Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan has won the women’s 100 metres hurdles at the Stockholm Diamond League, with an impressive time of 12.52 seconds. She beat Sarah Lavin who clocked a personal best of 12.73 seconds for second and Pia Skrzyszowska in 12.78 seconds in third place. Tobi finished in second position in the 100 metres hurdles event at the Lausanne Diamond …

A Texas therapist faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty on Monday to supplying performance-enhancing drugs to Olympic athletes, including banned Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare, United States authorities said. Eric Lira, a “naturopathic” therapist based in the city of El Paso, is the first individual to be convicted under a new US law introduced in the wake of …

Nine secondary schools from Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State featured at the 2023 Commonwealth Grassroots Sports Development programme recently held at the Olympafrica Centre, Amuwo Odofin, Lagos. The schools included Sanya Senior Secondary School, Covenant Child Academy, Meritplace College, John Kennedy International School, Westminster College, Ijeshatedo Senior Secondary School, Prestige School, God’s Own Private School Andrew Brightfield …

Nigeria’s long jump star, Ese Brume, has won the long jump event at the Botswana Golden Grand Prix with a world-leading distance of 6.77m She began her outdoor games to win the women’s long jump event at the event. Brume defeated Burkina Faso’s Marthe Koala, who had led until that moment with 6.69m in the third round. The victory record …

Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma shattered the 25-year-old world 3,000m indoor record on Wednesday by more than one second at the Lieven meeting as Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis won his third successive pole vault event. Girma clocked 7min 23.81sec to better the old mark of 7min 24.90sec set by Kenya’s Daniel Komen at Budapest in February 1998. The Ethiopian raced alone over the …

Over 2,000 international elite athletes from across the world have registered for the Gold-Label Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, setting a record of entries for any marathon in Africa. The race holds on Saturday, 4 February. The General Manager of the race, Yussuf Alli said at the weekend that: “The elite entries would have been more, if the organisers had …

Reigning world 100 metres hurdles champion and record holder, Tobi Amusan tops the list of six Nigerian track and field athletes who made the top 20 ranking in their respective events following the last update for the outgoing year by World Athletics. Amusan was ranked the best sprint hurdler in 2022 following her incredible performances in the outgoing year highlighted …

The Technical Director of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, Mr Yusuf Alli has reaffirmed that the 2023 edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon will hold on Saturday 4th February 2023. Alli issued a statement on Tuesday dismissing an online media report that the race has been moved to 12th February. The three-time Olympian and 1990 Commonwealth Games …

The world record holder and 100m hurdles champion, Tobi Amusan has been nominated for 2022 Women’s World Athlete of the Year. Nine other athletes are in the list with the winner announced early December. Announcing the nominees for the award, the World Athletics explained that the 10 nominees were selected by an international panel of athletics experts, from all its …

The Access Bank Lagos City Marathon has submitted an application for an upgrade to become the biggest and highest rated full road race in Africa. The Technical Director of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, Yusuf Ali, who submitted the request at the headquarters of the World Athletics in Monaco, France, said in Benin City, Edo State over the weekend that …