Botswana's first-ever international swimming team exceeded all expectations last week when they ventured to Zimbabwe to take on some of the best swimmers in Southern Africa.

Russian Athletics News. Irina Timofeyeva won today's Hamburg marathon setting the personal best and the marathon record of 2:24:14. Kenia's Pamela Chepchumba run up with 2:28:36 and Ethiopia's Ashagigi Roba was third clocking 2:29:28. Another Russian Olga Rosseyeva finished eighth

Russian Athletics News. Ilya Markov finished second over the men's 10km RW at the Grand Prix of Mortalaz meeting clocking 39:57 in Spanish Madrid. The winner was Francisco Fernandez from Spain with 38:28

Russian Athletics News. Svetlana Ponomarenko won at the 9th Country Music Marathon in Nashville (USA) clocking 2:30:33

Russian Athletics News. Some World Athletics stars have confirmed their participation in 50th Znamensky Memorial, a European Premium Outdoor Meeting, in Zhukovsky on 15 June. Famous Kenyan athletes Moses Mosop and Leonard Komon will run 5000m, Georgiy and Serafim Znamensky's

Russian Athletics News. Russian Athletics Federation took decision to disqualify hammer throwers Tatyana Lysenko and Yekaterina Khoroshikh for two years, the federation's president and IAAF Council member Valentin Balakhnichov told the All Sports agency

IT IS ALL SYSTEMS GO FOR ATHletics Kenya as the country's representatives head to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the 16th edition of the African Athletics Championships. Africa's elite athletes will face off just a few months to the Olympic Games

TWO 800 metres participants in the Senior African Athletics Championships have vowed to win the two-lap title as the event starts tomorrow in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia have entered a huge contingent of 140 athletes to the 16th African Athletics Championships that start tomorrow in Addis Ababa, but the Kenyan camp of 40 remained unfazed by the hosts' numbers and pedigree.

ADDIS ABABA will provide a hot and windy challenge to Ugandan athletes who arrive here today for the Africa Athletics Championships.

Rwanda's second batch team to the 16th Africa Athletics Championships arrived yesterday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ahead of the event scheduled for April 30-May 5 in the high altitude Abebe Bekila stadium.

After one day of athletics thrill last Saturday at the Abuja National Stadium, former world class sprinter, Uchenna Emedolu and other athletes have given kudos to the National Sports Commission and the Athletics Federation of Nigeria for coming up with

UGANDA'S team to the Africa Athletics Championships is expected here today, after getting a boost from Crown Beverages.