This weekend will mark the first 24 hour Achilles Hope & Possibility Hand Cycling Relay taking place at the People’s Park at the Moses Mabhida Stadium on Saturday morning starting at 10am. The event, which is the first of its kind in South Africa, has been set up to help the Ethembeni School and the Achilles South Africa organisation. Achilles has been set up in South Africa to help people with various disabilities to take…
"Inaugural Achilles relay ready to go"Category: News
Morris Gachaga took line honours for the third consecutive year when he won the 2019 FNB Cape Town 12 ONERUN in Cape Town on Sunday May 19. In cool and near perfect conditions 14 300 runners took part in the 12km run from Woodbridge Island in Milnerton to Cape Town. With probably the strongest field ever assembled, the race was either going to turn into a fast and furious affair with the course record of…
"Gachaga makes it number three at ONERUN"
The 97 kilometre second stage of the KAP sani2c lived up to its billing as the Queen Stage on Friday as PYGA Euro Steel’s Phil Buys and Matthys Beukes took control of the race with an emphatic stage win. In teh women’s race there was also a new stage winner with Galileo Risk’s Theresa Ralph and Sarah Hill winning the end sprint but could not unseat dormakaba’s Robyn de Groot and Sam Sanders as the…
"PYGA are kings on Queen Stage"
On Saturday some of the country’s top trail runners will line up for the Jonkershoek Mountain Challenge, the opening leg of the Bos Sport Mountain Challenge Series. The man to beat in the main 39km event is likely to be defending champion Bernard Rukadza who held off Edson Kumwamba in 2018 to record the fastest time for the 39km distance. Rukadza has only not won the event once since the 38km distance was introduced in…
"Jonkershoek Challenge kicks off series."
Day 1 of the 2019 KAP sani2c dished up an exciting opening stage as DSV Pro Cycling’s Arno du Toit and Gert Heyns won a tight end-sprint to take the lead ahead of PYGA Euro Steel’s Matthys Beukes and Phil Buys. In the women’s race dormakaba’s Sam Sanders and Robyn de Groot claimed the honours on the opening day on Thursday. It was a frenetic day of racing as the usual suspects flew out of…
"Tight racing on Stage 1 of sani2c"
Just a few days after the sixth General Elections, runners taking part in the three Empondoland Marathon events finishing at Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape on Sunday will be celebrating 25 years of democracy. The three events – a 42.2km standard marathon, a 21,1km half marathon and a 10km race – are hosted and organised by the Lusikisiki Harriers as a celebration of a quarter of a century of democracy in South Africa. The 42,2km…
"Running for democracy in Empondoland"
Six-time South African marathon champion Robyn de Groot will return to competitive mountain biking when she teams up with defending champion Sam Sanders at the 2019 KAP sani2c on Thursday. De Groot is one of the country’s most decorated mountain bikers who was always a threat in marathon events. She had to have surgery late last year after it was discovered that blood flow issues were the cause of burning sensations and a loss of…
"De Groot is back … with Sanders"
The DSV Pro Cycling team of Gert Heyns and Arno du Toit will be pushing to go one better than their runner-up finish at the 2018 edition of the 2019 KAP sani2c when they set off from Glencairn on Thursday, 16 May. It has been a busy year for Heyns and Du Toit as they build towards the three-day showdown next week, but Heyns says they will use their second-place finish last year as a…
"DSV with unfinished business at sani2c"
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and Athletics South Africa (ASA) announced on Monday they have reached a one year agreement which will result in the Comrades, Cape Town Marathon and Soweto Marathons being broadcast this year. Due to the dispute, The Two Oceans Marathon was not broadcast last month for the first time since live broadcasts of the event began. The Comrades Marathon, which takes place on 9 June 2019, will be broadcast live…
"SABC, ASA agree to broadcast Comrades" joBerg2c winners Andrew Hill and Shaun-Nick Bester are looking to build on their victory when they tackle the sani2c.
"Hill and Bester ready for sani2c"