The new gem in women 400m Hellen Syombua has announced her arrival in the two lap event giving Kenya high hopes for that elusive top medal ahead of the postponed Olympic Games slated for slated for for July and August in Tokyo. Speaking to Top Run Sport, Syombua said she was glad entering the longer […]

For athletes, running is their office and just like any other profession, this is how they put food on the table and a roof over their heads. All year-round they spend a considerable amount of time training and competing, It's a busy schedule that keeps them busy throughout the year. When covid-19 wreck havoc at […]

Athletics Kenya in collaboration with the world Anti Doping Unit (AIU) over the week carried out an all extensively brilliant workshop targeting the younger generation of the athletes in a bid to tame the doping menace from spreading over. The choice to end the year with a hard hitting training for under 20 athletes across […]

Valencia Trinidad Alfonso EDP marathon and half marathon produced unprecedented performance, that has never  been witnessed in world of athletics. The results were punctuated with a world record, world lead, National records, personal best, to debutant records. Indeed it was a line-up never seen before  in both races. Yet again it was a bottle of […]

Valencia city is known for its ultra-modern city of Arts and sciences, but of late the city is synonymous with athletics world records. 10km (road) and 10,000m ( track) world records were broken in Valencia, so to 5,000m women world record. Thanks to Juan Roig an entrepreneur under Trinidad Alfonso Foundation which has been playing […]

The 2020 World Athletics Half marathon championship held in Gydnia, Poland was one of the most outstanding, in recent times if not from its inception in 1992. Ten men ran under 60:00. Thirteen national records were broken not to mention thirty personal best attained in the championship.   Ugandan teenager Jacob Kiplimo not only won […]

After  stinging on track and cross country, Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda is now shifting his focus on the road. This weekend he will be spearheading the Ugandan team in the world half marathon. The championship will be held in Gdynia, Poland on Saturday 17th, October. The championship was initially scheduled for March this year but due to the […]

No doubt Uganda has joined the bandwagon of Kenya and Ethiopia as Eastern Africa powerhouse in athletics. The current domination of long-distance running by Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo cement the fact. At the beginning of the millennium, nothing much about athletics could be celebrated in a country famous for its bananas, except for Davis […]

Hours, Days, and weeks are fast-rolling towards the London marathon slated for 4th October. Excitement among the fans and athletics enthusiasts has already boiled to a crescendo. Kenenisa Bekele plays an integral role in the London marathon; he adds recipe needed in a star-studded field. Kipchoge and Bekele are the only athletes with sub 2:02:00 […]

The four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah from Britain has flabbergasted many in his quest to be a pacemaker in the London marathon. The race will be headlined by Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge and the trio from Ethiopia, -Kenenisa Bekele, Mule Wasihun, and Mosinet Geremew. The event will be held on a bio-secure closed course on October […]