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South Africa 400 metres hurdler LJ van Zyl made the final at the Beijing Olympics, took bronze at the 2011 IAAF World Championships, and ran the four fastest times of 2011. It’s this kind of form he’ll be looking to carry into the London Olympic Games.Team South Africa profile: LJ van Zyl ... Read more

Race walker Marc Mundell has booked his place in the South African Olympic team after a top performance at the World Race Walking Cup in Saransk, Russia, on Sunday.Mundell books London Olympics place ... Read more

South African sprint canoe star Bridgitte Hartley carries realistic medal hopes into the London Olympic Games after a remarkable performance in qualifying for the event.Team South Africa: Bridgitte Hartley ... Read more

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary”. That’s the motto that drives South African men’s hockey captain Austin Smith, who guided his team through a tough qualification process to ensure their place at the London Olympics.Team South Africa profile: Austin Smith ... Read more

South Africa’s Ashwin Willemse was recently selected by the International Rugby Board (IRB) to be the ambassador for its upcoming IRB Junior World Championship (JWC), which is contested by under-21 teams. In this capacity he’ll help to promote the event around South Africa, and build national excitement and support for it.Willemse IRB ambassador for JWC ... Read more

The inaugural 36ONE MTB Challenge, held in Oudtshoorn, in the Western Cape over the past weekend, broke new athletic endurance ground and celebrated the birth of a new format of mountain bike challenge.MTB race sets new endurance standard ... Read more

Paralympic-bound wheelchair tennis players Lucas Sithole and KG Montjane recorded impressive victories in the Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) Gauteng Open over top international opponents on Tuesday in Benoni.Sithole, Montjane lift Gauteng Open titles ... Read more

Swaziland’s mountain bike champion Thulani Gule and national off-road series winner Fana Mentani have been invited to join the African challenge in this year’s Old Mutual joBerg2c.Swazi MTB champs to contest Joberg2C ... Read more

South Africa’s status as the best junior tennis nation in Africa was confirmed on the weekend when the country dominated the African Junior Tennis Championship in Cairo, Egypt.South African junior tennis tops in Africa ... Read more

South African junior tennis star Ilze Hattingh, aged 15, did the “double” at the African Junior Championships at North West University in Potchefstroom on the weekend by winning both the singles and doubles titles.SA teen shines at African Junior Champs ... Read more

South Africa road cycling champion Darren Lill got Team Bonitas’ 2012 European campaign off to a promising start on Thursday, collecting two Sprint primes and a King of the Mountains prime during stage one of the Volta a Alentejo in Portugal.Team Bonitas on European mission ... Read more

The South African Sevens team has not yet won the Hong Kong Sevens, the most prestigious tournament on the HSBC Sevens World Series calendar. They’ll be looking to change that this weekend.Blitzbokke chase elusive Hong Kong title ... Read more

Africa’s top junior tennis players will do battle at the African Junior Championships at North West University’s Potchefstroom campus next week.SA hosts Africa’s top tennis juniors ... Read more

The cross-country course for the South African leg of the UCI MTB World Cup hosted its first competition, the Momentum Health XCO Internationals, in Pietermaritzburg on the weekend, and the general consensus was that it’s a step up on the 2011 course.MTB WC cross-country course a step up ... Read more

South African teenager Bianca Buitendag posted a massive score of 16.65 out of a possible 20 in the final to win the women’s event in the CHIKO Pro Junior surf event in Newcastle, Australia on Sunday.SA teen surfs to win in Australia ... Read more

The six-month waiting period for the Quiksilver Goodwave 2012 has begun, and the 32 invited surfers and 10 alternates have been announced. The aim is for the contest to take place in the best possible conditions Durban has to offer.Quiksilver Goodwave waiting period on ... Read more

South African sports broadcaster SuperSport has been appointed to take the 2012 IRB Junior World Championships, to be held in the country in June, to new heights as the event’s host broadcaster.SuperSport to broadcast rugby JWC ... Read more

South African sports broadcaster, SuperSport, has been appointed to take the 2012 IRB Junior World Championships (JWC), to be held in the country in June, to new heights as the event’s host broadcaster.SuperSport named JWC host broadcaster ... Read more

The sixteenth edition of The Unlimited Non-Stop Dusi canoe ultra-marathon takes place on Friday. It’s not an event for the faint of heart, with competitors racing 120 kilometres from Pietermaritzburg to Durban non-stop, as opposed to the usual three days of The Unlimited Dusi.K2 winners take on Non-Stop Dusi in K1s ... Read more

South Africa finished third out of 17 nations at the inaugural International Surfing Assocaition (ISA) World Stand Up Paddle (SUP) and Paddleboard Championships in Lima, Peru on the weekend.SA third at SUP & Paddleboard Champs ... Read more

South Africans Jordy Smith and Travis Logie have joined the world’s best surfers on the Gold Coast of Australia for the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast, the opening event on the 2012 ASP World Tour, which gets under way at the iconic point-break at Snapper Rocks on Saturday.Jordy seeks strong ASP World Tour start ... Read more

Two important records fell in the 2012 aQuelle Midmar Mile on Sunday as South Africa’s Chad Ho won the men’s title and Great Britain’s Keri-Anne Payne claimed the women’s honours.Ho, Payne set Midmar Mile wins records ... Read more

Banyana Banyana will aim to build on a very successful 2011 when they compete against South American opposition in Brazil, en route to the 12-nation Cyprus Women’s Cup tournament at the end of this month.Safa firmly behind Banyana Banyana ... Read more

It wasn’t held in 2011, but thanks to popular demand the Quiksilver Goodwave is back on the Surfing South Africa calendar for 2012. The event places a premium on surfing competition in ideal conditions.Goodwave back by popular demand ... Read more

Last year’s under-23 national cross-country series champion, James Reid of Nedbank Team 360Life, is clear about his goal for the 2012 RockyRoads UCI MTB World Cup Pietermaritzburg: he is aiming for a top-10 finish in the under-23 competition.Reid ready to shine at MTB World Cup ... Read more

South Africa’s leading amateur, Branden Stone, will spearhead the local challenge against a strong international line-up at this year’s South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Johannesburg’s Glendower Golf Club.Top SA amateurs face foreign assault ... Read more

Olympic sprint star Shaun Rubenstein is quietly determined to secure another podium finish in The Unlimited Dusi canoe marathon by teaming up with renowned running talent Steve Farrell.Sprint star aims for Dusi success ... Read more

The 39th annual aQuelle Midmar Mile takes place over the weekend of 11 and 12 February and event organiser Wayne Riddin believes a record entry could be achieved, but he’s aiming even higher for next year’s 40th anniversary of the event.Saluting the man behind the Midmar Mile ... Read more

Major winners Charl Schwartzel, Louis Oosthuizen, and Trevor Immelman were all awarded honorary life membership of the Sunshine Tour at the Tour’s annual awards ceremony in Johannesburg on Tuesday evening.Sunshine Tour honours SA’s best golfers ... Read more

Contenders in the Old Mutual joBerg2c, South Africa’s longest paired mountain bike race, will now compete for prize money on every stage, organisers announced on ThursdayDaily stage prize money for Joberg2c ... Read more

The South African Football Association intends to look into the challenges facing the country’s national teams after a string of poor results at continental levelSA football results concern Safa ... Read more

After a brilliant course record 10-under-par 62 in the third round, Lee Westwood played it safe, carding a final round one-over 73 on his way to a two-stroke victory in the 2011 Nedbank Golf Challenge.Westwood goes back-to-back at Sun City ... Read more

South African under-20 men’s national team coach Solly Luvhengo has named a 20-man squad to participate in the Cosafa under-20 Youth Championship in Botswana from 1 to 10 December.Amajita all set for Cosafa u-20 Champs ... Read more

The inaugural Msunduzi Road Challenge has been given the thumbs up by cyclists and organisers alike, after the recent road cycling and time trial event was declared a perfect dress rehearsal for next year’s all important race which doubles as the UCI World Cycling Tour Final in August 2012.Msunduzi Road Challenge feedback positive ... Read more

The streets of Soweto were hyped up at the crack of dawn on Sunday as tens of thousands of athletes, including runners from Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Ethiopia, took to the tar in the annual Soweto Marathon.Residents cheer on Soweto Marathon ... Read more

The South African Masters surfing team finished third in the team competition at the 2011 El Salvador ISA World Masters Surfing Championships, and bagged five individual medals, one in each of the age categories contested.SA place third at ISA Surfing Masters ... Read more

The 2011 Soweto Marathon takes place on Sunday, 6 November, and it’s a perfect opportunity to get the children away from TV and participating in healthy, fun activities as part of the Soweto Marathon’s five-kilometre schools’ challenge.Schools can win at Soweto Marathon ... Read more

Multiple South African and African mountain bike champion, Burry Stander of Specialized USN, won the opening stage of the inaugural Langkawi International Mountain Bike Challenge in Malaysia on Tuesday.Stander in winning form in Malaysia ... Read more

Two German crews have signed up for the 30th edition of South Africa’s Hansa Fish Canoe Marathon, adding further weight to the team of elite international paddlers flying in to take part in the popular event.Top Germans enter Fish Canoe Marathon ... Read more

Organisers of the Msunduzi Road Challenge – the only African leg of the new UCI World Cycling Tour – have enabled social road cyclists to participate by adding a corporate section to the event, which takes place in Pietermaritzburg in October.Msunduzi Challenge opens to corporates ... Read more

The Springboks have made five changes to their starting line-up for Thursday’s Rugby World Cup Pool D game against southern African neighbours Namibia at North Harbour Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand.Springboks change five for Namibia ... Read more

Cyclists wanting to test their endurance in Johannesburg’s massively popular Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge will need to act fast to avoid missing the boat – in this case, the bike – and get their entries in by 3 October.Cycle Challenge deadline approaches ... Read more

The Springboks showed greatly improved form in a clinical 49-3 dismantling of Fiji in Wellington on Saturday, but Skipper John Smit downplayed the victory afterwards, saying it was too early to say who was “laying down a marker” at the Rugby World Cup.Springboks show fine form in Fiji win ... Read more

South Africa’s attempt to qualify for the Davis Cup World Group for the first time since 1998 came up short as injuries undermined their challenge to Croatia in Potchefstroom on the weekend.Injury-hit SA in Davis Cup defeat ... Read more

Less than two months remain until the 19th running of the Soweto Marathon. Prize money of R650 000 is on offer and, with time running out, organisers have called on athletes to get their entries in as soon as possible.Get your Soweto Marathon entries in! ... Read more

Some of South Africa’s most recognisable faces have signed up for the Celebrity Cricket Sixes that will be contested at six venues across the country from 24 September.Celebrities to hit Sixes for charities ... Read more

Banyana Banyana face Ethiopia at the Addis Ababa National Stadium in the away leg of their 2012 London Olympic Games qualifier on Sunday, leading 3-0 after the home leg in Soweto.Banyana chase Olympic dream ... Read more

Cricket South Africa will launch its 2011-12 season in Sandton this week when around 300 delegates converge for the organisation’s annual conference, under the theme: “Creating a better tomorrow for all in cricket”.2011/12 cricket season set to launch ... Read more

Team South Africa might have started the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea slowly, but they ended them in style, raising hopes of a strong showing at the London Olympic Games in 2012.Team SA shines at IAAF World Champs ... Read more

Bafana Bafana conceded their first goals in 2012 African Nations Cup qualifying, as well as their lead at the top of Group G, in going down 2-1 to Niger in Niamey on Sunday.Niger down Bafana in Niamey ... Read more