General athletics news, photos and latest results from the Republic of South Africa – marathon, cross-country, track and field
South Africa’s Bongmusa Mthembu claimed his maiden Comrades Marathon title after clinching the 2014 ‘down run’ title by a comfortable margin, while Eleanor Greenwood won a dramatic women’s race in Durban on Sunday.
Johan Cronje lowers the 27-year-old South African record in the men’s mile to 3:50.70 on Saturday night at the 40th Prefontaine Classics – IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon.
South Africa’s Andre Olivier wins the men’s 800m in 1:44.88; Morocco’s Rababe Arafi takes 1500m win in PB 4:02.71; Kenyans Paul Kipsiele Koech and Purity Kirui dominate the Steeplechase at Beijing’s IAAF World Challenge meeting.
Four specialists will evaluate murder-accused Oscar Pistorius to determine his state of mind and criminal responsibility after being admitted as an outpatient at Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital.
Pretoria High Court Judge Thokozile Masipa on Wednesday granted the State’s application for murder-accused Oscar Pistorius to be sent for mental observation.
Prosecutors in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial on Tuesday brought an application before the High Court in Pretoria to have murder-accused admitted for mental observation.
The ad hoc committee of Athletics South Africa (ASA) has announced that a special general meeting would be held on May 24 to elect a new ASA executive board.
African champion Simon Magakwe becomes the first South African to break the sub-10-second barrier in the 100 metres at the SA Athletics Championships in Pretoria on Saturday.
Only four messages out of 1,709 between murder-accused Oscar Pistorius and his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp could show an argument, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria heard on Tuesday.
Oscar Pistorius plans to sell the upmarket $460,000 Silver Woods Country Estate home in Pretoria, where he shot dead his girlfriend last year, to cover the legal fees for his murder trial.
The first police officer on the scene of Reeva Steenkamp’s killing destroyed the notes he made at the time, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria heard on Friday.
Paralympic 400m champion, Oscar Pistorius, has reached an out-of-court settlement with a woman who laid an assault charge against him after a party at his home after a four-year long legal…
Athletics South Africa’s suspension has been lifted, the South Africa Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) said on Wednesday. Sascoc said the decision “would give our athletes the opportunity to represent…
SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) has said the process followed at an Athletics SA (ASA) annual general meeting to oust its board was constitutional. “Both Sascoc and SRSA (Sport…
Athletics South Africa (ASA) president says the annual general meeting (AGM) held on Saturday where the federation’s entire board was dissolved is ‘unconstitutional and invalid’. Neither Evans nor vice-president were…
Athletics South Africa (ASA) has suspended five of the country’s regional athletics boards – Boland Athletics, Central Gauteng Athletics, KwaZulu-Natal Athletics, Athletics South Western District and Western Province Athletics – for…
South Africa’s Olympic long jump silver medallist Godfrey Khotso Mokoena will put his specialist event on the back burner to pursue triple jump glory in 2014. “I need a new…
South African women’s 10km Challenge road race champion Mapaseka Makhanya says she is motivated to raise the bar further in next year’s Grand Prix, after she was won a car…
London 2012 Olympic silver medallist, Caster Semenya of South Africa, has her sights set on the world record and Commonwealth Games triumph in next year, after almost a year’s break from…
South Africa’s hope of a good showing in the men’s marathon event at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow next week was dealt a further blow on Tuesday when Lusapho…
has selected a team of 27 athletes to participate at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia from 10-18 August 2013. The team of 21 track & field…
Caster Semenya won her first race after a lengthy injury layoff on Wednesday night, but fell well short in her attempt to qualify for next month’s IAAF World Championships. The…
South African sprinter Anaso Jobodwana, who won the men’s 100m title on Monday, completed the double with a dominant performance to win the 200m title at the 27th Summer Universiade / World University Games in Kazan, Russia.
South African athletes put the troubles at home behind them to win two gold medals on day two of athletics at the 27th Summer Universiade / World University Games in…
Athletics South Africa (ASA) insisted on Monday that the country’s athletes will head to the IAAF World championships in Moscow as planned, despite the suspension of the federation by the…
LJ Van Zyl’s performance at this weekend’s Great City Games in Manchester was outstanding as he not only beat Jack Green (GBR), but also Olympic gold medalist Felix Sanchez (DOM)…
Despite warm weather conditions both course records were broken in the TUI Marathon Hannover: South Africa’s Lusapho April clocked 2:08:32 while Ukraine’s Olena Burkovska crossed the line in 2:27:07. While…
Tiaan Smit (WPA) broke the SA Record in the junior men’s 110m hurdles when he crossed the line in 13.51sec on the third day at the SA Sub-youth, Youth, Junior…
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