Simon Magakwe
Magakwe out to make it four from four as sprints amongst the big attractions at the Yellow Pages SA Senior Track and Field Championships [Read more...]
Athletes look to qualify at SA Champs
April 10, 2012 By 1 Comment
More athletes looking to qualify at SA Senior Championships
LJ van Zyl
With one of the Olympic Qualifying criteria being that athletes must participate at the Yellow Pages SA Senior Championships in order to be up for selection, the Championships in Port Elizabeth from 13-14 April will be an action packed event with South Africa’s top athletes in the line-up. [Read more...]
Southern Region Junior Team Announced
April 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Namibia Junior Track
Athletics South Africa has announced a junior team of 33 athletes to compete at the CAA Southern Region Junior Championships to take place in Windhoek, Namibia on 28 and 19 April. The date of the Championships has been moved forward and will no longer take place on 4 and 5 May. [Read more...]
Top 8 clubs to battle
April 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
South Africa Track
Introduced for the first time this year as a competition between the top 8 Track and Field Clubs in South Africa, the Yellow Pages Interclub competition is set to take place at the ABSA Tuks Stadium in Pretoria on Thursday 5 April. [Read more...]
Palframan solidifies place
March 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Justine Palframan
Justine Palframan solidified her position on the team to the World Junior Championships in Barcelona in June when she dominated the Junior women’s 400m final in Germiston at the Yellow Pages SA Youth, Junior and Schools Championships. Palframan crossed the line in 53.51sec, well inside the required 53.67sec. In the process she won the 400m title for the first time after finishing second in 2011. The 19 year old Palframan previously reached the qualifying time (53.67sec) in 53.59sec at the Provincial Championships on 9 March. Stephanie Wicksell (AGN) finished behing Palframan in 55.35sec followed by Mareike Wolhuter (WPA) in 55.99sec. [Read more...]
Four Qualifiers and SA Record
March 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Patience Ntshingila new Triple Jump Record
Simon Magakwe, Thuso Mpuang and Lebogang Moeng reached the Olympic A Qualifying-standard in the men’s 200m with Tsholofelo Thipe doing the same in the women’s race. But, this was not the only excitement in perfect weather conditions at the second leg of the Yellow Pages meeting in Potchefstroom as the women’s SA Triple jump record was broken again, this time by Patience Ntshingila. [Read more...]
Semenya, van Zyl, Mulaudzi for Potch
March 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Potchefstroom Track
Caster Semenya will run her first 800m race of the season at the second leg of the Yellow Pages series in Potchefstroom on Saturday 24 March.
The 800m World Championships silver medallist changed coaches in 2011 and feels that has made a positive change in her athletics already. Speaking after her victory in the 400m in Bellville (at the second Yellow Pages Interprovincial) on 3 March, Semenya said, “she (Maria Mutola) has not changed much in my training program, but is really working more on my race tactics and some technique work.” [Read more...]
Mzazi shines in Stellenbosch
March 21, 2012 By 1 Comment
Gladwin Mzazi
20 March – Gladwin Mzazi from Gauteng North has become the 6th fastest man in South Africa in the men’s 5000m at the first Yellow Pages meeting of the series in Stellenbosch. This after Mzazi won in 13:24.50, just 4 seconds shy of the Olympic Qualifying A-standard. Only Shadrack Hoff (13:14.16), Sydney Maree (13:20.63), Alistair Cragg (13:22.07), Juan van Deventer (13:22.64) and Hendrick Ramaala (13:24.43) have run faster times. [Read more...]
Middle distance descends on Stellenbosch
March 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Coetzenburg - Stellenbosch
With the first of the three Yellow Pages meetings taking place in Stellenbosch on Tuesday 20 March an exciting showcase may lie ahead in the distance events such as the men’s sprints, 5000m, 1500m and the 3000m steeplechase. [Read more...]
Viljoen sets Olympic Standard
March 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Sunette Viljoen qualifies for London 2012
On Saturday 17 February at the Gauteng North Provincial Championships Oscar Pistorius became the first South African track and field athlete to reach the Olympic Qualifying standard in the men’s 400m. However, on the same day in another province Sunette Viljoen made her mark. [Read more...]
