The 2026 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon seeks World Major status, welcoming 27,000 runners and sponsoring 2025 entrants ...

A Catholic church in Eldoret, an epicenter of global long-distance running in the north Rift Valley region of Kenya, is in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: At this training ground in Kenya's Iten there was a sense of relief on Tuesday (September 10). Athletes here have learned ...

A new study reveals troubling mental health ramifications for Kenyan runners facing bans from the sport. Amid a major doping crisis that’s plagued the East African nation for decades, the research ...

Rebecca Cheptegei loved chickens. She reared them and collected their eggs each morning. Her family would gently joke she loved them too much. “She was always laughing,” says her mother, Agnes. “You ...

Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei’s horrific death after being doused with petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend has again brought to the fore Kenya’s harrowing history of domestic violence against ...

BUKWO, Uganda (AP) — Thousands of mourners in Uganda paid their respects Saturday to Rebecca Cheptegei, the Olympic athlete who died last week in Kenya after her partner set her on fire. The military ...

Kenya hosts the world junior athletics championships in just over a year, hoping to showcase its future stars and the potential the country has to stage international athletics competitions. Athletes ...

Guys, here is a perfect opportunity for us to show the global scene our sporting signature –Kenya is the Mecca of world athletics. Kenya’s three Olympic champions in Faith Kipyegon (1500m), Beatrice ...

Kenyan runner Wesley Korir, winner of the 2012 Boston Marathon, tells CNN that being a runner is “like a volunteer job” for Kenyans. Now, due to a new tax on athletes’ prize money from international ...

Thousands of mourners in Uganda paid respects to Rebecca Cheptegei, the Olympic athlete who died last week in Kenya after her partner set her on fire, at a military funeral in a remote town near the ...