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Andy Brennan

Brennan wins Kempinski Triathlon

Andy Brennan has won the third Kempinski Triathlon race held at the University of Ghana, Legon in Accra.

Kuyon (in black suit) receives his SWAG award.

Kuyon inspired by SWAG Award

The Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) Discovery of the Year award winner, Joseph Tindan Kuyon, says the award will propel him to excel at the 2018  Summer Youth Olympics in Roca Park, Buenos Aires, in Argentina.

Bolt (centre) sent out a warning to his rivals for the Olympic title with victory in Kingston

Bolt stumbles to 100m win in Jamaica

Olympic champion Usain Bolt recorded the second fastest time of the year in winning a 100m race in Jamaica despite stumbling out of his starting blocks.

Nadia Eke and Sean Safo-Antwi

Nadia, Safo-Antwi for African Champs

UK-born 100m sprinter, Sean Safo-Antwi, is in line to make his first appearance for Ghana at the 2016 African Senior Athletics Championship in June.

Safo-Antwi, 26, was included in a 41-member team the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) named last Monday to represent the country at the championship from June 22-26 in Durban, South Africa.

Usain Bolt says he will be ready for Rio Games.

I’ll be ready for Rio - Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt called his first race since August 29 “rusty,” a 100m win in 10.05 seconds at the Cayman Invitational on Saturday night while his rival, Justin Gatlin was in an impressive winner at last Saturday's Diamond League meeting in Shanghai.

Kenyans sweep London Marathon honours

Kenya's Jemima Sumgong won the women's London Marathon yesterday , despite falling earlier in the race. Sumgong wiped out a mile 22 near a drink station and bumped her head. 

Witnesses, however, noted how quickly she recovered from the stumble, even though she must have been in pain but  finished in two hours, 22 minutes and 58 seconds.  

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge, the favourite, won the men's race with the second-fastest time in history.  He finished in two hours, three minutes, and five seconds, missing the world record by just seven seconds.  — BBC

 

Sports Minister courts Nestle to sponsor Inter-Co

Youth and Sports Minister, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye has appealed to the Management of Nestle Ghana Limited to take up the sponsorship of the national Inter-Schools and Colleges Athletics Competition, popularly called Inter-co.

He pointed out that in the past it was the inter-co meetings that made Ghana athletics tick as it served as the breeding ground for unearthing budding talents who blossomed into national champions. However, he said the competition no longer functions as it used to be as a result of financial constraints.

Regional marathon kicks off with new record

A lot of excitement and euphoria has been created with the launch of the 2nd edition of the millennium marathon 2016 which has kicked off in the Northern and Upper West Regions.

With this year’s marathon slogan “A race for health and Peace”, momentum for the rest of the regional marathons is set as the first marathon has produced a new regional marathon record. These 2 races are the first of 10 regional marathons to take place before the main international marathon in September.

Emily Chebet also won bronze in the 10,000m at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014

Emily Chebet: Seven Kenyan athletes given doping bans

Two-time world cross country champion Emily Chebet is among seven athletes who have been suspended by Athletics Kenya for failing drugs tests.

The 2010 and 2013 gold medallist was given a four-year ban after testing positive for the diuretic furosemide.

The Professional Athletes Association of Kenya (PAAK) has called for more help to help tackle the problem.

Mr George Lutterodt

Give Ghana gold - Lutterodt tells Professor Dodoo

The former Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) chairman, George Lutterodt says he still stands by the comments he made weeks ago criticising the current leadership of the GAA for failing to win gold in any major competition after six years at the helm of affairs.

According to him, despite vitriolic attacks on his personality and the ugly noises coming from the fold of the GAA and one Madam Deborah Eleazar, a sponsor of the GAA, the fact still remains that all is not well with the sport in terms of management and leadership.

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