Athletics

Kenyan athletics stars will have the opportunity to compete for a share of a record-breaking prize purse when the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship makes its debut in Budapest, Hungary, from Friday, 11 to Sunday, 13 September.The three-day competition will bring together the world’s biggest athletics stars, including Olympic champions, World champions and Wanda Diamond League winners, in a new event designed to determine the sport’s ultimate champions.Download our Mozzart Sport App for more newsWorld Athletics has set aside a record $10 million (approximately Ksh1.3 billion) prize fund, the largest ever offered in track and field. Individual event winners will walk away with $150,000 (about Ksh19.4 million), while every athlete who competes will be guaranteed prize money regardless of their finishing position.##NAJAVA_MECA_9857637##The championship programme will feature 28 finals spread across three days, with both men’s and women’s competitions in the 100m, 200m, 400m, ..

Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi will extend his ever-growing rivalry with former World Champion Marco Arop, when the two athletes collide at the Weltklasse Zürich Diamond League on Thursday, 27 August at the Letzigrund Stadium.Download Our MozzartSport App For More NewsThe duo were last week announced by organizers as the headliners of the men’s 800m race, which will precede another potential showdown between the pair, a week later in the season-ending Brussels Diamond League meet.Wanyonyi, who is yet to win an 800m race this year, will come up against Arop for only the second time this season.##NAJAVA_MECA_9857637##Following their meet-up at the Oslo leg in early June – when Wanyonyi finished second and Arop third – the pair, who have been frontrunners in the two-lap event for the last four years. They had been expected to matchup at the recently-concluded London Diamond League last weekend, only for the Canadian to miss out with reported visa and travel issues.Wanyonyi, Arop to co..

Team Kenya athletes will receive record cash rewards for winning medals at the 2026 Commonwealth Games after the government unveiled a significantly enhanced incentive scheme ahead of the competition in Glasgow, Scotland.Download our Mozzart Sport App for more newsUnder the new reward structure, every gold medal winner will pocket Ksh2.5 million, a fivefold increase from the Ksh500,000 awarded to gold medalists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.Silver medalists will earn Ksh1.5 million, up from Ksh300,000 at the previous edition, while bronze medalists will take home Ksh1 million.##NAJAVA_MECA_9858214##The revised package was announced by Principal Secretary for Sports Elijah Mwangi during the official flag-off ceremony for Team Kenya ahead of the Games, which will run from 23 July to 2 August in Glasgow.”Any gold medal winner will receive Ksh2.5 million, and that figure has already been approved by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission. Since this is government money, al..

Kenyan javelin legend Julius Yego is under no illusions on the level of opposition he will have to overcome, should he enjoy a fairytale finish to what he believes will be his last Commonwealth Games appearance later this month.Download our Mozzart Sport App for more newsYego, 37, is among Kenya’s standout athletes who will feature at the forthcoming 2026 Commonwealth Games, scheduled for Thursday, 23 July to Sunday, 2 August in Glasgow, Scotland.Having dominated the event for more than two decades, dating back to the year 2006 when he won the national junior title and broke the Kenyan junior record, Yego is with no doubts right in the sunset years of his career, a fact that has not been lost on him heading back into the venue that gave him his first international gold medal.Kenyan Javelin icon Julius Yego announces retirement timeline”I was in Glasgow in 2014, and I won, so I am going back to pick it up from there,” Yego told The Star during his final set of preparations at Kasarani S..

USA athlete Brandon Miller has credited Kenya’s David Rudisha for inspiring him ahead of his 800m personal best time at the London Diamond League on Saturday, 18 July.Download our Mozzart Sport App for more newsMiller, off a brilliant victory at the Prefontaine Classic on 3 July, stepped it up a notch at the London Stadium on Saturday, soundly beating a stacked field to romp away to a victory that improved his career-best time in the two-lap event by almost a second to 1:42.19.Timing his race to near-perfection, the understated 24-year-old broke out from mid-field to close down Kenyan Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi with 200m to go, clinching fourth consecutive victory.©Getty ImagesUnbeknownst to many, Miller had been keenly observing one of the greatest 800m runners in history, including watching his record-breaking run on the very morning of the race.“Feels absolutely amazing to have run on the same track David Rudisha ran 14 years ago,” Miller told Citius Mag after the race, refe..

Behind every sprint, every finish line and every Kenyan flag draped over an athlete’s shoulders is a financial battle few ever get to witness.Download our Mozzart Sport app for more newsWhile fans celebrate medals and personal bests, many of the country’s top athletes are quietly fighting another race, one against the rising cost of training, travel, nutrition and medical care.For five-time national champion Zablon Ekwam, earning a place at the Commonwealth Games has not just demanded speed on the track, but hundreds of thousands of shillings off it.Hodgkinson opens up on dealing with Lilian Odira, other 800m rivals this seasonFrom Thursday, 23 July to Sunday, 2 August, Ekwam will line up in the men’s 200m at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, alongside Elkana Kiprotich.Curious about the financial realities behind Kenya’s sprinting success, Mozzart Sport sat down with Ekwam to understand what it truly costs to chase a place at the Commonwealth Games.The former 400m specialist..

Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson says she welcomes the rivalries currently existing in the women’s 800m event. She thinks they will bring the best of her in the future.Download our Mozzart Sport App for more newsThe 24-year-old, speaking ahead of her second home Diamond League appearance in London on Saturday, 18 July, said it was harder not to miss the performances of her stern compatriots, and was looking forward to racing against anyone of them.##NAJAVA_MECA_9851784##Following some dull years in the two-lap event previously, 2026 has offered fans a look at the sort of competition to expect going forward. The aforementioned Hodgkinson, Kenya’s Lilian Odira, who is the reigning World Champion, Switzerland’s Audrey Werro, the Diamond League champion from last year, and the new entrant to the field in former 400m hurdles star Femke Broeders-Bol have helped rise the bar higher. Timothy Cheruiyot eyes elusive Commonwealth gold in GlasgowAsked whether she was keeping up with her rivals’ p..

Former world 1,500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot is determined to end his long wait for Commonwealth Games gold after securing his place in Kenya’s squad for the 2026 Games in Glasgow, Scotland.Download our Mozzart Sport app for more newsCheruiyot, who has settled for silver at the last two editions of the Games in Gold Coast in 2018 and Birmingham in 2022, booked his ticket by winning the national trials in Nairobi and will spearhead Kenya’s challenge in the newly introduced Mile event.##NAJAVA_MECA_9847519##The experienced middle-distance runner will be joined by Reynold Cheruiyot and Brian Komen as Kenya seeks to dominate the event at the Games, scheduled for July 23 to August 2.”I thank God for having been in running for a long time because staying active in athletics for many years is not easy. It takes a lot of focus and discipline, and I am happy that I will represent Kenya again, hoping to run well. We are one team, and together with Brian Komen and Reynold Cheruiyot, we want to ..

Deep fields full of global medallists and world record-holders will light up the Novuna London Athletics Meet when Wanda Diamond League action continues in the UK capital on Saturday, 18 July.Download our Mozzart Sport App for more newsEmmanuel Wanyonyi races the 800m a week on from becoming the fastest 1000m runner in history. His fellow world record-holder Ja’Kobe Tharp headlines the 110m hurdles, and Josh Kerr goes on the hunt for a world record of his own.Julien Alfred, Mondo Duplantis, Keely Hodgkinson, Femke Broeders-Bol and Yaroslava Mahuchikh are among the many other world and Olympic champions who will be in London as the race towards the Diamond League Final in Brussels, and the World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest in September intensifies.##NAJAVA_MECA_9847488##Kenya’s Olympic and world 800m champion Wanyonyi improved the world 1000m record by 0.13 during the Diamond League meeting in Monaco, running 2:11.83. Great Britain’s 2022 world 1500m champion Jake Wightm..

Olympic and world 800m champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi walked away with close to Ksh8 million after producing a historic world record performance at the Monaco Diamond League.Download our Mozzart Sport app for more newsWanyonyi shattered Noah Ngeny’s 27-year-old 1000m world record on Friday, 10 July, earning not only victory but also the lucrative World Athletics Diamond League world record bonus.A Diamond League race winner receives $10,000 (approximately Ksh1.3 million) in prize money. However, athletes who break a world record are awarded an additional $50,000 (approximately Ksh6.4 million) bonus.Remarkable sporting achievements of police who went viral during Saba SabaThat means Wanyonyi pocketed $60,000 (approximately Ksh7.7 million) from his memorable outing in Monaco, making him the biggest financial winner at the meeting. The Kenyan is also expected to receive an undisclosed appearance fee, which will further increase his earnings from the event.Making his highly anticipated debut o..