Elhousine strikes gold in Italy
Thirty-one-year-old Moroccan trail athlete, Elhousine Elazzaoui (Pini Mountain Racing), raced to his first Golden Trail World Series win with an emphatic victory in the lung-busting DoloMyths 22km Trail Race in Italy over the weekend (Saturday 15 July).
Elazzaoui chose one...
Stephen Mokoka makes it a treble at the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon as Meseret...
Stephen Mokoka made it three out of three with an emphatic victory at the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon this morning (Sunday 16 October) as the Mother City came alive in a celebration of running, health and wellbeing. And 26-year-old Ethiopian,...
Can the ‘Pitbull’ make it to Number One in Two Oceans?
They were cheering on one of their own at Scottsville Racing Course, the pre-COVID packed crowd welcoming Howick-based Nkosikhona Mhlakwana as he approached the finish of the 2019 Comrades Marathon. A gold medal for the debutant looked certain. Then...
‘Once in a lifetime’ storm not enough to quell the 29th Gun Run
Not even the highest seas in living memory could dampen the gun powder of one of the Cape’s most popular and prestigious running events, as the traditional firing of a model canon signaled the end of the 29th edition...
Golden trails lead to Madeira for season climax
It’s showtime for trail running as the world’s top marathon-distance trail athletes fly into Funchal, the capital of the Portuguese Island of Madeira, to take part in this week’s Golden Trail Series Grand Final at the Madeira Ocean&Trails® Stage...
All guns blazing as Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon returns to glory days
Thousands of visiting runners from more than 80 countries are flocking to Cape Town this weekend to challenge themselves on one of the most beautiful marathons on the planet - the Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon.
Some say that if the...
Edo 2020 Sports Festival gets Dec.03 date
The severally postponed 20th National Sports Festival (NSF) originally meant to take place in March through April 2020 in Benin City, Edo State, now has new definitive dates.
The new dates for the multiple sports competition tagged Edo 2020 is...
New era of club diversity looks set to dazzle at this weekend’s ‘Rainbow’ Two...
Josh Groban sings powerfully of Changing Colours. It’s unlikely he was thinking about the Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon at the time he penned the lyrics, but it would not be inappropriate were he to welcome the thousands of running...
Africa’s leading distance athletes tipped for marathon honours at the World Athletics Championship in...
African athletes have impressed at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest this week, walking away with a clutch of medals after Day Six, but Africa is expected to come into its own in the longest two races on the...
Van Niekerk looks for positives in Tokyo 2020 postponement
Olympic 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk says that while the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Games due to the coronavirus outbreak was a “downer” the delay will give him time to regain full fitness after a long period on...