Рязанская спортсменка завоевала первое место на открытом Кубке Африки по дзюдо. Об этом сообщает пресс-служба министерства спорта и физической культуры Рязанской области. Соревнования прошли в Касабланке, столице Марокко. За награды боролись 160 атлетов из 26 стран. В весовой категории 78 килограммов золотой медалью наградили Кристину Коновалову, в...
Дикие шимпанзе живут в различных средах обитания Африки, от тропических лесов до более открытых лесных массивов и саванн. Согласно новому исследованию Университетского колледжа Лондона (Великобритания), эти животные развили генетические адаптации, которые соответствуют их ареалу. Научная работа опубликована в издании Science. Исследователи изучили ...
Morocco will host Africa for the second time, having hosted in 1988. Qualifying ended in November, but several questions remain about the continent's biggest sporting event. When will the 2025 AFCON take place? The schedule for the biennial competition has changed again, with the busy schedules of clubs and international teams creating a "planning ...
Правительство Южной Африки через свой департамент спорта, искусства и культуры объявило, что оно собирает команду экспертов для инвестирования и работы над заявкой на проведение Гран-при Южной Африки Формулы-1. «Правительство даёт заявителям время до середины февраля, чтобы успеть подать заявку. Как только выбор будет сделан и будут заполнены допол...
This page is now closed. Thanks for joining us. These were the updates as South Africa won the series-opening Twenty20 (T20) cricket match against Pakistan on Tuesday, December 10: South Africa beat Pakistan by 11 runs in the first T20 of the three-match series at Sahara Stadium, Kingsmead, Durban.George Linde was the hosts' hero with a bowli...
South Africa have secured a 109-run victory over Sri Lanka on the last day of the second Test at St George's Park to complete a 2-0 sweep of the series and lead the World Test Championship (WTC) points table. Spinner Keshav Maharaj finished with figures of 5-76 on Monday as the hosts took 70 minutes to dismiss Sri Lanka for 238 in a game that...
The Libyan Football Federation (LFF) plans to take legal action to reverse the sanctions imposed after their Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Nigeria was cancelled. The match, scheduled for October 15, was called off when Nigeria's Super Eagles boycotted the game due to their flight being diverted, leaving the team stranded overnight a...
A series of Ethiopian athletes clinched medals in this year's Berlin marathon on Sunday, including Milkesa Mengesha, who won the men's race with a time of just over 2 hours 3 minutes - a new personal best; He was among a series of Ethiopian athletes who dominated the podium place in the German capital, along with Haymanot Alew. Alew narrowly ...
Afghanistan's cricketers have earned a historic first one-day international (ODI) victory over South Africa, romping to a comfortable six-wicket triumph in the first of a three-match series on Wednesday in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates. South Africa were bundled out for 106 in 33.3 overs, having slumped to 36-7 in the 10th over, leaving A...
Afghanistan's cricketers have sealed a historic one-day international series win against South Africa with a 117-run victory in the second match in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, on Friday. Rahmanullah Gurbaz chalked up a superb 105 as Afghanistan made 311-4, having won the toss. It was the seventh century in the 22-year-old's ODI career, mak...
Nigeria hired German coach Bruno Labbadia on Tuesday to lead the men's national soccer team in a bid to get its flagging World Cup qualifying campaign back on track. "The appointment is with immediate effect," said Mohammed Sanusi, the general secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation. The 58-year-old Labbadia has been out of work since Ap...
Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif has been welcomed as a hero in her home town. The football-obsessed North African country has given Khelif the celebrity treatment since she returned to Algiers earlier this week. Nowhere has this been more true than Tiaret, the largely rural region in central Algeria where she grew up and learned to b...
Kenya tops the African medal count with 11 medals, which includes 4 gold. Algeria is in second place with 2 gold medals, and South Africa is third with 1 gold medal. Ethiopia completes the top four, also having 1 gold medal but with fewer silver medals. The Paris Olympics have come to an end and for the fourth straight time, the United States...
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has won a gold medal Friday at the Paris Olympics, emerging a champion from a tumultuous run at the Games where she endured intense scrutiny in the ring and online abuse from around the world over misconceptions about her womanhood. Khelif beat Yang Liu of China 5:0 in the final of the women's welterweight division...
Kenyan long-distance runner Benson Kipruto said he will run the Olympic marathon in Paris in honour of Kelvin Kiptum. The 24-year-old world marathon record holder and his Rwandan coach died in a car accident in February. Kiptum's death came just months after he set a men's world record of 2 hours and 35 seconds in the Chicago Marathon, and wa...
Ezinna Kalu scored 21 points as Nigeria made Olympic history by becoming the first African team, male or female, to reach the Olympic quarterfinals in basketball when it beat Canada 79-70 on Sunday. The Nigerians (2-1) now wait to learn their opponent. They already have doubled the number of wins in pool play for a country that came to France...
Cape Verde boxer David De Pina clinched his island nation's first Olympic medal with a quarterfinal victory Friday in the boxing tournament at the Paris Games. Cape Verde, a nation of about 600,000 people on 10 isles more than 300 miles west of continental Africa, had never taken home a medal in its previous seven appearances in the Olympics....
South African swimmer Tatjana Smith said she has no regrets about retiring after having won one gold and one silver medal in Paris, and thus becoming the most decorated Olympian of her country. Smith won gold in the 100-metre breastroke and silver in the 200-metre breastroke events in Paris. Three years ago in Tokyo, she won medals in both ra...
Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda took the lead with a little more than a lap left in a masterpiece of a 10,000-meter final Friday to win in an Olympic-record 26 minutes, 43.14 seconds in front of a roaring crowd on an electric opening night for track at the Stade de France. The world-record holder raced in the middle of a strung-out pack for most o...
Twenty-nine-year old equestrian, Noor Slaoui, is gearing up for the Olympic Games which get underway in Paris next Friday. She is about to become the first Moroccan female rider ever to take part in the Eventing discipline. This is when a single horse and rider compete against others in dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. She is also t...
