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IAAF.ORG: A total of $310,000 (sh1.1billion) in prize money will be awarded by the world athletics governing body IAAF to the leading runners in the senior races at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Kampala 2017 on Sunday. Winners of the individual men’s and women’s races will each earn $30,000, …

A Kenyan or Ethiopian has won the top IAAF World Cross Country Championships men’s individual title in 24 of the last 30 years. The two nations’ record in the team event is even more intimidating – won all from 1986 to 2015. The story is increasingly similar in the women and junior events, …

VIDEO: Dorcus Inzikuru is back. At least that is what it looked like when the former steeplechase champion dominated the NSSF Kampala Hash 7 hills run today morning. Hundreds took to the 7 hills of Uganda to run and raise money to improve education conditions for the children of Kampala.   Share …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  The International Olympic Committee on Thursday imposed a freeze on grants to the Kenyan Olympic committee in a move which would affect the running of national sports activities in the country. The IOC said in a statement that it was unhappy that the Kenyan National …

Barsoton beats strong field to win Kenya cross title Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Japan-based Kenyan Leonard Barsoton ended a four-year wait with a come-from-behind victory at the world cross country championships trials at the Nairobi Uhuru gardens ground on Saturday. Barsoton was trailing third in the final lap of …

Joshua Cheptegei destroyed a strong field to win the senior men’s gold at the National Cross Country Championships in Kampala Saturday in a time of 29 minutes 02.29 seconds. Defending champion Phillip Kipyeko set the early pace, but when Cheptegei took charge in the second of five laps at Kololo, …

After a strong Olympics debut where he finished 6th in the 10,000m and 8th in the 5,000m finals, Joshua Cheptegei will hope to emulate this performance off the track when the national cross country championships are held on Saturday at Kololo in Kampala. Cheptegei will face several veterans of cross country …

. Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP |  South African Olympic 800-metre champion Caster Semenya married her long-term partner in Pretoria on Saturday. Semenya celebrated her 26th birthday by tying the knot with Violet Raseboya after exchanging vows during a lavish ceremony in the South African capital. The Rio gold medallist …

Los Angeles, United States | AFP | Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps towered over the 2016 Rio Games, capping an era of sustained excellence that promises to reverberate through the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and beyond. From Beijing in 2008 through London 2012 and, finally, in Rio, Bolt and Phelps captivated …

Work on remodeling and designing Kololo Independence Ground to give it an international look ahead of March’s IAAF World Cross Country Championships has started. The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) Engineering Brigade has been contracted by the Kampala 2017 Local organizing committee to make the improvements ahead of the March 26, 2017 …