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Athletics Kenya President Jackson Tuwei has unveiled plans to relocate the federation’s headquarters from the current Riadha House, situated next to Nyayo National Stadium, to a new, purpose-built facility at Kasarani.Download our Mozzart Sport app for more newsRiadha House has served as the administrative hub of Athletics Kenya for decades, having been developed alongside the construction of Nyayo National Stadium in the 1980s. Over the years, it has been synonymous with Kenya’s dominance and global success in athletics.##NAJAVA_MECA_6602##However, the federation is now looking to the future, with an ambitious project already underway to establish a modern headquarters on a 20-acre parcel of land in Kasarani.Tuwei disclosed the plans on Thursday morning at State House, Nairobi, during a ceremony held in honour of world marathon record holder Sabastian Sawe, who made history in London over the weekend.Sabastian Sawe rewarded Ksh8 million, car by President Ruto in heroic welcome at Stat..

World indoor champion Cooper Lutkenhaus will face Kenyan legend Emmanuel Wanyonyi in a world-class men’s 800m at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Oslo in June.Download our MozzartSport App For More NewsThe teenage sensation Lutkenhaus will face Olympic, world and Diamond League champion Wanyonyi, in what is a star-studded men’s 800m at the Bislett Games on 10 June.Lutkenhaus stormed into the athletics history books at the World Athletics Indoor Championships last month, when he became the youngest world champion in history at the age of just 17.##NAJAVA_MECA_9712264##He is now setting his sights on a first ever Diamond League campaign, where he will take on the world’s best on some of the sport’s biggest stages.Lutkenhaus will make his Diamond League debut in Stockholm on 7 June, before taking on Wanyonyi and others in another world-class field in Oslo three days later.Wanyonyi, Arop, Sedjati headline stellar 800m cast in Stockholm Diamond LeagueWanyonyi has dominated the men’s 800m..

The race is on for the World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest, with competition hotting up to book a place on the plane to Hungary.Paris Olympic champions and Tokyo world champions have sealed their spots but, with the World Athletics Relays and Diamond League getting underway in May, the ultimate battle for qualification will now begin in earnest.Download our MozzartSport App For More NewsThe Ultimate Championship is the end-of-season clash of the titans that features eight track and five field events each for men and women and two mixed relays across three nights of scintillating competition.The list of those already qualified reads like a who’s who of athletics stars. US sprint duo Noah Lyles and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden have both qualified for the 100m and 200m – athletes are not limited to qualifying in just one discipline.Other star names who have locked in their spots for Hungary include Keely Hodgkinson, Mondo Duplantis, Hamish Kerr and Tara Davis-Woodhall.Sabastian ..

New marathon world record holder Sabastian Sawe was on Thursday, 30 April treated to a heroic welcome by Kenyan President William Ruto at State House, Nairobi, in what a celebration of his history-making milestone at the London Marathon last week.Download our MozzartSport App For More NewsSawe, on Sunday, 26 April, shattered the record books in the English capital, when he clocked a jaw dropping 1:59.30, to become the first man in history to run an official full marathon in under two hours.Sabastian Sawe runs under two hours for first time in marathon historyHis performance, which also bested the previous men’s world record of 2:00.35 set by the late Kelvin Kiptum at the 2023 Chicago Marathon, garnered worldwide recognition, with his motherland stopping at nothing to celebrate the moment.On Wednesday, 29 April, the 31-year-old received a water salute upon jetting back into the country aboard a Kenya Airways flight KQ 113 at 8:35 pm, before being embraced by family and dignitaries, who ..

A fresh chapter of the intriguing rivalry between Kenya’s Faith Cherotich and Kenyan-born Bahraini Winfred Yavi will open, for the first time, this year when the two battle in the second Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Xiamen on Saturday, 23 May.Download our MozzartSport App For More NewsThe duo, who made the headlines for their exciting head-to-head competition last year, will line up for the 12th time in four Diamond League seasons.They are part of a star-studded 3,000m steeplechase lineup, which will include two Olympic champions, two world champions, and all three medallists from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.Athlete name drop 🫳Take a look at the list of names that’s been added for the women’s 3000m Steeplechase in #XiamenDL 🇨🇳🗓️ 23 MayFaith Cherotich 🇰🇪Winfred Yavi 🇧🇭Norah Jeruto 🇰🇿Peruth Chemutai 🇺🇬Marwa Bouzayani 🇹🇳#DiamondLeague 💎 pic.twitter.com/nqXGdPJAhE— Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) April 29, 2026 Yavi and Cherotich have dominated the steeplechase in ..

Kenya’s fastest sprinters are set to compete at the World Athletics Relays scheduled for Saturday, 2 and Sunday, 3 May in Gaborone, Botswana.The country will look to be amongst 12 federations that will automatically secure their spots for the 2027 Beijing World Athletics Championships in each of the six events in Gaborone.Download our Mozzart Sport App for more newsGabby Thomas on balancing healthcare career and elite track competitionOn the first day of the event, the top two teams in each of the four heats will advance to the next day’s finals, while also securing their qualification for next year’s global championships. In the finals on day two, teams will compete for prize money and have the chance to obtain preferential World Championships lane seeding positions.Last year, Kenya secured bronze in the mixed 4x400m relay and qualified the men’s 4x100m team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships during the 2025 World Athletics Relays held in Guangzhou, China, and will be keen to ..

Kenya’s Mathew Kipchumba Kipsang has been crowned the men’s champion as Italy’s Nadia Battocletti retains the women’s overall title as the 2025/26 World Athletics Cross Country Tour came to a conclusion.Download our Mozzart Sport App for more newsAthletes are ranked according to their best three cross-country performance scores achieved between September 2025 and March 2026, of which at least two had to come from World Cross Country Tour meetings.Kipsang notched up three victories at Gold level meetings on the tour, winning in Cardiff, Soria and Atapuerca.##NAJAVA_MECA_9712261##He ended the season level with Burundi’s Rodrigue Kwizera at the top of the standings.The two athletes were also tied on points in the cross-country world rankings. While Kwizera had the edge when it came to the total number of cross-country tour races contested, Kipsang had the head-to-head edge, having beaten Kwizera in their two clashes this season.In line with the principles of the tour regulations, the tie ..

For many elite athletes, the track becomes their entire world before they even turn 20. However, for Gabby Thomas, the journey looked very different. Download our Mozzart Sport app for more newsWhile some of her rivals were already signing professional contracts and dedicating every waking hour to sprinting, Thomas was sitting in lecture halls at Harvard University, immersed in neurobiology and global health studies.Today, she stands as one of the most accomplished athletes in the athletics sphere; Olympic champion, world champion, record-breaker, while simultaneously building a career in public health and epidemiology.Sabastian Sawe opens up on how he overcame injury to break marathon recordThomas has become one of the rare modern athletes capable of balancing two demanding worlds at the highest level: elite sport and advanced academia.She graduated from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in neurobiology and global health before earning a master’s degree in epidemiology from the Univers..

Kenyan marathoner Sabastian Sawe has explained the work and dedication behind his success in the London Marathon, where he became the first human to run a sub-two-hour marathon in an official race.Sawe shook the world after completing his race in one hour, 59 minutes, 30 seconds, breaking the world record of 2:00.35 set by his compatriot, the late Kelvin Kiptum, on 3 October 2023 at the Chicago Marathon.Download our Mozzart Sport App for more newsConsequently, he had also become the first human to run an official marathon in under two hours.##NAJAVA_MECA_9702067##The legendary Eliud Kipchoge completed the Marathon in 1:59:40.2 in an exhibition race held in 2019.Speaking after shattering the world record and creating history, Sawe expressed his joy and its impact on him and Kenya at large.“I am so happy and excited to run a World Record in London. I did not believe it, but I was well prepared, and I am glad the results of my training have bore fruits.It means a lot to me, my family and ..

Sabastian Sawe made history at this year’s London Marathon by becoming the first man to officially break two hours for the distance, winning the race in a world record of 1:59:30.Download our Mozzart Sport App for more newsThe 31-year-old took 65 seconds off the previous world record set by the late Kelvin Kiptum in Chicago in 2023, while also surpassing Eliud Kipchoge’s 1:59:41 exhibition performance from 2019.While the world celebrates an achievement previously thought unfathomable, Sawe is raking in millions for the feat.Ferdinand Omanyala outlines lofty goals for this seasonHe is set to bank a whopping Ksh26.5 million (USD 205,000) after storming to the historic London Marathon victory on Sunday. He earned Ksh7.1 million (USD 55,000), topping it up with a bonus of Ksh16.1 million (USD 125,000) for breaking the World Record and a further Ksh3.2 million (USD 25,000) for smashing the London Marathon Course Record.In a landmark day for marathon running, Yomif Kejelcha finished second i..