Booysen’s switch to athletics paid handsome dividends
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS THE athletics reputation of woodwork master Tobias Philander had a positive influence on a group of
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Tobias Philander
Saayman travelled the long road to success
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS This is the second chapter of a two-part series about former star athlete Martin Saayman (Read
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Street mile runs out of favour in South Africa
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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Pitch-up, participate, perform!
By Allan Parrott THE post of the three boys of Stellenbosch standing on the podium and the author’s comment [Clement
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A day to savour for Ronald Williams
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS THIS is the final chapter of a two-part series about former star Ronald Williams who held
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Cash-strapped Toll in race to Masters
FORMER senior schools’ and senior men’s 800m champion Michael Toll could hardly believe it when in the new era
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A question of time for top gun John September
JOHN September wanted nothing more than to improve on his time and be one of the best road runners the
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Donovan Wright reached out, survived and won !
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS “NO man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent,
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Comrades gold medal turns Wright’s life around
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS WINNING the last gold medal in the 1996 Comrades Marathon changed Donovan Wright’s life from one
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SASSSA champ Simpson’s talent not fully exploited
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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