by zaadmin | Jun 15, 2012 | Africa, Europe, Featured, News, Track
Friday, 15 June 2012 – Tsholofelo Thipe comfortably won the women’s 100m in very cold conditions at the Swedish Grand Prix in Goteborg on Thursday, 14 June. The SA 100m champion beat Italian athlete Martina Giovanett and Folake Akinyemi from Sweden. Thipe...
by zaadmin | Jun 14, 2012 | 800m, Europe, Featured, News
Thursday, 14 June 2012 – Caster Semenya and Khotso Mokoena competed at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland on 13 June and comfortably won in their respective events. Semenya beat the field in the women’s 600m to win the race in a very fast time. The World...
by zaadmin | Jun 12, 2012 | 1500m, Africa, Featured, News
Tuesday, 12 June 2012 – Juan van Deventer missed the Olympic qualifying A-Standard in the men’s 1500m by 2/100th at the Josef Odlozil Memorial in Prague, Czech Republic last night. Van Deventer needed 3:35.50 or faster in order to reach his first qualifying...
by zaadmin | Jun 12, 2012 | Africa, Featured, News
Elections were held on Saturday, 9 June at the Garden Court OR Tambo where the following people were elected to the Athletics South Africa board: In the case of chairpersons on the board, the runner up will be indicated in brackets with the number of votes in each...
by zaadmin | Jun 11, 2012 | Featured, News, Track
Monday, 11 June 2012 – Sunette Viljoen proved that she is coming into form at the right time of the season as she won the women’s javelin competition at the 6th IAAF Samsung Diamond League in New York on Saturday 9 June. Viljoen’s 5th round throw of 69.35m broke her...
by zaadmin | Jun 9, 2012 | Cape, Featured, News
Saturday, 9 June 2012 – James Evans was re-elected as President of Athletics South Africa at the quadrennial elections held at the Garden Court OR Tambo with Hendrick Ramaala winning the race for the Vice President. James Evans and Harold Adams were the only...