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The South African Schools Boat Race presents a unique challenge to all competitors, as they must navigate the twists and turns and fluctuating tides of the Kowie River.
JOHANNESBURG schoolgirl Danelia Price-Hughes has underlined her potential as a future Olympic medal prospect after she won silver at the 2024 World Rowing Championships in Canada last weekend.
Akani Simbine once again got the job done as he guided Team South Africa home to win the silver medal in the men’s 4x100m relay at the Paris Olympics on Friday.
South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk and Shaun Maswangayi were on Wednesday night eliminated from the men’s 200m at the Paris Olympics.
Team SA’s Geldenhuys and Rogail Joseph narrowly missed out on the women’s 400m hurdles final, while the men’s 400m runners were also eliminated.
Sprinters Akani Simbine, Shaun Maswanganyi and Benjamin Richardson and the golfers Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Erik van Rooyen have set up medal opportunities for Team South Africa.
The South Africans were in the tougher semi-final, given that they were racing most of the medal favourites, including Olympic champions Croatia and world champions Switzerland.
Tatjana Smith can become Team South Africa’s most decorated Olympian of all time if she can bag another gold in the 200m breaststroke on Thursday night.
Tatjana Smith, Kaylene Corbett and Pieter Coetzee impressed in the pool at the Olympics on Wednesday, while 2016 bronze medallist Henri Schoeman struggled in the Paris heat.
The bronze medallist from the Rio 2016 Games Henri Schoeman will have another crack at Olympic glory triathlon events were given in the green light.
A joint statement from Paris 2024 and World Triathlon blamed the spike in pollution levels in the River Seine on the heavy rain that fell in Paris.
One of the highlights of South Africa’s Olympic history was the conquest of the “Oarsome Foursome” in 2012 in London.
During the Olympics, 92 percent of sub-Saharan consumers will be using online platforms while watching the world's second-largest sporting event.
ROWING, one of the sporting codes that is expected to get the medals for South Africa at the Olympics, is preparing its onslaught to crack qualification for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The South African rowing team (RMB National Squad) is gearing up for their upcoming journey to Lucerne in Switzerland, where they have a final chance to grab a spot for the Games in July/August.
The KwaZulu-Natal-based team comprises four women – Janeira Reddy, Kendra Robinson, Anike Jordaan and Ciarda Sharp, while Gary Brummer controls the boat.
This year's event saw hundreds of athletes from 25 schools and clubs across South Africa gather for the year's top event for young rowers.
The pair, who form part of the The RMB National Squad, took gold in 6:19,99, beating the previous world record by 0,07 seconds.
A Hillcrest dad and daughter experienced England’s iconic river, from source to mouth, in a canoe built in Durban.
Dirk von Delft along with teammates Johnnie Ball and Stefan Vine will take part in the Forget Me Knot Atlantic Row.
Cape Town-born adventure seeker Ryan Jacobs intends to row from Cape Town to the Caribbean for over 5000 nautical miles in a custom locally made ocean-rowing boat named “Dala”.
Cape Town adventurer Ryan Jacobs is taking on the mammoth task of becoming the first African person of colour to row the Atlantic Ocean on his own.
Avid adventurer and extreme sports fanatic Richard Kohler is preparing to make a daring Southern Atlantic Ocean from Cape Town to Salvador in Brazil, on a specially designed kayak.
The South African men’s rowing team were unable to emulate their predecessors as both the men’s pair and men’s four squads were knocked out of the Olympics.
The men's rowing teams are medal contenders for Team SA at the Tokyo Olympics, but they will have to pull out all the stops to reach the quarter-finals after a tough start.