by zaadmin | Jun 15, 2012 | Africa, Europe, Featured, News, Track
Friday, 15 June 2012 – Tsholofelo Thipe comfortably won the women’s 100m in very cold conditions at the Swedish Grand Prix in Goteborg on Thursday, 14 June. The SA 100m champion beat Italian athlete Martina Giovanett and Folake Akinyemi from Sweden. Thipe...
by zaadmin | Jun 14, 2012 | 800m, Europe, Featured, News
Thursday, 14 June 2012 – Caster Semenya and Khotso Mokoena competed at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland on 13 June and comfortably won in their respective events. Semenya beat the field in the women’s 600m to win the race in a very fast time. The World...
by zaadmin | Jun 12, 2012 | 1500m, Africa, Featured, News
Tuesday, 12 June 2012 – Juan van Deventer missed the Olympic qualifying A-Standard in the men’s 1500m by 2/100th at the Josef Odlozil Memorial in Prague, Czech Republic last night. Van Deventer needed 3:35.50 or faster in order to reach his first qualifying...
by zaadmin | Jun 11, 2012 | Featured, News, Track
Monday, 11 June 2012 – Sunette Viljoen proved that she is coming into form at the right time of the season as she won the women’s javelin competition at the 6th IAAF Samsung Diamond League in New York on Saturday 9 June. Viljoen’s 5th round throw of 69.35m broke her...
by zaadmin | Jun 8, 2012 | Africa, Europe, Featured, News, Track
Friday, 8 June 2012 – Jacques de Swardt clocked a new personal best of 46.06sec in the men’s 400m in Rhede, Germany on 7 June, finishing second. His previous best (46.08sec) was set up in Germiston on 10 April 2010. The 19 year-old Tukkie finished the race...
by zaadmin | Jun 6, 2012 | 5000m, Featured, News, Track
The 26 year-old Nolene Conrad reached the goal she set for herself ahead of the race, when she ran a sub 16 minute race in the women’s 5000m at the Meeting Premium de la Ville de Montreuil in France last night. Conrad set a lifetime best of 15:57.92 in cold and windy...