SA loses out to top achiever Bronwyn Bock
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS ATHLONE, a suburb of Cape Town located 12km from the city centre and 10km from Cape
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Tania Brown
Claudine casts her mind back to the ‘Olympics of the Oppressed’
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS THIS is the final chapter of a two-part series about former high jump champion Claudine Fisher
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High jump champ Claudine soared above adversity
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS This is the first chapter of a two-part series about the multi-talented Claudine Fisher of South
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Injury spikes Cheryl October’s Olympic dream
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS A BRAIN haemorrhage, caused by a ruptured aneurysm, cut short a brilliant sports career and nearly
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Heideveld’s Cheryl is top of the pops
CHERYL OCTOBER of Heideveld High School was the successor to Tania Brown of Marian High School in the girls’ high
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Tania beats the odds and leaps into record books
HAD it not been for cool heads, we would not have seen the best of a girl high jumper at
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Bowers gets his way and the record
OVER the years, there have been a few high jumpers who had the crowd in awe of their achievements –
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Tania scales new heights
TANIA Brown (Spartans), Bronwyn Bock (Westridge), Nariman Rylands (Spartans) and Claudine Fisher (South Peninsula) were among the talented, if not
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From Smith to Vester, Sacos stars capable of beating the world
THE public reaction in the Cape Argus by supporters of the South African Council on Sport’s (Sacos) athletes has
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