Russian Athletics News. Olga Komyagina won the women's 3000m clocking 8:51.72 at the 24th Vardinoyiannia athletics meeting held in Rethymno (Greece). Tatyana Kotova was second in the women's long jump with 6,69m

PAULA Radcliffe is progressing well in what she admits is "a race against time" to be fit for the Olympic marathon after returning to her French base following a routi

As a networking service to promote the common interests of our member running clubs, events, and runners in the US, the RRCA has teamed up with Active.com to host the RRCA Community. At the RRCA Community you will have the

The Chinese Embassy in Botswana has announced a reward package for Botswana athletes taking part at the Olympic Games in Beijing, China next month.

The Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the National Sports Festival tagged Kaduna'08 has reassured Nigerians that all the facilities meant for the festival will be ready well ahead of the November date for the games.

DOREEN Chesang is no where near the favourites' tag in today's women 3000m finals at the World Junior Championships, but her coach Jurrie Van der Velden has not ruled out a surprise performance from the 19-year old.

ONE of Zimbabwe's top sprinters, Brian Dzingai, ran his fastest ever time in the men's 200-metre event when he stormed to victory at the Thessaloniki Athletics Meeting in Greece last Wednesday.

Russian Athletics News. Konstantin Shabanov won the men's 110mH (99cm) at the 12th IAAF World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz clocking a World Junior leading of 13.27sec

Russian Athletics News. Andrey Tereshin placed second in the men's high jump with 2.30m at the Tsiklitiria 2008, an athletics meeting held in Athens yesterday. Igor Pavlov placed second in the men's pole vault clearing 5.75m

TYRONE EDGAR is hoping his world-class form this summer can secure him Britain's third 100metres place at next month's Olympics as he nervously awaits the outcome of D

DECATHLETE Dean Macey could call time on his career before the Olympic Games next month after conceding defeat in his bid to make the British team.

LEE McCONNELL was the only Scottish gold medallist in the Aviva UK National Championships and Team GB Olympic Trials at Alexander Stadium, Birmingham, and the Glaswegian, a co

Geoffrey Kibet ran the fastest 800 metres race of his life giving favourite Sudanese prodigy, Abubaker Kaki Khamis, who holds the world's leading time, a scary moment in the two lap event in which the latter prevailed on Friday night.

The national athletics team preparing for the Beijing Olympics was taken through the paces in the Ngong area on Saturday.

Family expectations are high for Stacy Ndiwa as she seeks to emulate her elder brother, Mangata Ndiwa, who clinched gold for Kenya in Fukuoka at the 2006 World Cross Country Championships.

Kenya is expected to claw back into contention for the first position in the overall rankings with Sunday's finals in the men's 3,000m steeplechase, 5,000m and the women's 1,500m races as the curtains come down on the week-long World Junior

Jonathan Muia overcame a slow start to bag his biggest prize Sunday, a gold medal in the men's 3,000 steeplechase at the World Junior Athletics Championships here.

Lanky 17-year-old Mercy Cherono knew her parents back home in Kericho were following every moment of her performance here in Bydgoszcz. It inspired her to her fastest time this season in winning the women's 3,000m gold medal at the World

I may be going against the sensibilities of the nation here, but my money on the Beijing Olympics 1,500m and 5,000m gold is on a Kenyan err, American called Bernard Lagat.

Simba Sports Club today meet Tusker FC of Kenya in the opening match of the East and Central Africa Club championship (Kagame Cup). The match at the New Main National Stadium in Dar es Salaam is expected to be tough