Walaza secures sprint double at 2024 World U20 Championships in Lima
World U20 100m champion, Bayanda Walaza of South Africa clinched victory in the men’s 200m on Friday, adding to his 100m title from earlier in the week.
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World U20 100m champion, Bayanda Walaza of South Africa clinched victory in the men’s 200m on Friday, adding to his 100m title from earlier in the week.
On the second day of the 20th World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24, Bayanda Walaza of South Africa emerged victorious in the men’s 100m final on Wednesday. Walaza clinched the gold medal with a time of 10.19 (-0.9m/s), dominating the race from the outset with an exceptional start. Thailand’s Puripol Boonson secured second place with […]
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.
Glenrose Xaba stole the show as the ASA Senior Track and Field, Combined Events and Relays Championships opened in explosive fashion at the Msunduzi Athletics Stadium in Pietermaritzburg.
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.
Thabang Mosiako and Glenrose Xaba claim the national men’s and women’s titles at the 2023 ASA Half-Marathon Championships in Gqeberha.
South African newly minted record setter Leandri Geel turns her focus on to ASA Grand Prix 3 at the NWU MacArthur Athletics Stadium in Potchefstroom on Wednesday 26 April 2023.
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.
Mbuleli Mathanga and Glenrose Xaba delivered in style to win the national senior titles at the ASA Cross Country Championships in Rustenburg on Saturday.
Glenrose Xaba and Andries Sesedi secure the South African women’s and men’s titles, respectively at the 2022 ASA 10km Championships at Pilditch Stadium, Tshwane.
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.
Melikhaya Frans and Glenrose Xaba emerge victorious in the men’s and women’s races at the ASA Half-Marathon Championships 2022 in Gqeberha, South Africa on Saturday.
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.
Following her world title win in 2009, Caster Semenya was forced by the World Athletics federation, then known as IAAF, to take medication that artificially lowered her naturally high testosterone if she wanted to compete against other female runners.
Talented 20-year-old Sinesipho Dambile won the men’s 200m gold in 20.55 seconds, holding off a challenge from national record holder and pre-race favourite Clarence Munyai in Cape Town.
Prudence Sekgodiso and Nkosinathi Sibiya won hard-fought battles to secure the women’s and men’s 1500m titles at the ASA Senior Track and Field National Championships on Friday,
Kenyan Ferdinard Omanyala wins the men’s 100m in 9.98 ahead of South African Akani Simbine, who came second in 10.11 at the ASA Grand Prix Series 4 meeting in Germiston, South Africa.
Viwe Jingqi, Ashley Erasmus and Benjamin Richardson ended a ground-breaking week with another spectacular performance on the third and final day of the ASA National U16, U18 and U20 Track And Field Championships in Potchefstroom.
Viwe Jingqi lowers the SA U18 100m record three times in one day at the 2022 ASA U16, U18 (Youth), and U20 (Juniors) Track and Field Championships at the NWU Mc Arthur Athletics Stadium, Potchefstroom on Thursday.
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.
South African Caster Semenya raced to a new personal best of 8:54.97 in the women’s 3,000m race at the second leg of the ASA Athletics Grand Prix Series in Cape Town, RSA.
South Africa’s Stephen Mokoka stepped up to 50km in style, running 2:40:13 to break the men’s world record, at the Nedbank #Runified 50km in Gqeberha.
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.
South Africa’s Irvette van Zyl and Ethiopia’s Ketema Negasa inaugural world 50km records, set in 2021 at the Nedbank Runified race in Gqeberha, have been ratified.
South African sprinters, Clarence Munyai and Anaso Jobodwana, kept the SA flag flying on day 3, with both athletes coasting through the opening round of the men’s 200m event at the IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar on Sunday.
South Africa’s Precious Mashele defended his title in 28:36 to win the 2019 10km Peace Run at the 2019 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon.
The nine-member South African ultra-distance team departs for Sveti, Croatia on Tuesday night, ahead of the IAU 100km World Championships to be held on Saturday 8 September 2018.