men's and women's races on Monday by conquering the race's hilly final miles to establish their dominance.
Kirui finished in two hours nine minutes and...
Senegalese authorities have blankly refused to allow French judges to question Papa Massata Diack as part of a corruption probe into his father, disgraced former IAAF chief Lamine Diack, judicial sources said on Tuesday. Both Papa Massata Diack and...
Ethiopian athlete, Genzebe Dibaba, sets a new record for the women’s indoor 2,000m race Genzebe,25, broke the 2000m indoor world record with a time of 5:23.75 surpassing the previous record with about seven seconds set by Gabriela Szabo (Romanian...
South African Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius was sent to prison for six years on Wednesday for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, the latest twist in a trial that has gripped the world. The state and...
A South African court will convene in June to determine disgraced Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius's sentence for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a judge said in Pretoria on Monday. Pistorius's lawyers last month failed in their final legal bid...
