Duné Coetzee and Stephanie Houtman Put Their Names in the Mix for Beijing
Duné Coetzee completed a haul of four national titles with 100m freestyle gold, while Stephanie Houtman won the 1500m freestyle, as the SA Short Course Championships wrapped up in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday.
Duné Coetzee Adds 200m Freestyle Title on Day Three in Pietermaritzburg
Duné Coetzee won the 200m freestyle title in 1:56.78, hitting the target she had set herself that morning and adding a B qualifier to her Beijing ticket in the 400m freestyle, the SA Short Course Champs in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday.
Grace Morris, Duné Coetzee and Kat Swanepoel Shine Alongside Tatjana Smith on Day Two
Grace Morris, Duné Coetzee and Kat Swanepoel shine alongside Tatjana Smith at the SA Short Course Championships, who won the 100m breaststroke to secure a second qualifying mark for the World Short Course Championships.
Tatjana Smith and Duné Coetzee Book Beijing Tickets at SA Short Course Champs
Tatjana Smith picked up where she left off, claiming another national title and setting two personal bests on her return to competitive swimming on day one of the SA Short Course Championships at the GC Jolliffe Swimming Pool in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday, 24 September 2026. The Olympic champion announced her return with an impressive opening […]
Tatjana Smith Returns to Competition at SA Short Course Championships
Four-time Olympic medallist Tatjana Smith returns to competition at the South African Short Course Championships in Pietermaritzburg from 24 to 27 September, entered in three breaststroke events and several relays.
Two Final African Record at World Short Course Swim Champs in Budapest
The SA women’s 4x100m medley relay team of Milla Drakopoulos, Lara van Niekerk, Rebecca Meder and Jessica Thompson; and 50m freestyle semi-finalist, Caitlin de Lange, set new African records as Short Course Champs wrap in Budapest
Stephanie Houtman Sets New 1500m Freestyle African Record in Budapest
Stephanie Houtman set a new African record in the 1500m freestyle the Day 4 Highlight in Budapest while Rebecca Meder lined up in two finals at the Short Course World Championships in Hungary on Friday
Two More African Records for Magnificent Rebecca Meder
Rebecca Meder racked up a further two African records, and also recorded a personal best a whisker off Tatjana Smith’s continental breaststroke record at the World Short Course Championships in Budapest on Thursday
Rebecca Meder ‘Stoked’ at Qualifying for 100m Breaststroke Final in Budapest
Rebecca Meder continued to show her rising form in the breaststroke events, finishing third in her 100m breaststroke semifinal to qualify for Thursday’s final at the World Short Course Championships in Budapest on Wednesday
Rebecca Meder Shatters Long-Standing African Record on Opening Night in Budapest
Rebecca Meder took over half a second off Zimbabwean Olympic great Kirsty Coventry’s African 200m individual medley record on the opening night of the World Short Course Swimming Champs in Budapest on Tuesday.
Lara van Niekerk Leads Youthful Team SA to World Short Course Championships
SA swim star Lara van Niekerk is the only woman competitor in Team SA to have previously attained a podium finish in the previous meet, as Swimming SA confirms a youthful team for the World Short Course Swimming Champs in Budapest this week