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The 2024 Garmin Run Series: Celebrating Every Runner’s Journey
31 July 2024 — Garmin South Africa is thrilled to announce the second instalment of the Garmin Run Series, coming to South Africa this September! Following the success of the inaugural event in Johannesburg in 2023, this year’s series promises to be even more exhilar …… read more
How Team South Africa Performed on Tuesday
31 July 2024 — Team SA began Tuesday with three medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics, thanks to Alan Hatherly and Tatjana Smith’s contributions on Monday. On Tuesday, our athletes are competing in five different sports.Rowing: Women’s Single Sculls, Quarter-FinalsPaige …… read more
We Can Do It!
29 July 2024 — Having helped the SA men’s 400m relay team earn silver medals at the recent World Athletics Relays, Zakithi Nene is going into the Paris Olympics dreaming of another podium finish. – By Karien Jonckheere with SEAN FALCONER… read more
Do What is Hard
29 July 2024 — Not too many people can say they have run a marathon, never mind 100 marathons in 100 days. That will probably sound like climbing Mount Everest to the average person… but that’s what 21-year-old Joburg student Chad Markgraaf did last year. And now he’ …… read more
Running for the Rangers
29 July 2024 — It was a crazy idea – even the young man who dreamt up the idea of Run For Rangers admits that – but Harry Bailey is a determined young man, with an unquenchable spirit, and now he and his team are about to undertake the third edition of this incredibl …… read more
Promise Kept
29 July 2024 — Just over a year ago, Glenrose Xaba confidently said that she was working towards beating the long-standing women’s SA Record for 10km, and this July, she lived up to that promise. Now she is looking to go still faster. – By Tathe Msimango with Sean Fa …… read more
Paris Bound!
29 July 2024 — Every athlete dreams of going to the Olympics, because it is the pinnacle of the sport, and in 2024, that dream has become a reality for SA’s 400m specialist Miranda Coetzee, but she tells us she had some nervous moments before being sure she could sta …… read more
Trail (Mis)Adventures: Coping with the Cold
29 July 2024 — Not so long ago, a friend said to me that there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing choices, but today I’d like to tell you that this just is not true! – By Carla Farina … read more
One for the Record Books!
29 July 2024 — New records were the order of the day at the Absa RUN YOUR CITY DURBAN 10K in early July, including Glenrose Xaba breaking the women’s SA Record, and the race had its biggest field yet, in what turned out to be a record-breaking day from start to finis …… read more
Good… Better… Gerda!
29 July 2024 — With her record-breaking victory in the 2024 Comrades Marathon, Gerda Steyn added yet another accolade to her already glittering running career, and further cemented her status in many people’s minds as the greatest female ultra-athlete produced by Sou …… read more