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Review: Media coverage of GUSA Games Legon 2020

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Without a doubt, the media coverage of the 26th Ghana University Sports Association (GUSA) Games Legon 2020 held from 3rd to 19th January ranks as one of the best of all-time, if not the best in the history of...

Officials and athletes give perspectives on GUSA Games Legon 2020

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Officials and athletes have hailed the 26th Ghana University Sports Association Legon 2020 as one of the best organised ever in Ghana since its inception in 1964. Under the theme “Integrating Sports into Academia for Youth Empowerment and Development,” the...

UG 2020: One of the best Athletics Championships of All-Time in the history of...

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The 26th Ghana University Sports Association Games (GUSA) Legon 2020 is a distant memory now. But without any shred of a doubt its athletics championship held from 8th to 10th January will be best remembered in history as one...

Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei clinches first 10,000m title at Doha 2019

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Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei won what is regarded as the toughest race on the planet at the World Cross Country in Denmark in March, and needed to draw on the same resources to win his first world 10,000m title in...

Doha experiences greatest shot put competition in WC history

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The big men of athletics are impressive just walking into a room, let alone stepping into the ring. In their case, that’s a throwing circle and three of them - Joe Kovacs, Ryan Crouser and Tom Walsh - combined to...

Mix zone interview Ghana women’s 4x100m relay exit Doha 2019

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Mix zone interview with Ghana women's 4x100m relay after they placed 7th in a season's best 43.62(SB) to exit the women's 4x100m relay event. https://youtu.be/ywTdXnizz2Q HEAT 2 04 OCT 2019 POS BIB ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK REACTION TIME 1 JAM JAMAICA JAMJAM 42.11 Q SB 0.172 2 GBR GREAT BRITAIN & NI GBRGBR 42.25 Q SB 0.130 3 CHN PR OF CHINA CHNCHN 42.36 Q 0.155 4 GER GERMANY GERGER 42.82...

Mix Zone interview with Ghana men’s 4x100m relay at Doha 2019

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Mix Zone interview with Ghana men's 4x100m relay at Doha 2019 after the team placed 6th in a season's best 38.24 (SB). https://youtu.be/lE0C3noKpMI HEAT 1 04 OCT 2019 POS BIB ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK REACTION TIME 1 GBR GREAT BRITAIN & NI GBRGBR 37.56 Q WL 0.143 2 BRA BRAZIL BRABRA 37.90 Q AR 0.139 3 USA UNITED STATES USAUSA 38.03 Q SB 0.150 4 ITA ITALY ITAITA 38.11 NR 0.143 5 JAM JAMAICA JAMJAM 38.15 SB 0.146 6 GHA GHANA GHAGHA 38.24...

Doha 2019: Kill me with all you’ve got!-Azamati

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The turning point in his young athletics career, he says, came at the West African University Games (WAUG) held at Nigeria’s port city of Port Harcourt in November 2018. Being his first international competition, the 20 year old sprinter was...

African 4x100m champions aim for Tokyo 2020 qualification at Doha 2019!

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When Ghana’s men’s 4x100m relay team takes to the track on Friday, 4th October, 2019 at the IAAF World Championships (WC) Doha 2019, it will be the first time in 8 years that the relay team will be competing...

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

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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...