Posted on July 10, 2017
David Nortje, Ian Jacobs, Jacques Britz and Calvin Ferreira from the University of Pretoria smoked Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University to seal their 11th victory in the University Sports South Africa (USSA) Golf Championship in spectacular style at Centurion Country Club on Friday.
Posted on July 07, 2017
Akani Simbine sprinted to a third place in the 100 meters at last night’s Diamond League Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Posted on July 07, 2017
Some great racing took place in the heats on day one of World Cup III in Lucerne, Switzerland where both SA boats qualified for Semi-finals
Posted on July 05, 2017
Simbine last night finished second in the 100m as well as in the 200m at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial Meeting in Budapest.
Posted on July 03, 2017
The Tuks/HPC-athlete won in a time of 12.92s which is 0.02s faster than the record set by Corien Botha in 1998. Unfortunately, the wind from behind was measured at 2.01m/s which means it was too strong by 0.01m/s for Steenkamp’s time to be official.
Posted on June 30, 2017
Henricho Bruintjies, Emile Erasmus and Wenda Nel were the three South Africans doing duty on 28 June at the Athletics Meeting in Nancy, France.
Posted on June 29, 2017
South Africa’s Olympian rowers will start their international campaign with a totally clean slate over the weekend when they compete in the Henley Regatta in England.
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.
Posted on June 16, 2017
Rikenette Steenkamp victorious in France
Posted on June 14, 2017
Henricho Bruintjies, Emile Erasmus and Hamman Le Roux podiumed last night in Finland
Posted on June 14, 2017
Henricho Bruintjies has kind of become the forgotten sprinter of South African athletics but that might just have changed last night when he clocked a time of 10.06s in the 100 metres at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland.
Posted on June 12, 2017
By winning yesterday at the Fanny Blankers Koen Games in Hengelo Luvo Manyonga emulated the performances of Carl Lewis one of the legends of international athletics.
Posted on June 09, 2017
Whoever beats Luvo Manyonga on Sunday at the Fanny Blankers Koen Games in Hengelo on Sunday is going to win the long jump.
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