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

SA loses out to top achiever Bronwyn Bock

January 26, 2018January 26, 2018 admin Bronwyn Bock, Chantal Janetze, Cheryl October, Claudine Fisher, Collette Moodley, Glenda Alexander, Leigh-Ann Naidoo, Lesley Ferdenando, Mark Frank, Mark van Soest, Michael Cook, Mitz Isaacs, Nariman Rylands, Odessa Krause, Portia Visagie, Shamiela Davids, Tania Brown, Ursula Scheepers

BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS ATHLONE, a suburb of Cape Town located 12km from the city centre and 10km from Cape...

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1980s Athletics news Copyright ©2018 Highlights Special focus

Claudine casts her mind back to the ‘Olympics of the Oppressed’

October 5, 2017October 6, 2017 admin Bronwyn Bock-Jonathan, Caster Semenya, Cheryl October, Nariman Rylands, Shaun Vester, Tania Brown, Wayde van Niekerk

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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1980s Athletics news Copyright ©2018 Highlights Special focus

High jump champ Claudine soared above adversity

September 28, 2017September 28, 2017 admin Annelise Meiring, Anuschka Govender, Cheryl October, Claudine Fisher, Clive Doren, Clyde van Graan, Deon Hugo, Evan Abrahams, Mohamed Shaik, Nathan Sassman, Patrick Dowman, Reggie Dreyer, Stephen Cloete, Tania Brown

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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1980s Athletics news Copyright ©2018 Special focus

Injury spikes Cheryl October’s Olympic dream

February 12, 2016August 14, 2019 admin Bronwyn Bock, Cheryl October, Claudine Fisher, Ismail Collier, Leigh-Ann Naidoo, Michael Toll, Mitz Isaacs, Nariman Rylands, Noreen Julie, Odessa Krause, Stephen Cloete, Tania Brown

BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS A BRAIN haemorrhage, caused by a ruptured aneurysm, cut short a brilliant sports career and nearly...

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1980s Athletics news Copyright ©2018

Heideveld’s Cheryl is top of the pops

October 26, 2015August 29, 2016 admin Anushkha Govender, Athlone Stadium, Cheryl October, Claudine Fisher, Heideveld, Mondale, Steenberg, Tania Brown

CHERYL OCTOBER of Heideveld High School was the successor to Tania Brown of Marian High School in the girls’ high...

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1980s Athletics news Copyright ©2018

Tania beats the odds and leaps into record books

September 18, 2015March 31, 2017 admin Claudine Fisher, Mohammed Sheik, Nariman Rylands, Shaun Vester, Tania Brown, Terrence Smith, Valda Booysen

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

August 12, 2015September 16, 2019 admin Andrew September, Claudine Fisher, Daniel Orange, Jennifer Martin, Mark Bowers, Nadeem Abrahams, Nariman Rylands, Rowan Spies, Tania Brown, Trevor de Bruyn

OVER the years, there have been a few high jumpers who had the crowd in awe of their achievements –...

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1980s Athletics news Copyright ©2018

Tania scales new heights

August 4, 2015August 30, 2016 admin Bronwyn Bock, Claudine Fisher, Nariman Rylands, Tania Brown

TANIA Brown (Spartans), Bronwyn Bock (Westridge), Nariman Rylands (Spartans) and Claudine Fisher (South Peninsula) were among the talented, if not...

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1970s Athletics news Copyright ©2018

From Smith to Vester, Sacos stars capable of beating the world

July 30, 2015December 9, 2016 admin Cecil Blows, Edmund Lewis, Farwa Mentoor, Francine Scheepers, George van der Burg, Herman Gibbs, Jantjie Marthinus, Johan Landsman, Jowaine Parrott, Kenny Roman, Leigh-Ann Naidoo, Nazeem Smith, Shaun Vester, Tania Brown, Terrence Smith, Theo, Theo Desmore

THE public reaction in the Cape Argus by supporters of the South African Council on Sport’s (Sacos) athletes has...

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