After a standout 2025 season that saw him better four national records, Adriaan Wildschutt has set his sights on further record-breaking achievements in 2026. Wildschutt will return to the Absa RUN YOUR CITY GQEBERHA 10K on Sunday, 1 March, where he aims to become the first athlete to clock a sub-27-minute 10km on African soil. "It would mean a lot to run sub-27:00 on SA soil. It would probably be one of my very highest achievements. It would certainly mean the world to me,"

For a decade, Precious Mashele has used Zoo Lake as his primary training base and second home. Under the guidance of coach Hendrick Ramaala who served as his coach, mentor and father figure, Mashele blossomed into one of SA's leading top runners. He won five consecutive national cross country titles, qualified for the Olympic Games, World Championships and African Championships and broke the SA 10km Record when he ran a lifetime best 27:35 at 2023 Absa RUN YOUR CITY GQEBERHA

For most track runners, the transition from middle distance to ultra marathons, can be a difficult one. But where dozens have failed, George Kusche is succeeding. After a productive college track career racing 1500m, Miles and 5000m for Northern Arizona on the highly competitive US College NCAA Circuit, the Affies Seuns alumnus is beginning to make waves on the even more competitive South African ultra marathon scene.  "It's a mindset shift. You have to change your mindset,"

South Africa's plan to field its strongest senior men's World Cross Country team has been dealt a significant blow after man of the 10km moment Kabelo Mulaudzi withdrew from the world’s premier cross country competition. The reigning SA 10km cross country champion, who produced three sub 28 minute 10km clockings last season, is the victim of an injury which has forced him to skip the championships in the United States in order to focus on rehabilitation ahead of the 2026 sea

The first order of business for Brenda Marolen should she win the race to become the next president of Central Gauteng Athletics is to put the incoming board through a vigorous three month programme aimed at formulating a plan of action for the embattled federation. This intensive three to six week governance and project management programme which will start with an induction workshop for new board members immediately after the elections on 24 January, would be Marolen's firs

After being suspended by the federation for publicly calling for Athletics South Africa president James Moloi’s head, the 'concerned athletes and administrators' have been vindicated. The group of five led by former ASA Board Member Dorah Mngwevu held a press conference last July during which they called for mass resignations following allegations of financial mismanagement revealed by parliament’s portfolio committee for sport who detailed Moloi’s use of his ASA issued Cred

Reflecting on the most inspiring performances of 2025, one cannot but marvel at the emergence of Aphelele Nkonyeni as South Africa’s pre-eminent 3000m steeplechase force. The 27-year-old set a personal best 8:35.43 to win the Cape Milers/Endurocad Middle Distance Invitational Continental Tour Challenger Meet at the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town on 4 April and then dethroned steeplechase king Siboniso Soldaka three weeks later to win a first national title and return as Ath

As if to underline the growing strength in depth in South African distance running in the post Covid era, Nadeel Wildschutt has become only the fourth local athlete to produce a sub 2:10 marathon debut. After Stephen Mokoka opened his 42,2km account with a 2:08:33 clocking in Seoul in 2010 and Thabang Mosiako announced himself to the marathon world with a 2:09:14 run in Abu Dhabi twelve months ago , Wildschutt is now the holder of the third fastest SA Marathon debut after gra

Despite months of infighting and political wrangling which threatened to derail the race, this year's African Bank Soweto Marathon was celebrated as one of the most well-organised editions of The People's Race as nearly 15 000 runners took part featuring a star-studded field headlined by defending champion Onalenna Khonkhobe, Two Oceans champion Joseph Khoarahlane Seutloali of Lesotho, 4-time Soweto winner Irvette van Zyl and ultra-marathon queen Gerda Steyn who made her debu

Organisers of the Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon are ready to lay out the blue carpet for those who will run the World's Most Beautiful Marathon for the 11th time or more in 2026. According to the Two Oceans NPC, because achieving a Blue Number is so special, members of this exclusive Blue Number Club will be offered an exceptional range of new rewards and benefits designed to elevate their race weekend even further. "These are runners who have shown extraordinary commitment

Of all the noteworthy performances dished out by South African athletes this season, including medals won at the highest level, one man used 2025 to establish himself as a coming force on the local athletics scene. Still just a youth athlete, Tiisetso Malungane set the track alight with personal best performances from 800m (1:52.71) to 5km to end the year as both AGN and SA U16 Champion over 800m and 1500m. "This year was the best year of my athletics career so far," he told

Renowned South African long-distance runner, maintains that his accomplishments this season one of his most successful years to date. Frans delivered outstanding performances, securing two international marathon victories to cement his position as one of the country's leading marathoners. In May, he achieved a respectable 2:13:20 to emerge victorious in the Riga Marathon in Latvia. He then completed a double by winning the Philadelphia Marathon last month in an impressive 2:1

Central Gauteng Athletics' (CGA) 400m stars Udeme Okon and Precious Molepo capped a remarkable season in style, dominating the CGA awards at Melrose Arch on December 7. Okon, boldly declaring his intent "to shock the world" in 2026, and Molepo, eyeing a powerful reset next year, reaffirmed their statuses as South Africa’s rising forces over the one-lap dash with powerful performances on the track this year. The pair walked away with the province's athlete of the year of the y

Since it’s very first race in 2014 which was won by Elroy Gelant, the Nelson Mandela Bay Half Marathon has been celebrated as South Africa’s most competitive 21km race, producing the fastest time ever run on SA soil - 1:00:29 by Thabang Mosiako to win the 2023 event. For this reason, the race has enjoyed ASA Half Marathon Championship status for nine of it’s eleven editions. In 2025 however, the ASA Half Marathon Championships took place in the hot Limpopo climate of Phalabo

In what is the first big transfer ahead of the 2026 season, Paris 2024 Olympian Ryan Mphahlele has joined the Phantane Athletic Club. The Totalsports backed KZN-based club are known for signing some of South Africa’s biggest track and road running stars with the likes of Gerda Steyn, Prudence Sekgodišo and Tshepo Tshite all having called the club home. "Phantane Athletics Club is proud to officially welcome South African middle-distance sensation Ryan Mphahlele to the Green a

Before Amogelang Tatai's heroics this week, the SA U20 3000m record had been one of the longest standing national age group records. But that all changed in the Reunion Islands last weekend, when the 19-year-old from  Klerksdorp became the first South African junior to break 8 minutes over seven and a half laps of the track. Competing at the Oceán Indien International Meet alongside many of his Potch Track Club teammates including SA sprint champion Thamzin Thomas, Tatai cloc

Thanks to Khoarahlane Seutloali's maiden Africanbank Soweto Marathon victory on Saturday 29 November and Neheng Khatala's triumph in Soweto last year, Andrew Booyens has become the first coach in history to win the men's and women's titles at both The People's Race and the Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon.  Six months after claiming glory at the World's Most beautiful Ultra Marathon, the man from The Mountain Kingdom produced a composed performance to out kick 2023 champion N

Perhaps more interesting than the appointment of a new Chairperson and Vice Chairperson, was the news that members of the Comrades Marathon Association (CMA) voted in favour of removing KwaZulu-Natal Athletics (KZNA) from the board of the world’s most beloved ultra marathon.  Before Saturday’s AGM which took place at Carter High School in Pietermaritzburg, the CMA featured two ex officio  members, representing Athletics South Africa (ASA) and KwaZulu-Natal Athletics (KZNA). B

Race director Danny Blumberg – marking a decade at the helm of the People's Race – confirmed the landmark move on Wednesday, describing it as a necessary step to keep Soweto's streets moving on a bustling month-end weekend. Blumberg explained that staging the race on a Saturday, combined with the usual end-of-month traffic surge, meant organisers of the 2025 Africanbank Soweto Marathon had to rethink how to manage the flow of runners through the township. "We've spent a lot o

Maxed Elite top Runner Jobo Khatoane believes that this year's Africanbank Soweto Marathon will be the hardest to predict after the race was rescheduled to take place on 29 November instead of it’s traditional first Sunday in November. The date change as a result of the G20 which also took place at the Nasrec Expo Centre in November and the uncertainty created by a faction claiming ownership of the event which insisted that the race would not take place, made it difficult for