Hayat, Lambarki surprise, Amr, Nambawa shine, Kenya dominate Day 5-Africa Champs

Day 5 winners from top left, Ugandan Sarah Nambawa (triple jump),  Moroccan Hayat Lambarki (400m Hurldes), Kenyan 1-2-3 5000m sweep, Egyptian Eha el Sayed (javelin), Kenyan Asbel Kiprop (1500m), Egyptian Amr Seoud (200m), Algerian Zahra Bouras (800m), South African Sunette Viljoen (javelin), Botswana’s Kabelo Kgosiemang (high jump), Nigerian Damola Osayomi (200m).
Botswana’s Kabelo Kgosiemang and Egyptian Omar […]

Oke break new ground, Dibaba lifts Ethiopian spirits at Africa champ-Day Four

From left Nigerian Tosin Oke (1452) wins men’s triple. Tirunesh Dibaba’s (1532) win lifts Ethiopian spirits. Egypt’s Abdel Mohsen Anani (middle) Africa’s new hammer throw champion. (Right) Ghana’s Margaret Simpson (1659) back to winning ways in heptathlon. 
Nigerian Tosin Oke, Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba, Egypt’s Abdel Mohsen Anani and Ghanaian Margaret Simpson struck gold on the penultimate […]

Libya’s Khawaja make history in dramatic style

Mohamed Khawaja fullfiled his date with Libyan athletics history. After his 400m victory the drama followed.
Mohamed Ashour Khawaja wrote his name into Libyan folklore in dramatic fashion on Day Three at the Africa Senior Athletics Championships in Nyayo National Stadium, Nairobi Kenya on Friday (30 July).
Only those who do not follow athletics closely would not have foreseen […]

El Ghazaly pulls a hatrick, Bourrada a championships record

From left Omar El Ghazaly (1392) won the discus for the third consecutive outing. Algeria’s Lardi Bouraada (1004) set a decathlon champinships record. Kenyan Vivian Cheruiyot (1718) prevailed inthe women’s 5000m and Morocco’s Nisrin Dinar won the women’s pole vault.
  
Despite a season plagued with injury Egyptian defending champion Omar Abdellatif El Ghazaly retained his discus title at […]

Meite, Adigun, Okagbare sparkle as gold rush intensifies

From left Cote d’Ivoire’s Ben Yossef Meite (1345) won the men’s 100m. Second left Seun Adigun (1416) prevailed in women’s 100m Hurdles.  Second right Nigerian Bklessing Okagbare (1442) wins womens 100. Right (wide picture of men’s 100m final.
 Ben Youssef Meite made history handing Cote d’Ivoire their first gold medal at the Africa Senior Championships since 1996 […]