Mbuthuma Eyes World Championship Gold
Introducing our #FollowFriday feature on Nedbank Running Club’s Fikile Mbuthuma, who celebrates 15 years of marathon running this year. Mbuthuma, who won Comrades Marathon gold with an historic eighth-placed finish in 2016, has World Championship gold and a Comrades Top 5 finish on her bucket list.
René and Liezel among SA Running Stars
Over 40 women runners have been featured in the Runners WorldSA Top 100 Heroes for 2012, including current Comrades Marathon heroine Kerry Koen, and prominent SPAR race regulars René Kalmer, Nolene Conrad, Christine Kalmer, Irvette van Zyl and Sonja Laxton
Riana SA’s Two Oceans Ultra Champ
Riana van Niekerk ran a PB in the 2008 Two Oceans ultra-marathon, to finish as the first South African home. Picture: Gerhard Uys Riana van Niekerk gave up her regular training for Gauteng’s Om die Dam 50 race to take part in Saturday’s Two Oceans ultra-marathon, and managed to finish as the first South African […]
Bulelwa Makes Farwa Settle for Silver
Bulelwa Mtshagi took the winner’s ribbon in 21km half-marathon division of the second annual Oude Molen Race on Sunday. Mr Price Celtics runner Bulelwa Mtshagi of scored an impressive victory in the women’s open 21km category in Saturday’s picturesque Overberg town of Elgin, when the second annual Oude Molen Elgin Race saw some of the […]
Many Prizes offered in Oude Molen
Defending champion Farwa Mentoor’s 2007 Oude Molen Elgin Race record is under threat, as race organisers offer prizes for records broken. Considered an ideal qualifier and preparatory event for both the Two Oceans and Comrades, renowned athletes will be putting on their running shoes to participate in one of the most beautiful races in the […]
Farwa First S-African Home
Farwa Mentoor showed once again why she is rated the country’s top ultra-marathon runner, when she finished the 2007 Comrades Marathon as the first South African woman home.
The World’s Most Beautiful Marathon
Easter Saturday will see 25 000 runners take part in the annual Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon presented by Nike, making it the biggest ever running event in South Africa.
5 minutes with Farwa Mentoor
For five consecutive years, Farwa Mentoor has been South African’s top female finisher in the Comrades Marathon, usually dominated by the Russians. Last year, 15 minutes from the Comrades finish line, Farwa’s body gave in, and her legs just refused to go on, but in true Comrades spirit, she willed herself on and crawled on […]
SA Women 6th in Richest Race
Champion marathon athlete Gloria Baebo completed the fourth and final leg of Standard Chartered’s Greatest Race on Sunday in Hong Kong in a time of 2 hours 50 minutes.
Gloria Baebo ready Hong Kong
Champion marathon athlete, Gloria Baebo, is to run the fourth and final leg of the world’s most lucrative athletics race in Hong Kong this Sunday (March 4).
Leballo Ninth in Richest Race
Champion marathon athlete, Louisa Leballo, crossed the finish line in ninth position in a time of 3:12:28 at the third leg of Standard Chartered’s Greatest Race on Earth in Mumbai yesterday morning (Sunday, January 21).
Champ Represents SA in Mumbai
Accomplished marathon athlete Louisa Leballo, the sixth woman home in last year’s Two Oceans Marathon, is to run the third leg of the world’s most lucrative athletics race in Mumbai this Sunday (January 21).