Uganda women’s football team, Crested Cranes, win their maiden CECAFA Women’s Championship title, defeating Burundi 3-1 in the final at the Fufa Technical Centre in Njeru, Uganda on Saturday, 11 June 2022. Burundi progressed to the final after they outclassed...

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...

As the list of the All-American Honors trickles out, South African triathlete Kayla Ribbink has been named on the prestigious Division II team list. Ribbink started the season placing third in Division II with the second-best run split of the...

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...

Nigerian powerlifting champion Bose Omolayo claimed the victory at the World Para Powerlifting Championship in style, breaking the world record in the women’s 79 kilograms category in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. The double Paralympic gold medallist started the competition on...

Veteran Botswana sprinter, Amantle Montsho, has called time on her illustrious athletics career, spanning close to two decades. The 38-year-old's international career saw her compete in two Olympics Games as she made history being the first woman to represent Botswana...

The development of young women leaders in sport in Botswana has received a timely boost with the hosting of a mentorship and empowerment program by the Sport Management Agency (SMA). In 2016 the International Working Group on Women and Sport...

Kenyan long-distance runner, Joyciline Jepkosgei, stormed to victory in the elite women's race at this year's London Marathon on Sunday, 3 October 2021, crossing the line in an impressive two hours, 17 minutes, and 43 seconds. Jepkosgei, who won the...

As the curtain closes on what has been a busy year for Christine Mboma, the Namibian is aiming for a victory at the Kip Keino Classic at the Moi Stadium in Kenya on Saturday, 18 September 2021. The Tokyo Olympic...

Tokyo Olympic silver medalist and Diamond League winner, Christine Mboma is unstoppable. The Namibian won the 200m event at the Boris Hanžeković Memorial in Zagreb, Croatia, on Tuesday. The 18-year-old continues to prove that she is too good for the...

Botswana’s Boitshepiso Kelapile is the only female that will represent the country at the World U20 Junior Championships in Nairobi, Kenya. The Botswana Athletes Association is sending a 13-member team to participate in the tournament, which is scheduled to take...

Namibian long-distance runner, Helalia Johannes, concluded her Olympic Games on a high as she earned a fourth-place finish in the women’s marathon in Tokyo. Sharing on her Facebook, Johannes said: “Fellow Olympians can attest that excelling in sport is the...