Athletics scores an ACE at Stellenbosch track launch
The ‘Best track in Africa’ was launched last week in a veritable cornucopia of athletics entertainment, as current champions of track and field rubbed shoulders with legends of the past in Stellenbosch.
Stars of the 1970s and 80s - former...
Masiphumelele’s Malusi triumphs at Bay to Bay
Thirty-three year old Masiphumelele athlete, Malusi Judase, is the pride of the Satori Running Club following his superb win in Sunday’s (22 January) Bay to Bay 30km back to back race between Camps Bay and Hout Bay.
One of the...
Lords and Ladies of the Rings prepare for epic OUTsurance Gun Run
by Stephen Granger
Four Olympic marathoners will join battle with an array of shorter-distance speedsters in the 2022 OUTsurance Gun Run in what is shaping up to be one of the premier races on the 2022 South African road running...
Young talent to the fore at ASA South African Marathon Championships in Cape Town
Bennett Seloyi and Jenna Challenor came out on top in a wind-swept Balwin Sport Peninsula Marathon this morning (Sunday 16 February), which doubled as the ASA national marathon championships.
Six thousand runners completed the marathon and half-marathon in the 57th...
Tadu prays for a Boston miracle
One of the Ethiopia’s leading distance athletes in recent years, Tadu Teshome Nare, was just seven when the Noah of all storms unleashed its fury on her family home. There had been some heavy downpours in the Sidama region...
OUTsurance Gun Run ready to fire again
by Stephen Granger
The fuse has been lit for the 28th OUTsurance Gun Run and the first post-COVID edition of the race is scheduled to explode into life on Cape Town streets in mid-September.
One of Cape Town’s ‘Big Five’ road races,...
Pot of gold under the Otter African Trail rainbow
The Otter African Trail Run has long been regarded as Southern Africa’s most prestigious marathon-distance trail race, regularly attracting the world’s leading trail athletes.. But over the 13-year life of the event, the rewards for excelling at the Otter...
Tashwell and Nicky fly high on the mountain to win the inaugural OUTsurance Gun...
by Stephen Granger
Twenty-four-year-old BA student at UWC, Tashwell Damons, and Cape Town and Cambridge-trained economist, Nicky Wills (25), took the honours at the inaugural OUTsurance Gun Run 15km Trail Run from Van Riebeek Park, Oranjezicht, to Green Point Common...
South Africa’s leading distance athletes nominated for Modern Athlete of the Year Awards
Landie Greyling, Sipho Mbanjwa, Toni McCann, Siboniso Soldaka, Daniel Claassen and Bianca Tarboton are just some of the nominees for the trail running component in the Modern Athlete of the Year Award for 2023, announced today (Friday 9 February)...
Masters make their mark, but Jarryd and Kristen rule in Hout Bay
by Stephen Granger
Jarryd Dunn celebrated his 25th birthday with an impressive win at the twentieth Hout Bay Trail Challenge, run on the traditional 40 km route around the amphitheatre of mountains surrounding Hout Bay today (Saturday 23 July), while...