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Southern Region Cross Country Team

The Southern Region Cross Country Championships is taking place on Saturday 3 March and Athletics South Africa’s selected a senior team to represent South Africa in Mauritius.   The team has been selected from the athletes that competed in Potchefstroom at the SA Cross Country Trials on 18 February 2012.

North vs South rivalry continues

Gauteng North are currently leading the points standing after the first Yellow Pages Interprovincial Meeting in Germiston on Saturday 25 February. With the second and final leg in Bellville on 3 March, Athletics Gauteng North will be looking to defend their title from 2011 and to pocket the R100 000 going to the winning province.

ASA makes history

For the first time in the history of South African athletics two major national championships have been combined to form one big event under the Athletics South Africa umbrella. Athletics SA and South African Schools Athletics (SASA) have brokered a deal to combine the Yellow Pages South African Youth, Junior and u/23 Championships and the […]

ASA President appointed to IAAF

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council in a recent meeting appointed new members to various commissions; three of these positions have been filled by South African members.

The results speak for themselves

Athletics has gone through a tough two-year period with many events taking place away from the field of play. Yet the winds of change blew into the sport at the end of 2010 and the results are clearly showing. There is a newfound enthusiasm amongst athletes and administrators alike and that is born out by […]

James Evans new president for Athletics South Africa

  James Evans received the most votes and has been elected as the new president for Athletics South Africa (ASA) during the elections held on July 30, 2011 at the Garden Court hotel OR Tambo. This comes after former President, Leonard Chuene and Vice-President Kakata Maponyane was banned by SASCOC due to the Caster Semenya […]

Reaching out through Cross-Country

Reaching out through Cross-Country Twelve events almost nationwide, arranged within two weeks. The brief – take the sport to the people and what better way than looking at cross-country, as it is really the foundation of athletics. Athletics SA put on 12 events in all provinces except in the Western Cape, KZN and Gauteng as […]

ASA Marathon Championships 2011

Lusapho April wins the ASA 2011 Marathon Championships  in 2:13.21 with Charne Bosman taking the Women’s title in 2:44:44

Chuene Charges Revealed

South Africa’s Olympic committee have made public the charges levelled against Leonard Chuene, with the former athletics chief found guilty on nine out of the 11 brought against him. Earlier this week, the country’s Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) revealed that a disciplinary inquiry panel found that Chuene had misappropriated funds and was involved […]