Two of Zomba Athletics Development Centre clinched first places in men’s and female categories of the Mulanje Legend Trail Challenge on Sunday as the visitors dominated the 10km race which was organised to prepare Mulanje Athletics Club members for the third edition of the Blantyre Marathon scheduled for June 20. The men’s category was won […]
For two years now, Cobbe Barracks soldier Benedicto Makumba has been training young athletes using his own resources and he now asks for sponsorship support to enhance the talent potential that he has unearthed. Some of his products have been bringing positive results such as Sunganani Namakonje, who is the 400m and 800m national champion […]
The Athletics Association of Malawi (AAM) has chopped its General Secretary, Frank Chitembeya, with immediate effect. Chitembeya is being accused of making decisions all by himself without consulting the rest of the executive committee members. He has since been replaced by Mzee Makawa on interim basis. Makawa, who is also Chairperson for Southern Region Athletics […]
After a successful first race held in June, Malawi’s international mountain trail (ultra marathon) specialist, Edson Kumwamba has set December 20 for the second leg of the Legend Trail Challenge Series to be run along Mulanje tea plantations. The second series has been named ‘MwanaMulanje’ (Mulanje child) because the route is at the foot of Mount […]
The Athletics Association of Malawi (AAM)says it will hold a national championship on October 31 at Bingu National Stadium. The championship was postponed from July because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The association says through this championship; it will identify athletes that will represent Malawi at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in Japan. General Secretary for AAM, […]
Malawian athletes who represented the country at the first ever first-ever Pan African Special Olympic Games in Cairo, Egypt have shined and made the country proud after winning a total of thirteen medals. Among the winners is Desire Namaona who won a gold medal in the 100 metres female category beating three other contestants namely […]
Two athletes from judo, Chikondi Kathewera in 60kgs and Harriet Boniface in 48kgs were the first of Team Malawi to fly out to Rabat, Morocco for the 12th All Africa Games set for August 19-31. They are accompanied by coach Ryoma Kudo and doctor Happy Tembo and the next group, table tennis (Floriano Massah Jnr […]
There is quite a good number of Malawians who are slowly stamping their authority in South Africa’s athletics market and most of them won medals in last Sunday’s Comrades Marathon, including last year’s Blantyre City Marathon runner-up, Doris Fisha. Fisha, from Mulanje District, ran her first Comrades Marathon in a time of 7:20hrs and earned […]
British double Olympics champion, Colonel Dame Kelly Holmes, who visited Malawi last October to take part in the Orbis Expeditions ‘Sport with a Purpose’ challenge aimed at raising funds for projects that promote good nutrition in communities, will be back for another expedition also in October. According to information posted on www.orbis-challenge.com, the aim is to […]
Colonel Dame Kelly Holmes (DBE mil), a retired British middle distance athlete, will visit Malawi from 4th to 13th October 2018 for a series of sporting and charitable events. Among the highlights, she will take part in a sporting master class in Blantyre where she is expected to deliver a motivational talk to a group […]
South Africa-based Malawian long distance athlete Edson Kumwamba, who is making news around the world for his achievement, has been invited to participate in Iranian Silk Road Ultramarathon from September 29 to October 8 but he needs to pay for his own air ticket. He has been offered free accomodation and entry and all he needs is to […]
South Africa-based Malawian long distance athlete Edson Kumwamba, who is making news around the world for his achievement, has come second in the 44kms Table Mountain Challenge in a time of 4hrs 41min 23secs on Saturday. In an online interview, Kumwamba said there were 440 runners and the winner is a Zimbabwean, Bernard Rukadza, his most adversary. He says he will be […]
Little known Malawian foreign-based long distance athlete Edson Kumwamba is making news around the world and he has broken a record at the 80km Ultra PURfeR 2018 run he did in 6hrs 54mins and 20 seconds. And he is not known at at all here in Malawi and this reporter just stumbled on his existence through the athlete’s relation […]
Renowned athletes Chancy Master and Grevazio Mpnai should now begin to think that they have met their match in Kefas Kasteni after they were outclassed in a national cross country held in Malawi’s Northern Region city of Mzuzu on Saturday. Master finished in 31:22 minutes 10km senior men behind Kasteni for the third consecutive time when […]
Malawian athlete Peter Chiwaya based in Eastern Cape in South Africa has been decorated by his club Oxford Striders for outstanding performance. Chiwaya, who is a long distance runner, received novice athlete of the year award beating other athletes in the region. He also received a special award for qualifying for Two Oceans and Comrade […]
Malawi Sunbird Hotel has been silent on sponsoring one of the country’s lucrative Kuchawe Mountain road race for this year but sources within the hospitality organisation said Sunbird had lost trust in Athletics Association of Malawi due to negative publicity over corruption and financial abuse. The source said in fact Sunbird was skeptical to renew […]
Athletics Association of Malawi faces stiff penalty from International Athletics Associations Federation for failing to send an athlete to World Junior Championship which was held in Kenya. The world athletics governing body has been provoked after the Malawi athletics body committed to participate in the competition by entering an athlete Mercy Malembo who was provided […]
Eleven Malawian athletes were involved in serious car accident on their way from national championship held on Saturday in Lilongwe. The car, Toyota Fortuner was involved in the accident near accident prone Kamwamba on M1 Road after one of its rear tires snapped causing injuries to all the athletes from Tauka athletics club. The injured […]