Thursday, May 16, 2024

Running

Vandyke Sports and RESULT Sports to drive Africa’s first Sports innovation Hub in Partnership...

The University of Port Harcourt (Uniport)  and it’s Uniport Sports Institute  and Vandyke Sportscom Limited also known as Vandyke Sports have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on August 1, 2020.  The MOU was signed by Professor Stephen Okodudu, Vice-Chancellor of the University of...

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...

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...

South African trail running reaches new heights after lockdown

Hayley Preen celebrates after posting the fastest Gone2Gone segment time. PHOTO: Pippa van den Berg Record-breaking runs on the Gone2Gone 21,6 km trail segment in Cape Town by leading trail athletes, Kane Reilly and Hayley Preen this week are indicative...

Record-breaker Six Peak run for trail duo

Sunrise at the Ventersberg Summit. Photo: Julius de Clerq Two top South African trail runners, Johardt van Heerden and Daniel Claassen, laid down a marker in the Southern Cape this week with a record-breaking run over the tough Six Peak...

Cape storm backdrop for Golden Ticket opening

Gale force winds and giant waves battered the Mother City on Monday (July 13), providing a powerful setting for one of the most anticipated trail running events on the sub-continent - the official opening of the South African ‘Golden...

Mo Farah to run Cape Town “Virtual”

The legendary Mo Farah - or Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah as he is now known - is "coming to Cape Town". He'll be running past some of its most iconic scenery on a 10km section of the Cape Town...

South African charity sports event goes virtual

A Community Chest event in South Africa has taken on a "virtual" life of its own this week with a variety of "ambassadors" - from entertainment to sports, the arts, fashion and business - running around apartments, pounding treadmills...

Table Mountain “Golden Trail” route still “padlocked”

Leading trail and mountain athlete, Meg Mackenzie, scorched a 30 km route on Saturday (July 4) in a run planned to open the ‘Strava Segment’ for a much anticipated Golden Ticket challenge on Cape Town's Table Mountain - before...
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