Tebogo and Mboma nominated

 Two African athletes have been nominated by World Athletics for the Performance of the Month award for May. They are Batswana’s Letsile Tebogo and Namibia’s Christine Mboma. The former broke the U20 world record of 100m with a time of 9s96. He beat the record of America’s Trayvon Brommell who had clocked 9s97, in 2014. Mboma signed a time of 10s9 in 100m, the 7th best performance in the world of the year. In the 200m, she won the best world performance of the year with a time of 21s81.

The indoor world championships, held in Belgrade (Serbia) from March 18 to 20, 2022, were marked by three new world records set by Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas (15m74 Triple Jump), Sweden's Armand Duplantis (6m20 Pole Vault) and the American Grant Holloway (7''29 in the 60m hurdles).

In its first meeting of the year, the World Athletics Council made a number of significant decisions relating to upcoming World Athletics Series events.

The top athletes for the 2021 season are Norway's Karsten Warholm and Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah. The prize for best male athlete could not escape Warholm, who won Gold at the Tokyo Olympics with the world record in the 400m hurdles (45.94s). Two Africans, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge and Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei, were in the race for the title.

CONFEJES, in partnership with the Confederation of African Athletics(CAA) organized from October 25 to 31, 2021 in Dakar a training camp to prepare the 2021-2022 season for the benefit of CONFEJES athletes of AADC Dakar, Lomé and Mauritius.

8 teams from Africa won medals in athletics at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Seven African athletes have secured their places in Friday’s final of the 3000msteeplechase at the Tokyo Olympic Games, which continue until 8^th August.

The Moroccan Soufiane El Bakkali, among the gold medal hopefuls, kept a restrained pace and positioned himself well right from the starter’s gun,preferring to control the third-round raceright up until the final lap. This turned out to be a highly effective tactic, with the athlete managing to do what was necessary without exerting too much energy and covering the distance in 8min 19 sec.

Moroccan athletes won the Pan-Arab Championships, held in Tunis from June 16 to 20. They won 31 medals (10 gold, 9 silver and 12 bronze), ahead of Tunisia (16 medals including 7 gold) and Algeria (21 medals including 6 gold).

Africa has regained its supremacy in the long distance by currently holding the world records in the 5,000m and 10,000m, in both men and women. Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei and Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey are the authors of these performances. Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey set a new 10,000m world record by clocking 29’01’03 during the Ethiopian Olympic trials in Hengelo (Netherlands). She erased the record held by Ethiopian-born Dutchwoman Sifan Hassan (29'06”82). The latter had dethroned the Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana who, in 2016, had run in 29’17”45