Tadu Nare races to SPAR Grand Prix 10km riches in Cape Town
Small of stature but a giant at heart, Tadu Teshome Nare, raced to an emphatic victory at the 2022 SPAR Grand Prix 10km race at Green Point in Cape Town this morning (Sunday 23 October) to seal her top...
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...
Running great Mary Keitany empowers young women to Achieve in Stellenbosch
They are small of stature but gigantic in spirit and delivery and they’re making massive footprints in Africa, changing the lives of young women. Four former female running greats from Africa are ploughing back what they gained from the...
Robbie and Bianca sizzle in heat-wave conditions at the Otter TERREX Trail
Robbie Simpson made it two in a row with a drama-filled victory at the Otter TERREX Trail, presented by EasyEquities, at Storms River today (Saturday 5 October) while Bianca Tarboton delivered the performance of the day in winning the...
This weekend – top trail racing returns at home and abroad
The Olympic Games relegates non-Olympic sport to playing second fiddle for the duration of the games but trail running comes into its own this weekend at the climax of the Ultra-trail Mont Blanc (UTMB) festival of trail running.
UTMB, from...
Showtime on Table Mountain as the world’s top trail athletes line up for the...
It’s showtime for Rand Merchant Bank Ultra-trail Cape Town (RMB UTCT) as the new-look endurance event gets underway this weekend, offering competitive international trail-racing over 100 miles (the UTCT flagship), 100km (the UT100), 55km (the Peninsula Traverse or PT55),...
Steyn and Khonkhobe and significantly increased numbers the plus points from this year’s Two...
This year’s Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon, which took place in Cape Town recently, produced intense road-running competition and delivered one of the best-ever races since the Two Oceans’ inception in 1970.
It will be remembered for a once-in-a-generation athlete with...
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...
Raydon’s Bay to Bay win sets him on target for a strong 2024 season...
Twenty-nine-year-old Tymebank Langa athlete, Raydon Balie, regained his Bay to Bay 30km title over the weekend (Sunday 21 January) with a convincing victory over the traditional out and back race between Cape Town’s coastal suburbs of Camps Bay and...
Mashele claims Durban 10k, Kavanah wins womens’
Precious ‘Machine’ Mashele defended his national title and rising star, Tayla Kavanagh won her first senior title at the inaugural Absa Durban 10K CITYRUN incorporating the ASA 10km National Championships in Ethekwini on Sunday 31 October.
As was the case...