Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Mark Ouma
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare had a highly successful weekend at the American National Collegiate Athletes Association (NCAA) Indoor Championships in Fayetteville Arkansas on Saturday.
Competing in the colours of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Okagbare won the long jump with an indoor life time best of 6.87m, before claiming the gold medal in 60m […]
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Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Mark Ouma
Botswana’s Amantle Monsho won the women’s 300m at the season’s last IAAF Indoor Permit meet in Leivin France on Friday night.
The Africa 400m champion covered the distance in 36.33 seconds. This is certainly a confidence boost ahead of her campaign at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha Qatar from next Friday
.William Biwott (3:37.85) delivered […]
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Posted on February 15th, 2010 by Mark Ouma
Moroccan Abdalaati Iguider established a 1500m meet record at the Aerdgas Indoor meet in Leipzig Germany on Sunday.
Iguider’s winning time of 3:34.68 is the second fastest time in the world this year. Such was the pace that Kenyan runner up Nixon Chepseba (3:35.82) improved his life time best and ranks fourth in the world […]
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Posted on February 15th, 2010 by Mark Ouma
Veteran Moroccan middle distance runner Hasna Benhassi got her season off to a winning start at the IAAF Indoor Permit meet in Valencia Spain on Saturday.
The Olympic 800m bronze medallist lead from the start to win her race in 2:01.87. This is the world’s 7th fastest times this year.
In the men’s 1500m William Tanui Biwott […]
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Posted on February 14th, 2010 by Mark Ouma
Nigerian Olympic long jump bronze medallist Blessing Okagbare was in superb form claiming double victories at the Texas A& M Indoor Challenge at College Station in Texas USA on Saturday.
Competing in the colours of the University of Texas at El Paso, Okagbare began the day with a 7.24 win in her 60 heats. She went […]
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