SA strongmen looking to smash world record during Live-streamed Southern Cape Strongman
Shane Jensen and a who's who of South Africa's strongest men will look to smash a world record during Saturday's (October 17) Southern Cape Strongman competition.
The event, which can be viewed on the new Africa-wide sports streaming network, SPNAfrica...
South African trail athletes bag Golden Tickets
Johardt van Heerden and Toni McCann celebrating their respective victories at the 2019 Otter African Trail Run. Photo: Stephen Granger
Leading South African trail athletes, Johardt van Heerden and Toni McCann, bagged the sought-after golden tickets on offer for the...
Final assault on “Golden Tickets” trail prize underway
With just three days to go until the end of South Africa’s Golden Segment contest, and with it the opportunity of winning a once-in-a-lifetime trip to compete with the world’s best trail athletes on the Azores Island Group, the...
Trail running’s “Golden Segment” kicked wide open
UCT graduate Robbie Rorich set South Africa's "Golden Segment" trail run on fire with a superb run in appalling conditions last week, to set up a flurry of high-quality responses from some of the country’s top trail athletes.
Twenty-seven "Golden...
South Africa’s top trail run to go ahead
Trail runners are celebrating the confirmation that the 2020 Otter African Trail Run will be run as scheduled at the end of October, while the Merrell Whale of Trail ultra-marathon in De Hoop Nature Reserve, postponed from its usual...
Sandes sets “(Mission) Impossible” 13 Peaks Challenge time
Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in the “Mission Impossible” film series. Hunt takes charge of an “Impossible Mission Force” team geared to stop an enemy force while preventing an impending global disaster.
“Mission Impossible” is also the code name for the...
Top Kenyan mountain bike races postponed further
Two of Africa's most iconic mountain bike races, the Rift Valley Odyssey and the Mount Kenya Epik have suffered further delays, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Organisers of the Mount Kenya Epic announced recently that the Epik was being postponed...
McCann world-class run seals trail segment
Top women's ultra trail runner Toni McCann vaulted back to the top of the leader board of July's #Gone2Gone trail segment in Cape Town on Friday (July 31), delivering a world-class performance in trail and road running. McCann made...
Steyn signs up for virtual Cape Town
South African ultra-marathon sensation, Gerda Steyn has signed up for the 2020 Cape Town Marathon. The marathon - which is to be run virtually in 2020 thanks to the coronavirus pandemic - earlier netted international star Mo Farah, who...