Litttle-known Wilson Kiprop, stunned favourites Mathew Kisorio and Moses Kipsiro of Uganda to clinch 10,000 gold as the Senior Africa Athletics Championship started on Wednesday at the Nyayo National Stadium here in Nairobi.
World 5,000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot wound up her training on Wednesday with an assurance that she will claim one of the medals missing from her glittering collection, as the 17th Safaricom Senior Africa Athletics Championship enters its second day at the Nyayo National Stadium.
When it comes to field events, especially men\'s discus and women\'s pole vault, the hosts have little to discuss as far as previous performances are concerned.
TANZANIA started on a wrong foot its campaign for laurels at the 17th Senior Africa Athletics Champions, after all her 100-metre sprinters failed to qualify for the semi-finals.
Nigeria\'s quest for a return to the summit of African Athletics via the 17th edition of the African Championships in Athletics begins this morning inside the Nyayo National stadium in Niarobi, Kenya.
Justine Bayigga believes that the opportunity is now for her to win an individual medal at a continental meet when she competes in the 17th edition of the Africa Athletics Championships that starts today in Nairobi.
Nigerian athletes competing in the opening day of the 17th African Championships in Athletics which start today inside the Nyayo National Stadium here in Nairobi,Kenya will have to use their old kits if they still keep them or appear in kits supplied by their various clubs following the non-arrival of the kits sent by Nigeria\'s official kitters, NIKE.
AT least seven Tanzanian runners are expected to be in action today as the 17th edition of the Africa Senior Athletics Championship gets underway at the Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya.
RWANDA will this afternoon send a team of 13 athletes to Nairobi to compete in the 17th African Championships set for July 28 to August 1 at Nyayo Stadium.
As the curtains go up on Wednesday to usher in the 17th Senior Africa Athletics Championship in Nairobi, doubts still linger over the host of the next event in 2012.
Africa\'s greatest track rivalry will be played out again on Wednesday when Kenya lead and Ethiopia lead the rest of the field in the men 10,000m final as the curtains go up on the 17th Senior Africa Athletics Championship at Nyayo National Stadium.
The official slogan of the Local Organizing Committee of the 17th African Senior Athletics Championships beginning today aptly captures the mood pervading Nairobi, the host city of the biggest track & field fiesta in the continent: Africa is running to Nairobi.
Africa is on show. Over 43 countries are assembling at Nyayo stadium this morning for the biggest continental athletics meeting - the Africa Senior Championships.
On the final day of the World Junior Athletics Championships that ended in Moncton Canada, USA were all packing their bags, having won the overall title.
The Angolan delegation made up of 114 people, 70 of whom are athletes, left this Tuesday for Maputo City, Mozambique, to participate in the 7th Games of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP).
The fact that Ugandan World Junior Athletics Championships medallist Annet Negesa has no trainer nor a well documented training programme touched many coaches and managers attending the event. Many are betting on her becoming another Maria Mutola in the 800m event.
Jacob Araptany limped to a bronze medal in the men\'s 3000m steeplechase, also Uganda\'s second medal, at the World Junior athletics Championships that concluded Sunday.
Nigerian athletes to the IAAF world junior championships in Moncton, Canada are expected back in the country Wednesday after winning three silver medals at the meet.
Twenty Tanzanian athletes depart for Nairobi today to take part in the 17th edition of the African Senior Athletics Championship that gets underway tomorrow.
Nigeria\'s golden girl of the moment, Blessing Okagbare yesterday arrived Team Nigeria\'s Hillpark Hotel camp here in Nairobi, Kenya, two days to the start of the 17th African Senior Athletics Championships. The University of El Paso at Texas general Studies major who, ten days ago, won the 200m event of the Lignano Meet in Italy in 22.71 and also added the long jump silver to it with a 6.53m jump, is Nigeria\'s biggest hope for medal hauls at the championships.
At least 10 athletes of the national males and female teams were summoned in order to represent the country in the games of the 7th edition of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP), set for 27 July to 7 August in Maputo, Mozambique, ANGOP learnt from an official source.
THE national athletics team is expected to leave for Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday for the Senior African championships 2010 rescheduled from Wednesday to August 1, this year.
Kenya beat track and field bigwigs USA and Germany to clinch an unprecedented third overall title, collecting 15 medals as the curtains came down on the week-long World Junior Athletics Championship in Moncton, Canada, on Sunday.
It was three years ago, on April 27, 2007, that Athletics Kenya secretary David Okeyo announced from Dakar, Senegal, during a break at the Africa Athletics Confederation (AAC) Congress that Kenya would host the 2010 Africa Senior Athletics Championships.
\"Let your running do the talking,\" is the slogan which runs ahead of the maiden \'Safari International Marathon\' which races out for the first time in Arusha, next Month.