As part of the World Athletics Awards 2024, World Athletics is pleased to confirm the nominees for Women’s Track Athlete of the Year and Men’s Track Athlete of the Year.

Four Africans are in the race for these titles. They are Beatrice Chebet from Kenya (Four Olympic champion 5000m and 10,000m, world record holder for 10,000m); Faith Kipyegon from Kenya (Olympic champion in the 1500m and world record holder in the 1500m): Letsile Tebogo from Botswana (Olympic champion in the 200m and world best performer in the 200m); Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya (Olympic 800m champion and winner of the Diamond League).

The President of the Cameroonian National Olympic Sports Committee (CNOSC) and also President of the Confederation of African Athletics, Hamad KALKABA MALBOUM was elected on October 12, 2024, Pioneer President of the Confederation of African Olympic Sports (CASOL). The ceremony took place in Yaoundé during the General Assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), in the presence of Mustapha Berraf, the President of ANOCA.

The 2023-2024 season saw the participation of six residents of AADC Dakar in the 2024 Olympic Games.

Four achieved the minimums or placed in the World Ranking (Gina BASS from Gambia, Louis François MENDY from Senegal, Sally SARR from Senegal and Sidonie FIADANANSOA from Madagascar and two representing their country Dylan SICOBO from Seychelles and Dom MULAMBA from DR CONGO.

The Dakar center is headed by Amadou Dia Ba, Olympic vice-champion in the 400m hurdles in 1988. Frenchman Alain Smail is the technical manager.

Africa at the Paris Olympics: 8 Gold, 9 Silver, 7 Bronze

Letsile Tebogo made history for Botswana at the Paris 2024 Games on Thursday (8), winning the first Olympic gold medal for his nation in any sport.

Storming to the 200m title, he held off USA’s Kenny Bednarek and 100m champion Noah Lyles with an African record of 19.46 – a time that moves the 21-year-old to fifth on the world all-time list. Bednarek got silver in 19.62 and Lyles bronze in 19.70.

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will officially get under way on 26 July when the opening ceremony takes place. Just six days later, the eyes of the world will focus on athletics, the No.1 Olympic sport.

Here is everything you need to know about the track and field athletics programme at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. 

The entry lists for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have been published, featuring the names of athletes who intend to compete in the French capital when athletics takes place between 1-11 August.

The African Championships in Douala (June 21-26) witnessed the continent's experienced athletes assert their supremacy in their respective events. Triple jump world champion Hugues Fabrice Zango (Burkina Faso) and hammer thrower Mostafa Elgamel (Egypt) were crowned for the third time. Odile Ahouanwanou has written a beautiful story for Benin.

After hosting the African Games last March in Accra, Ghana won the organization of the senior African athletics championships in 2026. The decision was taken by the Council of the African Athletics Confederation, meeting in Douala, in Cameroon. Ghana competed with Botswana. He obtained 12 of the 15 votes of the members of the Council of the body. The president of the Ghanaian federation, Bawah FUSEINI, specified that the event will take place in the capital Accra.