Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Extreme Sports

Africa is the new best playground for all types of Xtreme Sports. Also see XOA, SPNA’s own TV series, now streaming on SPNAfrica.co.za

Hanks sets new womens’ 13 Peaks Challenge record

Forty-nine-year-old environmental campaigner and vegan cooking instructor, Karoline Hanks, has run a Fastest Known Time (FKT) for women in the 13 Peaks Challenge over South Africa's Table Mountain, aiding turtle conservation in the process. Hanks improved Stellenbosch-based trail athlete, Amri...

Whether it’s the 75km “heaven” ultra-trail run or the 40km “marathon”, this weekend’s MaxiRace...

Two of the world’s best trail athletes on the adventure of a lifetime will line up as favourites at the start of the second MaxiRace ultra-trail run in the Cape Winelands tomorrow (Saturday 12 Dec), with COVID having resulted...

Scaled-back 2020 KAP sani2c event dodges COVID-19, wet weather conditions to deliver “great race”.

DSV Pro Cycling’s Arno du Toit and Gert Heyns won the third and final stage of the KAP sani2c at Scottburgh Golf Club in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday (December 5), securing the overall crown in a time of 06:10:38. Amy McDougall and...

How far can a person run in 24 hours? This ultra marathon star will...

Yiannis Kouros is a living legend.  The Greek athlete’s extraordinary feats of ultra-distance running defy belief.  Many of his records, set in the 80s and 90s, still stand.  But one, of which Kouros boasted would stand for centuries, is...

“Super Pole” Przedwojewski and Switzerland’s Mathys take overall honours in the Golden Trail Championship,...

Sunday 1st November is All Saints Day in the USA and whether that influenced the outcome of the final day of the Golden Trail Championship  - The Azores Trail Run – on the Island of Faial, we'll never know. However,...

Africa’s media landscape is entering a new age – driven by sports opportunities

Heavy investment into sports-themed content, like Sunday's ground-breaking The AKO Show in Nigeria may rescue the professional sports ecosystem from a yawning chasm created by SuperSport's retreat from key African markets. Professional sport depends on the "holy trinity" of sports...

Golden Trail Championship Stage 3 – no technical ascent due to weather conditions; faster...

Add title Golden Trail Championship Stage 3 - no technical ascent due to weather conditions; faster track favours leaders This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is DSC_2732_60-1024x683.jpg Mount Pico beckoned briefly but the technical ascent was not to...

Spaniard Pere Aurell wins Otter Africa “RETTO”

Pere Aurell is the new 2020 OTTER men's champion, while South Africa's Toni McCann took the women's honours. From the race organisers: "Visiting South Africa for the first time from Spain, Pere started conservatively, aware that the first half was fast...

African “Ubuntu” at the Golden Trail Championship

Polish athlete, Bartlomiej Przedwojewski, swept to an exciting victory ahead of American Jim Walmsley on Day Two of the Golden Trail Championship on Faial Island in the mid-Atlantic, while Swiss athlete Maud Mathys turned the tables on Swede Tove...

Otter African brings local flavour to 2020 trail racing

The Otter African Trail Run is one of the few major trail races not cancelled this year and the cream of the crop of South Africa's trail athletes are chomping at the bit to get their competitive juices flowing...
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