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Airtel Delhi Half Marathon Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw produced a stunning run over in the 2020 Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, a World Athletics Gold Label Road Race. Yehaulaw clocked the second-fastest women’s time ever over the distance when she crossed the line in 64:46. The 21-year-old, who had to settle for third at the World Athletics Read more

One year after finishing second in the 10,000 meters at the 2019 IAAF World Championships, Letesenbet Gidey became the fastest woman to ever run 5,000 meters on the track. On Wednesday, October 7, the Ethiopian shattered the world record, which previously stood for 12 years, at the NN Valencia World Record Day in Valencia, Spain, Read more

Sport-On this day: Born June 13, 1982: Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian runner Source: Yahoo.com FILE PHOTO: Berlin Marathon NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s three-time Olympic and five-time world champion Kenenisa Bekele is one of the African continent’s finest athletes but he still wants to seal his golden legacy by becoming the fastest marathon runner of all time. Read more

Bayelign Teshager, a 20-year-old from Ethiopia making his marathon debut, won the 35th Los Angeles Marathon Sunday morning, pulling away from Kenya’s John Langat in the final mile for a 2 hour, 8 minute, 25 second victory. Teshager, who turns 20 Monday, threw in a series of surges toward the bottom of San Vicente Boulevard Read more

Reigning champion Birhanu Legese successfully defended his title while local star Suguru Osako got closer to securing the final spot on Japan’s Olympic team with a national-record-setting performance in the men’s race at the 2020 Tokyo Marathon on Sunday. Legese, of Ethiopia, crossed the finish line in 2 hours, 4 minutes and 15 seconds in Read more

London (AFP) – Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele broke Mo Farah’s course record as he won the London half-marathon on Sunday in a time of one hour and 22 seconds. Bekele took 1min 18sec off the record set in 2019 by British distance great Farah, who missed this year’s edition with an achilles injury. Britain’s Christopher Thompson Read more

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The president and the prime minister of Portugal added their voices to a national outcry Monday over racist abuse aimed at a black FC Porto soccer player, Moussa Marega,  who walked off the field after hearing monkey chants. Prime Minister Antonio Costa said the incident was “unacceptable” and urged police and Read more

Olika Adugna Bikila won the men’s Dubai Marathon on Friday ahead of Kenyan Eric Kiprono Kiptanui and Ethiopian compatriot Tsedat Abeje Ayana as the top 11 runners finished the race inside two hours and seven minutes Ethiopians dominated the 21st edition of the race, with 10 of the top 11 finishers, and it was the Read more

Seven players from the Eritrean football team have gone missing after playing in the East African regional championship in Uganda. The rest of the squad have returned home following the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup, where they finished runners-up. It’s the second time this year footballers from Eritrea have disappeared while on international duty after five Read more

New York (AFP) – Geoffrey Kamworor and Joyciline Jepkosgei sealed a double victory for Kenya at the New York Marathon on Sunday, storming to convincing wins in the men’s and women’s races at the annual showpiece. Kamworor, the 2017 New York champion, pulled clear in the closing stages to take the tape in Central Park Read more

PALERMO, Italy (AP) — Soccer gave Mewal Tesfai Yosief hope in an authoritarian nation, a job in a country of forced military conscription and, possibly, freedom at last. After scoring two goals for Eritrea’s national under-20 soccer team during a tournament in Uganda late last month, Mewal defected with three teammates. But after applying for Read more