Athletics South Africa names preliminary squad for World U20 Championships Oregon 26
Athletics South Africa (ASA) announces a 51-member preliminary squad for the 2026 World Athletics U20 Championships in Eugene, Oregon from August 5-9.
Athletics South Africa is the governing body for track and field administration in the Republic of South Africa based in Johannesburg.
Athletics South Africa (ASA) announces a 51-member preliminary squad for the 2026 World Athletics U20 Championships in Eugene, Oregon from August 5-9.
Athletics South Africa named a small but strong 34-athlete roster for the 24th African Athletics Senior Championships in Accra, Ghana (May 12-17), featuring former World indoor champions and winners from previous African Championships.
The South African team secured two silver medals with record-breaking performances, setting two new African records, at the Debswana World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26 over the weekend.
Reghen Magwai won his first national title, and Annie Bothma reclaimed the crown she won in 2023, at the ASA Marathon Championships, which was incorporated into the Durban International Marathon on Sunday.
The first relay teams have qualified for the World Athletics Ultimate Championship Budapest 26 after the mixed 4x100m and mixed 4x400m finals at the Debswana World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26 on Sunday.
South African team arrived in Gaborone, Botswana with one thing in mind – defending their title at the Debswana World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26 this weekend on 2-3 May.
Kenyan Brillian Kipkoech breaks the course record with 2:17:05, while Othmane El Goumri sets new Moroccan record of 2:04:24 to win the 40th Haspa Marathon Hamburg.
Gallery: South African athletes in action during the 2026 ASA Senior Track & Field Championships from April 16-18 at the Coetzenburg Stadium in Stellenbosch, Cape Town.
Gift Leotlela and Joviale Mbisha successfully defended their national 100m titles while Tayla Kavanagh produced a spectacular effort to win the women’s 5,000m at 2026 ASA Senior Championships in Stellenbosch, Cape Town.
Gallery: Young South African athletes in action during the 2026 ASA Age Group Championships from March 26-28 at the Germiston Athletics Stadium in Ekurhuleni.
Another record-breaking day for South Africa’s rising stars, with multiple new marks achieved on the final day of the 2026 ASA Age Group Championships in Germiston on Saturday.
Five national records fell, with youth and junior athletes delivering in style on Day 2 of the 2026 ASA Age Group Championships at Germiston Stadium on Friday.
Abduraghmaan Karriem, Viwe Jingqi and Marko Ferreira shine on day 1 at the 2026 ASA Age Group Championships at Germiston Athletics Stadium, Ekurhuleni on Thursday.
Athletics South Africa named a 49-member team, comprising 32 men and 17 women, for the 20th World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 from 13-21 September.
Bayanda Walaza fell short of a third gold medal as South Africa claimed silver in the men’s 4x100m relay at the Lohrheidestadion in Bochum in Sunday.
800m runners Veronica Vancardo (SUI) and Charne Swart Du Plessis (RSA) reunited at the Lohrheidestadion Thursday evening, two years after going viral for helping a distressed fellow athlete at the Chengdu FISU World University Games.
South Africa’s Bayanda Walaza completed his sprint double with a dominant performance to win the men’s 200m final at Rhine Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games in Bochum on Thursday.
South Africa’s Lythe Pillay dominated the Men’s 400m final at Rhine Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games, clocking 44.84 at the Lohrheidestadion in Bochum.
South Africa’s Bayanda Walaza won the men’s 100m final at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU Games in 10.16 secs, followed by Thailand’s Puripol Boonson (10.22) and Japan’s Hiroki Yanagita (10.23).
A 70-strong South African team depart in two groups to Nigeria for the 3rd CAA African U18/U20 Combined Championships in Abeokuta from 16-20 July, 2025.
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.
South Africa’s Zakithi Nene delivered another impressive performance, taking second position in the men’s 400m at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea in Rome on Friday.
James Moloi has been reelected as President of Athletics South Africa (ASA) for another four-year term.
Phethisang Makhethe walked away with a silver medal and South African record of 68.66m in the women’s hammer throw at the 2025 Big Ten Outdoor Championships on Friday.
South Africa sets two national records and topped the medal standings at the conclusion of the World Athletics Relays Guangzhou 25 on Sunday.
South Africa impress with new national record in women’s 4x400m and world lead in men’s 4x100m on the first day of competition at the World Athletics Relays Guangzhou 25 on Saturday.
Eight teams have qualified for the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 in five events contested on day one of competition at the World Athletics Relays Guangzhou 25.
South African Adriaan Wildschutt sets a new national 10km record, stopping the clock at 27:28, at the Absa Run Your City event in Gqeberha on Sunday.
Prudence Sekgodiso smashes her SA indoor national record again, this time, clocking 1:59.88 to win the women’s 800m at the INIT Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe – a World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Germany on Friday.
Prudence Sekgodiso smashes the South African women’s short track 800m national record with 2:02.30 at the 2025 World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Belgrade, Serbia.
South Africa’s Jacques Freitag, who won the world high jump title in 2003, has died of multiple gunshot wounds at the age of 42.
Team South Africa dominated the medals table at the 23rd CAA African Athletics Senior Championships in Douala, Cameroon.
Multiple national bests were shattered in the U16 age group, as the ASA U16, U18, U20 and U23 Championships opened at Pilditch Stadium in Tshwane.
All eyes will be on junior star Viwe Jingqi in the women’s 200m after recovering from injury niggles that hampered her 2023 season.
Athletics South Africa is thrilled to learn of the European Court of Human Rights declaration that the imposition of the DSD regulations on Caster Semenya was discriminatory and a violation of her human rights.
Taylon Bieldt scorched to a convincing victory in 12.76 secs to break the South African record in the women’s 100m hurdles at a meeting in Campo Scuola, Italy.
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.
Precious Mashele smashes the South African 10km record, taking second place against a strong field at the Absa Run Your City race in Gqeberha.
Wayde van Niekerk and Leandri Geel impress as the three-day ASA Senior Track & Field Championships closed with a bang in Potchefstroom on Saturday.
Akani Simbine and Carina Horn win their fifth national titles in the men’s and women’s 100m finals on Day 1 of the ASA Senior Track and Field Championships in Potchefstroom.
Karriem Abduraghmaan and Kayla Murray charge to victory in the junior men’s and women’s 100m finals on Day 1 of ASA U16, U18 and U20 Track and Field Championships in Pietermaritzburg.
Mine de Klerk and Benjamin Richardson lead 47-member strong South African team to the World Athletics U20 Championships taking place in Cali, Colombia from 1-6 August, 2022.
South African Athletics team return with 36 medals from the 22nd CAA African Senior Championships in Mauritius on Tuesday.
Akani Simbine will lead an 89-member strong SA team, which also features World and Olympic champion Caster Semenya, to the 22nd CAA African Championships in Mauritius next month.
Competing in her first collegiate season as a freshman at the University of Oregon, De Klerk produced a 54.22m heave to win the discus throw competition at the Aztec Invitational meeting in San Diego, California.
New four-year SuperSport and Athletics South Africa partnership will deliver best of South African athletics on TV and streamed on the popular SuperSport Schools app.
Athletics South Africa (ASA) on Sunday bid farewell to a modest sized but strong 19-member team departing for the IAAF World U20 Championships, which holds in Tampere, Finland from 10-15 July, 2018.
Athletics South Africa announce a 79-member final Athletics team for the 21st CAA African Senior Championships to be held in Asaba, Nigeria between 1-5 August 2018.
At a meeting in London between the IAAF and Athletics South Africa (ASA) over the IAAF’s new Eligibility Regulations for Female Classification, both organisations agreed that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was the right body to arbitrate this matter and to respect its final decision.
A 39-member strong team has been named by Athletics South Africa for the inaugural edition of the Athletics World Cup to be held in London, England between 14-15 July.
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