6 June – South African 1500m Champion, Johan Cronje, could join the list of South African track and field athletes that have already qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games, when he competes in his speciality event at the Meeting de Nantes in France on 6 June.
Mokoena Qualifies and Thipe misses
June 1, 2012 1 Comment
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 achieved his first qualifier in Pretoria at Yellow Pages III on […]
SA Team at DecaNation in France
September 19, 2011 Leave a Comment
The South African team surprised many at the DecaNation track & field competition at the Parc de Sports, Charles Ehrmann in Nice, France on 18 September 2011, when it pushed the teams from Spain and China all the way to the end before finishing seventh overall. In the end Spain finished half a point and […]
Pretorius star of SA team
July 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
The first day of the World Youth Championships started out cold and windy with rainfall but cleared up as the day progressed.
Elroy Gelant stars in France
June 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
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 versatile Gelant ran a brilliant race and won […]
