Posted on June 29, 2017
Last night in Ostrava Rikenette Steenkamp has done what she has been threatening to do the whole season and that was to dip under 13 seconds in the 100m-hurdles. She is only the second South African athlete to do so.
Posted on June 29, 2017
South Africa’s, Wayde van Niekerk and Clarence Munyai, probably made athletics history last night at the Golden Spike Meeting in Ostrava by becoming the first athletes of the same country to set new world bests in different categories but in the same race.
Posted on June 26, 2017
Thando Roto proved he is on track to run a second sub ten second time in the 100 metres in the next few weeks when he won the 100 metres in 10.11s on Saturday at the Bilboa-meeting in Spain.
Posted on June 23, 2017
The good news for South African athletics fans is that the world's best long jumper, Luvo Manyonga, has only sustained a slight ankle injury and is already busy with rehabilitation.
Posted on June 21, 2017
SA sprinters to finish off a podium sweep for South Africa in Slovenia on 20 June.
Posted on June 21, 2017
Rikenette Steenkamp came painstakingly closer to breaching 13 seconds in Velenje, winning her race in a time of 13.03.
Posted on June 21, 2017
Prof Martin Schwellnus, Director of the Sport, Exercise Medicine and Lifestyle Institute (SEMLI) at the University of Pretoria (UP) is the recipient of the 2017 American College of Sport Medicine (ACSM) International Clinical Scholar Award.
Posted on June 19, 2017
Luvo Manyonga and Ruswahl Samaai secured a one-two for the South African contingent on Sunday, dominating the Men's Long Jump discipline at the sixth leg of the IAAF Diamond League Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.
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