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Ranking the most successful African countries in UEFA Champions League

Ranking the most successful African countries in UEFA Champions League

The African continent is well represented in the UEFA Champions League winners' list and a total of 26 African players have lifted the prestigious trophy at their clubs. Ahead of Saturday's final between Inter Milan and Manchester City which could see either Cameroon's Andre Onana or Algeria's Riyad Mahrez emerge victorious, Afrosport ranks African countries by the number of winners they have produced. Ghana - 5...

Paris DL: Another world record for Kenya’s Kipyegon as Ethiopia’s Girma sets pace in Steeplechase

Paris DL: Another world record for Kenya’s Kipyegon as Ethiopia’s Girma sets pace in Steeplechase

It was a night for African athletics at the 2023 Paris Diamond League as Kenya's Faith Kipyegon and Ethiopia's Lamecha Girma set new world records in the women's 5000m and the men's 3000m steeplechase respectively. Exactly a week after setting a new world record in the women's 1500m in Florence, Kipyegon went to Paris to participate in a different but familiar event - the women's 5000m...

Florence DL: Kipyegon sets new 1500m record, Ta Lou dominates women’s 100m

Florence DL: Kipyegon sets new 1500m record, Ta Lou dominates women’s 100m

History was made at the Florence Diamond League on Friday as Kenya's middle-distance runner Faith Kipyegon set a new world record to win the women's 1500m event. The Olympic Games and World 1500m champion shattered the previous record held by Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba in 2015 after winning Friday's race with a time of 3 minutes and 49.11 seconds. She fended off competition from Britian's Laura Muir...

Diamond League: Omanyala, Machmour, Tebogo & Simbine confirmed for men’s 100m in Rabat

Diamond League: Omanyala, Machmour, Tebogo & Simbine confirmed for men’s 100m in Rabat

The 2023 Rabat Diamond League is set to see four African superstars alongside current World champion, Fred Kerley and Olympic champion, Lamont Marcell Jacobs will face off in the men's 100m event at the Diamond League meeting in Rabat.  The men's 100m startlist include Africa's fastest man, Ferdinand Omanyala from Kenya, former African champion - Akani Simbine of South Africa, Morocco's Machmour Chakir and Botswana's Letsile...

Table-Tennis: Egypt win 2023 African Club Championships

Table-Tennis: Egypt win 2023 African Club Championships

Egyptian clubs ENPPI and Petrojet have clinched the 2022 Africa Table-Tennis Club Champions at the Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. The quartet of Nadeem Ahmed, Ghallab Ali,Hussein Mo Amen and Saleh Mohamed powered ENPPI to defend their continental crown with a 3-0 victory against Uganda's Kibuli Table-Tennis Club on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Commercial Bank of Ethiopia settled for the third place after a 3-0 loss...