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Mathews Mutanya from Zambia won the men’s open category in the 42km in a time 02:16.53.60. Anna Amutoko won the women’s open category in a time of 02:53.45.31. Reinhold Thomas took second place in the men’s open category and is the 2018 National Champion. Click on the link for the results: https://athletics-namibia.com.na/?page_id=1204 Some of the more than 500 participants in the 2018 Rossing National Half Marathon in Swakopmund on 10 February 2018

The Ipumbu Shiimi Christmas Tournament for the first time included athletics activities during the 2017 December holiday. In the picture Mr Ipumbu Shiimi is in action against amongst other the president of Athletics Namibia Mr Erwin Naimhwaka in the 60m dash.

Jolene Jacobs (Welvitchia77 AC) gave a dominant performance in the women 100m sprint, winning in a time of 12.09 at the Coca Cola Regional Club Challenge in Swakopmund on Saturday 20 January 2017. For the full results, visits our results page: https://athletics-namibia.com.na/?page_id=1199

Ernst Narib (NAMPOL AC), the 2017 200m National Champion, leading in his heat of the 200m, followed by Thomas Ndunge (Future Energy Luderitz AC), at the Coca Cola Regional Club Challenge Leg1 at the Vineta Stadium in Swakopmund. For the results visit the results page: https://athletics-namibia.com.na/?page_id=1199

The Coca Cola Regional Club Challenge for 2018 kicked off in Swakopmund today 20 January 2018 at 14h00. Eleven clubs from six regions are represented. For the results, go to our results page: https://athletics-namibia.com.na/?page_id=1199

For further information on this training opportunity, please follow the link below. Athletics Namibia will only provide motivation letters to individuals that are associated through Athletics Namibia structures – individuals who are registered with clubs or the NSSU. https://athletics-namibia.com.na/?page_id=1039 For an AN endorsement letter, kindly send your request to nam@mf.iaaf.org, with you background info about yourself and how you are associated to AN.

Madeleine Kotze is the new Secretary General (SG) of Athletics Namibia (AN). Her appointment follows the Congress of AN on the 25 November 2017, which relieved Mr Immanuel Hamutenya as the SG.  In addition Mr Louis Cloete from Omaheke region has also been co-opted to the Council of Athletics Namibia as the Chairperson of the Coaching Committee.  AN welcomes the two officials and wishes them all the best in their new portfolios. The Secretary General can be contacted at +264 81 1243550, nam@mf.iaaf.org.

DISCIPLINES ANNOUNCED FOR 2018 IAAF WORLD INDOOR TOUR The disciplines for an exciting 2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour have been confirmed. The scoring disciplines for 2018 are: Men: 60m, 800m, 3000m/5000m, shot put, pole vault, triple jump Women: 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump, long jump With the new addition of the Madrid Indoor Meeting, the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour will consist of six action-packed meetings staged throughout the month of February. DATES AND DISCIPLINES 3 Feb – Karlsruhe Men: 60m, 800m, 3000m, pole vault Women: 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump, long jump 6 Feb – Düsseldorf Men: 60m, 800m, 3000m, pole vault, shot put Women: 1500m, 60m hurdles, long jump 8 Feb – Madrid Men: 60m, 800m, pole vault, triple jump, shot put Women: 400m, 1500m, high jump 10 Feb – Boston Men: 60m, 800m, 3000m/5000m, triple jump, shot put Women: 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump 15 Feb – Torun Men: 60m, 800m, pole vault, triple jump, shot put Women: 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump 25 Feb – Glasgow Men: 60m, 800m, 3000m Women: 400m, 1500m, 60m hurdles, high jump, long jump Each meeting has the option to add additional non-tour (non-scoring) disciplines to their programme. These will be announced in the next months. For each IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting, points are allocated to the top four athletes in each IAAF World Indoor Tour discipline as follows: 1st: 10 points 2nd: 7 points 3rd: 5 points 4th: 3 points Any athlete who breaks a world record will be awarded three bonus points in addition to the points they will receive as a result of their finishing position. An athlete can participate in as many events as chosen within the meetings listed, but only the best three results count towards their ranking. The winner of the IAAF World Indoor Tour must have competed in at least two meetings. The individual overall winner of each event will receive US$20,000 prize money and automatically qualify for the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 by wild card. The Member Federation of the IAAF World Indoor Tour winner will have the ultimate authority to enter the athlete or not, based on its own criteria or qualification system.