Masters Athletics

ON THE ROAD AGAIN ! MASTERS ATHLETES PUT S.A. MASTERS ROAD RUNNING ‘ON THE MAP’ !!! Kallie Burger (37) of KPMG has been selected for the CGA Senior Marathon team for the Sanlam/Cape Town Marathon, which will also double up as the ASA Marathon Championships, on Sunday 23 September 2018. He has a number of personal best performances behind his name and will be out to improve on his marathon time. Everything of the best Kallie ! Kallie's List of impressive PB’s: ( all inland) • 5km – 16:10 • 10km – 33:16 • 15km – 52:42 • 21km – 1:15:08 • 32km – 1:56:25 • 42km – 2:28 • 50km – 3:22 • 56km – 3:47 • 89km – 6:32 Kallie’s best times for 2018 would have placed him 7th and 10th, in the 10 and 21k races respectively at the recent World Masters Athletics Outdoor Championships held in Malaga, Spain He has set his sights on the World Masters 10km and Halfmarathon events in Torun, Poland in March 2019 -  which are held in conjunction with

LADIES WALKERS, ELSA MEYER (70) AND HILDEGARD VEY (75) IN THE 5000M WALK WON GOLD AND SILVER RESPECTIVELY AND THROWER,  HELEEN KNOBEL (50) WON SILVER IN THE SHOTPUT.   CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR LADIES !   NOW WE EAGERLY AWAIT OUR FIRST  MEN'S  MEDALLIST ! http://www.rfea.es/competi/result2018/airelibre/Malaga2018/C93.2018EX019.html TOMORROW WILL SEE THE 2ND DAY OF THE DECATHLON AND HEPTATHLON EVENTS, AND THE 8 KM CROSS COUNTRY EVENTS 5 September 2018 8 cross country competition tomorrow runners from S.A. – 5 Ladies and 3 Men.   Ronelle Botha (55) will be competing in her first world champs, and is a seasoned provincial cross country athlete (CGMA) who has competed in 3 S.A. Cross Country Champs.   Frances van Blerk (60) a seasoned road (and Ladies Comrades winner in 1992) and cross country runner from GN, has competed in numerous World Champs and has medalled in the cross country and road events. We wish all our athletes competing tomorrow in the first round

COUNTDOWN TO WORLD MASTERS ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS - MALAGA, SPAIN ONE DAY TO GO ! MORE THAN 8000 MASTERS ATHLETES FROM MORE THAN 90 COUNTRIES HAVE CONVERGED ON MALAGA, SPAIN FROM TOMORROW 4 TH UNTIL 16 TH SEPTEMBER 2018 SOUTH AFRICA'S CONTINGENT COMPRISES 87 ATHLETES OF AGE GROUPS 35 - 80 PLUS YEARS OLD IN ALL DISCIPLINES FROM SPRINTS, TRACK MIDDLE DISTANCES AND LONG DISTANCES TO ROAD RUNNING (10K AND HALF MARATHON), TRACK AND ROAD WALK, JUMPS AND THROWS, HEPTATHLON AND DECATHLON. PLEASE FOLLOW THE RESULTS OF OUR SUPER STARS ON WWW.MALAGA2018.COM On 4 & 5 September 2018,   6 of our masters will be competing in the gruelling decathlon and heptathlon events.   We wish these courageous athletes everything of the best. PLEASE FOLLOW THE RESULTS OF OUR SUPER STARS ON WWW.MALAGA2018.COM Decathlon Norman Hough  (70-74) Philip Rudd  (60-64) Anthonie Scheepers  (50-54) Smit van Zyl (40 -44) Heptathlon Stephanie Claassen         (65-69) Ida-Marie Strydom  (