Bizuayehu Wagaw

Sports reporter focusing on Ethiopian athletics, Sports enthusiast 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️⚽, Former Editor in chief of Inter Sport Ethiopia

[Athletics Integrity Unit @aiu_athletics]

The AIU has banned Gudaf Tsegay (Ethiopia) for 4 months from 1 June 2026 for Presence/Use of Prohibited Substance (Metabolite of Letrozole). DQ results from 5 December 2025.
Details here: https://t.co/9nNLDT5jpW
Details here: https://t.co/9WjyxWRfPE

[World Athletics @WorldAthletics]

Keep them coming ‼️

No time to rest from the @GoldenGalaDL, @BAUHAUSGALAN is already here 😤

Preview 👉 https://t.co/6AnoQ6Y9xA

#DiamondLeague

[Bizuayehu Wagaw @buzi2011]

How Ethiopia’s Wakuma raced walked his way into the history books in Brasília
https://t.co/XMqw3Oef4t

[Fentuo Tahiru Fentuo @Fentuo_]

Women’s 400m final #Accra2026

🥇Ahmed Ajayba Aliy (ETH) – 51.54
🥈Obakeng Kamberuk (BOT) – 51.79
🥉Florence Agyemang (GHA) – 51.87
4. Mohamed Basant (EGY) – 52.00
5. Viljoen Marlie (RSA) – 52.41
6. Sibiri Sita (BUR) – 52.65
7. Malessar Elodie Dhri (CGO) – 52.97
8. Chebet Mercy (KEN) – 53.68

[Bizuayehu Wagaw @buzi2011]

RIP Kalkaba.
The Confederation of African Athletics deserves capable, reform‑minded leadership to move the sport forward.

[Saddique Shaban @SaddiqueShaban]

He's gone.

Hamad Kalkaba Malboum, the President of Confederation of African Athletics since 2003 has passed away, today, and probably at the worst possible time. The 24th Senior Africa Athletics Championship that began on the 12th to the 17th of May 2026 in Ghana, is probably the last nail on his disastrous leadership at the Dakar-based organization. The championships got off to a chaotic start in Accra, with athletes and journalists raising concerns over poor accommodation, food shortages, and inadequate working conditions despite the event attracting some of the continent’s top track and field stars. It mirrors his chaotic and dictatorial leadership at Confederation of African Athletics, which has lagged behind in the last decade. The Cameroonian military man never cared about the sport in Africa or the welfare of the athletes. He was mostly concerned with the optics of power and the trappings of it, which ensured he enjoyed some status and privilege in his home country. Since he took over from Lamine Diack in 2003, be he blocked reforms at CAA and refused to adapt to the changing realities of the time. Sponsors fled and the federation bled, now even unable to host an African Championship worthy of its name. The 2024 African Athletics Championships in Cameroon was probably an audit of his incompetence in his own home country, following a scandalous edition in Assaba, Nigeria in 2018. Long rejected by Olympians at Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), Hamad Kalkaba Malboum was left isolated and lonely in his sunset years as he battled illness in Cameroon. African Athletics will not miss Hamad Kalkaba Malboum. Natural selection process has liberated the Confederation of African Athletics from the yolk of self-strangulation and stagnation. The Confederation of African Athletics Elective Congress must nurse the association to the next polls in 2027, with a view to identifying the best leadership for the troubled outfit. CAA Senior Vice President and Athletics Kenya Chief Jackson Tuwei, currently in Ghana, must be confirmed as the new head until the next polls are called. A new dawn for African Athletics should start immediately as there is no time to waste. The starter's gun is misfiring and athletes poles are breaking mid-air at the current African Senior Athletics Championships in Ghana, anyway. Commiseration to his family.

[Yaw @theyawofosu]

I hate to do this. I really hate to do it but this has been an absolute farce.

What is an athletic meet without the times the athletes finished? How are we as journalist supposed to tell the stories? How do we know how well they have done here in comparison to what they did in other meets? Athletes finish races and are asking for their times and it’s crickets…

Why do we do this to ourselves? We have known about organising this for so long and couldn’t get the most basic thing of an athletics meet right.

There is no space for the media to work (media centre), the media tribune had Jama singers screaming so much you can’t hear a thing or focus to do your job.

We had 7 100m men’s heats today and the starting gun faltered about 4 times - affecting the athletes. It’s a shame.

Check the YouTube stream and see how everyone is ridiculing us. The incompetence is glaring and someone has to do their job.

Hopefully the next few days are better because this is to put it mildly a circus.

[Bizuayehu Wagaw @buzi2011]

2026 African championships schedule: Accra (Ghana) May 12-17
#athletics #trackandfield #AfricanChampionships

[AW @AthleticsWeekly]

Selemon Barega headlines 2026 AJ Bell Great Manchester Run.

The elite athlete line-up of this year’s Great Manchester Run is stacked with Olympic gold medallists, European champions, past winners and a defending champion.

https://t.co/LmDkdKPb55

[Athletics Integrity Unit @aiu_athletics]

The AIU has provisionally suspended Mosisa Siyoum (Ethiopia) for Presence/Use of a Prohibited Substance (EPO). Details here:
https://t.co/Y8LF9j2VYN

[Bizuayehu Wagaw @buzi2011]

A total of 20 Ethiopian athletes, 12 women and 8 men, are set to compete in the @OttawaRaceWknd International Marathon on May 24, 2026, according to the start list released on April 29.

#EthiopianAthletics #OttawaMarathon2026 #RoadRace #TamarackOttawaRaceWeekend

[Bizuayehu Wagaw @buzi2011]

One of the objectives of this competition is to select athletes to represent 🇪🇹 at the WA U20 Champs to be held in Oregon, USA, from August 5 - 9, 2026, the task of accurately identifying athletes who meet the required age criteria remains a major challenge for the federation.

[Bizuayehu Wagaw @buzi2011]

On the third day of the 14th Under-20 and 5th Under-18 Ethiopian Athletics Championships, the Ethiopian Athletics Federation has issued the following statement on its official social media page regarding age issue:

[Bizuayehu Wagaw @buzi2011]

There are indications that the long-standing issue of age fraud has continued unabated due to the negligence of regional and club sports leaders and the weak Ethiopian Athletics Federation’s regulatory system that is not based on a self-organized database.

[World Athletics @WorldAthletics]

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF 🤩

🇪🇹’s Tigst Assefa defends her TCS London Marathon crown, breaking her own women’s-only marathon world record once again with 2:15:41 👑

She lowers the very mark she set here last year by 9 seconds 😤

[World Athletics @WorldAthletics]

HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE 🫨

Sabastian Sawe becomes the first person ever to break the 2-hour barrier in official race conditions, storming to a historic 1:59:30‼️

@KejelchaYomif, on his marathon debut, also breaks 2 hours with a stunning 1:59:41 and @jacobkiplimo2 clocks 2:00:28, also faster than the previous world record 😤

[Marathon News @Marathon_N]

Hamburg #Marathon 🇩🇪 (26 April) elite fields:
https://t.co/VtYiMke5pM
🏃‍♂️
Bernard Koech 🇰🇪 2:04:09
Gashau Ayale 🇮🇱 2:04:53
Samuel Fitwi 🇩🇪 2:04:56
Othmane El Goumri 🇲🇦 2:05:12
🏃‍♀️
Rebecca Tanui 🇰🇪 2:21:08
Kasanesh Baze 🇪🇹 2:22:06
Muluhabt Tsega 🇪🇹 2:22:21
Marion Kibor 🇰🇪 2:22:35

[Bizuayehu Wagaw @buzi2011]

This recap summarizes the notable statistics from the inaugural Addis Ababa Grand Prix.

#Ethiopia #addisababagrandprix #worldathletics #ContinentalTourBronze

[Bizuayehu Wagaw @buzi2011]

You can watch the live stream of World Athletics' Addis Ababa Grand Prix here

https://t.co/fDJtprPbhY

[Bizuayehu Wagaw @buzi2011]

You can watch the first part of Addis Ababa Grand Prix live stream here

https://t.co/oVmC0H6qTK

[Owen @_OwenM_]

World Athletics will be live-streaming the Addis Ababa Grand Prix! 🚨

The Continental Tour Bronze event is scheduled to feature:

• Ferdinand Omanyala 🇰🇪 100m
• Pjai Austin 🇺🇸 100m
• Gabby Thomas 🇺🇸 100m & 200m
• Maia McCoy 🇺🇸 100m & 200m
• Tamara Clark 🇺🇸 100m & 200m
• Cambrea Sturgis 🇺🇸 100m & 200m
• Eric Edwards 🇺🇸 110mH
• Rayniah Jones 🇺🇸 100m & 100mH
• Cyréna Samba-Mayela 🇫🇷 100mH
• Gina Bass 🇬🇲 200m
• Chidi Okezie 🇳🇬 200m
• Justice Oratile 🇧🇼 400m
• Kemi Adekoya 🇧🇭 400m
• Paris Peoples 🇺🇸 400m & 800m
• Gianna Woodruff 🇵🇦 400m
• Dalilah Muhammad 🇺🇸 400mH
• Tsige Duguma 🇪🇹 800m
• Nigist Getachew 🇪🇹 800m
• Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich 🇰🇪 800m
• Freweyni Hailu 🇪🇹 1500m
• Birke Haylom 🇪🇹 1500m
• Saron Berhe 🇪🇹 1500m
• Biniam Mehary 🇪🇹 5000m
• Berihu Aregawi 🇪🇹 5000m
• Tsigie Gebreselama 🇪🇹 10,000m
• Esraa Owis 🇪🇬 LJ

📆 18 April
⏰ 9-11am ET
🌍 Available worldwide (except Ethiopia)