Luvo Manyonga wins Diamond League circuit trophy in Zurich with a jump of 8.49m followed by Ruswahl Samaai in 2nd place with a jump of 8.31m. Video by IAAF Diamond League Photo by AFP
[poll id=”2″] If you struggle to get your vote cast then please email your vote to adriaan@backtrack.co.za DAVID GATEBE Last year Gatebe had an amazing year. He won the Comrades marathon smashing the course record of the down run running a time of 5:18:13 breaking the 9 year old record of 5:19:49. Later he went on…
In a very intense encounter with the lead constantly changing in the men’s Long Jump Manyonga put down a new pb jump of 8.37m to take the lead. With Rutherford, Henderson and Lawson with their final jumps still to come. Henderson then delivered a 8.38m jump to snatch the gold from Manyonga. But Manyonga remained…
Neither of the South Africans could jump the qualification distance of 8.15m but only 2 athletes in the field could. That being Jainan Wang(8.24m) and Jeff Henderson(8.20m). But Manyonga’s jump of 8.12m and Ruswahl Samaai’s jump of 8.03m placed them 4th and 5th on the qualifying list as defending Olympic champ scrathed through to the…
The athletics has kicked and in the morning session we had 3 South Africans competing at the games. First up was Rynardt van Rensburg and SA Champ Jacob Rozani in the 800m heats. Both were in very fast heats on paper, with van Rensburg lining up against world record holder David Rudisha and Rozani against…
The #SupportOurAthletes campaigne was luanched by Backtrack Sports to once again show our support to our athlete and to get the South African Celebrities behind our athletes in order to show the general public that if the celebs can support our athletes then so can they. To get more than just the athletics cummunity behind…
Today marks ten days to the start of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games; we have thus decided to look at ten South African track stars that could surprise the world/themselves by winning a medal or making the finals in their respective events. Caster Semenya: Semenya is currently at the top of the women’s 800m world rankings after clocking…
25th Jul 2016
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