South African sprinter Akani Simbine has maintained his unbeaten streak in the 2025 Athletics season with a win in the men’s 100-metre race at the Rabat Diamond League in Morocco on Sunday, Afrosport reports. Simbine, who is the fastest man in the world this season, clocked a time of 9.95 seconds, beating Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala, who finished second in 10.05s, while American Fred Kerley settled for...
Nigerian sprinter Joy Udo-Gabriel on Sunday broke the NCAA Division II Record after cruising to a personal best time of 7.13 seconds to win the women’s 60-metres final at the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) Indoor Championships. Udo-Gabriel, who was recently named the MIAA Track Athlete of the Week, also set a facility record as she finished way ahead of the chasing packs. American Diandrenique Gaines...
Thousands of runners pounded the streets of Abuja on Saturday, 1 March, for the 2025 ECOWAS Abuja International Marathon, which began at the ECOWAS Commission Yakubu Gowon Way, followed by the 5-kilometer race, Afrosport reports. An estimated 5,000 Nigerian and international runners battled for the $71,000 prize money on Saturday. For the elite runners that participated in the 21 km race of Africa’s most lucrative half-marathon,...
Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen on Thursday shattered two indoor world records at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in France, Afrosport reports. Ingebrigtsen, who has a knack for breaking records, smashed the indoor world records for both mile and 1500m races. The 24-year-old clocked a time of 3:45.14 to win the mile at the Arena Stade Couvert in Lievin. The time broke record of 3:46.63 set...
Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich, the women’s marathon world record holder, on Wednesday was confirmed as one of the headliners in this year’s London Marathon, Afrosport reports. Chepngetich set a new record in Chicago in October 2024, having clocked two hours, nine minutes and 57 seconds, to run the fastest time by a female athlete in marathon history. The 30-year-old shattered the former record held by Ethiopian Tigst...
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