Ryan Sandes ‘Dream Race’ attracts top-quality field to Table Mountain
by Stephen Granger
Martin Luther King’s ‘I had a dream’ speech in Washington DC in 1963 was a catalyst for a mass march for freedom and the establishment of the American civil rights movement. Sixty years later South Africa’s best...
Sanlam Cape Town Marathon is burning bright five weeks before lift-off
by Stephen Granger
Big name athletes bound for Cape Town, an inaugural world-class ‘formula one’ wheelchair race, a Comrades Marathon champion signed to run the Cape Town Trail Marathon and the power of the event to change lives provided some...
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...
Rorich and Marshall fly high in the sky at Mont Rochelle
by Stephen Granger
Robbie Rorich and Kerry-Anne Marshall raced to impressive victories at the Mont Rochelle Skyrace at Franchhoek over the weekend with a top-quality field enjoying a great day of mountain running in cold and windy conditions.
One of the...
Dijana and Morozova are the 2022 Comrades Marathon champions!
by Stephen Granger
Thirty-four-year-old athlete from Rustenburg in South Africa’s North West Province, Tete Morena Dijana, turned his life around with a sensational win in the 2022 Comrades ‘Down’ Run between Pietermaritzburg and Durban over the weekend (Sunday 28 August)...
Kilian Jornet races to record-breaking win in the French Alps
by Stephen Granger
Fourteen years after winning Ultra-trail Mont Blanc for the first time, Kilian Jornet recorded his fourth win, enhancing his reputation as the ‘greatest of all time’ with a record-breaking victory in the 171km circumnavigation of Mont Blanc...
Great week for ultra-distance running as Comrades Marathon and Ultra-trail Mont Blanc take centre...
by Stephen Granger
Two of the world’s greatest ultra-distance footraces take place this weekend, with the Ultra-trail Mont Blanc and Comrades Marathon coinciding for the first time in history and saturation television coverage of the two great races likely to...
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,...
Jornet and Mathys favoured to retain titles at Sierre-Zinal as African challenge rises
by Stephen Granger
Leading trail runners from the north, east and south of Africa line up tomorrow (Saturday 13 August) for one of the world’s oldest and most iconic trail races, Sierre-Zinal in Switzerland, with every chance of podium positions...
Pink celebrations as thousands complete Totalsports Women’s Races around South Africa
by Stephen Granger
Totalsports Women’s Races turned on the charm in style with more than 20 000 runners taking part in the 20th edition of the event in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban in a colourful and joyful celebration of South...