North West B Crowned IPT B Section Champions After Dramatic Finals Day
Chanel Genis struck a sensational hat-trick in a storm-interrupted final as North West B beat SACD 4-0 to be crowned SA Hockey IPT B Section women’s champions with a perfect five-win campaign, 19 goals scored and just one conceded.
‘Rugby Has Changed My Life’ – Aseza Hele
Springboks’ Aseza Hele reflects on her journey into rugby, recalling how she took up the sport by chance in 2014, and how she has established herself as one of head coach Stanley Raubenheimer’s star performers since then
National Netball Champs Get Under Way in Nelson Mandela Bay
The SPAR national netball championships gets under way at Young Park in Port Elizabeth on Monday
Women’s Sevens in the Spotlight
SARU has announced a squad of 12 to play in a Sevens tournament in China later month. This will serve as a warm up tournament for the SA women’s team in preparation for the first tournament of the inaugural World Sevens series that kicks off at the end of November in Dubai.
Young Guns Middelburg Shootout
The 2007 Nomads SA Girls Championship trophy is likely to be hotly contested by a number of juniors including Monique Smit, Bertine Strauss, Dominique Jacobs and Gina Switala, in Middelburg from Sunday 1 to Tuesday 3 July.
Radio Stars Qualify for Comrades
SAfm talk show host Thabiso Sikwane, and 5fm deejay Koula, have qualified for the Comrades Marathon, departing the Pietermaritzburg City Hall at 05h30 for a Sunday 17 June downrun to the Kingsmead Cricket Stadium, in Durban.
Riana van Niekerk wins Loskop
Riana van Niekerk of the Mr. Price Club won the Loskop 50km Ultramarathon in 3:22:05 on Saturday 21 April 2007, and as the ultra’s 2006 defending champion, became the first woman ever to successfully defend her title in the history of the race.
Kleynhans Exits Beijing
Erika Kleynhans became SA’s final athlete to compete in the 2006 IAAF World Junior Championships, when she placed sixth in the second heat, and failed to qualify for this afternoon’s final.