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Agnes Aneno's hopes of winning a medal at the ongoing World Youth Championships were dashed yesterday. The 17-year-old runner had a nightmare in the 400m heats when she was disqualified for a false start. For a runner that boasts of a 56.1 Personal Best (PB) time, Aneno must have been disappointed to see the results after the race. It was American Eutsey Ebony, who cruised to victory in 54.97 ...
BUKWO and Kapchorwa districts dominated day one as the national secondary schools athletics championships started in Gulu yesterday.
BRIAN Dzingai's preparations for next month's World Championships in Athletics received a minor setback when he finished outside the top three in a 200m "B" race at the IAAF Super Grand Prix meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Tuesday night.
The Italian Embassy in Nigeria on Wednesday made a u-turn on its earlier decision not to grant 17 Nigerian athletes visa for the sixth IAAF World Youth Athletics championship that starts on Wednesday in Bressanon, Italy.
At last, Nigeria 's junior athletes who have been at the mercy of the Italian Embassy in the country finally left the shores of Nigeria last night for Rome to be part of the World Youth Championship, which kicked off Tuesday. They left this late because the Italian Eembassy in Nigeria had originally refused them entry visas. The Embassy finally acceded to their visa requests only after higher ...
Agnes Aneno has felt the impact of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) more than any other local athlete. Her mother Agnes Lanyelo and siblings are confined in Pabor Internally Displaced People's (IDP) camp, thanks to Joseph Kony's men, who have wrecked northern Uganda with maximum brutality for the past 20 years.
FORTY SIX countries have confirmed their participation in the Confederation of African Athletics Super Grand Prix scheduled for July 18 in Abuja.
All Africa Games 1,500 metres champion Asbel Kiprop could be tempted to take a day off from training for the World Championship scheduled for next month in Berlin to savour his belated moment of glory.
RWANDA will not field any athlete at the 6th IAAF World Youth Championship, which starts today July 8-12 in the Italian town of Bressanone.
GULU will rely on home support in a bid to defend the national post primary schools athletics championships title.
DAVIS Kamoga will join fellow Olympic medallists at a congress in Athens next week to discuss a number of issues including the welfare of retired sportsmen.
Kenya launches its medal hunt on the first day of the 6th IAAF World Youth Championships when two upcoming stars line up in the 3,000 metres final here on Wednesday.
ONE of Zimbabwe's top sprinters Young Talkmore Nyongani found the going tough at the Bislett Golden League track and field meet in Oslo, Norway, last Friday night.
Marrima T. Jallow of Gambia Senior Secondary School and resident in Essau has emerged the female champion in the Ndungu Kebbeh Road Race on Saturday after finishing 4km race in 13th minutes ahead of Awa Jobe of Ndunga Kebbeh Basic cycle School and Fatou Ceesay.
Abraham Chepkirwok is back on the track. The Ugandan middle distance runner recorded a third-place finish at the Meeting de Atletismo in Madrid over the weekend.
FORMER world steeplechase champion Dorcus Inzikuru continued her steady return to the track by winning a 1500m race in Italy on Sunday.
Chief Solomon Ogba gathered athletes, coaches and offciating officials at the Nkoyi Ibori Classics on Saturday and bared his mind:
Two top athletics agents, Italian Gianni Demadona and Volker Wagner (German), have been struck off the list of managers to represent Kenyan athletes at international competitions.
Moses Masai, the world 10,000m bronze medallist, has not given his hope of making it to Berlin for the World Championship despite finishing outside the two automatic slots reserved for the Kenyan team when he came fourth at Nyayo National Stadium.
Tanzania should hire qualified coaches to train young talents and introduce Physical Education in schools if the country wants to have an impact in the world of sports.
A TOTAL of 485 athletes participated in the ninth annual Old Mutual Victory Race Series that kicked off at Oshakati in the Oshana Region on Saturday.
RUNNERS from the Karamoja region will provide the biggest attraction, as Amuria hosts the first Eastern Regional Championship today
Susan Akene will tomorrow in Oghara, Delta State renew her rivalry with Agnes Osazuwa at the grand finale of the Super Classic reinvented by the new board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, (AFN).
COMMONWEALTH 3000m steeplechase champion Dorcus Inzikuru has switched her camp to Europe as she steps up her bid to qualify for the World Championships in August.
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