General athletics news, photos and latest results from the Republic of South Africa – marathon, cross-country, track and field
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 Africa’s Sunette Viljoen produced the performance of her career on Thursday night to secure the silver medal in the women’s Javelin throw event at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk broke Michael Johnson’s world record to win the men’s 400m gold at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in a stunning time of 43.03 on Sunday.
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.
South Africa’s Caster Semenya coasted to victory in the 800m at the Monaco IAAF Diamond League on Friday smashing her own national record in the process.
A 39-member SA athletics team was named for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Thursday after the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) revealing the final squad.
South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius must serve at least three more years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14 2013.
Athletics South Africa (ASA) have announced the final team to the IAAF World U20 Championships to be held on 19-26 July 2016 in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Host South Africa got the party started with two gold medals on day one of the 20th CAA African Senior Championships – Durban 2016 at the Kings Park Athletics Stadium in Durban.
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.
Athletics South Africa (ASA) welcomes timely thumbs-up from Confederation of African Athletics on the on-going preparations for the CAA 20th African Senior Championships to be held in Durban.
Wayde van Niekerk will lead a strong South African team of 96 athletes to the 20th CAA African Senior Athletics Championships in Durban, South Africa next week.
World 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa has moved up to third on the all-time 300m list after clocking 31.03 for victory at the JN Racers Grand Prix in Kingston, Jamaica on Saturday night.
South African David Gatebe won the 2016 Comrades Marathon men’s race in 5:18:19 while Charne Bosman took the women’s in 6:25:55 at the 89km ultra-race from Pietermaritzburg to Durban on Sunday.
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.
South African Ruswahl Samaai jumped 8.38m to equal the African all-comers’ record and his own PB at the IAAF Diamond League Meeting in Rabat, Morocco on Sunday May 22, 2016.
Athletics South Africa (ASA) have selected a massive 87-strong preliminary team for the 2016 CAA African Senior Championships in Durban next month (June 22-26, 2016).
African record-holder and two-time world bronze medallist Sunette Viljoen of South Africa is the sole African representative in the women’s Javelin at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Doha on Friday 6 May.
Caster Semenya made history with a remarkable treble victory on the second and final day of the ASA Senior Track and Field Championships at Coetzenburg Stadium, in Stellenbosch on Saturday.
Alyssa Conley and Henricho Bruintjies dominated the sprint races at the 2016 South African Senior Championships in Athletics at Coetzenberg in Stellenbosch on Friday.
South African Lusapho April took the HAJ Hannover Marathon for the third time after 2011 and 2013, his time of 2:11:27 clinching him a place in the Olympic marathon in Rio.
South Africa’s Lusapho April hopes to improve his three-year-old course record of 2:08:32 at the 26th edition of the HAJ Marathon Hannover on Sunday.
South African World 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk claimed a historic sprinting landmark after clocking 9.98 PB at the Free State Championships in Bloemfontein on Saturday.
South Africa sprint champion Akani Simbine broke the SA 100 metres record by 100th of a second at the 1st ASA’s Night Series meeting at the Pitditch Stadium in Pretoria on Tuesday night.
South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) launches #TeamSARise campaign ahead of Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil this summer.
National record-holders Anaso Jobodwana and Henricho Bruintjies will feature on South Africa’s team for the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Ethics Commission has announce the appointment of South African Justice Catherine O’Regan to the Commission.
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been granted bail on the provision he surrenders his passport and wears an electronic tag while he awaits sentencing for the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) to take medallists at the just concluded IAAF World Youth Championships in Cali to the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games in Apia, Samoa from September 5-12.
South African Paul Jacobus Botha threw a lifetime best of 78.49m to clinch a shock gold medal in boys’ Javelin at the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 on Sunday.
Werner Visser produced a huge 64.24m throw in the third round to win the boys’ discus for South Africa at the 9th IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 on Saturday.