Elroy Gelant to strengthen South Africa’s Olympic Marathon team
Elroy is packing for Paris!
South African leading distance athlete, Elroy Gelant, received the best news of the year, with confirmation that he had been allocated a late position in the Olympic Marathon team for Paris in August.
Gelant has been...
RMB Ultra-trail Cape Town remains on course for Africa’s biggest and best trail show...
Athletes from all corners of the globe have arrived in South Africa to take part in the continent’s premier trail event, the RMB Ultra-trail Cape Town, which brings the traditional end to the global trail running season next weekend.
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Two Oceans Marathon look to return to the glory years
Confirmation that the Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon will move from their traditional Easter Weekend was a significant point of discussion at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting at a Cape Town hotel yesterday evening when it was confirmed that entries...
Tigst Assefa redefines women’s marathon running in Berlin
Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa has set a new women's world record that redefines women's marathon running. Her 2:11:53 finish at the 2023 BMW Berlin Marathon is more than two minutes faster than the previous record.
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Olympics Special – Stephen Mokoka’s mission in Sapporo
Stephen Mokoka feeds of the support from an activation station en route to winning the 2018 Cape Town Marathon. Photo: Stephen Granger
South African distance running supremo, Stephen Lesego Mokoka, is a man on an extraordinary mission: to follow in...
Ryder and Odendaal overcome challenges to triumph at the K-Way MaxiRace Cape Winelands
Thirty-eight-year old transport logistics operator come KZN berry farmer, Douglas Pickard, raced to another high-profile ultra-trail victory in the 120km K-Way MaxiRace Cape Winelands presented by Banhoek Chilli Oil in association with Yenn Health and On Running in Stellenbosch over...
Two Oceans Marathon chair upbeat about new beginnings and an end to turbulent times
Sixty-four-year-old Brackenfell-based distance runner and grandfather of two, William Christian Swartbooi, enters his second term as Two Oceans Marathon NPC Chairperson and his 10th year on the board. Being familiar with athletic trends, he is optimistic that the historic...
Olympics Special – Elroy Gelant on chasing that medal with the “lion pack”
By Stephen Granger
Elroy Gelant faces one of the biggest tests of his athletics career in Japan in three weeks’ time when he lines up at the start of the Olympic Marathon in Sapporo, 800km north of the Olympic City...
“It’s great to be a part of Two Oceans again” says top contender for...
While superstars Stephen Mokoka and Gerda Steyn top the bill at tomorrow’s Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon (Saturday 13 April), a number of other marathoners are waiting in the wings, ready to step up to the top of the podium,...
This week’s Comrades Marathon cancellation is a huge disappointment – and an opportunity.
Yesterday’s cancellation of the Comrades Marathon confirmed what most people had expected. The faint hope of a late vaccination reprieve was extinguished by the “regret” notice issued by the board, largely due to complications relating to the South African...