It was a close thing, but South Africa did what was required in front of their home fans at the Hartleyvale Stadium and reached the semi-finals of the FIH Hockey Nations Cup with a pulsating 3-3 draw against Ireland. The hosts held out knowing would be enough to secure their place in the top four.
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South Africa produced the performance they needed in front of a capacity Hartleyvale Stadium in Cape Town, defeating the USA 4-0 to keep their FIH Hockey Nations Cup semi-final hopes alive.
It was the first meeting between the two nations in six years, and with South Africa needing a win to stay in the hunt, the home…
Zakithi Nene was a big winner at the the fifth Diamond League event of the year in Stockholm on Sunday. The Team SA Olympian confirmed his status as the best 400m in the world for 2026 when he won the one-lap race in 44.48sec, which was ahead of Jacory Patterson (USA) in 33.69 and Jerome…
Three different category records in the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon were broken on an ideal day’s racing with the greatest runner in history, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, adding stardust to the occasion in the elite men’s division, which was won by Ethiopia’s Mohamed Esa in a race record 2hr 04min 55sec.
This was more than four…
South Africa’s track and field athletes returned from the CAA African Athletics Senior Championships in Accra, Ghana, with heads held high, having won 22 medals and topping the medals table at the competition. They had also won most medals at the previous such competition, in Cameroon in 2024.
In total, there were nine gold, four…
A team of young South African swimmers have earned an impressive haul of 84 medals from the African Swimming Championships in Algeria.
Both a senior and junior team competed in the Oran, with the juniors earning 25 gold, 15 silver and 12 bronze medals to finish well on top of the continental medal table. The…
South Africa’s men’s 4x100m relay heroes, again anchored by Akani Simbine, stormed to the silver medal behind the USA at the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone. The other men’s finalists, the 4x400m, also picked up silver, behind hosts Botswana, and did so in a new South African record time.
Apart from the men’s 4x100m…
There was a national record in the South African women's 4x100m plus strong performances else where by the Team SA squad at the World Athletics Relays being held in Gaborone. Here's a selection of images from day one from photographer Anton Geyser.
It was a successful day for South Africa on the opening day of the World Relay Championships in Gaborone with both the men’s 4x100m and 4x400m winning their heats and qualifying for both Sunday’s final as well as the 2027 World Athletics Championships.
SOUTH AFRICA’S RESULTS (DAY 1)
Heats
Mixed 4x400m: Gardeo Isaacs, Rogail Joseph,…
Cameroonian sprinter Emmanuel Eseme claimed the big prize in the inaugural Simbine Classic 2026 at the Pilditch Stadium in Pretoria when he won the men’s 100m, the last event of what was a gloriously successful day’s athletics.
Eseme won in 10.03 seconds, which was 0.03 seconds ahead of the USA’s Pjai Austin (10.06), with Canada’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic…