Athletics South Africa (ASA) will be sending a team of 27 athletes to compete at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow (10-18 August).
Gelant breaks SA record at World Indoors
March 12, 2012 Leave a Comment
Elroy Gelant broke the SA Indoor Record in the men’s 3000m at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey on 9-11 March. Gelant finished 12th in the final but broke Juan van Deventer’s SA Indoor record of 7:49.91 (Moskva, 7 February 2010) when he crossed the line in 7:48.64.
Southern Region Cross Country Team
March 1, 2012 1 Comment
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.
Viljoen takes Silver in Daegu
September 2, 2011 Leave a Comment
Day 7 will go down as one of the best days of South African athletics, as first Sunette Viljoen, then the 4x400m relay team medal and Caster Semenya qualifies for the womens 800m final. Africa record and World Championship Bronze for Viljoen Sunette Viljoen stunned the Javelin World with her 5th round throw of 68.38m […]
Bronze medal for Van Zyl
September 2, 2011 1 Comment
LJ van Zyl took the bronze medal in the final of the men’s 400m hurdles, finishing in 48.80sec, whilst running blind in lane 8. David Greene (GBR) claimed the title in 48.26sec whilst pre race favourite, Javier Culson (48.44sec) grabbed silver. 21 year-old Cornel Fredericks came 5th, his time 49.12sec, after Felix Sanchez (DOM) finished […]
Ramolefi breaks Steeple record
August 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
The past 3 days at the World Championships was action packed with some great achievements including Ruben Ramolefi breaking the South African record in the 3000m steeplechase and a personal best by Wenda Theron in the women’s 400m hurdles. Ruben Ramolefi broke his own South African record in the qualifying rounds of the 3000m steeplechase […]
Team South Africa for Daegu
August 8, 2011 Leave a Comment
Athletics SA announce final team to World Championships Athletics South Africa announced the final team today who would represent the country at the World Championships in Deagu, Korea from 27 August to 4 September. While the team consists of some of the established names such as Khotso Mokoena, LJ Van Zyl, Caster Semenya and Mbualeni […]
