Kenya's double Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge and Peres Jepchirchir, the defending women's champion, were announced on Thursday as part of a star-studded marathon team for the upcoming Paris Olympics, athletics officials said.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published its 2022 Testing Figures Report, which provides an overview of the results of all samples analysed and reported by WADA-accredited laboratories in the WADA Anti-Doping Administration and Management System during 2022.

Elite athletes, officials and a crowd of mourners gathered on Friday to bid farewell to Kelvin Kiptum, the esteemed Kenyan marathon champion and world record holder. The funeral was held at the place where Kelvin Kiptum began his journey, honed his talents and finally said goodbye.

Hundreds of people gathered on Thursday to march from Eldoret to his home village in an emotional tribute to Kelvin Kiptum, a day before his funeral. Kenyan President William Ruto and World Athletics president Sebastian Coe will attend the funeral on Friday.

Athletics Kenya (AK) has brought events on its calendar forward to allow enough time to prepare for next year's rearranged African Games.

African 800 metres champion Jarinter Mwasya and World Under-20 3,000m silver medallist Zena Jemutai are among 20 athletes suspended by the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) as the crisis in the country deepens.

Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) head Brett Clothier believes a $5 million (£4 million/€4.6 million) investment by the Kenyan Government can "restore the reputation of athletics in Kenya and beat this doping menace".

Athletics Kenya, said to have been facing a lengthy blanket ban from World Athletics competitions if nothing was done to halt its recent spate of doping positives, has evaded severe sanction thanks to prompt and effective action by its Government.

Olympic champions Emmanuel Korir and Conseslus Kipruto highlight Kenya's 43-strong athletics squad set to compete at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Rotterdam Marathon winner Stella Barsosio is one of the headline performers in Kenya's eight-member marathon team who hope to right the wrongs of Gold Coast 2018 at this year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Emmanuel Ibrahim Rotich, the husband of Kenyan distance runner and 10 kilometres women's-only race world record holder Agnes Tirop, has been charged with the athlete's murder, but has pled not guilty today at Eldoret High Court.

Two-time world medallist and world record-holder Agnes Tirop - heralded as a "jewel" in Kenyan athletics - has been found dead at her home in Kenya.

The Nairobi Marathon is to return on October 31 after a two-year absence, with last year’s event cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Three-time world 1500 metres champion Asbel Kiprop, currently serving a four-year drugs ban, says he will mount a legal challenge to Athletics Kenya's (AK) policy prohibiting past doping offenders from representing the country.

This weekend's African Cross Country Championships in Togo were postponed due to concerns surrounding COVID-19.