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Dina Asher becomes first British athlete to win a world 200m title

Dina Asher-Smith became the first British athlete to win a world 200m title, dominating the final at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha tonight. The result seemed inevitable after Olympic champion Elaine Thompson and dual world champion Dafne Schippers...

Doha 2019: Chris Coleman wins 100m showdown, brags he was always coming to Doha...

New world 100m champion Chris Coleman says he always knew he will be at Doha 2019 despite an earlier threat of a ban for missed drugs tests. Click to watch video: https://youtu.be/qoCjQPXNz88 Coleman blitzed to a stunning 100m gold medal in Doha...

Reflections: UG gives heroes welcome for AG and GFH gold medalist Azamati

African Games 4x100m gold medalist and 2019 Ghana’s Fastest Human 100m winner Benjamin Kwaku Azamati was given a heroes welcome by a cross section of students at the University of Ghana Legon and the school’s administration led by its...

Preview Men’s 100m at Doha 2019: The chase field forms a fairly wide open...

Continuing the rise that began in 2017, Christian Coleman will arrive in Doha as the man to beat for the title of the world's fastest man. Two years ago, Coleman sped to NCAA titles at both the 100 and 200m...

Fact of the day: Sports and politics

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in...

GAA salutes athletes and supporters for 2019 Africa Games

GHANA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION SALUTES ATHLETES AND SUPPORTERS FOR THE 2019 AFRICA GAMES The Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) congratulates Ghana’s athletes and coaches for the gallant display that saw Team Ghana register among the medal-winning nations at the 2019 African...

LSG compiles list of greatest Ghanaian Athletes of All Time

Have you ever wondered who the Greatest Ghanaian Athletes of All Time are? What will be the basis for such a compilation? Which athletes ever won world medals for the country and what were their achievements individually, nationally...

Short read: The making of Ghana’s 4x100m relay gold medal winning team at AG2017

I'm throwing back to the African University Games (FASU) June, 2016 Johannesburg, South Africa. The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science of Technology (KNUST) quartet which included Martin Owusu-Antwi and Joseph Paul Amoah surprised many by clinching gold ahead of...

IAAF invites 130 more eligible athletes for Doha 2019

The IAAF has issued invitations to 130 eligible athletes for additional places to the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 following the final review of entries published yesterday (19 September) and compared with the published target numbers for each...

USA breaks world record in mixed 4x400m at Doha 2019

The first world record* of the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 came just half way through the second session of competition as USA won their heat of the mixed 4x400m on Saturday (28). The event, making its debut at...

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