Dr. Tedros meets Tanzanian athletes taking training in Ethiopia

Nairobi — KENYAN athletes are favoured to clinch medals at the highly-anticipated ninth World Junior Championships that kick off on Tuesday. Nonetheless, they face stiff competition from traditional African long distance rivals Ethiopia. The ...

GABORONE (Botswana)- Algerian athlete Hicham Bouhanoun has won the only Algerian gold medal on the last day of the African Youth Games (AYG2014) in the high jump event Saturday in Gaborone. Bouhanoun, 16, who is competing for the first time in an ...

Ethiopians Dominate Top Spots OTTAWA, ON --(Marketwired - May 25, 2014) - Three records were broken today at the 40 th running of the Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon of the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend. Yemane Tsegay, 29, of Ethiopia, ...

There have been national junior championships for athletes dating back to the 1920s, with the former Czechoslovakia having organised what is believed to be the first in 1921, but having a global event - the IAAF World Junior Championships - that ...

Shouting, screaming and clapping hands, students aged anywhere from nine to 13 look ecstatic and full of energy, showing off their athletic abilities through fast, high and spinning moves. Misgun Fantahun, a 11-year-old taekwondo student, took his ...

Listen Origin: Russia 08/13/2013 08:42 GMT ATHLETICS-WORLD-DAY5 World Sports AFP Multiple columnsMore recent storyPrevious story =(Picture)= by Luke Phillips MOSCOW, August 13, 2013 (AFP) Russia will be gunning for a third and final ...

It's common knowledge that elite athletes of African descent, particularly from East and West Africa, are amongthe fastest runners in the world. And when it comes to marathoners, East Africans — most notably Kenyans and Ethiopians — have ...

The fourth episode of IAAF Inside Athletics is available to watch online now. This show features an exclusive and in-depth interview with USAs four-time world 110m hurdles champion Allen Johnson. IAAF Inside Athletics is hosted by Trinidad and ...

A concert held at Qatar Sports Club last Friday featuring popular Filipino and Ethiopian artistes has been the subject of complaints by a number of people who alleged that the Filipino organisers sold tickets, which were supposed to be free, to ...