A capacity crowd in Pretoria saw the South African Hockey Women secure themselves a place at the Paris Olympics with a resounding victory over Nigeria, at the University of Pretoria in Tshwane, South Africa, on Sunday, 5 November, 2023. South...

Organisers of the Netball World Cup 2023 have reacted with pride at the news that the tournament has been shortlisted for the Sports Business Awards in the "Best Sporting Event of the Year 2023" category.  World Netball's flagship event, the Netball...

Ethiopian runner Tadu Nare (Nedbank) retained her unbeaten record in the SPAR Grand Prix 10km series when she won the Tshwane race in 32.56 minutes. The race - the fourth in the women’s only series was run at a...

Owing to the nationwide lockdown and the cancellation of events involving large numbers of people due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all six SPAR Women’s 10km Challenge events scheduled for 2020 have been cancelled. Although South Africans are currently allowed to...

Namibian Helalia Johannes (Nedbank) set the Durban SPAR Women’s 10km Challenge alight on Sunday morning, winning in a record time of 30 minutes 58 seconds. Her achievement set the new fastest time for the distance on South African soil, the...

Netball South Africa has secured Telkom as the naming rights partner to their domestic league which kick starts on 10 May, 2019, in Pretoria.  Telkom has been announced and unveiled as the new partner to Netball South Africa. This means...

The SPAR Grand Prix, one of South Africa’s most prestigious athletics events, will be bigger and better than ever this year. The Grand Prix has been expanded to include a sixth race – the Pietermaritzburg SPAR Women’s 10km Challenge and...

The Phalula sisters, Lebogang and Diana-Lebo, took top honours in the 2015 SPAR Grand Prix, with Lebogang the runaway winner of the award, and her twin the runner-up. Lebogang has had a spectacular year on the road, notching up victory...

South Africa’s top woman roadrunners have a lot to look forward to this year, with massive increases in the prize money for the SPAR Women’s 10km Challenge Grand Prix series. The Grand Prix series was introduced in 2007, and has...

The Phalula twins had much to celebrate after the Johannesburg leg of the SPAR Women’s 10km Challenge at the Wanderers Club on Sunday. Lebogang Phalula romped home in first place and her sister, Diana-Lebo, clinched the Grand Prix, after finishing...

Barefoot runner Diana-Lebo Phalula is getting very excited at the thought of collecting the keys to a brand-new Nissan Micra, as winner of the 2014 SPAR Grand Prix. "I don’t have just one hand on the key – I’ve got...

With the recent cold front moving away, City of Gold residents’ thoughts have turned to spring and the SPAR Women’s 10km Challenge, which like the 5km Fun Run, will start at the Wanderers Club in Illovo on Sunday, 12...

Fresh from competing in the women’s marathon at the Olympic Games in London earlier this month, Rene Kalmer turns her attention to a shorter distance on Saturday. Kalmer will be trying to cement her claim to a brand new Nissan...