From left: Ethiopian athletics legends Million Wolde, Gebregziabher Gebremariam, Haile Gebrselassie and Ethiopia’s State Minister of Culture and Tourism Habtamu Sissy Awas with copies of …
Continue ReadingNominees announced for Male World Athlete of the Year 2020
This week marks the opening of the voting process for the 2020 World Athletes of the Year ahead of the World Athletics Awards 2020 to be held …
Continue ReadingThings You Need to Know About the 2020 World Half Marathon Championships
By Evelyn Watta via Olympic Channel The World Half Marathon Championships, is the only World Athletics champs that will still go ahead In 2020, with all …
Continue ReadingEthiopia Replace Lesotho to Host the 2022 African Youth Games
Maseru, Lesotho’s capital, had been awarded the 2022 event in 2018 at the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) Extraordinary General Assembly. The …
Continue ReadingLetesenbet Gidey & Joshua Cheptegei Smashed World Records*
Letesenbet Gidey & Joshua Cheptegei smashed world records* over 10,000m and 5000m respectively at the aptly named NN Valencia World Record Day on Wednesday (7). …
Continue ReadingLidya Tafesse – From Basketball to Top Level Refereeing
Starting off as a professional basketball player, not many thought Lidya Tafesse Abebe would trade the rims and bounces for the whistle, and not in …
Continue ReadingLamine Diack Sentenced to Prison for Corruption
LAUSANNE, September 16, 2020 – Lamine Diack, the former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) – now World Athletics – has been …
Continue ReadingRemembering Abebe Bikila’s, Heroic Barefoot Marathon Olympic Victory
He would go on to be considered as one of the greatest marathon runners of all time, but it was only through a stroke of …
Continue ReadingNairobi Kip Keino Classic, Africa’s First Major Athletics Event Since The Pandemic
Nairobi is preparing to host the first World Athletics Continental Tour Meeting on African soil. The anticipation over the tour is high, partly because it …
Continue ReadingHassan and Farah break One-Hour World Records in Brussels
Mo Farah and Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands set respective men’s and women’s world one-hour records at the Wanda Diamond League exhibition meeting at the …
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