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SA triathlete Kate Roberts completes a circuit of the London 2012 triathlon cycle route. After a bad fall on the outside route, Roberts demonstrated what winners to do get back on her bike and make her way through the group for an eventual 22nd-place finish. Photo: Paula Kim

Kate Roberts: Seizing Opportunities and Living Life

By on 13 January, 2013 in Cycling, Features, gStar, Newsroom, Olympic Games, Running

Olympian Kate Roberts is on a mission to have her best year yet. Roberts spoke to gsport about her love for sport, her success in triathlon, and shares sponsorship and career tips for aspiring triathletes.

SASCOC has thrown its weight behind 48 of the country’s leading Olympic and Paralympic Games contenders, including 12 women, as they go in search of more medals in Rio in 2016. In this file photo, Oscar Pretorius leads Team South Africa at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Paralympic Games, at the Olympic Stadium in London. Picture by Wessel Oosthuizen / SASPA

London 2012 Medalists Lead OPEX Squad

By on 31 October, 2012 in Athletics, Canoeing, Newsroom, Olympic Games, Paralympics, Rowing, Sports Admin, Swimming

SASCOC’s Operational Excellence Squad includes 12 women athletes as the country plans for even greater success at the 2016 Olympic and Paralympics in Rio.

Sugen Pillay (Director: Business Development at TEPG and SETE Conference Director), Logie Naidoo (Spokesperson for the eThekwini Municipality), Olympic gold and silver medallist Chad le Clos, Carol Weaving (Managing Director: TEPG), Michael Mabuyakhulu (KZN MEC for Economic Development & Tourism) and James Seymour (CEO of Durban KZN Conventions Bureau) at the SETE Gala Dinner. Photo: Supplied

Olympians Honoured at SETE Gala

By on 16 September, 2012 in More Sport ..., Newsroom, Olympic Games

Olympic bronze medallist Bridgitte Hartley and Banyana Banyana captain Amanda Dlamini were among the Olympians honoured at the SETE Gala Dinner, which celebrated Team South Africa’s inspirational performances at London 2012.

Bridgitte Hartley feels the moment of seeing the SA flag raised, after winning a bronze medal in the 500m K1 Canoe sprint final at Eton Dorney Lake, a the London 2012 Olympic Games near London, on 9 August 2012. Photo: Wessel Oosthuizen / SA Sports Picture Agency

Bridgitte Hartley: Sport’s New IT Girl

By on 19 August, 2012 in Canoeing, Features, gStar, Leading Ladies, Newsroom, Olympic Games

Bridgitte Hartley has earned praise from far and wide after she bagged bronze in the K1 500 Final at the London Olympics. Reigning world canoeing marathon champion, Hank McGregor has called it arguably the toughest of the six medals won by Team SA. Deputy Sports Minister Gert Oosthuizen called it his personal highlight of the Olympic Games. Bridgitte spoke to gsport in the aftermath of her incredible Olympic experience.

Team SA's women London 2012 medalists, Caster Semenya and Bridgitte Hartley (second and third from left) smile with the gold-medal winning Men’s Lightweight Four team, Sizwe Ndlovu, James Thompson, John Smith and Matthew Brittain, welcomed back by SRSA dignitaries Minister Fikile Mbalula and Deputy Minister Gert Oosthuizen, and the rest of Team South Africa, as they came through the Arrivals Hall at OR Tambo International Airport, on Tuesday, 14 August, 2012. Photo: Liezel van der Westhuizen

Welcome Home Team South Africa!

By on 14 August, 2012 in Athletics, Canoeing, Newsroom, Olympic Games

London Olympic medallists Caster Semenya and Bridgitte Hartley received a rousing welcome when they arrived back from the Olympic Games with their Team South Africa colleagues on Tuesday morning.

SA's only Track and Field medallist in Athletics, Caster Semenya gives the crowd her trademark ‘Have Wings, Can Fly’’ salute after winning silver in the 800m final at the London 2012 Olympic Games, on 10 August, 2012. Photo: Wessel Oosthuizen / SA Sports Picture Agency

Caster Eyes Gold in Rio

By on 12 August, 2012 in Athletics, Newsroom, Olympic Games

After celebrating a very successful period – possibly with a street party, Caster Semenya aims to get better and train harder with an eye on gold in Rio. For now, she’s just very happy, and aims to enjoy her London 2012 800m women’s Silver medal

South Africa's Sunette Viljoen narrowly missed out on an Olympic Medal, finishing fourth in the women's Javelin with a distance of 64.53, centimeters behind bronze medal winner Linda Stahl's 64.91, on National Women's Day, 9 August, 2012. Czech Barbora Spotakova won with her season's best distance of File69.55. Photo: Wessel Oosthuizen / SA Sports Picture Agency

Viljoen: I did my best

By on 10 August, 2012 in Newsroom, Olympic Games

Sunette Viljoen says it’s not over, despite losing out on a medal in the women’s javelin final at London 2012.

Bridgitte Hartley powers her way into third place and onto the London 2012 Olympic Games medals podium, in her Kayak K1 500m metres final in London on National Women’s Day, 9 August, 2012. Photo: Wessel Oosthuizen / SA Sports Picture Agency

Hartley 1st Woman Medallist Since 2004

By on 10 August, 2012 in Canoeing, Newsroom, Olympic Games

Olympic debutant Bridgitte Hartley rallies to bronze in the K1 500m final, becoming the first woman to win an Olympic medal for South Africa since Hestrie Cloete’s High Jump in Athens 2004