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Few road races have been able to capture the hearts and minds of the public in the way the Comrades marathon has done.
Few road races have been able to capture the hearts and minds of the public in the way the Comrades marathon has done.
The Mother City has been named South Africa’s most picturesque running city while Durban and Pretoria follow closely behind…
The 2022 Comrades Marathon is scheduled to be held on Sunday 28 August after two years of cancellations.
A limited number of Comrades Marathon Monopoly boards have been produced to celebrate the centennial year of the world’s largest and oldest ultra-marathon race.
The Torpedo SwimRun held their inaugural Waterfront KnockOut with exciting finishes from top athletes at the V&A Waterfront.
In his first and only race in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Ryan Sandes took a convincing win at the Maxirace Cape Winelands 75km race.
As Lory Park animal sanctuary solely relies on donations and sponsorship, they have come together and asked community members and the public from all walks of life to join them in a charity fun run.
The August 8 km Nedbank Runified challenge is set to kick off on Saturday, 8 August 2020, with over 37 000 runners currently registered to take part over the next two weeks.
Runners were out in force, on the streets of Johannesburg over the weekend. A marathon was taking place but nobody would have guessed that. A Johannesburg running club hosted a marathon, albeit a virtual one.
Eliud Kipchoge wore an advanced version of the carbon-fibre shoes when the Kenyan become the first man to break the two-hour barrier for the marathon in October 2019.
Wayde van Niekerk set the current world record over the distance in a sensational Olympic gold medal-winning run in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
This marathon man from Limpopo only runs to keep fit and healthy – he has lost count of his many medals collected over the years.
What happens in the wee hours of the morning? And more importantly, is this for you?
The Comrades Marathon has been cancelled due to the ongoing health crisis brought on by COVID-19.
Cian Leveridge got the better of Andrew Hill in the final sprint for the finish arch in Bergville after 84km of tough racing in intense heat.
Prodigal Khumalo’s second win in four attempts at the gruelling battle up and down the pass that links Lesotho to South Africa was a key part of his annual training routine.
TIB Insurance rider Andrew Hill and his wife, Bronwyn, were enjoying a short holiday in the Berg when Hill heard about the Drakensberg Extravaganza events and decided to “pop along and get in some training”.
For the second year in a row at the Sani Stagger both the full and half marathon have been sold out and the majority of entries in the Stagger Trail have been snapped up as well.
The Drakensberg Extravaganza action steps up a notch over the weekend with the mountain biking and trail running events on Saturday at the Champagne Sports Resort and the cycling road race which starts and finishes in Bergville on Sunday.
It was a Kenyan double in the Cape Town Marathon’s main race as Edwin Koech won the men”s crown and Celestine Chepchirchir smashed the women’s course record.
Watch the 2019 Cape Town Marathon live from gun to gun to share in the glory of victory and the pain of falling short, the race also serves as the SA Marathon Champs.
Both the men’s and women’s 22km trail run winners from 2018 retained their titles on Saturday.
A considerable group of top-level athletes will line up for Sunday’s Cape Town Marathon with Elroy Gelant the SA favourite in the men’s race.