Friday, February 7, 2025

Running

Track and Field returns with a bang on South African soil

By Stephen Granger Track is back with a bang in South Africa, with the Athletics South Africa Grand Prix 2 Intercontinental Series in full swing and a mouth-watering event scheduled for Stellenbosch next Monday (28 March). The second in the Grand...

Sanlam Virtual Cape Town Marathon to be streamed across Africa by sports streamer SPNAfrica.com

Sports Network Africa, the Sports Streaming and Video Content platform linked to the sports news site, SPNAfricanews.com, will be streaming the Sanlam Cape Town Virtual Marathon, live, across Africa (outside South Africa) and around the world, on October 18,...

A preview to Cape Town Marathon

Some of the biggest names in marathon running will be in action in the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon (SCTM) this weekend, as the continent’s most prestigious marathon continues on its path towards inclusion as an Abbott’s Marathon Major in just...

Tarakinyu and Chidzivo sweep to victory at the Totalsports Two Oceans Half Marathon

By Stephen Granger Zimbabwe eyes were smiling at at the University of Cape Town sports fields this morning (Saturday 16 April) as Moses Tarakinyu and Fortunate Chidzivo swept to victory in the Totalsports Two Oceans Half Marathon. Both athletes were born north of the...

Internationals to compete in Otter African Trail Run

Top trail athletes, Pere Aurell and Ragna Debats, will give Saturday’s Otter African Trail (Retto) Run an international flavour, continuing the event’s strong outreach to leading runners from around the world. Catalan athlete, Aurell, and Dutch-born Debats have excelled at...

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...

A Golden Championship… The Azores 2020 Trail Run is a wrap.

Had last week’s Golden Trail Championship (GTC) been a four-day cricket test, the match would have been abandoned without a ball being bowled.  Trail athletes, however, embrace wild and elemental and the four-day stage race on the Azores Island...

THIRSTI AFRICANX Final Results

RESULTS: THIRSTI AFRICANX TrailrunSTAGE 3 Date: Sunday 28 March 2021Distance: +- 20km / total climb 450mStart Venue: Houw Hoek Farm StallFinish Venue: Houw Hoek Hotel TOP 10 OPEN CATEGORY: STAGE 3 OPEN MEN’S TEAMS:1 Retsepile Khotle and Siviwe Nkombi (Big Box Team)...

Organisers want to keep Krom “beast” friendly

The inaugural Kromrivier Beast 45km trail adventure in the Cederberg could hardly have taken place in wilder weather, ensuring the event not only lived up to its name but also won huge praise on social media for what will...

Running the Sky on cloud nine – a South African trail athlete in Europe

By Stephen Granger Still on ‘Cloud Nine’ after the ‘best, happiest and strongest run of my life’, East London-born University of Cape Town chemical engineering graduate, Bianca Tarboton, takes on some of the world’s best trail athletes in Italy in...