A Kenyan court on Tuesday sentenced two men to 35 years in prison for the murder of Ugandan Olympic athlete Benjamin Kiplagat in December 2023, Afrosport reports. A high court in the northwestern city of Eldoret found the two men – Peter Ushuru Khalumi, 30, and David Ekai Lokere, 25 – guilty of stabbing the 34-year-old Ugandan to death after a nine-month trial. Reuben Nyakundi, the...
A ministerial committee has ordered the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) to pay Favour Ofili N8 million, after the sprinter was omitted from the registration list for the 100-metres event at the Paris 2024 Olympics last summer, Afrosport reports. The committee also indicted Mr. Samuel Onikeku, the Technical Director of the AFN, who dismissed reports of Ofili’s omission as mere “rumour”. “Our committee is strongly of...
Three Africans are in the race for the 2024 World Athletics Awards scheduled to be held in Monaco, France on December 1, Afrosport reports. Olympic 200m champion, Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, is in contention for the Men's Track Athlete of the Year, and has been shortlisted in the category alongside Olympic 500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway. Meanwhile, Kenya's long distance runner and world marathon record...
Ethiopia's Yomif Kejelcha has set a new world record in the men’s half-marathon to clinch the title at the Medio Maraton de Valencia in Spain on Sunday, Afrosport reports. The 27-year-old distance runner, clocked a time of 57 minutes 30 seconds, shaving a second off the previous record held by Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo, who achieved this feat in Lisbon in 2021. Kejelcha, who set the world...
Ruth Chepngetich ensured it was an all-Kenyan affair in both the men’s and women’s races at the Chicago marathon on Sunday as the long-distance runner joined compatriot John Korir in claiming victory at the event. The 30-year-old smashed the women’s world record by almost two minutes, as she cruised to victory at the Chicago marathon in two hours, nine minutes and 56 seconds (2:09:56). Chepngetich shattered...
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