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1980s Athletics news Copyright ©2018 Highlights Special focus

Street mile runs out of favour in South Africa

June 13, 2018June 13, 2018 admin 1 Comment Anita Witbooi, Brian Jonas, Cecil Witbooi, Colin Francke, Constance Stuurman, David Snyders, Donovan Wright, Ebenezer Felix, Edwin Roems, Emeraan Ishmail, Freddie Damon, Freddie Williams, Gadija Dawood, Harold Adams, Hendrik Klaase, Hennie Moses, Hermanus Williams, Isaac Opperman, Jantjie Marthinus, Jerome de Mornay, John September, Jowaine Lategan, Jurie Swartz, Keith Meyer, Lee Arends, Mark Frank, Martin Saayman, Michael Toll, Moos Hartnick, Mzoli Ngcawuzele, O'Neil Simpson, Priscila Windwaai., Ronald Williams, Sammy Claasen, Sharon Klein, Stephen Cloete, Tessa Hefele, Theo Desmore, Tobias Philander, Valda Booysen

THE Sacos-affiliated Western Province Amateur Athletic Union (WPAAU) provided the different forms of athletics to the disenfranchised in the Western

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1980s 1990 - Present Day Athletics news Copyright ©2018 Highlights Special focus

Cash-strapped Toll in race to Masters

March 3, 2017March 23, 2017 admin 0 Comments Aubrey Jaftha, Bernard Adams, Derick Fredericks, Desmond Zibi, Donovan Wright, Ebenezer Felix, Edwin Roems, Emeraan Ishmail, Freddie Damon, George Montanus, Harold Adams, Hermanus Williams, Jantjie Marthinus, Kathy Davids, Keith Mayer, Mark Frank, Mark Jacobs, Michael Toll, Shaheeda Majiet, Shawn Abrahams, Tobias Philander, Willie Davids

FORMER senior schools’ and senior men’s 800m champion Michael Toll could hardly believe it when in the new era

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‘Mark, the 400’, digs into coaching and expertise

January 27, 2017February 3, 2017 admin 0 Comments Andy Daniels, Clint Cloete, Edwin Roems, Freddie Williams, Harold Adams, Jantjie Marthinus, John September, Mark Jacobs, Nazeem Smith, Sammy Claasen

By CLEMENT DU PLESSIS HAVING interviewed many of the unsung heroes of our time in athletics, I have come across

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Marthinus triumphs over adversity

March 6, 2016March 4, 2017 admin 0 Comments Harold Adams, Hennie Moses, Jantjie Marthinus, Johan Landsman, Wilfred Daniels

BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS JANTJIE Marthinus rose above countless obstacles to become an unparalleled nine times senior men’s 800m champion.

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SASSSA champ Simpson’s talent not fully exploited

December 15, 2015October 28, 2016 admin 0 Comments Booi Visser, Freddie Williams, Harold Adams, Hermanus Williams, Jantjie Marthinus, Johan Landsman, John November, Martin Saayman, O'Neil Simpson, Patty Francis, Shaun Abrahams, Tobias Philander

O’NEIL SIMPSON (September) of Boland was a highly talented middle-distance athlete. An athlete short in stature, he held the South African

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1980s Athletics news Copyright ©2018

Season the athletes came out to play

August 20, 2015August 30, 2016 admin 0 Comments Bernard Adams, Charlie Banjatwa, Christo Gouws, Edmund Lewis, Edwin Ncquazele, Edwin Roems, Harold Adams, Hennie Moses, Jantjie Marthinus, Lucas Koopman, Michael Toll, Nazeem Smith, Nico Vermeulen, Suezette Arendse, Tobias Philander

THE newspaper clipping bears out some of the top achievers during the 1980s. Top left, Jantjie Marthinus, Harold Adams tucked in

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