The summer of sport actions continues with the Paris 2024 Paralympics taking centre stage from August 28 to September 8 in Paris. Thousands of para-athletes will converge in the French capital to compete for top honours, bragging rights and to rewrite history in their respective sports events. Afrosport previews the top African stars to keep tabs on when the Paralympics begins with an opening ceremony on ...
Botswana's Letsile Tebogo and Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi starred at the Lausanne Diamond League in Switzerland on Thursday. Tebogo, the 200m Olympic champion at the Paris Games, beat the rest of the field to win the 200m race in an impressive time of 19.64 seconds. "The most important thing for me is that even after such achievements like the ones I did at the Olympics, at the...
Team Kenya are building up to the commencement of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with the departure of the first batch of athletes on Sunday evening. The East African country will have 83 athletes compete in six sports in Paris - athletics, rugby sevens, judo, fencing, swimming and volleyball, two fewer than the 85 athletes who participated in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Kenya's Sevens Rugby team...
Kenya’s Edward Pingua was the first athlete to race to the top of the hill in Okpekpe as he claimed the symbolic 10th edition title of the premium international road race on Saturday. The 22 year-old conquered the challenging & unique undulating race course in a time of 29 minutes and 31 seconds ahead of other runners. He showed his delight with a shout of victory...
Kenya's long-distance runner, Beatrice Chebet has set a new world record of 28:54.14 in the women's 10,000 metres at the Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. Chebet's feat overshadowed the previous record held by Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey since 2021 and she became the first woman to run under 28 minutes in the 10km event. Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay came second in the race, becoming the...
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