World championships moved to 2022 to avoid Olympics clash

By Reuters,

The world athletics championships have been moved back 11 months to July 2022 to avoid clashing with the Tokyo Olympics, which was also postponed due ...

KIPROTICH: How coronavirus is stretching the 2021 athletics calendar

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

@gil_kiprotich After months of speculation, the Olympics Games were finally, as widely expected, postponed to next year due the coronavirus pandemic....

coronavirus

Diamond League hit by coronavirus concerns

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Kenyan athletes continue to count losses as the organisers of the World Athletics Diamond League postponed the opening three legs of the 2020 season o...

coronavirus , Diamond League

Kimani to lead NOCK’s Strength and Conditioning program

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) has appointed former Kenya Sevens Strength and Conditioning (S&C) coach Geoffrey Kimani as the lead...

Geoffrey Kimani , NOCK , Strength and Conditioning

Christine Ongare became pregnant at the age of 12 but defied odds to become Olympic boxing qualifier

By CNN,

Kenya's Christine Ongare qualified Saturday for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Ongare, 26, made it through to the Olympics after outboxing Uganda...

ongare , teenage pregnancy

Olympics bound boxers Okoth, Ongare opt for two weeks break

By Mkalla Wa Mwambodze,

The 2015 African Boxing Championships gold medalist Nick Okoth and Commonwealth Games flyweight bronze medalist Christine Ongare will take a two weeks...

Christine Ongare , JAPAN , Nick Okoth , Olympics ticket , Tokyo

Ongare storm into Tokyo Olympics as qualifiers conclude in Dakar

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Two Kenyan boxers have earned slots at this year’s Olympic Games after Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Christine Ongare qualified for the Summer ...

Africa Boxing Qualifiers , Christine Ongare , Dakar , Tokyo Olympics

Exuberant Musa predicts a good show in Dakar

By Chege Amaria,

A confident Hit Squad head coach Benjamin Musa expects a bumper harvest once his boxers take to the ring for the Olympics qualifiers in Dakar, Senegal...

Benjamin Musa , Christine Ongare , Dakar , Hit Squad , Humphrey Ochieng , JAPAN , kenya , olympics , Tokyo

AK conducts anti-doping seminar ahead of national championship

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Athletics Kenya (AK) on Friday conducted an anti-doping seminar for all competing athletes in Saturday’s national cross-country championship to be h...

AK , Athletics Kenya , Geoffrey Kamworor , kenya police service , Ngong Race Course

Thank you Moi for Kasarani, Nyayo and many more

By Citizen Team,

Sports family in Kenya has singled out countries’ giant sporting infrastructure as former President Moi’s eternal legacies in the sector. Altho...

Moi Sports Centre Kasarani , moidead , nyayo stadium , Tuwei

Why I set up Kapchemoiywo camp­, legend Jepkosgei speaks out

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Gilbert Kiprotich The dwindling fortunes of Kenya in short and middle distance races led former world 800m champion Janeth Jepkosgei to think outsi...

Janeth Jepkosgei , Kapchemoiywo training camp , Nandi County

Manangoi ready for comeback after injury layoff

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

After a disappointing season that was rocked by injury, Commonwealth Games 1500m champion Elijah Manangoi is ready to roar again in 2020. Manangoi ...

Elijah Manangoi , Timothy Cheruiyot

Cheruiyot dreaming of lowering Guerrouj’s longstanding record

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

World 1,500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot believes the World Record over the distance can be lowered ''when the right time comes.'' According to Cherui...

1 , 500M , Hicham El Guerrouj , kenya , Morocco , Timothy Cheruiyot

Keringet camp dreaming of World Under-20 success

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Keringet Athletics Training Camp located in Nakuru County is seeking to send at least 10 athletes to the national team for next year’s World Under-2...

IAAF World Under-20 Championships , Nairobi World Under-20 Championships

Star-studded field up for Sotik X-Country

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Showdown is expected at the 2nd leg of the Athletics Kenya (AK) Cross Country series slated for Saturday in Sotik, Bomet County. The event that is ...

AK , Athletics Kenya Cross Country , cross country

State of Stadia: The Ruringu shame!

By Philip Muchiri,

When construction work commenced in mid 2017 and about Sh500 million set aside for upgrading the historic Ruringu Stadium in Nyeri County, no one thou...

nyeri , President Uhuru Kenyatta , Ruringu Stadium , State of Stadia

NOCK to intensify preps for Youth Olympics Games

By Philip Muchiri,

The National Olympic Committee Kenya (NOCK) is looking to start early preparations for the 2022 Youth Olympic Games in Dakar where Senegal will become...

Youth Olympic Games

It’s time to go for World Record, Kipruto declares after Doha heroics

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

After dominating the local, Africa and world scene, Olympic and World 3,000m steeplechase champion Conseslus Kipruto has vowed to break the World Reco...

3000m steeplechase , Conseslus Kipruto , Doha , Qatar , World title

Lionesses’ Oloo eyeing Tokyo ticket, African title in Tunisia

By Kenerickson Njeru,

Kenya Lionesses head coach Felix Oloo is confident of defending the Africa Women’s sevens trophy, come the 12th and 13th of October in Jemmel, Tunis...

Felix Oloo , kenya , Lionesses , Philadelphia Orlando , Tokyo , tunisia

Relentless and determined, Chepkoech now eyes Olympic gold

By Philip Muchiri,

Philip Muchiri in Doha, Qatar Beatrice Chepkoech, the newly crowned 3,000m steeplechase World champion says her victory was inspired by the heartache...

3000m steeplechase , Beatrice Chepkoech , Olympic gold , World champion