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SA Junior 100m record smashed
The South African athletics team had an impressive start to the Zone 6 Games in Lusaka, Zambia, winning 11 medals on the first day, of which six were gold. The South African sprinters dominated the both the men’s and women’s 100m races, with clean sweeps in both...
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Kemboi wins Soweto Marathon 2012
Sunday, 4 November 2012 - Kenya’s Shadrack Kemboi won the men’s title at 20th edition of the Soweto Marathon in 2:16:28. The 26 year-old, along with compatriot Timothy Kibet, lead most of the race, but Kemboi broke away at the 33km mark. “South Africa must remember...
Soweto Marathon entries open
Monday, 17 September 2012 - Entries for the 20th Soweto Marathon are open with just under 20 000 runners expected to compete in the marathon and all other sub events this year. For the first time in history, the events will be split over two days with the 10km...
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Elroy Gelant stars in France
Elroy Gelant competed at the Meeting National D1 de Metz Moselle Athelor in France on June 27 and became the second fastest South African 3000m runner in the process, almost breaking the SA Record in the process (7:41.06 set up in 2008 by Juan van Deventer). The...
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Athletes invited by IAAF to Beijing 2015
The IAAF has invited three additional athletes as part of the new qualification system introduced for Beijing 2015. The IAAF has set a target number of athletes to compete in each event of the Championships and in those events where the number of athletes qualified...
Lebogang Shange sets Race Walking Record
Lebogang Shange broke the SA 20 000m track record (race walking) on 21 June 2015 in Bedford, England. He clocked 1:23:20 to improve the previous mark of 1:24:51 set by Stanley Valentine in Port Elizabeth in May 1989. This is Shange's third SA record of the season,...