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It’s anyone’s game as seconds separate top teams in thrilling contest at AFRICANX TRAILRUN

Somerset West runners, Hakeem Smith and Lovemo Nyaude (Team HTRCrew Trail Taxi), upset the form book when they took line honours in the 34km second stage of the Pickle Juice AFRICANX TRAILRUN this morning (Saturday 18 March), while strong-running...

Ostrich-country duo fly to victory on first day of AFRICANX TRAILRUN

Outshoorn is known for its ostriches, one of the fastest creatures across the land. And feathers and dust were all that their rivals saw of Oudtshoorn-based athletes, Underson Ncube and John April (Team Ride Along 2), in the final...

Trail legends AJ and Bernie back for more AFRICANX glory

AFRICANX multiple-winner AJ Calitz is back once again with his renowned ‘trail buddy’ Bernard Rukadza to compete in the PICKLE JUICE AFRICANX TRAILRUN 3-Day Stage Race, starting tomorrow. The two legends of trail running have won the title on...

Annie shakes off past woes to take the ASA Marathon Championship title in a...

Lesotho athlete Tebello Ramakongoana and Cape Town-based Annie Bothma raced to hard-fought victories at the Durban International Marathon in rainy weather over the weekend (Sunday 13 March), while Simon Sibeko and Bothma won gold medals and national titles in...

Trip of a lifetime awaits Sinovuyo

Sinovuyo Ngcobo wanted to give it all up. The kid from Mbanyana primary school in the Ndwedwe Mission outside Durban in South Africa, had found a love for many sports but a passion for running. But there didn’t seem...

South African athletes impress at World Cross Country Championships while east Africans reign supreme

South Africa’s performance at the World Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, Australia last month may not have been gilded with medals, but it represented one of their best achievements at that event since readmission in 1993. Three athletes in the...

RAK draws running royalty

Running royalty arrived at Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) this week, as some of the world’s fastest distance runners headed to the United Arab Emirates city for the running of tomorrow’s (Saturday 18 February) Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon –...

Africa set for cross country dominance in Australia

Cross country is mostly not run on level playing fields, but in spite of the tougher courses now prepared for championship events and a scheduling tradition which appears to favour countries from the developed north, Saturday’s World Cross Country...

Malusi and Mila make merry at Milkwood

Masiphumelelo athlete, Malusi Judase, raced to his second road title this year at the annual Milkwood Half Marathon at Kommetjie this weekend (Sunday 12 February), while Pretoria athletes Mila Geldenhuys and Mitsie van der Westhuizen ruled the roost in...

Lloyd Bosman takes the heat and the win as runners follow in Madiba’s footsteps...

A week short of his 35th birthday, seasoned Southern Cape athlete, Lloyd Bosman, raced to victory in the annual 27 for Freedom in heat-wave conditions at Drakenstein, near Paarl, this weekend but it was the improved form of runner-up Philani...
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