ATHLETICS Tanzania (AT) has announced plans to give newly crowned World Athletics champion Alphonce Felix Simbu a hero’s welcome at Julius Nyerere International Airport next Tuesday. Simbu (pictured) ...

Many moments — in many parts of the world, in many clashes with many of the finest runners in the world — helped make up the blue-ribbon season of ’75’s Athlete Of The Year. For all of his brilliance ...

DAR ES SALAAM: LOOLING calm and relaxed, Baraka Samson walked to lane 4 as he and the other six runners from Class V lined for the 100m race at Filbert Bayi School ground during the recently staged ...

DAR ES SALAAM: THERE are nations that take the word “victory” and build cathedrals around it. There are others that hear the sound of triumph and immediately reach for the brass band, the fireworks ...

Dar es Salaam. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has instructed the Tanzania Olympic Committee (TOC) to hold its general elections in September. The elections were originally scheduled for ...

As a result of the confusion, the electoral process was suspended and candidates who had paid fees for nomination forms were refunded. TOC President Gulam Rashid confirmed that the committee has ...

It was 50 years ago today that Sir John Walker achieved one of the great moments in New Zealand athletics. On 12 August 1975 Walker broke the world record for the mile. Twenty-three-year-old Walker ...

Now that was more like the Faith Kipyegon we all know and adore: that confident smile before destroying a quality field to set her fifth world record in just over two years; the controlled aggression ...

On 17th May 1975, 21-year-old Tanzanian middle-distance runner, Filbert Bayi, stunned the world with a performance that would go down in history. At the International Freedom Games, held at Jamaica’s ...