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AllAfrica News: Athletics
Rift Valley has picked a team of 81 athletes for the Kenya Prisons games at Nyayo National Stadium, Nairobi, on May 23 and 24.
THE fate of 300 workers at Cross Country Carriers is in balance as the owner is uncertain about the future of the company.
Former World Indoor athletics 800m champion Wilfred Bungei will make a return to Doha City in Friday's Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix after failing to travel to Valencia in March to defend his title due to an injury.
Four athletes have been selected by the Athletics Tanzania (AT) to compete in the China Open championship that gets underway in Beijing on May 25, according to the body's secretary general, Suleiman Nyambui.
APR's tormentor in the African champions League Zamalek star striker Amr Zaki is set to move to premiership side Wigan Athletic.
"Take my money and I sue you," the former athletics national team head coach, Adolph Rukenkanya, has threatened to take legal action if the local athletics federation to deducts any coin from his salary.
Joseph Nsubuga will continue his bid to qualify for the Olympic Games when he takes part in the Kigali Peace Marathon due this Sunday. Nsubuga, one of Uganda's top marathoners, is in the hunt for one of the six remaining slots for the Beijing Games but travels to Kigali wary of the hilly course.
Despite his failure to defend the 10,000m gold medal at the Africa Senior Championships that climaxed here on Sunday night, Uganda 's current best runner Moses Kipsiro will compete in the Qatar Grand Prix on Friday.
Nigerian athletes at last Sunday's African championships in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia arrived Lagos yesterday. They told the story of how the high altitude in that country worked against them.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has warned that no athlete is indispensable and any attempt to sabotage the country's gold medal push at this summer Olympiad in Beijing, China will be resisted.
Zimbabwe are bracing themselves to send their biggest ever delegation to the Paralympic Games after 38 athletes were shortlisted for the 13th edition of the competition set for Beijing, China, in August.
TWO Namibian athletes have won three bronze medals between them at the 16th Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) Athletics Championship in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, while one of them also posted an Olympic qualifying time.
ZIMBABWEAN middle and long-distance runners once again proved that the country was still a major force in road running in the Southern African Region when they scooped most of the top prizes at Sunday's Nedbank Johannesburg City Marathon in South Africa.
Seven hundred sixty six athletes have registered for the forthcoming Kigali International Peace Marathon set for May 11.
Rwanda's 10000m champion Dieudonne Disi started poorly to the Beijing Olympic Games preparations finishing fifth in the 32nd edition of the 12km Lilac Bloomsday Run in Washington, USA over the weekend.
Patrick Kibwota made his personal best throw of 69.70 metres in the men's javelin but luck eluded the ill-prepared Ugandan as he finished fourth at the Africa Senior Championships here on Sunday evening.
SOUTH Africa dominated the 16th edition of the Africa Senior Athletics championships here as Ugandans were reduced to mere competitors. Javelin thrower Annet Kabasindi and Patrick Kibwota were Uganda's best performers in the biennial event.
Inspired by Florence Wasike's silver medal in the heptathlon and Sammy Kesikeny's bronze in the javelin at the African Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa, Kenya's coaches will now offer greater attention to the field events in the build-up to the Beijing Olympics.
The most maligned national team for the 16th African Athletics Championships delivered after breathtaking performances on the last day of action.
Cameroon Olympic gold medallist, Francoise Mbango, proved her critics wrong as she won gold, on Sunday, May 4, the last day of the African Athletics Championship, AAC, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Florence Wasike boosted Kenya's medal tally here with a silver in the women's heptathlon.
Uganda's team captain Annet Kabasindi led by example, becoming the only athlete to reach the finals at the 16th Africa Senior Championships at Addis Ababa Stadium, Saturday night.
It was a successful day for Kenya who won three gold medals to lead a rush for medals on the final day of the 16th African Athletics Championships in Addis Ababa Sunday.
Boniface Kipchumba of Kapsabet won the 3,000 metres steeplechase race as the New KCC Athletics Tour came calling at Eldoret's Kip Keino Stadium.
The African Athletics Championships that were concluded in Ethiopia yesterday have revealed one thing to Nigeria: Even as they are excelling in some areas, other countries are catching up on them and even surpassing them in their strong areas in sports and that they need to double their efforts to attain great heights that won them glory before now.
Kenya Prisons displayed a brilliant performance against compatriots Kenya Commercial Bank in the semis to enter the Africa women's club championship final in their inaugural appearance.
Kenya's prospects of medals in the women's 800m look good after all the three entrants in the race - Faith Macharia, Pamela Chelimo and Charity Wandia - qualified for Sunday's final.
After two days of disappointment, Kenya finally made a bumper harvest as they scooped two gold medals, two silvers and two bronze as the Africa athletics Championships entered its third day at the Addis Ababa Stadium on Friday.
The curtains come down on the 16th edition of the African Athletics Championship with Kenyan men hoping to get one back on their Ethiopian rivals in the highlight race of the day - the 5,000m.
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