North Eastern athletes tell tales of struggle

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Gilbert Kiprotich    in Garissa While it is almost a routine to meet an athlete in the Rift Valley region doing a morning run at the crack of dawn,...

athletes , Athletics Kenya , garissa , Mandera , North and North Eastern Development Initiative , Wajir

World Under-20 champion Chebet holding onto Olympics dream

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

World Under-20 5000m champion Beatrice Chebet is still holding onto her Olympics dream despite Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the athletics calendar. C...

Beatrice Chebet , Olympics dream , Under-20 5000m champion

Upcoming athletes from Coast region call for more support

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Upcoming athletes in Coast region are in dire need of help in order to realise their potential. The young athletes have showed lots of promise espe...

Athletics Kenya , coast region , Upcoming athletes

New dates for World U20 Championships to be released next month

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

New dates for the postponed World Under-20 Championships will be known next month. The global event was earlier scheduled to be held on July 7-12 a...

Jackson Tuwei , Kasarani , Moi International Sports Centre , World Under-20 Championships

Southern region athletes get food aid

By Stanley Mativo,

Former world marathon record holder Patrick Makau on Tuesday led other retired athletes drawn from Machakos, Makueni and Kitui counties in distributin...

athletes , Covid-19 pandemic

Edna Jebitok hungry as before for World Under-20 title

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Gilbert Kiprotich   in Nakuru World Under-20 1500m champion Edna Jebitok is not letting go of her dream to clinch her maiden gold medal in the worl...

Edna Jebitok , Keringet Camp , World Under-20 1500m champion

Keberesi Camp: Athletes keep World Under-20 dream despite Covid-19

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Gilbert Kiprotich in Kisii The unprecedented outbreak of coronavirus might have put on hold dreams of upcoming athletes at Keberesi Training Camp but...

Keberesi Training Camp , World Under-20 Championships

Nyanza North plot for success in World Under-20

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Gilbert Kiprotich iin Nyanza Despite the Covid-19 crisis, athletes from Nyanza North are still holding on to their World Under-20 Championships dream...

athletes , Nyanza North , World Under-20 Championships

How Covid-19 put dreams on hold at Torongo camp

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

As the 2020 season kicked off, everything seemed to work out just fine for  athletes at Torongo Athletics Camp, before the unprecedented spread of co...

Agnes Jebet , COVID-19 , Gedion Rono , Junior athletes , Torongo Athletics Camp , Torongo Camp

Chepkosgei, Kipyego bemoan World Under-20 postponement

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Africa Youth 800m silver medalist Sheila Chepkosgei was left to rue the postponement of the World Under-20 Championships. The biannual event which ...

IAAF World Under-20 Championships , SheilA Chepkosgei

How Covid-19 put dreams on hold at Torongo Camp

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

As the 2020 season kicked off everything seemed normal for athletes from the Torongo Athletics Camp before the coronavirus pandemic struck, putting a ...

Covid-19 pandemic

AK rolls out stimulus package to cushion upcoming athletes

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Gilbert Kiprotich Chief Athletics Writer Athletics Kenya (AK) has started rolling out a stimulus package to support junior athletes  in the wake of ...

Athletics Kenya(AK) , Barnaba Korir , Junior athletes , Stimulus package

Youngster Bett holding on to Olympic dream

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

The World Under 20 3000m steeplechase silver medalist Leonard Bett is not letting go of his dream after the coronavirus pandemic moved his chance for ...

chairman Leonard Kaanake , Covid-19 pandemic , Leonard Bett , Tokyo 2020

Doping: AK cries foul over photos of syringes allegedly taken in Iten, reads sinister motive

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Athletics Kenya has come out guns blazing distancing itself from images of syringes allegedly taken in Iten and shared by a Norwegian journalist on so...

Athletics Kenya , doping , Iten , Norwegian journalist , syringes

ADAK chief Rugut issues stern warning to drug cheats

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) has warned athletes against breaking anti-doping regulations even during this period of coronavirus pandemic. ...

ADAK , ANT-DOPING , CEO Japther Rugut

Kipchoge: The humble home life in rural Kenya behind remarkable athletic success

By Agencies,

In the lush green gardens of Eliud Kipchoge's training retreat in the Kenyan highlands, the greatest distance runner of all time is describing the dus...

Eliud Kipchoge

Marathon star Wanjiru suspended for anti-doping violation

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

The 2017 London Marathon champion Daniel Wanjiru is the latest Kenyan athlete to be suspended provisionally by the Athletics Intergrity Unit (AIU) for...

AIU , Daniel Wanjiru , London Marathon

Nairobi Under-20 Championships preps to continue

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

The preparations for the World Under-20 Championships as well as the World Athletics Continental Tour will proceed despite the postponement of the eve...

coronavirus , Nairobi World Under-20 Championships

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

No reprieve for Kenya in latest doping rankings

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

Despite the sustained efforts to contain the doping menace, Kenya remains a hot bed of drug cheats in the latest categorisation of nations by the Worl...