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The Wanda Diamond League has unveiled its 2027 calendar, with the 15-meeting series set to begin in Doha, Qatar, on Friday, 7 May, before culminating in a two-day final in Zurich, Switzerland, on Wednesday, 25 and Thursday, 26 August.Download our Mozzart Sport app for more newsThe 2027 campaign will mark the 18th season of the premier global one-day athletics series, bringing together the world’s leading track and field athletes across 15 cities on four continents.The calendar will see athletes compete for qualification points across 14 series meetings before the season concludes with the Diamond League Final, where champions in individual disciplines will be crowned.Harambee Starlets wipe the floor with Seychelles in 22-0 aggregate victoryOlympic 800m defending champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi will enter the new campaign as the defending Diamond League champion, with the series offering another chance to test himself against the world’s best.The Road to the Final will begin in Doha on Frida..

Philemon Kiriago successfully defended his overall World Mountain Running Association (WMRA) World Cup title after winning the classic race at Défi des Couleurs in Quebec, Canada, on Sunday, 11 October.Kiriago clocked 1:11:24 in the approximately 16km up-and-down race, finishing 19 seconds ahead of American Mason Coppi, while Canadian Remi Leroux completed the podium in 1:13:21.##NAJAVA_MECA_10017190##The victory confirmed Kiriago’s second consecutive overall World Cup title, with the Kenyan finishing the season on 396 points, well ahead of compatriots Richard Atuya, who collected 290 points, and Michael Saoli, who managed 223.Kiriago had finished fourth in Saturday’s uphill race but bounced back in the classic event, taking control early and maintaining his advantage despite a late challenge from Coppi on the final descentKenya enjoyed a strong campaign across the different disciplines, with its athletes claiming both the men’s and women’s overall titles, alongside honours in the indi..

Marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge says his body is still able to compete with the next generation, following his first win in three years in Melbourne, Australia on Sunday, 11 October.Download our Mozzart Sport app for more newsKipchoge, 41, was in cruise control in the race down under, crossing the finish line in a course record time of 2:09.10.The race was the third leg of Kipchoge’s World Tour, under which he plans to raise money for helpful causes by completing seven marathons on all seven continents, including Antarctica, over two years.Amos Kipruto obliterates Ugandan rival to win Chicago MarathonOn his way to taking two seconds off the previous race record, the two-time Olympic champion broke away inside the last 10km on a course that partly used the Australian Formula One track at Albert Park, and finished inside the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).The win, a career 17th, was Kipchoge’s first victory since taking the Berlin Marathon crown in 2023.##NAJAVA_MECA_10017147##“On ..

Kenyan runner Amos Kipruto is the new Bank of America Chicago Marathon champion, following his second major win on Sunday, 11 October.Download our Mozzart Sport app for more newsKipruto, 34, dislodged defending champion Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda with over 10 kilometers to go, to streak away to victory in a personal best time of 2:01.09.The 2022 London Marathon champion, in his third visit to the Windy City, had looked poised for a big battle with Kiplimo shortly after the 30 kilometer mark, but for the Kenyan to unleash a big kick that the fastest man on the field could not react to.UoN’s The Hotrods quartet land fully paid South Africa trip after Open Lanes Varsity Invitational victoryKipruto would go ahead to finish just eight seconds below the projected sub 2:01 time he had been running under, but lowered his personal best from London this year by 29 seconds.”It was either win or die for me,” a smiling Kipruto, who missed out on wins during his first two visits in Chicago, said post-r..

Kenyan marathoner Sharon Lokedi says she is using all her past winning experiences in the New York and Boston Marathons, for her first stab at a flat Major in Chicago on Sunday, 11 October.Download our Mozzart Sport app for more newsLokedi, 32, is among the favorites in the women’s elite field, tackling a course that could see her make history as the first woman to win the three US Majors.##NAJAVA_MECA_10017162##Having conquered Boston twice (2025 and 2026) and New York in 2022, Lokedi is quietly confident of pulling yet another winning move this weekend, this despite facing a different course, and a deep field.Kosgei, Lokedi headline loaded Chicago Marathon women’s field“Every marathon is different,” Lokedi told Olympics.com on Thursday. “Chicago is a different course and a different race, so I don’t want to assume that what worked in Boston or New York will automatically work here.“What I take from those races is the belief that I know how to compete, stay patient and handle difficul..

The 2026 Chicago Marathon has assembled an impressive men’s elite field featuring some of the world’s leading distance runners. Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo, Kenya’s Amos Kipruto, Daniel Mateiko, Ethiopia’s Tadese Takele and Milkesa Mengesha are among the headline names.The marathon is slated for Sunday, 11 October.Six men in the field have run under 2:04:00 in the marathon over the past two years, setting the stage for a competitive contest on the streets of Chicago.Download our MozzartSport App For More NewsBeyond the battle for the title, attention will also be on whether the winner can challenge the course record of 2:00:35 or even the world record of 1:59:30. A sub-two-hour performance would also mark a historic milestone for a marathon held on American soil.Kiplimo, the defending champion, enters the race as the leading favourite following a remarkable progression in his marathon career.##NAJAVA_MECA_10017201##The 25-year-old Ugandan has improved his personal best in each of his three ..

Maurine Jepkoech Chebor and Sandrafelis Chebet will lead a strong women’s field at the fifth edition of the national Cross Country series on Saturday, 10 October at the Kericho Teachers Training College as more than 900 men and women athletes battle for a share of more than Ksh1.1 million up for grabs.Download our MozzartSport App For More NewsLast year’s runners-up Abigael Chepkoech and third-place finisher Diana Chepkemoi also return to Kericho with the aim of going one-better this time around. Chepkoech clocked 33:54.73 to finish runner-up to winner Caren Chebet last year, while Chepkemoi completed the podium in 34:13.85.Leading the field alongside them is Chebor, who comes into the race following an impressive season that included successfully defending her BingwaFest National Finals 10,000m title in Meru. She clocked 32:17.2 at Kinoru Stadium to retain the title she won during the inaugural edition.Zablon Chumba out to defend Lisbon title as Ruth Chebitok eyes course recordThe men..

Former world record-holder Brigid Kosgei and two-time Boston champion Sharon Lokedi head to Sunday’s, 11 October, Chicago Marathon as favourites, headlining a field that includes defending champion Hawi Feysa.While Feysa is the defending women’s champion, Kosgei has perhaps the strongest historical connection with the Chicago course.Download our MozzartSport App For More NewsThe Kenyan won there in 2018 before returning the following year to clock 2:14:04, taking 81 seconds off Paula Radcliffe’s long-standing world record. She has not raced in Chicago since that performance.Now 32, Kosgei has returned to some of her best form this year. She won the Tokyo Marathon in March in 2:14:29, the second-fastest time of her career and an Asian all-comers’ record.Feysa was third in that race in 2:17:39, having enjoyed the biggest victory of her career in Chicago five months earlier. The Ethiopian pulled away from the field to win the 2025 race in 2:14:57, more than two minutes ahead of compatriot..

The Hotrods Quartet team from the University of Nairobi (UoN) emerged victorious at the Open Lanes Varsity Invitational finals, clinching the title with 30 points.They narrowly outscored fellow UoN team, Untamed, who finished second with 28 points, while Kenyatta University’s Endzone finished third with 22 points.Download our MozzartSport App For More NewsHotrods delivered a strong performance across the competition, earning 10 points per race to secure their overall victory and claim bragging rights as the inaugural Open Lanes Varsity Invitational champions.Their win secured them the grand prize of a fully paid trip to South Africa for a race experience.”Winning the Open Lanes competition still feels surreal for me and my team. We are proud of ourselves, our strategy, and our teamwork. Every race pushed us differently, and we had to rely on each other to make the right decisions as a team. This is an experience we will definitely never forget,” Hotrods skipper offered.Zablon Chumba ou..

For Günter Younger, the fight against doping did not begin in a laboratory or on a sporting field. It began in the world of organised crime.Download our Mozzart Sport app for more newsLong before he became one of the key figures in global anti-doping, Younger spent years investigating drug trafficking networks, counterfeit currency syndicates and organised crime in Germany and across international law-enforcement agencies.Today, as the Director of Intelligence and Investigations at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), he applies that same investigative mindset to spot-track the people, networks and systems operating behind the use and distribution of performance-enhancing drugs.His journey from German police detective to one of the leading figures in the global fight for clean sport is an unlikely one, but one that has placed him at the centre of some of the most significant anti-doping investigations of the modern era.##NAJAVA_MECA_1001006710010067##From Bavarian police to internation..