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The European Court of Human Rights ruled Switzerland didn’t give South African Caster Semenya a fair chance to challenge World Athletics regulations requiring hormone treatment to compete in women’s events.
Athletics South Africa president, James Moloi, has expressed strong support for the South African athletes participating in the upcoming 2023 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Innsbruck-Stubai, Austria, which is set to begin in less than three weeks.
Photo Gallery of the 2022 Race to Equality Half Marathon race in Johannesburg, RSA on Saturday 12 March.
Lesotho’s Neheng Khatala and South African Desmond Mokgobu were crowned the winners of the Race to Equality half marathon race in Johannesburg on Saturday.
South African sprinters Wayde van Niekerk and Clarence Munyai set world best times in the 300m event at the 2017 IAAF World Challenge Meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic on Wednesday 28 June.
Stephen Mokoka and Cornelia Joubert secure gold at the 2017 ASA Half-Marathon Championships at the Nelson Mandela Bay in Port Elizabeth on Saturday 24 June.
Luvo Manyonga bettered his own African long jump mark by 3cm, launching a massive 8.65m leap to earn the gold medal in his very first attempt in Potchefstroom.
The most sought-after title in women’s road running, the SPAR Grand Prix, is 10 years old this year, and is celebrating by looking to the future.
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.
South African sports broadcaster Supersport and Botswana Television (BTV) have acquired the television rights to broadcast the 2014 Africa Youth Games (AYG) in Gaborone, Botswana.
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…
The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) recently organised a seminar for Chefs de Mission of various delegations that will take part in the 2nd Youth Olympic Games…
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…
Ethiopian and Kenyan athletes dominated the Luanda International Meeting tagged ‘Demóstenes de Almeida’, held at the Coqueiros Stadium, in Luanda on Thursday. Ethiopian Yenew Gelahum won the men’s 5000m with the…
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…
The Association of African National Olympic Committees (ANOCA) has appointed the President of Mauritius Olympic Committee (COM), Philippe Hao Thyn Voon as head of the African Village at the Olympic Games…
Five of Namibia’s top athletes left for Jamaica last week as part of a long term training programme with the aim of improving Namibia’s chances of winning medals at the…
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…
Mauritius has been picked to replace South Africa as the host of the postponed 11th Africa Junior Athletics Championships. The Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) confirmed in a statement on…
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)…
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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