Cathy Freeman’s run stirred up Ruwayda’s sprinting days
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS “I WAS given a ticket by my brother and his family to watch her race at
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Sharon Alexander
The day Patrick Dowman cleared a record two metres
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS EVER heard of the Fosbury Flop? No, it’s not a guy from Fosbury who failed hopelessly!
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SASSSA sprint champion Benjamin steps up and wins SA senior men’s 800m title
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS HE was the schoolboy South African under 19 sprint champion in 1968 and the South African
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Cricket pitch roller cuts short Audrey Louw’s athletics career
ALL it took was a cricket pitch roller to end the promising athletics and ballet careers of Audrey Louw. Following
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Schoolgirl Norma Joseph proves her class
THE year 1975 was a stand-out year for Norma Joseph as she won three South African junior ladies titles in
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Changing of the guard at 1977 SA champs
THE 1977 South African Amateur Athletics Board (SAAAB) Track and Field Championships in Port Elizabeth saw the changing of the
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Norman Joseph wins by a whisker
NORMAN Joseph, a lieutenant colonel with the South African Police Services and former crime reporter on a Cape Town newspaper,
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Super Suezette’s back in the record books
SUZIE, Suezette, Suezette Arendse, this is how she was called in reverence in track and field circles. She was born
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