After ending 2023 in positive fashion with a seventh place 2:21:24 finish at the Africanbank Soweto Marathon, Joel Mmone expected to kick on in 2024 and 2025. However, the Nedbank Running Club top runner who also ran inside 62 minutes for the half marathon that year, failed to replicate that form, spending almost two seasons without delivering a top ten finish in one of South Africa's recognised major 21km or 42km races.  Mmone in action at the 2026 Biogen 21K presented by Mo

Nedbank Running Club elite athlete Sthembiso Mqhele will commence his season with the Balwin Run Series Peninsula Marathon scheduled to take place on Sunday, 15 February in Cape Town. Mqhele who used to call The Mother City home when he lived in Phillipi, has fond memories of the race where took third place last year and won in 2022. Now living in KwaZulu-Natal, the three-time Two Oceans gold medalist says he has been training in the Underberg Mountains to get ready for the

After a breakthrough 2025 season that saw him win his first medal at the Athletics South Africa (ASA) Senior Track & Field Championships and represent South Africa at the Region 5 Half Marathon, Cwenga Nose is eyeing more success at the Absa RUN YOUR CITY GQEBERHA 10K on 1 March. The 2025 SA 10 000m silver medalist who runs in the colours of Phantane AC has every right to target a new personal best after opening his season with a 28:45 clocking to win the Colchester 10km in ‘

Less than a month into the 2026 high school track and field season, and a number of South Africa's top youth and junior athletes are already finding their best form. 15-year-old Chelsea van Dyk set a new girls SA U16 steeplechase record, 17-year-old Megan Nieman dipped under 59 seconds for the 400m hurdles at the Noordheuwel Top 15 meet on 4 February and two days later, 16-year-old Tiisetso Malungane became the country's fastest U16 800m male athlete of all time when he cl