athletics

Uganda's long-distance runner Joshua Cheptegei lowered the 5km world record on Sunday with a time of 12 minutes 51 seconds and revealed he had set out to "really go for" breaking the sub 13 minutes barrier. The 10,000m world…

Halimah Nakaayi strode into history tonight by winning Uganda gold in the women’s 800 meters at the Doha World Athletics Championships. Nakaayi clocked one minute 58 seconds to also take the $60,000 (sh218m) winner’s prize. This is…