The Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) Honored by the Senegalese National Press Association (ANPS) at its annual gala, which recognizes the country's best athletes. CAA Director General Lamine Faty received the Leadership Award for his contribution to the development of athletics. Oumar Ba, Head of Communications, was recognized as one of the Legends of the National Press. Saly Sarr, a member of AADC and 6th in the triple jump at the last World Championships in Tokyo, won the prestigious trophy for Best Senegalese Sportswoman of the Year. Amadou Dia Ba, Director of AADC Dakar, and Souleymane Fall, CAA Finance Director, were present at the ceremony, which is one of the highlights of the national sporting calendar.

The President of the ANPS, Abdoulaye Thiam (Photo), who is also the current president of AIPS Africa, warmly praised the essential role of the CAA and its president Hamad Kalkaba Maboum in promoting the first Olympic discipline in Africa.

Julius Kirwa, Team Kenya’s Head Coach at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, has been named as the Betika/SJAK Coach of the Month for September.

Kirwa’s leadership proved pivotal, as he guided Team Kenya to a spectacular total of 11 medals, seven gold, two silver, and two bronze, over the nine-day global showpiece.

Our track queen, Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye, officially resumed training today, 29th September 2025, in France as she begins her preseason journey. Motherhood didn’t take her away from the track — it gave her a new reason to run it. Her return after giving birth is not a setback but a powerful statement of strength, resilience, and confidence.

Thousands of the world’s best athletes will head to Japan in September for the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25.

The 20th edition of this prestigious competition will star more than 2000 athletes from some 200 countries as they compete for medals across 49 events during nine days of action from 13-21 September.

The Ndjamena-Kousseri International Marathon, dubbed the "Presidents' Race for Subregional Integration," originally scheduled for September 6, 2025, will finally take place on September 13, 2025, due to constraints beyond the control of the organizing committee chaired by the Honorable Dr. Kamssouloum Abba Kabir.

The Guangzhou 25 World Athletics Relay Championships will welcome the world's best sprinters on May 10-11, as teams compete for a relay spot at the Tokyo 25 World Athletics Championships (September 13-21).

Guangzhou is hosting the seventh edition of the World Athletics Relays. This is the first time the event has been held in China, following previous editions in the Bahamas, Japan, and Poland.

World Athletics is proud to announce Botswana’s Olympic gold medallist and World Athlete of the Year 2024 Letsile Tebogo as an ambassador for its Kids’ Athletics programme, a global initiative that uses the power of athletics to inspire children across the world to be more active.

Relais 4x100 m mixed

Related to the relays, the World Athletics Council approved the running order for the 4x100m mixed relay at the upcoming World Athletics Relays Guangzhou 25 as woman, woman, man, man. This running order will be reviewed after the event in Guangzhou. Records for the 4x100m mixed relay will be recognised as of 1 January 2026 (with the inaugural performance to better the recognised world best performance as of the end of 2025). As well as forming part of the race programme for the World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, the mixed 4x100m will be contested at the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest in 2026.

Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry has been elected President of the International Olympic Committee. The 41-year-old former swimmer becomes the first female president of the international body. Her term runs until 2033.

The other candidates vying for the position were Sebastian Coe (Great Britain), Johan Eliasch (Sweden/Great Britain), Prince Feisal al-Hussein (Jordan), David Lappartient (France), Juan Antonio Samaranch et Morinari Watanabe (Japan).