by zaadmin | May 31, 2011 | Featured, News, Track, Youth
The South African Youth team dominated in Namibia during the Southern Region Youth Championships over the weekend as the team placed first overall with 50 medals. 23 of these medals were gold, 19 silver and 8 bronze. Eleven Southern region countries participated in...
by zaadmin | May 30, 2011 | Featured, Track
World champion Caster Semenya ran her fastest time this season to win the women’s 800 meters at the IAAF World Challenge Dakar Grand Prix on Saturday. The South African led the field throughout at Leopold Sedar Senghor Stadium in her first international meet of...
by zaadmin | May 27, 2011 | Featured, News, Track
LJ Van Zyl is the talk of the town. At the third Samsung Diamond League in Rome on Thursday 26 May, the in-form Van Zyl swept aside a quality field, including two-time Olympic Champion Angelo Taylor. Running in lane 5, Van Zyl’s new race strategy of attacking from the...
by zaadmin | May 25, 2011 | News, Track
She was crowned the fastest youth runner in the country in 100m (11.82sec) and 200m (24.50sec) when she beat all her opponents at the SA Youth, Junior and u23 Championships earlier this year in Germiston. In the 100m event she finished just ahead of Liezl Hechter...
by zaadmin | May 25, 2011 | Featured, News, Track
The 12-legged Samsung Diamond League hits round number three on Thursday 26 May in Rome and South Africa’s Mbualeni Mulaudzi and LJ Van Zyl will be up against quality fields. For Van Zyl, it is his second big race of 2011 having won in the 1st Samsung Diamond League...
by zaadmin | May 17, 2011 | Featured, News, Track
At the end of the 4 day African Junior Championships in Gabarone Botswana (they ran from 12-15 May) South Africa topped the medal tables with double the total medals won by runner up Ethiopia. Thirteen Golds, 13 Silver and 8 Bronze made for a total of 34 Medal – 12...