Siboniso fired up for Gun Run Trail success
The cover has been blown on one of the best kept secrets in trail running - the OUTsurance Gun Run Trail Run. Elites and trail enthusiasts alike have signed up for the second event at this year’s Gun Run...
Elhousine and Philemon set to take on the world in Japan at Golden Trail...
The Golden Trail World Series (GTWS), now in its sixth edition, commences its 2024 season in Kobe, Japan, tomorrow (Saturday 20 April).
The series, which pits elite-level trail runners from around the world on rugged mountain courses that range from...
Cape Town on path to take its place amongst the world’s biggest city marathons
With just 80 days to go before runners line up for the start of the 2023 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon (SCTM), quality and quantity are the watch-words as Africa’s leading city marathon moves steadily towards becoming the next Abbott’s...
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...
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...
A night of stellar performances at the Athletes Academy invitational in Stellenbosch
By Stephen Granger
University of Johannesburg athlete, Ryan Mphahlele, turned in the performance of the night to win a thrilling men’s 1500m in the final event of the Athletes Academy Invitational meeting at Coetzenburg in Stellenbosch this week (Monday 28...
Sports shoe powerhouse joins Africa’s leading trail event
With Maryann Shaw
RMB Ultra-trail Cape Town, South Africa’s premier festival of trail running, is proud to announce adidas TERREX as their official technical sponsor. RMB UTCT hosts its tenth edition in 2024 and looks forward to taking its place...
Kenyans race to victory in top-class Cape Town road race
Twenty-six year old Kenyan, Victor Kipruto, and his compatriot, Veronica Loleo, one year his junior, ran like the wind to win this weekend’s Absa RUN YOUR CITY CAPE TOWN 10km (Sunday 14 May) in life-time bests for the distance.
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Achieving their dreams – girls from Cape Flats set to join Pink Run in...
More than a hundred girls from Endurocad’s ACHIEVE programme will celebrate health, wellness and new life at the Totalsports Women’s Day Challenge in Cape Town on Wednesday (9 August), part of the cast of thousands of grandmothers, aunts, mothers,...
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...