http://www.athleticsafrica.com Bringing you in-depth coverage and latest African athletics news, information and analysis as it happens. en-gb Copyright © 2007 by YSMedia Company contactus@athleticsafrica.com contactus@athleticsafrica.com mirabyte Feed Writer 1.0 http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Images/images_edited/aa_headernew_500cl.jpg http://www.athleticsafrica.com Sports Track and Field Athletics Ethiopia's Olympic champion Meseret Defar added another record to her kitty with a World best of 9:10.50 for Two Miles at the 2008 Reebok Boston Indoor Games at the Boston's Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/defarboston_ns_270108.html Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:22:52 -0000 Kenyan runners Edwin Soi and Sylvia Kibet are the winners of the Corsa Internationale San Silvestro, the 33rd edition of BOCLASSIC New Year’s Eve Run in Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/soibozzano_ns_020108.html Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:47:46 -0000 Ethiopia's reigning Olympic 5000m champion and World record holder, Meseret Defar has been awarded the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Female Athlete of the Year title for 2007. Defar underlined her talent this season by winning all her races, including two World records and a World best time in Boston earlier in the year. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/defarworldaward_ns_261107.html Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:13:48 -0000 Kenya's Rita Jeptoo Sitienei and Ethiopia's Habtamu Awash won the women's and men's title at the 2007 Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race in Cross River state, Nigeria. Awash won the men's race in a time of 42:50, taking home a 50,000 USD prize money, with Ugandan Geoffrey Kusuro, a World Junior Championships participant, finishing second in 43:02 and Kenyan John Sompol third in 43:06. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/westafrica.html#obudu Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:16:08 -0000 African 100m champion Olusoji Fasuba of Nigeria and Ethiopia’s World and Olympic 5000m champion Meseret Defar have been awarded the 9th Abdou Diouf Foundation award for Sport Virtues at the Daniel Sorano National Theatre in Dakar, Senegal. Ethiopian Meseret Defar won the Excellence Award and the Nigerian Olusoji Adetokundo Fasuba the Prix d'Honneur at the foundation gala ceremony witnessed by highly influential members of the continent's sporting fraternity. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/fasubadefar_ns_221107.html Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:50:25 -0000 The 2002 World Half Marathon Champion and women's 10,000m African record holder, Ethiopia's Berhane Adere and former Lagos Half Marathon winner, Fabiano Joseph from Tanzania are among the new set of top stars that have indicated their interest to run at the maiden AFN/GLO Lagos International Half Marathon. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/westafrica.html#glorun Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:10:43 -0000 The Standard Chartered Nairobi International Marathon 2007 raised Sh9.1m for charity through registration fees from more than 12,000 participants. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/eastafrica.html#stanmara Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:25:17 -0000 The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), at the end of its 3rd World Conference on Doping in Sport, has concluded with national governments and organisations to intensify the global fight against doping in sport and to toughen the sanctions against first time offenders. Delegates at the Madrid World Conference, from November 15 - 17, 2007, adopted a resolution in which they renewed their joint commitment to a rigorous fight against doping in sport and approved the strengthening of the World Anti-Doping Code. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/wadadoping3_ns_171107.html Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:16:12 -0000 Nigerian journalists covering the Globacom Lagos International Half Marathon will have a personal feel of the race route when they take part in a media mock marathon on December 1. The annual Media Mock Marathon which traditionally precedes the main event is a two-kilometre race scheduled to take off by 7 am from Glo World on 21 Adeola Odeku street, running through Elsie Femi Pearse street into Kofo Abayomi street and out again to Adeola Odeku through Idowu Martins street, all on Victoria Island, Lagos. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/globacom2_ns_181107.html Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:13:01 -0000 Kenya’s Joseph Ebuya and Ethiopia’s Meselech Melkamu captured fine wins in the 24th edition of the ‘Cross Internacional Valle de Llodio’, the first Spanish leg of the current EAA Cross Country permit season in 27:05. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/eastafrica.html#llodio Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:18:43 -0000 Ethiopian pair of Tamrat Elanso and Adaneche Beyene Jemilu proved to be easy winners of the BLOM Beirut International Marathon on Sunday. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/eastafrica.html#ethiopianstars Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:17:49 -0000 Ethiopian double world record holder for 5,000m and 10,000m, Kenenisa Bekele scores a major triumph over adversity, two years after losing his fiancee, after he got married yesterday to Ethiopian top actress Dannawit Gebregziabher in Addis Ababa. The 25-year-old Olympic champion took the 22-year-old "The 11th Hour"- a rare big budget Ethiopian film that premiered in May 2006 - actress to the altar at a plush ceremony at the five star Addis Sheraton Hotel in the presence of five hundred friends and wellwishers including the great Haile Gebrselassie and other fellow athletes. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/bekelewed_ns_191107.html Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:05:43 -0000 Kenyan Wilson Chebet has won the 29th edition of the 20,308 kilometres La Classique Internationale Marseille-Cassis race in France. Chebet easily overhauled all-comers in 50 minutes and 24 seconds ahead of his compatriot Jacob Yator, second in 1:00.10. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/marseillerace2_ns_291007.html Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:14:37 -0000 Kenya's Janeth Jepkosgei breezed to yet another effortless victory in the women's 800 metres at the Tusker International Night of Champions meeting at the Nyayo National Stadium yesterday, reports Peter Njenga (Kenya Times) for the IAAF. "The World champion, who had earlier received a standing ovation from the crowd, many of them seeing her in person for the first time since the Osaka World Championships - atop a special Range Rover specifically hired for her, did not disappoint in action." http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/eastafrica.html#jepko Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:10:40 -0000 Ethiopian distance running legend Haile Gebrselassie has shattered the marathon world record after winning the Realr 34th Berlin Marathon in 2 hours, 4 minutes, and 26 seconds. The four-times world champion in the 10,000 metres, two-time Olympic 10,000 metres champion, shaves off 29 seconds from the four-year-old mark of 2:04:55 held by his archrival and friend Kenya's Paul Tergat, also set in the German capital's course in 2003. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/gebreselassiemark_ns_300907.html Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:06:12 -0000 Former African 400m champion and Roma '87 world silver medallist, Innocent Egbunike, has lamented the deplorable condition he found the Nigerian team at the just concluded 11th IAAF world championships in athletics in Osaka, Japan. Egbunike, who was in Osaka with the USA team as coach to Sydney 2000 Olympic 400m champion Angelo Taylor, recounted his experience in a write-up for the Nigerian Thisday newspaper. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/nigeriashame_ns_270907.html Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:09:45 -0000 Top African marathon runners will lead the charge on Sunday 28 October at the 29th edition of the 20,308 kilometres La Classique Internationale Marseille-Cassis race in France. Gathering more than 12,000 top elite athletes and anonymous runners each year since 1979, the Marseille-Cassis run has been attracting more and more international athletes along the years, due to its sumptuous itinerary and atmosphere. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/marseillerace_ns_110907.html Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:07:59 -0000 Many African athletes are in Europe right now putting finishing touches to their preparations for the 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan starting in less than two weeks. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/road_osaka_ns_140807.html Yomi Omogbeja Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:08:46 -0000 AthleticsAfrica.Com Athletics South Africa (ASA) releases the team list of 28 top medal hopes and 11 Officials for the 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics holding in Osaka, Japan at the end of the month. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/sateam_osaka_ns_100807.html Yomi Omogbeja Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:00:06 -0000 YSMedia Haile Gebrselassie, the double Olympic gold medalist and multiple World record-holder posts 59:24 to win the second annual NYC Half-Marathon. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/eastafrica.html#gebrnyc Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:04:14 -0000 AthleticsAfrica.Com Ethiopian double world record holder for 5,000m and 10,000m, Kenenisa Bekele smashes the UK's All Comers Record with a new personal best of 7.26.69 in the men's 3000m at the Norwich Union British Grand Prix in Sheffield. http://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/bekelesheffield_ns_150707.html Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:10:47 -0000