Category Archives: Athletics

Bolt Dusts Gatlin For Rio Olympic 100m Gold

August 15 Athletics, Sports 44 comments

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt became the first athlete to win three Olympic 100m titles by beating American Justin Gatlin to gold at Rio 2016. Bolt, 29, ran 9.81 seconds in his final Olympics to replicate his success at Bei...

Team Nigeria Land In S/Africa For Athletics Championships

June 22 Athletics, Sports 32 comments

26 track and field athletes will represent Nigeria when the 20th Africa Senior Athletics Championships get off the blocks on Tuesday in Durban South Africa. That last batch left the country Monday night while 15 came in ...

Semenya Wins 800m At First Diamond League In Africa

May 23 Athletics, Sports 1 comment

South Africa’s Caster Semenya won the 800m at the Diamond League meeting in Rabat, Morocco – the first to be held in Africa. Semenya, 25 – who underwent gender testing after winning gold at the 2009 Wor...

World Champion Aregawi Fails Drugs Test

March 1 Athletics, Sports 30 comments

World indoor 1500m champion Abeba Aregawi has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance. The Ethiopia-born Swede, 25, failed an out-of-competition test conducted by governing body, the IA...

Olympics: AFN invites Brume, 15 Others To Port Harcourt Camp

February 23 Athletics, Sports 41 comments

.AFN boss Solomon Ogba. – Glasgow 2016 Commonwealth gold medalist in long jump Ese Brume and 15 other athletes are to report at the Port Harcourt camp of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, for the Rio 2016 O...

What A Rush: 150 Elite Athletes, 20,000 Runners Sign For Access Bank L...

February 2 Athletics, Sports 37 comments

Reports from the organisers of the inaugural edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon say close to one hundred and fifty local and international elite runners have signed on for the race. As at close of work on Sun...

Sound Sultan Applauds Lagos Marathon, Signs For Race

January 30 Athletics, Sports 33 comments

Foremost Nigeria Hip Hop artist Fasasi Olarenwaju a.ka Sound Sultan has signed on for the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon Race billed to take place on 6 February, 2016 in the Centre of Excellence. Sound Sultan and some o...

Access Bank Lagos City Marathon: Athletes Gets Bib Numbers

January 26 Athletics, Sports 32 comments

.Yussuf Alli, GM, Access Bank Lagos City Marathon – Athletes that have registered their ambition to be part of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon will from Tuesday, 26 January, 2016 start collecting their bib numb...

Access Bank Lagos City Marathon Begins With Expo

January 26 Athletics, Sports 38 comments

Though the main act, the 2016 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, will not flag off until 6 February, the main lead up activities to the first full international marathon in Nigeria in 30 years, Lagos City Marathon Expo, st...

Ogba Confirms IAAF Boss Coe For Access Bank Lagos City Marathon

January 23 Athletics, Sports 45 comments

The President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, Evangelist Solomon Ogba has confirmed that the IAAF President Lord Sebastian Coe will be in Lagos for the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon. Speaking from Dubai on...

Olamide, Others Sign For Access Bank Lagos City Marathon

January 22 Athletics, Sports 32 comments

The secretariat of the Lagos City Marathon was a beehive of activities on Thursday as music star Olamide Adedeji popularly called Olamide, media celebrity Jimi Disu, Rapper Ogunbote aka Jaayglow and national champion in ...

Transponders For Access Bank Lagos City Marathon Arrive

January 21 Athletics, Sports 29 comments

The Access Bank Lagos City Marathon on Wednesday scored another first as transponders imported for the race arrived the Secretariat of the Organizing Committee at Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos. February 6, 2016...

NSC Eats Own Words As Okagbare Tops Nigeria Athletics Team To Congo

September 10 All-Africa Games, Athletics, Sports 34 comments

The National Sports Commission, NSC, which earlier placed a ban on Africa’s fastest woman Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor Mfr, may have eaten its words after all, as she now leads the Nigeria athletics team to the A...

Fraser-Pryce Retains World 100m Title

August 24 Athletics, Sports 1 comment

Double-Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce continued the Jamaican sprint dominance of the Bird’s Nest as she retained her world 100m title in blistering fashion at the World Championships. Twenty-four hours on...

Seb Coe Elected As New IAAF President

August 19 Athletics, Sports 39 comments

Two time Olympic 1500m champion British Seb Coe was on Wednesday, 19 August, 2015 elected president of the Athletics governing body IAAF, beating Ukrainian Sergey Bubka by 115 votes to 92 in Beijing, China. Coe, 58, succ...

Okagbare Leads Team Nigeria To IAAF Championships

August 12 Athletics, Sports 1,471 comments

The 15th IAAF Championships will kick off on 22 August and Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor will lead Nigeria’s charge for medals along with 22 other athletes who have been invited to represent the country by the Athletics...

Ogunkoya, Ali Task Corporate Nigeria On Athletics

July 14 Athletics, Sports 54 comments

Africa’s foremost former women’s quarter-miler, Falilat Ogunkoya and Nigeria’s long jump record holder, Yusuf Ali have called on corporate bodies in the country to support athletics and other sports by sponsoring events ...

Okagbare Shines At Paris Golden League

July 6 Athletics, Sports 66 comments

Nigeria’s fastest woman, Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor, put on a blistering performance over the weekend, running the second fastest 100 metre race of her career at the Paris Diamond League. This follows on from her win...

Golden League Begins In Anambra State Thursday

June 8 Athletics, Sports 1,240 comments

ATHLETICS: It will be battle of the fittest on Thursday, 11 June at the Rojenny Stadium, Oba in Anambra state as the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) begins its 2015 Golden League competition to further prepare home...

NIS Registrar Obajimi Loses Mother

June 6 Athletics 74 comments

Former Nigerian athlete and now Registrar of National Institute For Sports, Dr. (Mrs) Gloria Obajimi has lost her mother, Deaconess Agnes Olaide Ayanlaja, who died at the aged of 86yrs. Obajimi hinted that the burial arr...

Okagbare Beaten At Diamond League

June 1 Athletics 33 comments

Nigeria and Africa’s fastest woman Blessing Okagbare was beaten to the fourth position in the 100m women event during the third leg of the 2015 IAAF Diamond League at the Prefontaine Classic, an event loaded with s...

Bolt Grabs 200m Title At Golden Spike Meet

May 27 Athletics 37 comments

Usain Bolt was an easy winner in his first race of the year in Europe, but failed to break 20 seconds in the 200m at the Golden Spike meet in Ostrava. In wet conditions, Jamaica’s six-time Olympic gold medalist clo...

Okagbare Shines As Golden League Begins

May 18 Athletics, Sports 1 comment

Nigeria and Africa’s fastest woman, Blessing Okagbare got her season underway with a dominating win at the 2015 Shanghai Diamond League on Sunday, winning the women’s 100m in 10.98s. Okagbare got ahead of a star-st...