World Athletics

The Nigeria relay team stands a chance of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics after the latest qualification ranking of countries bidding to qualify for the Games was announced by World Athletics with the conclusion of the two-day World…

The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has announced that athletes from the country will not be participating in this year's World Athletics relays billed to start from May 1st to 2nd in Poland,  AFN’s factional president, Ibrahim…

World Athletics (WA) have ordered the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) to inaugurate a congress that will usher in new executive board members before June 14, 2021. The order was handed down to the AFN at the end of the crisis…

The crisis resolution meeting between World Athletics (WA) and the two warring factions of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), led by Ibrahim Shehu-Gusau and Olamide George, failed to yield the needed result yesterday in Abuja.…

Kenyan athlete Ruth Chepngetich smashed the world half marathon record on Sunday, clocking a time of one hour, four minutes and two seconds at the N Kolay Istanbul Half Marathon to shave 29 seconds off the previous mark. The 26-year-old,…

Kenyan athlete Ferdinand Omanyala Omurwa said he would change the narrative by beating Nigerian athletes to the 100m prize in the Making of Champions (MoC) Grand Prix, scheduled to hold at the Yaba College of Technology field today in…

Kenyan-born middle distance runner Nelly Jepkosgei has been banned for three years after accepting a charge of tampering with evidence, a violation of World Athletics’ anti-doping rules, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said.…

Britain’s multiple world and Olympic long distance champion Mo Farah said the more people who get vaccinated against COVID-19, the greater the chance that the Tokyo Olympics will go ahead on schedule. Farah, who won gold at the 5,000…