Athletics

Four South Sudanese will be among 29 athletes from 12 sports that will form the Olympic Refugee Team at Tokyo 2020, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced last week. The chosen competitors, selected from a group of 55 promising refugee athletes from 13 countries that were given IOC scholarships, are...

Saturday 13th February 2021 will open another chapter as a total of ten (10) South Sudanese Athletes will be participating in a one day national cross country championship in Uganda eastern town of Tororo.  The event which will be held at Tororo Golf Course will attract a number of Junior...

On Saturday 30th January 2021, the South Sudan Athletics Federation (SSAF) started the 2021 program with the 3rd National Cross Country, an event which was held at Buluk Athletics Center. The 2021 3rd national Athletics Cross Country show Eastern Equatorial State (EES) became the overall winners of the 3rd National...

Olympic chief Thomas Bach has on Wednesday called for "patience" over the Tokyo Games, the holding of which this summer are in continued doubt due to the coronavirus pandemic. "We just have to ask for patience and understanding, '' is the main message,Bach said after an executive board meeting of...

The BBC Sport has reported that the rescheduled Tokyo Games may have to be held behind closed doors if they are to go ahead in Japan this year, athletics chief Lord Coe has admitted. The World Athletics president remained confident the Olympics and Paralympics would take place despite a Times...

The organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games have denied claims of a possible cancellation of the games due to Coronavirus. Japan is currently under a state of emergency due to a third wave of COVID-19 infections, a reason different reports were circulating with a message cancellation. According to Reuters,...

The South Sudan Athletics Federations (SSAF) Secretary General Mr. Marco Akol has on Sunday 20th December, 2020 confirmed to kurrasport that the Federation will soon send six under twenty athletes to Uganda, Kampala for a training camp. The South Sudan Athletics Federation Logo SSAF Media. The team will train in...

The South Sudan Athletics Federation (SSAF) secretary general Mr. Marco Akol has confirmed to Kurrasports.com that South Sudanese athlete Yach Majok has been invited to participate in a one day High Altitude (HAT) game.  According to the organizers the games will take place on Sunday 20th September, 2020 at the...

The postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games was a heavy blow for many athletes, but a team of South Sudan sprinters training at a Japanese town are hoping to turn the delay into an advantage. The four athletes and their coach have since November last year been in Maebashi, north...

As more athletes around the world return to the track for national championships, one-day meetings and other record-breaking attempts, World Athletics has issued a reminder to Area Associations and Member Federations today about the recently introduced Rule 5, governing competition shoes which puts a sole height limit of 25mm on...