Brigid Kosgei makes top five list for prestigious IAAF award

By Isaac Swila,

Women marathon world recorder holder Brigid Kosgei is among the final five nominees for the prestigious 2019 IAAF Female World Athlete of the Year. ...

Brigid Kosgei , Chicago Marthon , France , IAAF Awards , Monaco , World record

Eliud Kipchoge on course for top IAAF award after making shortlist

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

World marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge has made it to the final list of five athletes who will battle it out for this year's Male World Athlete o...

Eliud Kipchoge , IAAF Award , shortlist

Kipruto irked by Diamond League changes

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Olympic and double World 3000m steeplechase champion Conseslus Kipruto has urged IAAF to reconsider the removal of the 3000m steeplechase race from th...

3000m steeplechase , Conseslus Kipruto , Diamond League , IAAF

AK rallies Kenyans to vote for Kipchoge and co.

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Gilbert Kiprotich Athletics Kenya (AK) president Jackson Tuwei has urged Kenyans to vote overwhelmingly for their star compatriots shortlisted for th...

AK , IAAF Female Athlete of the Year , IAAF Male Athlete of the Year

Record-breaker Kosgei hungry for more after Chicago heroics

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

World marathon record holder Brigid Kosgei says she does not plan to coast on her latest accomplishment, declaring she could run even faster after bre...

Athletics Kenya , Brigid Kosgei , Chicago Marathon , lower record , World record

Kosgei, Chepkoech and Obiri nominated for IAAF award

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Newly crowned world marathon record holder Brigid Kosgei, world 3,000m steeplechase record holder Beatrice Chepkoech and world 5,000m champion Hellen ...

Beatrice Chepkoech , Brigid Kosgei , Hellen Obiri , IAAF Female World Athlete of the Year

Eliud Kipchoge, Cheruiyot nominated for IAAF Male World Athlete of the Year award

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

World marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge and World 1,500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot are among the 11 nominees shortlisted for this year’s IAAF M...

Eliud Kipchoge , IAAF Male World Athlete , shortlisted , Timothy Cheruiyot

From humble beginnings: The rise and rise of Eliud Kipchoge

By Citizen Team,

Stanley Mativo &  Gilbert Kiprotich   The greatest marathoner of the modern era Eliud Kipchoge has proved to the world that it’s only ...

Eliud Kipchoge , Marathon , rise

‘Mimi mbona nafanyiwa hivi na mimi ni msichana kama wengine?’ Kenya’s Maxmilia Imali speaks out

By Imani Mitchelle,

Maxmilia Imali, one of Kenya's top Olympic long jumpers, has broken her silence months after she was dropped over high testosterone levels in her bloo...

Maxmilia Imali , Semenya , testosterone

Nyairera says she is a ‘victim’ of IAAF testosterone rule

By Agencies,

Olympic bronze medalist Margaret Nyairera Wambui of Kenya opened up to The Olympic Channel about the International Association of Athletics' testoster...

IAAF , Margaret Nyairera Wambui , testosterone

Kamau – an unsung heroine in African athletics

By Citizen Team,

When Kenya’s leading athletes get to the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 in September, few will think of the logistics of how they got ...

Susan Kamau

IAAF hails decision to lock Semenya out of Worlds

By Agencies,

Athletics' governing body, the IAAF, has said "biology has to trump gender identity" after welcoming the decision to permit restrictions in testostero...

Caster Semenya , IAAF

Semenya barred from World Championships

By Agencies,

Caster Semenya says she will not defend her World Championship 800m title in September after a setback in her challenge to the restricting of testoste...

Caster Semenya , IAAF World Championships

Back on track, Kipyegon prepares for Worlds

By IAAF,

Few athletes in global athletics can quite boast the combination of sheer success and zest for living like Faith Kipyegon. With her naturally vivac...

Faith Kipyegon

Why Semenya is likely to miss World Championships

By Agencies,

Caster Semenya says she will not race at the World Championships in Qatar later this year if she loses an appeal against IAAF rules governing testoste...

Caster Semenya , IAAF , World Championships

IAAF claims Caster Semenya is ‘biologically male’

By Reuters,

Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has accused the global athletics governing body of using her as a human guinea pig as it emerged that the I...

Caster Semenya , IAAF , testosterone

Semenya files appeal to Swiss Supreme Court

By Reuters,

Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya filed an appeal to Switzerland’s highest court on Wednesday against rules requiring middle-distance femal...

Caster Semenya , IAAF , testosterone

Manangoi, Cheruiyot out to light up Stockholm

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Elijah Manangoi and Timothy Cheruiyot's tantalizing rivalry will once again be on show when the pair line up in the 1500m field for the third leg of t...

Elijah Manangoi , IAAF Diamond League , Stockholm , Timothy Cheruiyot

Obiri leads strong Prefontaine Classic field

By Stephen Kiprop,

World 5000m champion Hellen Obiri highlights top entries for the Prefontaine classic at the Eugene/Stanford IAAF Diamond League slated for June 30. ...

Semenya to contest 3,000 metres at Prefontaine Classic

By Reuters,

Caster Semenya will compete in the 3,000 metres at the Diamond League’s Prefontaine Classic in Stanford, California on June 30, a distance she can r...

Caster Semenya , Diamond League , Prefontaine Classic