Moscow, Dec 5 (IANS) The All-Russia Athletics Federation (ARAF) will propose its athletes be allowed to participate in the European Athletics Championship next March in Belgrade under a neutral flag and based on individual applications,…
Monaco, Dec 4 (IANS) A Special Congress of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has overwhelmingly adopted a reform package drawn up by President Sebastian Coe. Some 197 of 213 member-federations were present for…
Kolkata, Dec 3 (IANS) Tennis legend Boris Becker will be present during the third edition of the Kolkata 25K marathon which will take place here on December 18, a statement from the organisers said on…
Monte Carlo, Dec 3 (IANS) Multiple Olympic champion Usain Bolt has asserted that he wants to focus on the 100 meters event in his final season, leaving the 200m out of his mind. “After last…
Monte Carlo, Dec 3 (IANS) Sprint superstar Usain Bolt has won the IAAF male Athlete of the Year for an unprecedented sixth time, wihle Almaz Ayana has taken the female title. Bolt, who bagged three…
Nairobi, Dec 2 (IANS) Kenyan athletics authorities have announced that they will spread wings to search for talent in the country’s marginalised areas. Athletics Kenya’s youth development committee chairman Barnaba Korir said on Thursday that…
Nairobi, Dec 2 (IANS) A Kenyan athlete on Friday denied receiving over $7,600 in overseas allowances from the government despite not competing in the Rio 2016 Olympics Games in Brazil. London 2012 Olympics men 5000m…
Nairobi, Dec 2 (IANS) Former world record holder Patrick Makau of Kenya wants to make another attempt at improving his personal best time when he lines up for the Fukuoka Marathon in Japan on Sunday….
Monte Carlo, Dec 2 (IANS) China’s Taicang has been awarded the 2018 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships by the world athletics governing body’s council meeting. The city in East China’s Jiangsu province won the…
Monte Carlo, Dec 2 (IANS) The 207th meeting of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) council has awarded the 2019 World Cross Country Championships to Denmark’s second biggest city of Aarhus. Aarhus was the…
Moscow, Nov 30 (IANS) A number of athletes have testified that former Russian anti-doping lab director Grigory Rodchenkov had incited them to use drugs, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Wednesday. Vice Chairman of the…
Moscow, Nov 30 (IANS) Three Russian field-and-track athletes have been sanctioned with ineligibility for various time periods over proved anti-doping rule violations, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has said. Tatyana Chernova, Ekaterina Sharmina…
London, Nov 30 (IANS) Sprint superstar Usain Bolt has said that he is pleased with the work done by producers of a new documentary which chronicles his rise to iconic status. “I am Bolt” premiered…
Moscow, Nov 27 (IANS) Two US athletes allegedly used cocaine before Rio Olympics, a cyber-espionage group Fancy Bears has revealed. The group leaked the information by hacking into senior World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) officials’ confidential…
Nairobi, Nov 23 (IANS) Kenya’s Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge wants to go for a double in London next year following his victory in the Delhi Half Marathon last Sunday. First he will put everything…
Nairobi, Nov 21 (IANS) Suspense is building up in the Kenya camp over the selection of the senior men’s team for the world cross country athletics championships in Kampala, Uganda, in March 2017. Men’s 12km…
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) He may have won the men’s title at the Delhi Half Marathon on Sunday, but Rio Olympics gold medallist Eliot Kipchoge isn’t fully satisfied with his performance here. Kipchoge won…
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Rio Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya lived up to the expectations and won the men’s title, while Ethiopian Worknesh Degefa captured the women’s title in the Airtel Delhi…
New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Reigning Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya will start as the favourite, although he is expected to face a strong challenge from fellow east African athletes when the Delhi…
Moscow, Nov 19 (IANS) Russian high jumper Elena Slesarenko will appeal the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision to annul her fourth place standing at the 2008 Beijing Olympics after her doping samples turned out to…