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An upbeat, hands-on administrator at Athletics SA

Incoming Athletics South Africa Board. Back Row (from left): Jazz Mnyengeza (USSA), Enoch Skosana (road), Jean Verster (track and field), Hendrick Moganyetsi (athletes), Jakes Jacobs (Cross Country) Front Row: Esther Malema (additional member), Shireen Noble (vice president), James Moloi (president),...

Karkloof announced as 2024 Trail Champs venue

Athletics South Africa is pleased to announce a national championship for trail and mountain running in September this year. The 2024 ASA Trail and Mountain Running Championship will be hosted by the Karkloof Trail Run, which takes place at the...

A (new) star is born as Vincent Langat lopes to victory in Gqeberha

The 2024 edition of the Absa RUN YOUR CITY 10K series got underway in Gqeberha this morning with two young Kenyan athletes taking line honours in impressive style. Running for the first time outside Kenya, 23-year-old Vincent Kibet Langat’s loping...

80 days to go as Cape Town Marathon sends strong message of inclusivity and...

The Sanlam Cape Town Marathon broke new ground at their ‘80 days to go’ launch on Thursday (27 July) with its announcement that they had doubled the number of free entries allocated to runners who could not afford the...

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...

Elroy Gelant to strengthen South Africa’s Olympic Marathon team

Elroy is packing for Paris! South African leading distance athlete, Elroy Gelant, received the best news of the year, with confirmation that he had been allocated a late position in the Olympic Marathon team for Paris in August. Gelant has been...

Mice or men on Muizenberg Mountain?

Some believe Muizenberg had its origins in the direct translation from the Dutch, ‘Mice Mountain’, but it will be anything but mice who will be in action in tomorrow’s Triple Crown opener, the Muizenberg Trail 20km. Siviwe Nkombi - looking...

Absa Run Your City series up with best in the world

by Stephen Granger Thousands of colourfully-attired participants running alongside scenic shores into the world’s most iconic city-centres is a well-established formula for some of the world’s most popular road races. Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, City to Surf in...

Elana van Zyl awarded prestigious medal

Sanlam Cape Town Marathon race ambassador and South African athletics legend, Elana van Zyl, was awarded the prestigious Sri Chinmoy Oneness Home Peace Run Torch Bearer Award at Green Point on Saturday - a tribute to her substantial work...

Angermund and Geoffray take the Short Trail titles at the World Championships in...

Extreme physical challenges, exceptional beauty and intensely competitive racing have characterised the first half of the second World Mountain and Trail Running Championships, taking place in the Innsbruck region of Austria, with African athletes prominent in the Vertical Challenge...