PE Hosts Top Squash Women
Port Elizabeth plays host to the five-day annual inter-provincial team squash championships from Monday 9th-Friday, 13th July, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers for the 5th consecutive year.
Robyn de Groot’s Chong Ming Island Cycle Tour
The traveling required to get to Chong Ming Island was a lot longer than what we had anticipated and expected. When we arrived at the airport in Shanghai, we were welcomed by 3 Chinese men who were there to collect us and escort us to the hotel.
U19 Team Ready for Hong Kong
Aluscha Botha, a Grade 12 learner at the Marais Viljoen High School, Johannesburg will captain the SA U19 team to participate in the World Junior Women’s Squash Championships, to be staged in Hong Kong from 1st – 11th August, 2007.
Local Girls Open Cape Epic Lead
Team Duravit have clinched their fourth stage win on day 4 of the 2007 Absa Cape Epic, with team members Anke Erlank-Moore and Yolandè de Villiers crossed the finish line in Barrydale after four and three-quarter hours, close to a half-hour ahead of stage runners-up Kristine and Anna-Sofie Noergaard (Denmark).
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).
Tenille Rockets up the Rankings
Tenille Swartz’s giant killing run in the Grays Oslo Open Squash Championships came to an end in the semi-finals, when fourth-seeded Tegwen Malik of Wales edged her out 9-7 in the deciding game.
Riana 5th in Singapore
Champion marathon athlete, Riana van Niekerk, crossed the finish line of the Singapore Leg of the Standard Chartered Greatest Race on Earth in fifth position earlier today (Sunday December 3), in a time of 2 hours 55 minutes and 45 seconds.
Tenille on Attack in Norway
Unseeded 19 year old Tenille Swartz, presently based in the Netherlands, caused a major upset in the first round of the Grays Oslo Open Squash Championships in Oslo, when she ousted second seed and former South African Annelize Naude (Netherlands) 9-3 9-5 4-9 10-8.
Riana for Richest Race in Singapore
Riana van Niekerk, the eighth woman to cross the finish line in the 2006 Comrades Marathon, will be flying the flag for South Africa in the Standard Chartered ‘Greatest Race on Earth’ second leg on 3 December in Singapore.