Great season opener for Toni at La Palma
South African trail athlete, Toni McCann, raced to an emotional season-opening victory at the Transvulcania by UTMB ‘Volcanes’ 48 km on the Spanish island of La Palma yesterday morning (6 May), with another South African, Meg Mackenzie, finishing strongly...
Trail history as South African team announced for World Championships
In a major step forward for trail and mountain running in South Africa, Athletics South Africa (ASA) have announced the names of sixteen trail athletes to take part in the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships, which are scheduled...
Stunning landscapes, farming hospitality and intense competition at Ultra-trail Drakensberg
New champions were crowned, dreams fulfilled and hearts broken as the traditional ringing of the cow-bells by the 100 miler finishers signalled the close of the sixth edition of the Ultra-trail Drakensberg (UTD) at the Premier Resort Sani Pass...
Fireworks at Ultra-trail Drakensberg as top trail athletes battle for honours
Johardt van Heerden showed why he is rated South Africa’s leading trail athlete with an emphatic victory in the 21km race (DRJ21) at Ultra-trail Drakensberg yesterday while at the other end of the distance spectrum a surprised Ross Lutsch...
uKhahlambha hosts the Southern Africa’s top trail athletes at Ultra-trail Drakensberg mountain extravaganza
All trails lead to the Underberg region of the Drakensberg this weekend (28-30 April), as the country’s leading trail and mountain runners make the journey to race HQ at Premier Resort Sani Pass for the sixth edition of Ultra-trail...
Hiyane’s debut stuns her rivals at SPAR Women’s 10km Challenge
Twenty-one-year-old Ethiopian athlete, Hiyane Lama, dropped to her knees after taking the tape in this morning’s SPAR Women’s 10 km Challenge at a cold and wet Green Point in Cape Town this morning (Sunday 23 April), kissing the ground...
It’s back to business at the SPAR Women’s Challenge
It’s all action once again at the SPAR Women’s 10km Challenge, as the 2023 edition of the popular series gets underway in Green Point, Cape Town on Sunday (23 April).
While the SPAR Grand Prix circuit blazed brightly last year,...
Mphahlele and Tshite light up the Green Point track
Mafori Ryan Mphahlele take a bow! And Tshepo Tshite too.
On a perfect night for athletics at the Green Point Athletics Stadium yesterday (Monday 17 April), 24-year-old University of Johannesburg athlete, Ryan Mphahlele, ran the race of his life at...
Mbuleli and Emma take the Two Oceans Half Marathon titles after last gasp sprint...
Mbuleli Mathanga seized the moment, played to his strengths and raced to a memorable victory in the Totalsports Two Oceans Half Marathon this weekend (Sunday 16 April), while Potchefstroom-based Elroy Gelant was again forced to play second fiddle, beaten...
Gerda Steyn runs into the record books at Two Oceans as Givemore Mudzinganyama goes...
While Givemore Mudzinganyama landed ‘the big fish’, the 2023 Totalsports Two Oceans 56km Marathon (Saturday 15 April) was once again a triumph for Gerda Steyn, who raced to her second record victory in successive years and her fourth successive...