Fairy-tale ending promised for the world’s best road athletes in Copenhagen
Copenhagen is best known as a Waterfront, bicycle-friendly European capital with a deep history in fairy-tales. And for a handful of the world’s leading distance athletes, this weekend could have a fairy-tale ending with individual and team medals at...
Nicholas and Agnes lead Kenya’s bid for medal glory at the World Road Running...
Nicholas Kipkorir and Daniel Ebenyo spearhead a powerful Kenyan squad preparing to joust for individual and team medals at the World Road Running Championships in Copenhagen over the weekend, while Agnes Ngetich and Lilian Kasait Rengeruk lead their women’s...
Kenya to host 2029 World Athletics Championships
Kenya’s bid prevailed over London and Rome, while Munich was awarded the 2031 edition hosting rights.
‘Put the athlete first’ says ASA’s Skosana ahead of the World Road Running Championships
Just days before the start of the World Road Running Championship in Copenhagen, Denmark, this weekend, Enoch Skosana, Head of Athletics South Africa’s Road Running Commission, made a call for South African athletics to return to its fundamentals and...
Xaba aims for Half Marathon glory in Copenhagen
Glenrose Xaba has been the outstanding woman distance-running athlete in South Africa in the past five years and will be looking to add the national half marathon record to her ever-growing list of accolades at the World Road Running...
Eliud Kipchoge champions refugee athletes chasing glory in youth Olympics
The International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Refuge Foundation brought the team together with support from the National Olympic Committees of Kenya and Uganda, World Athletics, Athletics Kenya, UNHCR, and the national judo and taekwondo federations.
Cape Town prepares to host continent’s ‘biggest and best’ marathon next May
The Sanlam Cape Town Marathon (SCTM) has travelled a long road over three decades and next year’s race 23 May 2027 is set to become a high point in African athletics history - the date for the continent’s first...
Trail racing hits global high spots in August around Mont Blanc
Top performances in astonishing times characterised the world’s biggest trail event at UItra-trail Mont Blanc at Chamonix in the French Alps on the weekend, closing out a big month for trail running, while closer to home elite trail runners...
Daisilah flies to thrilling victory at the Totalsports Women’s Race in Cape Town
Kenyan Airforce Senior Private, Daisilah Jerono, flew to a thrilling victory over her compatriot, Faith Cherono at the Totalsports Women’s Race in Cape Town in celebration of National Women’s Day.
In a last-gasp sprint to the finish line on the...
Philemon and Caroline lead the African Challenge at Sierre-Zinal
Several of Africa’s finest mountain and trail runners take on many of the world’s best at Sierre-Zinal in Switzerland on Saturday, with South Africa’s ‘Comrades Queen’ Gerda Steyn’s participation adding substantial interest to the contest.
Singularly, the Swiss towns of...