Nestled six hours northwest of Nairobi, Kenya, sits the small town of Iten. At 8,000 feet above sea level, Iten is marked with lush vegetation and striped with Kenya's iconic red clay roads. Running ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no secret that Kenyan runners are some of the fastest and most awarded in the world. Names like Eliud Kipchoge and David ...

Carbon-plated “supershoes” are helping runners like Sabastian Sawe shatter records once thought untouchable. But as ...

The parking lot at Kofisi Square in Westlands, Nairobi, fills up well before 7.30am on a Saturday morning. Gone are the hangover sunglasses and bleary faces suggesting a big Friday night out. The ...

Agnes Tirop was a 25-year-old rising professional distance runner who represented Kenya at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the women’s 5,000-meters. One month after she competed in her first Olympic Games, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — A Catholic church in Eldoret, an epicenter of global long-distance running in the north Rift Valley region of Kenya, is in the spotlight after a runner prayed there and later ...

The suspicions bubbled up as soon as she streaked across the finish line. Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich began fending off questions from skeptical reporters immediately after she ran a 2:09.56 to demolish ...

In this Jan. 30, 2016, photo photographs of past champions hang on the wall above a small television set, a rare concession to modernity, at the Global Sports camp near the village of Kaptagat in ...