by zaadmin | Jun 1, 2012 | Europe, Featured, News, Track
Mokoena qualifies for Olympics 1 June 2012 – Khotso Mokoena qualified for the Olympic Games after equalling the required distance of 8.20m in the final round of the men’s long jump at the third leg of the Samsung Diamond league in Rome yesterday. Mokoena...
by zaadmin | May 30, 2012 | Africa, Featured, News, Track
30 May – Caster Semenya, along with 75 other athletes, has been selected to represent South Africa at the CAA Africa Senior Championships in Porto Novo, Benin from 27 June – 1 July 2012. Semenya, the 2011 World Championships 800m silver medallist, has...
by zaadmin | May 29, 2012 | Featured, News, Track
29 May – Ofentse Mogawane, Hannes Dreyer and Mapaseka Makhanya dominated their respective races in perfect weather conditions at the Pfingstsportfest in Rehlingen, Germany yesterday. Hannes Dreyer comfortably went through to the final in the men’s 100m after...
by zaadmin | May 28, 2012 | 1500m, Europe, Featured, News, Track
It was a weekend of mixed fortunes for South African athletes looking to qualify for the London Olympics, as two A-Qualifiers were run and two National Records were threatened. Johan Cronje set the tone of the weekend by running 3:35.33 in the men’s 1500m in Dessau,...
by zaadmin | May 25, 2012 | 5000m, Featured, News, Women
Nolene Conrad shaved over 30 seconds off her 5000m best at the Koblenz Mini-Internationales meeting in Germany on 23 May, finishing fifth in the process. Conrad clocked 16:05.98 improving on her previous best of 16:39.12, which she ran in Stellenbosch on 30 April...
by zaadmin | May 22, 2012 | Europe, Featured, News, Pre-event, Track, Youth
22 May – A final team of 31 athletes have been announced to represent South Africa at the World Junior Championships in Barcelona, Spain from 10-15 July 2012. The team consist of 14 male and 17 female athletes. The team is a good mix of experienced athletes and...