Speedster Nicola van der Merwe geared-up for African Youth Games Athletics North West North’s Nicola van der Merwe, right, will represent South Africa in the African Youth Games, in Algeria, next month. Here she is pictured at the ASA youth and junior championships, in Paarl, in April. Photo by Keagan Mitchell. Editor’s note: The opinions…
A world class middle distance athlete in the making Letlhogonolo More in action at training at the Tuks Athletics stadim where he attended at TuksSport High School Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not represent the views of BackTrack or EC Active. Patience,…
Anro van Eeden’s rise to the top Boland’s Anro van Eeden will have one eye on the World Junior Championships following his inclusion in the SA preliminary team. Here he is pictured in the boys’ under-20 javelin event, at the ASA youth and junior championships, in Paarl, last month. Photo by Keagan Mitchell Editor’s note:…
Steenekamp, South Africa’s next star hurdler Loujie Steenekamp on far left, competing at AGN league at Tuks Bestmed Stadium. Photo by R. Caldecott. Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not represent the views of BackTrack or EC Active. Born and bred in Ellisras,…
2017 seems to be the year of Gena Lofstrand after battling with injuries over the past years she seems to be in great shape. The past season her slogan was #comebackstronger well 2017 that slogan is done and guess what? She is back stronger and her previous PB’s are the ones that must pay the...
Last week at the Prestige Tuks Top 10 we saw Nicola Middleton and Danielle Verwoerd running two completely different races to gun for the meeting 800m record set by Jana vd Merwe in 2011 of 2:15.40. Verwoerd and Middleton put on quite the show and it came down to an epic finish. “I can do…
[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…
The African Championships 800m bronze medallist and Olympic Games 800m semi-finalist, Rynardt Van Rensburg, will line up at next weekend’s 2016 Tembisa Streetmile. The Bloemfontein star will headline a strong field consisting of 2016 South African 4km cross country champion Marko Bucarizza and the sub four-minute miler, Jerry Motsau. However, despite the strong rivalry and…
South African Race Walking has seen a resurgence since Marc Mundell reintroduced South Africa to the International Race Walking scene at the London Olympics in 2012. This year, however, we saw four walkers making SA proud in Rio. Marc Mundell reached his second Olympics Games, Lebogang Shange made serious waves at International events, Wayne Snyman…
