Kipngeno, Kanda toast to victories at Mountain Running Championships

By Festus Lango,

Patrick Kipngéno of Nakuru County clocked 50:37.05 minutes to win the men’s 10km race at the Mountain Running Championship held Sunday in the count...

Athletics Kenya , Beatrice Cheserek , Francisca Kanda , Judith Korir , Mountain Running Championship , Patrick Kipng’eno

Athletics Kenya releases season calendar

By Stanley Mativo,

Athletics Kenya (AK) has released its calendar for the 2020/2021 season which also includes the World Under-20 Championships pre-trial and Mountain Ru...

Murigi leads strong field for Mountain Running Championships

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

A stellar line up is expected for the Athletics Kenya (AK) Mountain Running Championships slated for Sunday in Naivasha. Two-time Mountain Running ...

Athletics Kenya , Joyce Njeru. , Mountain Running Championships , NAIVASHA , Viola Jelagat

AK to host Mountain Running championship in Naivasha

By Agencies,

Naivasha is set to host the Athletics Kenya Mountain Running competition on November 22. The one-day event will be held at the foot of Mount Longon...

Date set for Mt Kenya Mountain championship

By Martin Mwenda,

The second edition of the Mt Kenya running championship in Meru will be held on 20th February 2021, Athletics Kenya (AK) has confirmed. Speaking at...

Mt Kenya Mountain Championship

AK supremo Tuwei hails Meru County for staging ‘organized’ race

By Alex Kinyua,

Athletics Kenya president Retired General Jackson Tuwei has lauded the Meru County government for a ‘well organized’ mountain running event that w...

AK , Jackson Tuwei , meru , mountainrunning

Meru braced for inaugural Mountain Racing

By Alex Kinyua,

Excitement is building in Meru County and its neighboring regions ahead of Saturday's Mountain Racing championship at the Kenya School of Adventure in...

meru county , Mountain Racing

Inaugural Mt Kenya Mountain Race targets 5,000

By Gilbert Kiprotich,

The inaugural Mt Kenya Mountain Running to be held next year February 22, is targeting 5000 participants and spectators. The event whose theme is �...

Governor Kiraitu Murungi , meru county , mountain run , Mt Kenya

IAAF boss Coe excited by Kipchoge sub-2 attempt

By Reuters,

The head of world athletics Sebastian Coe wants to end his federation’s ‘computer says no’ approach which would mean that if Kenya’s Eliud Kip...

Eliud Kipchoge , IAAF , INEOS159 , Seb Coe

Meru County to introduce Mountain Racing

By Martin Mwenda,

The County Government of Meru is set to introduce Mountain Racing in the region beginning August this year as part of plans to promote sports tourism....

meru county

Kiplangat, Murigi ready to defend Mountain Running titles

By World Athletics,

Some of the world’s top mountain runners, hailing from 40 nations, will line up at the 34th edition of the WMRA World Mountain Running Championships...

Lucy Murigi , Victor Kiplangat , WMRA , WMRA World Mountain Running Championships , World Mountain Running Championships

Lonah Chemtai Salpeter: Why running is in my DNA

By World Athletics,

European 10,000m champion Lonah Chemtai Salpeter of Israel talks about her passion and enthusiasm for distance running. I was born in the village o...

Israel , Lonah Chemtai Salpeter , running , West-Pokot County in Kenya

Mountain champ Wambui to grace Naivasha trials

By Citizen Team,

World champion Lucy Murigi Wambui will be the star attraction as Kenya holds its first ever Mountain Racing National Trials this weekend in Naivasha. ...

Lucy Murigi Wambui

Mountain racing trials halted on court orders

By Charity Wanja,

A tug of war has ensued between Athletics Kenya (AK) and former marathoner Jacob Yator who has turned to court seeking to have the inaugural National ...

Kenya’s elite cyclists chase the world stage

By CNN,

It's eight o'clock in the morning. Kenya's elite cycling team, the "Kenyan Riders," is already hours into training. Today's ride is five hours long...

Chris Froome , Kenya cyclist champion , Tour de France , Tour du Rwanda

No distance defines Lornah Kiplagat quite like the half marathon

By World Athletics,

  During a long and glittering endurance running career, which included winning the world cross-country title plus success over the marathon a...

Lornah Kiplagat , No distance defines Lornah Kiplagat quite like the half marathon

Flashback2017: Wambui finds rare Mountain Running delight

By Charity Wanja,

Kenya has been known to excel in road running but local fans can look back at the rare glory delivered by Lucy Wambui who beat the odds to emerge top�...

Lucy Wambui , WMRA , World Mountain Running Championships

Female footballers break world record for highest ever football match

By CNN,

They came, they saw, they conquered -- and broke a world record. Having climbed up Africa's highest mountain, taking goal posts and nets in tow, a ...

Bolt shakes off nerves to win final race on Jamaican soil

By AFP,

Usain Bolt partied with his devoted fans in an emotional farewell at the National Stadium on Saturday as the world's fastest man ran his final race on...

athletics , David Rudisha , Legend , Lord Seb Coe , Mo Farah , Salute to a Legend , Usain Bolt , Wayde van Niekerk