Algeria Record Second Win at Africa Champs Qualifiers

Algeria Record Second Win at Africa Champs Qualifiers

The Algeria women’s wheelchair basketball team continue their winning streak after clinically beating hosts, Ethiopia 79-23 at the IWBF 2022 Africa Championship Qualifiers in Addis Ababa. The win comes after the Algerians beat South Africa 48-32, while Ethiopia...
Dawit Seyaum Crowned Campaccio Cross Country Tour Champion

Dawit Seyaum Crowned Campaccio Cross Country Tour Champion

Fresh from winning the BO Classic with a course record of 15:22 last week, Ethiopian middle-distance runner, Dawit Seyaum, emerged as winner of the Campaccio Cross Country Tour in Italy. The 25-year-old outshined tour favourites Beatrice Chebet from Kenya, and Italy’s...
Nancy Jelagat Wins Valencia Trinidad Alfonso Marathon in Spain

Nancy Jelagat Wins Valencia Trinidad Alfonso Marathon in Spain

Kenya’s Nancy Jelagat held off Ethiopia’s Etagegne Woldu and Beyenu Degefa to win the Valencia Trinidad Alfonso Marathon race on Sunday, 5 December in Valencia, Spain. Fresh from setting a half-marathon record in Berlin, Jelagat together with Woldu and Degefa ran...
Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey Smashed Marathon World Record

Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey Smashed Marathon World Record

Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey smashed the world record* at the Valencia Half Marathon Trinidad Alfonso EDP, clocking 1:02:52 on her debut at the distance at the World Athletics Elite Label road race in Spain on Sunday. Competing in the same Spanish city where she broke...
Kenya’s Lydia Simiyu Earns Debut Cape Town Marathon Title

Kenya’s Lydia Simiyu Earns Debut Cape Town Marathon Title

Kenya’s Lydia Simiyu earned the biggest pay check of her career as she bagged the 2021 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon title in a blistering 2:25.41 on debut marathon and set a new course record. And it’s Kenya 1-2 as debutant Lydia Simiyu earns the biggest pay check of her...
Nare Plans to Use SPAR Grand Prix Prize Money to Build Home

Nare Plans to Use SPAR Grand Prix Prize Money to Build Home

Ethiopia’s Tadu Nare plans on using her SPAR Grand Prix 10km victory prize money to build a home for her mother. Nare raced to victory at the Nelson Mandela University on Saturday, 9 October 2021, as she crossed the finish line in 32.33 minutes to make it six out of...