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Africa Melane interviewed 2021 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon Race Director Renee Jordaan.

Sport24 looks at the best performing sports for Team South Africa during the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics.South Africa had their wor

JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – WITH several contenders enjoying the form of their lives after attaining personal bests, this weekend’s Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) Half Marathon is anticipated to be a tightly contested affair. The race scheduled for the coastal city of Qgeberha, formerly Port Elizabeth on Saturday, marks a return to road running after more than year of inactivity because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Records have been set at some smaller events. Most of the spotlight in Qgeberha will be on Gerda Steyn, a clear-cut favourite weeks after she smashed a 25-year-old South A...

Team SA to wear veldskoene at Olympics opening ceremony in Tokyo By Staff Reporter Share Pretoria - SA marathon runner Gerda Steyn set a new women’s record time in Italy last week but she, like the rest of Team South Africa, will not be wearing running shoes at the opening of the Olympic Games. Instead, the athletes, swimmers and other 300 sportsmen and women of Team SA will wear veldskoene when they carry the South African flag aloft in Tokyo, Japan, for the opening ceremony in less than 100 days’ time. The Olympics closes a circle for co-founders of the Veldskoen brand, Nick Dreye...

Gerda Steyn on SA marathon record: I just wanted it so badly Ashfak Mohamed © Provided by Independent Online (IOL) CAPE TOWN - “This one was for all of us!” was Gerda Steyn’s reaction after setting a new South African women’s marathon record in Siena, Italy on Sunday. The 31-year-old ultra-distance star slashed more than a minute off the 25-year-old mark of two hours, 26 minutes and 35 seconds (2:26.35) – set by Colleen de Reuck in Berlin in 1996 – by stopping the clock on 2:25.28 at the Xiamen Marathon and Tuscany Elite Camp Global Elite Race. She finished in ni...