World champion Luvo Manyonga leaped to another major international title, taking gold in the Long Jump Men final as the SA athletics team bagged four more medals, on the fourth day of Track and Field competition at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia on Wednesday.
South African middle distance star, Caster Semenya, gave the 34-year-old SA 1500m record a good scare at the third and final Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Series Meeting in Paarl when she crossed the line in 4:02.50 on Thursday, 22 March.
World outdoor champion Luvo Manyonga won South Africa’s first medal, a Silver in the men’s Long Jump, on Day 2 of the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, UK.
World long jump bronze medallist, Ruswahl Samaai will open his 2018 season at the second Athletix Grand Prix Meeting on 8 March at Tuks Athletics Stadium in Tshwane.
Athletics South Africa have announced a team of seven athletes for the IAAF World Indoor Championships – Birmingham 2018 from 1-4 March.
South African long jumper, Luvo Manyonga, kicked off his 2018 season with a national record performance, of 8.32m, at the Meeting Paris Indoor on Wednesday evening.
Long jump stars Luvo Manyonga and Ruswahl Samaai delivered in style on Saturday evening, earning two medals for the South African team during a spectacular session of Track and Field action on the second day of the IAAF World Championships in London.
South African jumper Ruswahl Samaai emerge victorious in the men’s long jump at the 2017 IAAF Diamond League Meeting in Rabat, Morocco on Sunday 16 July.
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.
The 9th Meeting International Mohammed VI d’athlétisme, which held in Rabat on Sunday, was the first African stage in the history of the IAAF Diamond League and it brought its share of sports performance with seven meeting records.
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.
World University Games champion Stephen Mokoka was the stand-out performer of the two-day South African Athletics Championships in Stellenbosch with a national record and World lead in the men’s 5000m on Saturday.