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 Prudence Sekgodiso and javelin thrower Douw Smit led the charge for the South African contingent on Tuesday night, setting personal bests at the Golden Spike track and field meeting in Ostrava. In the women’s 800m race, Sekgodiso triumphed in 1:57.16, taking 0.10 off her career best of 1:57.26 which had been set in…
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…
Middle-distance runner Prudence Sekgodiso enjoyed another major breakthrough on Sunday, winning gold in the women’s 800m final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing. Sekgodiso produced an incredible tactical effort, sitting back for most of the race before launching a furious kick in the closing stages. She completed the race in 1:58.40, breaking her…
Multiple national records holders and Olympic medallists turned out on Thursday at the invitational track and field meeting hosted by Hoërskool Stellenbosch on Wednesday, 5 March, to open the new ACE Trust track. Among the winners were sprint star Akani Simbine, who triumphed in the men’s 60m race in 6.57 seconds, and middle-distance specialist Prudence…
Middle-distance runners Tsepho Tshite and Prudence Sekgodiso were in record-breaking form on Thursday night, producing stellar performances at the World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting in Lievin, France. While Tshite broke the 24-year-old national mark in the men’s short track mile, Sekgodiso equalled her own SA record over the 800m distance. Records tumble in men’s mile…
Middle-distance star Prudence Sekgodiso took a big step forward in her maiden indoor season, shattering her own South African short track 800m record at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe in Germany on Friday night. Sekgodiso won the women’s four-lap race in 1:59.88, chopping more than two seconds off her national short track mark of 2:02.30 which…
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