SA sprinters claim 4x100m relay silver at Commonwealth Games
The South African men’s 4x100m relay team closed out the Athletics contingent’s campaign in style on Saturday, taking the silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.
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The South African men’s 4x100m relay team closed out the Athletics contingent’s campaign in style on Saturday, taking the silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.
Oluwatobiloba Amusan wins Nigeria’s first ever sprint hurdles gold in a time of 12.68 secs, beating Jamaica’s duo Danielle Williams (12.78) and Yanique Thompson (12.97) into the minor places at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games on Friday.
Uganda’s Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei completed a Commonwealth Games double in a new Games record on the sixth day of athletics competition with a resounding victory in the men’s 10,000m in Gold Coast on Friday.
South Africa’s Caster Semenya stormed to another commanding victory on Friday, winning the women’s 800m title at the Commonwealth Games and taking home double gold from Australia’s Gold Coast after winning the 1500m final earlier in the week.
A 127-member national preparation squad has been announced by Athletics South Africa for the 2018 CAA African Senior Championships in Asaba, Nigeria between 1-5 August.
South Africa’s Jonathan Ndodomzi Ntutu wins the Men’s T12 100m Final in 11.02 seconds at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games on Thursday.
Amantle Montsho pips a Jamaican double-act, who have to settle for silver and bronze, to earn Botswana a rare 400m double by taking the women’s 400m gold in the Gold Coast on Wednesday night.
World champion Luvo Manyonga leaped to another major international title, taking gold in the Long Jump Men final as the SA athletics team bagged four more medals, on the fourth day of Track and Field competition at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia on Wednesday.
South Africa’s golden girl Caster Semenya secured her first Commonwealth Games title, earning Team South Africa’s fifth Track and Field medal at the multi-sport spectacle at the Gold Coast, Australia on Tuesday.
Botswana’s Isaac Makwala has achieved what he set out to do, winning his first major championship gold medal with a well-executed 44.35 in the men’s 400m final at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games on Tuesday.
Akani Simbine stopped the clock at 10.03, with Henricho Bruintjies finishing 0.14 off the pace. Jamaican Yohan Blake nicked the bronze medal from Nigeria’s Seye Ogunlewe in a photo finish, with both athletes timed at 10.19 at Gold Coast 2018.
The success of the ASA U18 Youth and U20 Junior Championships Dal Josaphat Athletics Stadium in Paarl, Western Cape, has ushered fresh confidence that South African talent will be around for many years to come.
Uganda’s Stella Chesang wins the women’s 10,000m women’s gold medal and Chukwuebuka Enekwechi earns Nigeria a first medal, a silver, with a best throw of 21.14m in the men’s Shot Put at the on-going 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia on Monday.
Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei sprinted clear to clinch the first track Commonwealth Games Athletics gold of Gold Coast 2018 in the men’s 5,000m at the Carrara stadium on Sunday.
A trio of South African athletes had no trouble in the preliminary rounds on Sunday, booking their places in medal contests at the Commonwealth Games as the athletics competition got under way at Gold Coast, Australia.
South African Shot Put prospect Kayle Blignaut and quarter-miler Sokwakhana “Soks” Zazini were the star performers on the third and final day of the ASA U18 Youth and U20 Championships in Paarl, Western Cape on Saturday.
Gontse Morake flaunted her remarkable talent again, earning gold and narrowly missing another national record in the Youth Girls Triple Jump final, on the second day of the ASA U-18 and U-20 Championships 2018 at the Dal Josaphat Stadium in Paarl, Western Cape on Friday.
Gontse Morake breaks the South African national youth (U-18) 400m hurdles record in 57.81 seconds on the opening day of ASA U-18 and U-20 Championships 2018 at the Dal Josaphat Stadium in Paarl, Western Cape on Thursday.
The revolution in road races in Tunisia is yielding more fruits and the stage is now set for the first edition of the Tunisian Women’s Run, which will take place in Sousse, Tunisia on Sunday 22 April 2018.
National record-holders Lebogang Shange and Anel Oosthuizen will spearhead a nine-member South African team to the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships which will be held in Taicang, China between 5-6 May 2018.
Morocco youths won all but one of the team titles at the 2018 International School Sport Federation World School Championship (WSC) Cross Country in Paris on Wednesday 4 April.
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor clocked a wind-aided 100m time of 10.72 secs (+2.7m/s) to win the women’s invitational event at the 91st Texas Relays on Saturday.
Kenya’s 18-year-old running phenomenon Celliphine Chespol won the African Cross Country Championship senior women’s title in the Algerian city of Chlef despite thinking she had finished with a lap still to go and then falling on the final circuit.
Kenya’s Dennis Kimetto, the world record-holder for the men’s marathon, will run his next race in Vienna, the Austrian capital, on Sunday 22 April, 2018.
Uganda’s Stephen Kiprotich, the 2012 Olympic gold medallist and the World Marathon champion, will return to the Haspa Marathon Hamburg on Sunday April 29.
Kenya’s Gilbert Kirwa and and Germany’s defending champion Fate Tola (formerly Ethiopian) will compete at the 2018 HAJ Hannover Marathon on Sunday 8 April.
Stephen Mokoka and Nolene Conrad were the top South African finishers at the IAAF World Half-Marathon Championships in a tough day of competition for the Rainbow Nation in Valencia, Spain on Saturday.
Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor opened her 2018 season on a record breaking one, shattering Mary Onyali’s 22-year old 200m African Record of 22.07, with a new mark of 22.04 (+0.5) at the Wes Kittley Invitational in Abilene, Texas, on Saturday 24 March.
Ethiopia’s Netsanet Gudeta Kebede smashes the women’s-only race world record in the half marathon today, clocking 1:06:11 at the IAAF/Trinidad Alfonso World Half Marathon Championships Valencia 2018.
South African middle distance star, Caster Semenya, gave the 34-year-old SA 1500m record a good scare at the third and final Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Series Meeting in Paarl when she crossed the line in 4:02.50 on Thursday, 22 March.
Defending champion Nancy Kiprop, from Kenya, returns to the Vienna City Marathon on 22 April, 2018 in one of the strongest women’s fields ever assembled for Austria’s number one road running event.
World champions Caster Semenya, Luvo Manyonga, and fast rising junior Zeney Van der Walt impress on the third day of 2018 ASA Senior T&F and Combined Events Championships, held at Tuks Athletics Stadium in Tshwane on Saturday.
The 2017 African U20 champion Clarence Munyai clocked a stunning time of 19.69 (-0.5 m/s) to win his men’s 200m semi-final at the 2018 ASA Senior Track and Field Championships in Tshwane, South Africa on Friday 16 March.
Three national records fell on an action-packed opening day of the ASA Senior Championships, with sprinters keeping fans on the edge of their seats at Tuks Stadium, Tshwane on Thursday.
Fireworks are expected across a variety of disciplines at the 2018 ASA Senior Track & Field and Combined Events Championships at the Tuks Athletics Stadium in Tshwane, South Africa from 15-17 March.
Anaso Jobodwana edged out World 100m Champion Justin Gatlin in the men’s 150m, and Caster Semenya smashed the South African 1000m record at the second Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Series Meeting held at Tuks Athletics Stadium in Tshwane on Thursday.
World 100m champion, Justin Gatlin (USA) and 2015 World Championship 200m bronze medalist, Anaso Jobodwana will face off for the third time in their careers at the2nd Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Series Meeting at Tuks Athletics Stadium in Tshwane on Thursday.
South Africa’s Caster Semenya will face the Ugandan challenge of Winnie Nanyondo and Halimah Nakaayi in the seldom run 1000m at the second Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Series Meeting at Tuks Athletics Stadium in Tshwane.
Botswana’s Isaac Makwala has sets his sights on breaking the 31-second barrier at the second Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Series Meeting at the University of Pretoria’s Tuks Stadium in Tshwane on Thursday, 8 March.
Ethiopia’s Samuel Tefera won his country’s fourth gold medal of the championships in just his fourth ever indoor race, kicking hard in the latter stages of a highly tactical 1500m to deny Poland’s Marcin Lewandowski and Morocco’s 2012 champion Abdelaati Iguider.
Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha successfully defended his 3000m title with a powerful display of front running over the final kilometre of a tactical final on the final day of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018.
Burundi’s defending champion Francine Niyonsaba set a world-leading 1:58.31 to take the 800m title following a titanic tussle with the USA’s 2016 silver medallist Ajee’ Wilson on the final day of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018.
World outdoor champion Luvo Manyonga won South Africa’s first medal, a Silver in the men’s Long Jump, on Day 2 of the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, UK.
Murielle Ahoure blasted out of her blocks to lead compatriot Marie-Josee Ta Lou to an Ivory Coast 1-2 in a historic gun-to-tape victory in the women’s 60m at the IAAF world indoor championships on Friday.
South Africa’s former World bronze Medallist, Anaso Jobodwana, led the night’s top performers in the opening leg of the inaugural Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix at Ruimsig Stadium in Roodepoort, Johannesburg on Thursday.
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba stormed to her fourth successive world indoor title, and third successive in the women’s 3000m at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham last night.
Athletics South Africa (ASA) together with local sports marketing agency, Stillwater Sports, have announced Liquid Telecom as the title sponsor of the Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Series.
A star studded line up will be presented at the first Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Meeting at the Ruimsig stadium in Johannesburg on Thursday, 1 March 2018.
Botswana’s Baboloki Thebe hopes of competing at the 2018 Athletix Grand Prix Series meeting in South Africa are up in smoke due to injury.
Nigeria women’s 4x400m relay squad will be the sole African team to compete in the relay events at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 next week.
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