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Mphahlele to set the UWC track alight in big meet tonight

The wind has dropped, anticipation is building and the athletes are ready to deliver their races of the season at the second in the series of the Cape Milers Club and Endurocad Continental Tour Challenger 2024 meetings at the...

Africa’s promising sports future evident at the 13th Africa Games in Accra

The 13th Africa Games in Ghana revealed Africa's bright sports future, featuring diverse disciplines and standout performances by rising stars. Experts view the event's gaps as opportunities for enhancing future editions. Bonface Orucho, bird story agency After three weeks of intense...

IAAF announce new date for World Championships

The organizers of the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the United States have announced that the event will be moved forward, three weeks earlier than planned.This is to avoid a clash with the 2022 Common Wealth Games that will...

Patrick Kipngeno aiming to make it two out of two in China

The Golden Trail World Series stays in Asia following the season’s opening in Japan last weekend, moving to highlands of the western sector of Sichuan for Saturday's race (27 April). Altitude and plenty of it is the name of the...

Elhousine and Philemon set to take on the world in Japan at Golden Trail...

The Golden Trail World Series (GTWS), now in its sixth edition, commences its 2024 season in Kobe, Japan, tomorrow (Saturday 20 April). The series, which pits elite-level trail runners from around the world on rugged mountain courses that range from...

Steyn and Khonkhobe and significantly increased numbers the plus points from this year’s Two...

This year’s Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon, which took place in Cape Town recently, produced intense road-running competition and delivered one of the best-ever races since the Two Oceans’ inception in 1970. It will be remembered for a once-in-a-generation athlete with...

Kipchoge, Bekele may take centre stage at London Marathon

The postponed 2020 London Marathon could be staged with elite athletes only according to race director Hugh Brasher.Brasher said that was one of 10 options that are "changing all the time", which could also see a further delay.  The...
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