Mphahlele to set the UWC track alight in big meet tonight
The wind has dropped, anticipation is building and the athletes are ready to deliver their races of the season at the second in the series of the Cape Milers Club and Endurocad Continental Tour Challenger 2024 meetings at the...
Big shots in running for podium places at the 29th Gun Run
It's showtime for the 2023 OUTsurance Gun Run with 15 000 runners, walkers and dogs making their final preparations for the 29th edition of Cape Town’s popular weekend running festival.
Starting out in 1993, the event has flourished and expanded over...
Celebration of post-COVID running through the Constantia Winelands
Siviwe Nkombi and Emily Djock took honours at the annual K-Way VOB Grape Run Half Marathon, run through a network of Constantia Valley Wine Estates this morning in a celebration of running’s return from the impact of the COVID...
THIRSTI AFRICANX Day Two results
RESULTS: THIRSTI AFRICANX TrailrunSTAGE 2Date: Saturday 27 March 2021Distance: +- 31km / total climb 850mStart Venue: Wildekrans Wine EstateFinish Venue: Houw Hoek HotelTOP 10 OPEN CATEGORY: STAGE 2
OPEN MEN’S TEAMS:1 Juan van Deventer and Eric Ngubane (Nedbank 1) 02:15:55,...
Spain’s Pere Aurell takes honours at South Africa’s oldest trail race; Holland’s Ragna Debats...
Thirty-six-year-old Spanish athlete Pere Aurell took line honours at the K-Way SkyRun 100km, run in perfect conditions in the Witteberg Mountains of the North-East Cape over the weekend but not before nail-biting drama over the final stages as last...
Fordyce record nemesis narrowly misses second ultra road record.
Top American ultra-athlete, Jim Walmsley, narrowly missed out on a second major road record within a year with a superb 100km run in his home state of Arizona over the weekend, shattering Max King’s USA record in 6 hrs...
Western Europe’s highest mountain woos Africa’s trail runners (part 2)
By Stephen Granger
While the full circumnavigation around Mont Blanc in the form of the Ultra-trail Mont Blanc 100 miler is undoubtedly the showpiece of this week’s running festival at the French Alpine town of Chamonix, the shorter-distance faces have...
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...
Gerda Steyn runs into the record books at Two Oceans as Givemore Mudzinganyama goes...
While Givemore Mudzinganyama landed ‘the big fish’, the 2023 Totalsports Two Oceans 56km Marathon (Saturday 15 April) was once again a triumph for Gerda Steyn, who raced to her second record victory in successive years and her fourth successive...
Team Salomon double at the Olla de Nuria
by Stephen Granger
Norwegian Stian Angermund bounced back to his best form to win the Golden Trail World Series opener at Olla de Nuria in the Pyrenees Mountains in Spain on Sunday (June 13, 2021).
Golden Trail Champion, Maude Mathys, made...