South Africa dominate at Southern Region Senior Championships in Harare
The South African track and field team won 24 medals at the 2017 CAA Southern Region Senior Championships held in Harare, Zimbabwe on 10 and 11 June.
Athletics South Africa is the governing body for the sport code of track and field in the Republic of South Africa with a head office in Johannesburg.
The South African track and field team won 24 medals at the 2017 CAA Southern Region Senior Championships held in Harare, Zimbabwe on 10 and 11 June.
South African Olympic 110m Hurdles semi-finalist Antonio Alkana broke the African and South African records in his specialist discipline on Monday in Prague, Czech Republic.
South African teenager Sokwakhana Zazini sets a new World Youth 400m Hurdles record, clocking 48.84 to win the Under-18 men’s final on the opening day of the Athletics Gauteng North (AGN) Championships in Tshwane on Friday 17 March.
Athletics South Africa held a successful and peaceful Quadrennial General Meeting at the Garden Court Hotel, OR Tambo Hotel in Kempton Park, Johannesburg on Saturday.
South Africans, Wayde van Niekerk and Caster Semenya are among the seven African athletes that have been shortlisted for the 2016 IAAF World Athlete of the Year award.
David Manja and Kesa Molotsane crowned national champions with victories in the Senior Men’s and Women’s 10km races at the SA Cross Country Championships in George.
Caster Semenya broke the national 800m record to earn gold at the Rio Olympics on Saturday tearing down the home straight to secure the South Africa’s 4th track and field medal at the games.
South African Luvo Manyonga soared to a lifetime best jump of 8.37m on Saturday to bag South Africa’s first track and field medal on day two of the athletics competition at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
South Africa’s Stephen Mokoka and Irvette van Zyl secured national men’s and women’s titles at the Athletics South Africa (ASA) Half-Marathon Championships in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
South African sprinter Akani Simbine broke his own national 100m record at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial meeting in Szekesfehervar, Hungary on Monday night.
South Africa’s most promising athletes will be eager to showcase their immense potential when they compete at the five-day World U-20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland starting on Tuesday.
Athletics South Africa president, Aleck Skhosana, said the country is looking forward to welcoming the world to a true African experience at the Durban 2016 African Senior Championships – 22-26 June.
South African champion Alyssa Conley stormed to a new lifetime best in the women’s 200m at the European Permit Meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland on Tuesday.
South African hurdlers Antonio Alkana and Le Roux Hamman were the star performers among a large group of SA athletes who competed at the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Dakar, Senegal on Wednesday.