TOKYO (AP) — They ran for more than two hours and needed a photo finish to determine the winner. Alphonce Simbu of Tanzania edged out Amanal Petros in a wild men's marathon at world championships ...

Female runners won six of Kenya’s seven gold medals at the World Athletics Championships, topping the podium in every event ...

In the final medal standings, Africa emerged as the second-best performing bloc worldwide. Individually, Kenya ranked second globally behind the U.S., Botswana came fifth, Tanzania 19th, Ethiopia 22nd ...

Continuing a run of middle distance and distance upsets in Tokyo, Kenya’s Lilian Odira sprang one of the biggest surprises of ...

The controversy erupted on Tuesday when Citizen Digital posted a video showing Jepchirchir, who had just won the women's ...

Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir and Tanzania's Alphonce Felix Simbu turned the women's and men's marathons at the World Athletics ...

Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya outlasted Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia in a stunning sprint to the finish in the women’s marathon at the 2025 World Athletics Championships, capturing gold by a slim margin of 2 ...

In the closest marathon finish in world championship history, Alphonce Simbu of Tanzania just squeezed past Amanal Petros of Germany at the line to win the 2025 title in 2:09:48. Petros, who looked to ...

ONCE AGAIN Peres Jepchirchir proved to be the queen of the close finish. The ’21 Olympic champ sprinted past Tigst... Read ...

The World Athletics Championships kicked off on September 13th and the first 4 days have been nothing short of exhiliarating.

World Athletics is currently embroiled in controversy at the track and field world championships. It chose to disqualify ...