The Olympics long jump silver medalist, South Africa Luvo Manyonga who was last week handed a four-year ban after his whereabouts failure has finally opened up on what led to the failure. The troubled Manyonga, blamed the whole debacle on his mother Joyce’s death last year in a bizarred explanation of consulting an herbalist who […]
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The current European Indoor shot put champion, Portuguese Aurior Dongmo hit her life best on Wednesday (3) at Ibero-America Huelva meet. The former Cameroonian Africa Champion, Aurior broke her own Portuga shot put national record with a world leading throw of 19.75m to silence the doupting Thomas. Another national record was recorded in long jump. […]
The reigning World long jump champion, German Malaika Mihambo is really trying hard to improve her speed and endurance with her new coach the great Carl Lewis. At the Pliezhausen German Meet on Saturday (8), the 27 years old Malaika who was born to a Tanzania father triumphed on 150m to beat Laura Muller in […]
The Algerian triple jump record holder and 2019 All African Games Champion, Yasser Mohamed Triki was in awesome form at the Algers Meet on Friday (7). Yasser was almost equal his 17.08m triple jump national record which he set last by jumping 17.06m (0.6) to win. In the 800m, Mohamed Belbachir won in 1:45.50 beating […]
Athletics in Tel Aviv capital city of Isreal was agog as several Isreali national record holder turned up for the local meet at the Tel Aviv beautiful stadium arena on Saturday (1). Although Blessing Afrifa 21.11s over 200m was a bit far from national record but in 1500m, it was Necho Tayachew that was more […]