Two months after breaking her shoulder, Marione Fourie will be back in action on Saturday when she lines up at the 12th leg of the Diamond League series in Silesia, Poland. Fourie enjoyed a spectacular first half to the year, with the 100m hurdles specialist achieving her first podium finish at a Diamond League event…
Experienced sprinter Akani Simbine has booked his place in the 2025 Diamond League series final, joining compatriot Jo-Ane du Plessis among the early qualifiers for the closing leg of the top-flight international campaign. Simbine settled for fifth place in the men’s 100m race at the London leg of the series on Saturday, clocking 10.11 seconds,…
Middle-distance runner Prudence Sekgodiso delivered another impressive result, taking second place in the women’s 800m race at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene on Saturday night. Sekgodiso pushed eventual winner Tsige Duguma of Ethiopia all the way to the line, equalling her personal best of 1:57.16 to take the runner-up spot. Duguma narrowly held on…
Middle-distance runner Tshepo Tshite ran the race of his life on Friday night, obliterating the 12-year-old South African 1 500m record at the Diamond League meeting in Paris. Tshite finished ninth in 3:31.35, shattering his personal best of 3:32.03 which he set at the Cape Milers ASA Grand Prix meeting in Cape Town in April….
Midway through the 2025 Diamond League campaign, multiple South African athletes are well placed in the standings of their disciplines, in the race for positions in the series final to be held later this season. Though most of them still have some work to do to qualify for the final, after seven legs of the…
In-form sprinter Akani Simbine was the standout performer among a large group of South African athletes in action at the Diamond League meeting in Rabat on Sunday night. Simbine secured his third Diamond League win of the year as he stopped the clock at 9.95 seconds in the 100m sprint, remaining unbeaten this season over…
South Africa will be well represented at the fourth leg of the Diamond League series, with a total of 10 athletes turning out in Rabat, Morocco on Sunday (25 May). Men Akani Simbine and Shaun Maswanganyi (100m) National record holder Akani Simbine, who won the men’s 100m race at the first two legs of the…
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