Abidjan has got its African Athletics Development Center (AADC) on Thursday, October 14, 2021, by signing the tripartite agreement between the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA), the Ivorian Athletics Federation (FIA) and the national institute of youth and sports (INJS).

The  Confederation of African Athletics(CAA) is organizing a virtual ORDINARY congress on Tuesday, September 28, 2021. Several items are on the agenda for this meeting.

Kenyan Ferdinand Omayala signed a resounding feat by setting a new African record in the 100m in 9''77 at the Kip Keino Classic meeting in Nairobi on Saturday, September 18, 2021. This performance propels the Kenyan sprinter into the Top 10 all time. Omayala, second in the race behind American Trayvon Bomell, wiped South African Akani Simbine from the African shelves (9’84 last July).

A number of Tokyo Olympic medallists, including champions Faith Kipyegon and Peruth Chemutai, will be among the athletes in action at the Kip Keino Classic, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting, in Nairobi, Kenya, on 18 September.

Athletes from at least 28 countries are expected to compete when the final meeting of this year’s Continental Tour Gold series is held at the Kasarani Stadium, which recently hosted the World Athletics U20 Championships.

The World Junior (U20) Athletics Championships, held from August 18 to 22 in Nairobi, Kenya, witnessed the breaking of four U20 world records, 15 championship records, 11 junior continental records, 68 national records of the category and 10 senior national records.

This first world event of World Athletics organized on the African continent, allowed Africa to achieve great performances from sprint to long distance and field events.

The World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi (Kenya) will be held from August 18 to 22. First scheduled for Tuesday August 17, the first day of competition was postponed to the next day to allow teams to reach Kenya despite the constraints related to the health crisis.

Interview by Mohammed Benchrif

After 10 days of competition (30 July - 8 August), the athletes from the African continent left the XXXII Olympic Games in Tokyo with a harvest of 23 medals (8 gold, 7 silver and 8 bronze). Eight nations of the continent contributed to this achievement, namely Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Botswana.

In a very difficult context due to the pandemic, African athletes have once again demonstrated the excellent health of African athletics, a source of satisfaction for the President of the Confederation of African Athletics, Mr Hamad Kalkaba Malboum, who kindly granted us this exclusive interview.

Mohammed Benchrif (translated by Raphael Miller)

The Tokyo Olympics closed on Sunday with a final flourish thanks to the second consecutive Olympic title for Eliud Kipchoge in the marathon.

After 10 days of competitions (30^thJuly -8^thAugust), the representatives of the African continentare set to depart from the 32^ndOlympic Games held in Tokyo with a haul of 23 medals (8 of them gold, 7 silver and 8 bronze).

Eight (8) African nations have played their part in amassing this collection (Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Botswana).

Kenya once again led the packwith 10 podium finishes, four of which were first places, which propelled the country to 3^rd place on the track and field medal table behind the USA (26 medals including 7 gold) and Italy (5 gold medals).

(Mohammed Benchrif)   

Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge triumphed in Sunday’s Olympic marathon in Sapporo (north Japan). He led from the front and left his main competitors in his wake after breaking away from them 10 kilometres from the finish line, which he crossed with a time of 2hours 08 min 38 sec. 

Dutch athlete Abdi Nageeye (+1min 20sec) and Belgian Bashir Abdi (+1min 22sec), both originally from Somalia, took the two remaining podium spotsruling out another Kenyan one-two the day after the one seen in the women’s marathon.