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Kenyan chess player Stanley Omondi is staring at a lengthy ban from the sport after he disguised himself as a woman to compete in the women’s section of the 2023 Kenya Open Chess Championship held at the Sarit Expo Center in Nairobi from April 6th to 10th. Omondi, who has an international rating of…

Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge will be targeting the course record when he makes his Boston Marathon debut on April 17th. Winning Boston would put the 38-year-old two-time Olympic marathon champion at five out of six titles in the World Marathon Majors (WMMs) series, leaving only New York to be conquered.…

Kenyan-born Kazakhstani athlete Norah Jeruto has been provisionally suspended for an anti-doping violation. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Friday that Jeruto has been suspended "for the use of a Prohibited Substance/Method (ABP)". ABP refers to the Athlete’s Biological Passport,…

Kenyan runner Hellen Obiri won the New York City Half Marathon title on Sunday, setting an event and course record. The two-time world 5000m champion clocked 1 hour, 7 minutes, and 21 seconds, eclipsing the standard set by Senbere Teferi of Ethiopia at last year’s race by 14 seconds.  Obiri…

A Kenyan and two foreigners suspected of manipulating football matches in Kenyan football leagues for betting purposes have been arrested. The suspects, Russian Akhiad Kubiev, Ugandan Bernard Navendi and Kenyan Martin Munga Mutua, were arrested in an investigation of a suspected match-fixing…

Kenyan long-distance athlete Betty Wilson Lempus has been banned for five years over doping. Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Thursday that the 31-year-old runner was banned for using the banned substance triamcinolone acetonide. Lempus was tested after her win at the Harmonie Mutuelle…

World Athletics has ratified Eliud Kipchoge’s marathon world record of two hours, one minute and nine seconds. The 38-year-old Kenyan runner set the record during last year’s Berlin Marathon, taking off 30 seconds from the previous world record that he had in the same race in 2018. Kipchoge crossed…

Kenyan sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala on Tuesday graduated as a police constable from Kiganjo Police Training College. Omanyala, who is the African record holder and 8th fastest man of all-time in the 100 meters, was among the 2,881 recruits who graduated at an event presided over by President Ruto.…

Kenyan tennis star Rosehilda Asumwa has secured a scholarship to study and further her career in the United States. The 18-year-old landed a university scholarship to Cowley College in Kansas to study business management and play tennis, according to her manager Allan Atola. The manager said Asumwa…

Kenya’s long-distance runner Diana Kipyokei has been stripped of her Boston Marathon title and $150,000 prize money after she was found guilty of doping. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Tuesday that Kipyokei has been disqualified from the race and handed a six-year ban for multi-…