The World Athletics Heritage Plaque was awarded to the Great Ethiopian Run during a ceremony in the National Museum of ...

Great Ethiopian Run today announced a multi-year partnership with Bank of America to serve as the Presenting Partner for Great Ethiopian Run beginning in 2026. The partnership extends the bank's ...

Ethiopia must carry out mass doping tests on up to 200 athletes by November or be the latest to face further action by the World Anti-Doping Agency and a possible ban by the IAAF, track and field ...

Feb 21 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Ababel Yeshaneh smashed the half marathon world record by 20 seconds on Friday to win the Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) event in the United Arab Emirates on Friday. Yeshaneh ...

Retired running legend Haile Gebrselassie has been elected president of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation. The 43-year-old sports star, considered one of the greatest distance runners of all time, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Ethiopia's Selemon Barega sprinted the last lap to beat world record holder Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda and win a shock Olympic gold medal in the men's 10,000 metres on Friday. The ...

Miruts Yifter, an Ethiopian running legend who won two gold medals at the 1980 Moscow Olympics at age 40 and won bronze medals earlier at the 1972 Munich Games, has died at age 72, according to his ...

MONACO (AP) — Ethiopian middle-distance runner Diribe Welteji faces a last-minute legal fight over an alleged missed doping test which could bar her from the world championships two days before her ...

Out of Thin Air is one of several excellent books published in the run-up to Christmas, writes Jason Henderson Kenya is often described as ‘the land of runners’ but its east African neighbour Ethiopia ...

VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) - Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey demolished the women's 5,000 metres world record by more than four seconds on Wednesday at the Valencia World Record Day, crossing the line in ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed lauded his compatriot Selemon Barega's stunning victory in the men's 10,000 metres on Friday when he upset world record holder Joshua Cheptegei ...