By GARY LEMKE Team SA confirmed why they are considered strong gold medal favourites to win the men’s cricket competition at the African Games when they trounced Ghana in their Group A opener on Sunday. Winning the toss and electing to get to know the batting conditions at the Achimota Cricket Oval in Accra, Team…

By GARY LEMKE Are champions born or made? It’s an age-old debate and the answer is probably that it’s a combination of both. Early in the evening of Monday, 11th March, at the Borteyman Sports Complex Aquatics Center in Accra, we learnt that both apply to Catherine van Rensburg. The 19-year-old returned from the…

Ruan Bronkhorst claimed his second silver medal of the African Games in Accra when he clinched silver  in the new sport of arm wrestling in the +100kg division. On Friday he had won silver in the left arm competition, and doubled up with the right arm on Saturday. With 10 medals having been won…

By GARY LEMKE Nick Quenet admits to having an “A-type personality”. A quick Google search will confirm that those traits include “achievement-oriented, competitive, fast-paced, and impatient”. That in itself wouldn’t have been good news for Morocco’s Badr Siwane when he got involved in a straight fight on the 5km run of the men’s triathlon…

Team SA started Friday with 81 medals at the 13th African Games in Accra, Ghana, looking to build on that tally. And they did so in style. They were represented in four codes – arm wrestling, cycling, triathlon and boxing. Triathlon and cycling added four medals each to that haul. That took the overall Team…

By GARY LEMKE Not often does a code have a 100 percent return from the number of athletes they send to compete, but the quartet of Team SA triathletes did their country proud when dominating their competition at the 13th African Games in Accra. Both Vicky van der Merwe and Nicholas Quenet won gold medals…

Although it was a quieter day for Team SA in terms of codes and competitors in action at the 13th African Games, that doesn’t mean the medals table didn’t keep ticking over. Team SA were represented by only two codes in Accra on Thursday – beach volleyball and cycling. Both added to the medals tally…

Team SA continued their successful campaign at the 13th African Games in Accra, when they won another 10 medals on Wednesday. That took their overall total from 68 to 78. They're closing in on the total they achieved at the last African Games in Morocco (86) Here’s a list of where all the medals have…

By GARY LEMKE  When Team SA’s men’s 4x100m medley quartet rightly celebrated joyously after winning gold in the final event of the swimming programme at the 13th African Games in Accra, they did so knowing they’d put an emphatic exclamation mark to the code’s performance this week. On an evening when Georgia Els, Catherine…