Big Field for Cross Country Trials
Lebo Phalula among an elite field also including Christine Kalmer, Tebogo Masehla and Portia Ngwenya heading the biggest field ever for annual Cross Country trials as athletes vie for a place in the Athletics SA squad for two major Cross Country Championships in March.
Rene Heads Trio for World Champs
Rene Kalmer, her younger sister Christine Kalmer and Nolene Conrad have been included in the Athletics South Africa team for the World Half Marathon Championships taking place in Bulgaria on 6 October.
Motlatsi Keikabile Reaches New Heights
2010 gsport Hall of Fame recipient, Motlatsi Keikabile, is upbeat about the future of athletics in South Africa after having been elected vice-president of Athletics South Africa, saying that she is ready to get down to work.
Ferns Moves to Greener Pastures
Just a month after being featured as gsport’s February Woman of the Month, Athletics South Africa (ASA) announces the departure of General Manager Linda Ferns, who has resigned to pursue other interests, with effect from April 30.
Josephs SA’s Only Lady in Valencia
Multiple medal winner Janice Josephs is winging her way to Spain in search of more metalware. Long jumpers Janice Josephs is the only woman in the modest five-member team, also including male athletes, world indoor silver medallist Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and long-jump colleague Khotso Mokoena, in South Africa’s three prong charge for medals at the IAAF […]
February 2008 Woman: Linda Ferns
Career Highlight: Athletics South Africa General Manager Linda Ferns, seen here with former President Nelson Mandela at the World Cross Country Championships in 1996, as the late Steve Tshwete (South African sports minister) looks on. People often say that you can only really succeed at something if you truly believe in it. […]
Athletes Gear Up for Yellow Pages
Some of South Africa’s leading athletes will make their way to Secunda ahead of the Yellow Pages Series, to be held on Friday, 25 January.
Athletics SA Ratifies New Records
Athletics South Africa (ASA) has ratified four new national records following a meeting of the ASA Executive Board on Saturday 3 November in Sandton, Johannesburg.
Constance Aims for More Medals
Athletics South Africa (ASA) have announced on Wednesday that rising star Constance Mkenku (Free State), will spearhead the South African Junior Team’s medal attack at the African Junior Championships in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 09 – 12 August.
Brits’ Javelin a Medal Prospect
Athletics South Africa (ASA) today announced that, on the eve of their departure to the World Youth Championships in Ostrava, a combined team of forty-nine athletes is confident to finish in the top five on the medal table, for the first time since the inaugural World Youth Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland in 1991.
Kalmer Eyes Half-Marathon Title
Athletics South Africa (ASA) has noted with interest the supreme form that Rene Kalmer has displayed this year, and that she has not been beaten on the road since her 6th place at the Nedbank Half Marathon in Pretoria in January.
Half Marathon Champs Hots Up
Athletics South Africa (ASA) has announced that Durban will brace itself this weekend for the coming storm, as some 155 top athletes from around the country gather for the Nedbank SA Half Marathon Championships on Sunday 1 July.