Alhassan Kassim Mohammed was yesterday crowned the 2015 Accra Milo Marathon champion after he won the 42.2-kilometre race to successfully defend the men’s title.
Double-Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce continued the Jamaican sprint dominance of the Bird's Nest as she retained her world 100m title in blistering fashion at the World Championships.
Twenty-four hours on from Usain Bolt's triumph in the men's 100m, Fraser-Pryce repeated her Olympic victory in this same stadium seven years ago as she held off the fast-finishing Dafne Schippers in 10.76 seconds.
For Schippers - the former heptathlete who only decided to switch full-time to sprinting in June this year - her silver in a huge personal best of 10.81 brought both vindication and wild celebration.
Usain Bolt produced perhaps his greatest performance of all as he put a troubled build-up behind him to beat two-time doper and clear favourite Justin Gatlin to retain his world 100m title.
The controversial Gatlin came into the final on a 28-race unbeaten run and apparently relishing his role as the sport's bad guy.
But at the same Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing where Bolt announced himself to the world with two Olympic golds and two world records in 2008, the Jamaican superstar came past a faltering Gatlin at the death to snatch victory by one hundredth of a second.
Usain Bolt ran a season's best 9.79 seconds to beat American challenger, Justin Gatlin in the 100m at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing on Sunday.
The Jamaican who won the title for a third time, beat favourite Gatlin in what has been described variously as a race for the soul of athletics.
The deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Vincent Oppong Asamoah has called on the youth to take the opportunity to participate in the upcoming Millennium Marathon slated for September 5 at the Independence Square.According to him the race would put Ghana on the international pedestal and afford us the privilege of hosting more international major competitions.A registration for competition begins on August 29 and ends September 4 at the Aviation Social Centre.
(CNN)He sprinted his way to fame at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, winning three gold medals and setting a trio of world records -- and all powered by a diet of fast food.
Enterprising Emmanuel Dasor and Daniel Gyasi stole the show from their Nigerian counterparts at this year’s Warri Relays/CAA Grand Prix held inside the Warri Township Stadium, in Delta state of Nigeria last Friday.
Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin's rivalry can produce a "crazy" time at August's World Championships, says ex-British sprinter Darren Campbell.
Olympic gold medalist, Martha Bissah, last Saturday thrilled fans at the El-Wak Stadium in Accra as she won the 1,500m race at the Interplast-Sea&Shore National Circuit Championship in a time of 4:37.56 minutes.
Justin Gatlin became the fifth-fastest 200m runner in history as he won Sunday's final at the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships.
