SA’s Bianca Tarboton races to memorable trail victory Down Under
Otter TERREX Trail champions, Bianca Tarboton and Robbie Simpson, turned in top performances at the Tarawera Ultra-trail by UTMB, run from New Zealand’s North Island centre of Rotorua this weekend (Saturday 15 February), with kiwi athletes Ruth Croft and...
Top marathoners contest national medals in South Africa’s oldest marathon
The oldest running marathon in South Africa, the Balwin Sport Peninsula Marathon, moves up a gear on Sunday when it hosts the ASA South Africa Marathon Championships for the first time in its 57-year history.
The race was founded in...
Otter’s champions set to take on New Zealand’s best at Tarawera
Current Otter TERREX Trail Champions, Robbie Simpson and Bianca Tarboton, take on a strong international line-up at Tarawera Ultra-trail by UTMB, New Zealand’s most important trail event, this weekend.
South Africa’s premier trail marathon, ‘the Otter’, which takes place in...
Three from Africa set for trail action Down Under at Tarawera
Three of South Africa’s best-known women trail athletes will line up at the start of New Zealand’s biggest trail race - the 16th Tarawera Ultra-trail by UTMB, facing challenges of sporting excellence and embracing powerful life experiences through connecting...
Eric Bateman was a leading South African ultra-distance athlete and physician of global significance
The passing of Eric Bateman last weekend came as a shock to the South African running community. One of the leading ultra-marathoners in the country in the 1980s, Bateman won gold medals at both the Comrades and Two Oceans...
Clash of the Titans provides road running highlight at Bay to Bay 30km
British athlete Lucy Reid raced to a record-breaking victory in yesterday’s (Sunday 18 January) Top Form Bay to Bay 30km, her high-speed duel with South African ‘golden girl’ Gerda Steyn providing one of the highlights of the race’s history...
The Voice of Running calls time on the mic
For over fifty years, road and cross-country runners in the Western Cape have enjoyed the distinctive tone of Harold Berman’s voice, calling late-comers to quickly register and hasten to the start line, sending the field on their way before...
Elhousine and Katie rule as Africa features strongly in Trail Runners of the Year...
Elhousine Elazzaoui and Katie Schide have been named Trail Runners of the Year (TROY) for 2024, following a global poll of trail running experts from around the world, coordinated by Freetrail, a USA-based trail-running organisation.
The “Flying Camel”, as the...
Tata, the Marathon Grandmother: ‘Every Sweat Dripping off My Face Is for a Cause’
Joyce Nduku has been hitting the headlines recently, almost as much as she hits the streets in her running shoes - and its all for a good cause. Lesalon Kasaine recently caught up with her.
by Lesalon Kasaine
It’s 2014, and...
Marathon magic in New York and Soweto
Competitive racing was the order of the day at the TCS New York City Marathon and African Bank Soweto Marathon over the weekend as Sydney celebrated becoming the 7th Abbott’s Marathon Major, setting its path to attract the world’s...