It was all smiles for the duo of Oyelade Sunday and Vera Yohanna Davou as they were officially handed their Kia Rio saloon cars having emerged winners in the 10km male and female races during the 2020 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon. Davou, a 13-year old JSS Three Pupil of the Victory Academy High School […]
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World Athletics, together with the International Athletics Foundation (IAF), has today launched a US$500,000 fund to support professional athletes experiencing financial hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic. World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, who also chairs the IAF, said the fund would be used to assist athletes who have lost most of their income in the […]
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World Athletics has joined forces with the International Institute for Race Medicine (IIRM) to set up a medical taskforce to provide endurance events that include mass gatherings with guidelines for outbreak prevention. The Outbreak Prevention Taskforce, led by World Athletics (Health and Science Department) and the IIRM, will include the Medical Chairs or representatives of […]
via WORLD ATHLETICS AND IIRM FORM OUTBREAK PREVENTION TASKFORCE FOR MASS EVENTS — finixsportsblog
Since the spread of the deadly New Coronavirus began earlier this year, athletes, like everyone else, have been forced to adjust. First, those things directly related to their athletic pursuits: their schedules, their training, their travel. As the virus continued to spread across the planet, those adjustments moved from the professional to the personal and […]
via Training Under lockdown, Italian athletes Aiming To Keep Upbeat and Focused — finixsportsblog
After the seventh and final meeting of the 2020 World Athletics Indoor Tour brought the series to a close for another year, 11 athletes have booked their place at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 2021. Although the World Athletics Indoor Championships had to be postponed until 2021, World Athletics can confirm that all 11 […]
via 2020 WORLD ATHLETICS INDOOR TOUR WINNERS SECURE WILDCARDS FOR NANJING — finixsportsblog
The inaugural World Athletics Continental Tour, a series of leading international one-day meetings around the globe, kicks off this weekend with back-to-back meetings in Sydney and Auckland. The Tour, which will span six continents over the next seven months, is designed to provide athletes with more high calibre competitive opportunities to earn prize money and […]
via INAUGURAL WORLD ATHLETICS CONTINENTAL TOUR TO KICK OFF THIS WEEKEND — finixsportsblog
Joshua Cheptegei has turned his attention to winning his maiden title at the World Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia next month after bursting through the 13-minute barrier to improve the world 5km record in Monaco last weekend. “This is a great confidence boost in my current form and my ability on the road,” said the […]
via CHEPTEGEI’S MOMENTUM CONTINUES WITH 5KM WORLD RECORD — finixsportsblog
Delta State determination to ensure that her athletes made podium appearances at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is on track according to Solomon Ogba the Chairman of Delta State Athletics. Ogba’s confidence is buoyed by the performance of Raymond Ekevwo in the 60m Indoor over the weekend. Ekevwo won the race in 6.53 sec, the […]
via AHEAD TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES: Delta State Programme On Track Says Solomon Ogba — finixsportsblog
The Central Car Park of the Teslim Balogun Stadium Surulere promises to be a beehive of activity from Monday 27th of January, 2020 as the Expo for the 2020 edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon begins. Similarly, over the weekend in faraway Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the Project Consultant for the Access Bank […]
The full ten-meeting schedule for the 2020 World Athletics Continental Tour (Gold level) has been finalised with the addition of Nairobi, which will be the first African host city. The pilot year of the $US2 million Gold meeting series will now visit four continents – Africa, Asia, Europe and North America – with the first […]
via TEN CITIES ACROSS FOUR CONTINENTS TO HOST GOLD MEETINGS IN 2020 CONTINENTAL TOUR — finixsportsblog
Robert Keter’s world 5km record of 13:22 has been ratified. Keter, who was something of an unknown when he lined up for the Urban Trail Lille 5km on 9 November, upstaged a quality field to take seven seconds off the previous world record. Keter made his way to the front before the second pacemaker dropped […]
via Robert Keter’s World 5km Record of 13:22 Ratified By World Athletics — finixsportsblog
The Competition Director for the Edo 2020 National Sports Festival (NSF) Yussuf Alli on Sunday declared that National and Festival records, especially in athletics, could be broken at the Edo 2020 Sports Festival. Speaking to sports correspondents in Benin, Edo State after inspection of facilities at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Alli said the base for […]
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