René 2007 Grand Prix Champ
The winning trio in the SPAR Women’s 10km Challenge held in Johannesburg on Sunday 14 October. From left to right: The second placed Annerien van Schalkwyk, Rene Kalmer (who won the race) and Marelise Retief, who came third. By winning the race Kalmer also clinched the SPAR Grand Prix Series and prize money of R50,000. […]
Joburg’s Grand Prix Final
The final SPAR Women’s Challenge Race at Old Parktonians on Sunday October 14 is expected to be a cracker, with some of the country’s top runners taking part, with many of them hoping to earn big money in the SPAR Grand Prix.
Joburg’s Fun Road Challenge
Buli G, pictured here entertaining the crowds before the SPAR Women’s 10 km Challenge in Port Elizabeth earlier this year, is one of the main attractions to keep the Joburg race competitors in the groove. The final event in the SPAR Women’s 10km Challenge series is just around the corner, and it promises to be […]
Jhb Challenge Ends Grand Prix
Top athletes Charne Bosman (Mr Price), Maxine Heine-Wacker (Harmony), Annarien van Schalkwyk (Irene) and Gloria Baeba (Harmony) line up to register for the upcoming Johannesburg SPAR Women’s 10km and 5km Challenge. Photo: Reg Caldecott The Johannesburg SPAR Women’s Challenge which will take place at 8am on Sunday, 14 October at the Old Parktonian Sports Club […]
Kalmer in Grand Prix Pole Position
With just two races left in the SPAR Women’s 10km Challenge series, Mr Price’s Rene Kalmer appears to have a least one hand on the R50 000 Grand Prix cheque.
Tavengwa Takes Pretoria Challenge
Pre-race favourites Rene Kalmer and Grace de Olivera failed to achieve their intended results, with Kalmer finishing fourth behind Harmony’s Sharon Tavengwa, Kenya’s Joyce Mwende Katenge and team-mate Louisa Leballo, in the Open division of Pretoria’s SPAR 10km Challenge on Saturday.
Kalmer Attempts Pretoria Hat-Trick
Mr. Price runner Rene Kalmer will be going all out to win the third SPAR 10km Challenge race in Pretoria on Saturday, and cement her place at the top of the Grand Prix leaderboard, after winning the first two Challenge races of the year, in Port Elizabeth and Durban.
Kalmer’s Brave Second In Durban
The open women’s event at the SA Half Marathon Championships in Durban didn’t go according to plan for Rene Kalmer (CGA, Mr Price).
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.
Kalmer Cruises to SPAR Victory
The quietly confident Krugersdorp schoolteacher Rene Kalmer (Mr Price Central Gauteng) rocketed to the top of the SPAR Grand Prix standings in the second of five races by winning the SPAR Mercury Women’s 10km Challenge with Bokomo, in Durban on Sunday.
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).
Mentoor 9th in Richest Race
Champion marathon athlete, Farwa Mentoor, has finished 9th in a time of 3 hours and 12 minutes in the first leg of the Women’s Team Challenge category at the 2006/07 Standard Chartered Bank $1.5m Greatest Race on Earth in Nairobi on Sunday, October 29.