Sunday (11 September) track action produced four more medals for the South African team competing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (7-18 September). In the 100 meter T37 final, world and Paralympic record holder, Charl du Toit dashed to gold in 11.45 seconds followed by Egypt’s Mostafa Mohamed (11.54s)…
Day two (9 September) of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games featured only two South Africans in athletics action. First up, teenager Liezel Gouws faced a tough line-up in the 100 meter T37 final placing eighth in a season’s best time of 14.84 seconds. The 17 year old from Klerksdorp said afterwards that it was a…
Day One (8 September) of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games produced South Africa’s first gold medal in the form of swimmer, Kevin Paul who produced a strong finish to beat Ukrainian, Denys Dubrov (1:05.10) in the SB9 100 meter breaststroke clocking 1 minute 04.86 seconds. On the track, Arnu Fourie, bronze winner in the 100…
South Africa’s Paralympic squad, led by five-time Paralympian Zanele Situ, joined the procession of 4350 athletes from 160 teams at the opening ceremony (7 September) signalling the start of the 2016 Summer Games which runs until the 18th. The event is the fifteenth of its kind and will showcase 23 sports disciplines at four venues…
Gelant got out decently and put himself right in the middel of the pack following the athletes at a 62 first lap. After a 2:37 first kilometer and 1300m in he found himself tracking on the shoulder of Mo Farah. With a 2:38 second kilometer and 5:15 2km in he was right next to Farah…
Caster Semenya wins that gold medal that her shape this entire season has proven she is capable of winning. She makes that World Championships gold medal into an Olympic gold. The 2 time African Champ led from the start of the race running a blistering 57.59 first lap. She kept it up until the finish line…
Semenya had the fastest semi of all and dragged 2 other ladies in her semi through to the final as fastest losers when she ran a 1:58.15 to qualify for the final. She now has one more race left to make her dream come true of becomming the Olympic champion. But the question begs, how…
At the Athens Olympis in 2004 she came 35th, in Beijing 33rd, London 4th. And now in 2016 she is the Olympic Silver medallist after 12 years, 4 Olympics. Sunette started the competition with a throw of 64.92 which seemed like the winning throw. This had her leading until the 4th round where Sara Kolak…
As rain poured down on the stadium our South African hurdlers showed class to qualify for the next rounds without much trouble. Antonio Alkana grabbed a fastest loser spot in heat 3 running a 13.64. The fastest qualifier coming from Omar Mcleod from Jamaica with a 13.27. Wenda Nel lined up in heat 4 of…
Simbine came out with the fastest reaction time of 0.128 and was right up there with the best sprinters in the world up untill the finish line. On the line Simbine got out dipped by Yohan Blake and Andre De Grasse whilst Usain Bolt made history by winning the race. Simbine is only the 2nd…
