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Kenya seek to leave a lasting mark when it competes at the inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore next year. The event, which was established by International Olympics Committee, aims at promoting a culture of Olympics among young athletes.
People registered with pomp and many talked about the MTN Kampala marathon with passion days before it got underway. By the close of registration, organisers said over 19,000 people had returned forms. Surprisingly, only 10,960 runners managed to complete their respective races in the event held last Sunday at Kololo Airstrip.
THE president of Rwanda Athletics Federation (RAF) Jean Paul Munyandamutsa has urged athletes to seek early qualification for next year's Africa Athletics championship in Kenya.
Citizen sport is finally picking up in Uganda, thanks to events like the MTN Marathon whose 2009 edition was held a week ago.
MOSES Kipsiro vowed to retain the Athlete of the Year award next year, after he lifted it for the third year running on Saturday evening. He was crowned at Grand Imperial Hotel at a gala sponsored by telecommunications company MTN.
Mercy Cherono, the world junior 3,000m champion, stole the limelight at the Telkom ground in Nairobi on Saturday when she won the third leg of the national cross country circuit, her second victory in as many races sponsored by Kenya Commercial Bank. It was also a successful bid for Patrick Mwaka, Mary Wangare and Shadrack Koskei who all won in their specialities.
One of Liberia's promising female athletic stars, Abertha Williams has signed a 3-month pact with the River Cess Sport Association to run for their county track and field team in the 2009/2010 national county meet.
Dwain chambers the number one sprinter in Europe is in the Gambia for a week's tour from 13th-20th November 2009.
After several false starts, the Local Organising Committee of the 2010 Senior Africa Athletics Championship finally got off the blocks in a colourful re-launch gala that was attended by top corporate figures, government leaders and sportsmen.
MOSES Kipsiro and Adero Nyakisi will be leading nominees for the UAF Athlete-of-the-year award at the federation's annual gala on Saturday.
Former World and Olympic champion in the women's 5000m and IAAF Athlete of the year in 2007,Ethiopia's Meseret Defar and president of World Mountain Running Association (WMRA), Bruno Gozzelino arrived Nigeria Tuesday evening for this weekend's fifth Obudu international mountain race and the first African mountain running championships.
NEW Athletics Star (NAS) coach has urged the athletics federation (RAF) to allow clubs compete independently in next month's Rendezvous National.
Following Sunday's MTN Kampala marathon, Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF) officials should be worried by Tanzania's performance.
Nothing seems to excite and bond Ugandans like sports. That was very much evident during the sixth edition of the MTN Kampala Marathon on Sunday. At the venue -Kololo Airstrip, I met a lanky white young man called Alexander, born and raised in Uganda. Like me, it was his first shot at the marathon and we both had registered for the 10km race. As the race picked rhythm, I noticed Indians, Koreans ...
Save for Namboole there can hardly be a more suitable venue for the MTN Kampala marathon than Kololo Airstrip. So spacious is the latter, you could be tempted to think that half of the registered 19,058 participants turned up for the annual event on Sunday. Parking space was adequate, some of the 200 registered corporate teams found where to fit their hospitality tents and spectators, too, could ...
WORLD Mountain running champion Geoffrey Kusuro will lead Uganda's assault on the lucrative Obudu Mountain running championship in Nigeria where the winner will walk off with $50,000 (sh93m).
Finally it's D-day as the MTN Marathon takes center stage this morning starting at the Kololo Airstrip. After two months of high-altitude residential training in Bukwo, Joseph Nsubuga should have few or no excuses going into today's race.
UGANDAN athletes are ready to retain the MTN Kampala Marathon title, but the biggest competition will be in the 10km races, where former World champion medallists Moses Kipsiro and Dorcus Inzikuru are expected to fight for titles. But it will not be that easy in the star studded line ups.
David Mutai outsprinted his counterpart Naibei Rutto in the final 100 metres as Kenya regained the MTN Kampala International Marathon title yesterday.
THERE is no doubt that the MTN Kampala Marathon is destined to be one of Africa's leading sports events and is bigger and more exciting than before. As athletics chief Dan Tamwesigire said, the event is also clear testimony of how corporate responsibility is essential for the development and growth of communities.
FOR an international-ranked event, the just-concluded Kampala MTN Marathon was lacking in several aspects. As someone put it, there was little to show that this was the sixth edition of the annual competition.
By 6.00 am, Kololo was a sea of yellow as thousands eager to race jostled for prime positions.
Former Ex-calibur and Bodybuilding champion in America Robert Ssebugwawo will launch his fitness campaign for sportsmen on Thursday at Sheraton Hotel. "Our athletes physiques leave a lot to be desired.
As expected, world sprints sensation, Jamaica's Usain Bolt, was on Sunday night named the IAAF 2009 athlete of the year with American Sanya Richards voted the best female athlete.
THE MTN Marathon organising committee maintains that Sunday's athletics competition will be scandal-free.
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