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The marathons you need to attend in 2019
If you are an avid runner and love watching athletics or want to start off with running a few miles in the New Year but do not know which are the best marathons for you to attend in 2019, don’t worry. Marathons you need to attend in 2019 You could do a whole lot more...
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Glorious Run 2018: A Recap
Glorious Run 2018 - The military is an important part of a country. Without the great men and women who have fought for our countries or kept it safe then, we wouldn't be here where we are. While you can enjoy playing your favorite games and to some quick online...
Course records for Ande, van Zyl at Joburg 10k
Eritrean Filmon Ande led the top three men at the FNB Joburg 10K CITYRUN to under the course record on Monday, 24 September 2018, while Irvette van Zyl capped an astonishing two days of racing by smashing the previous course record by almost 2 minutes, leading the top...
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World Juniors Wrap Up
South Africa’s junior team finished the IAAF World Junior Championships in Barcelona on a quiet note with no medals added to their tally for the Championships. Julia du Plessis (16) in her first ever World Championships final finished in 12th position in the high jump...
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Pistorius and Comrades Marathon honoured
Athletics South Africa wants to congratulate the Comrades Marathon and Oscar Pistorius, both of whom won awards at the Virgin Active Sport Industry Awards 2012 that took place on 23 February at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg. In the category for Sport Participation...
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6 medals at All Africa so far
South Africa already won 6 medals in athletics at the All Africa Games taking place in Maputo from 11-17 September 2011. One gold in the women’s javelin throw, 3 silver in the men’s discus throw, shot put and women’s javelin throw and 2 bronze medals in the men’s...
Run Relay Comrades to raise Covid-19 funds
Inspired by the impact that global connectedness and action has made towards overcoming the challenges of “Covid19-Lockdown” seven friends, spread across seven towns on three continents, decided to have some fun together and ran a lockdown “Comrades” relay as a...
Conrad sets PB in Koblenz
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...