On Thursday 24 November, the Boxer Athletics Club was awarded the top prize of Spar Grand Prix 2016 Best Club Award. Our Chairman, Rhyn Swanepoel was in Johannesburg and accepted the award on behalf of the Club. The final Spar Grand Prix standing saw 5...
Read MoreThe Western Province Awards evening was held in Camps Bay on 4 November 2016. Tanith Maxwell received the following awards at the WPA Awards Evening, Camps Bay Cape Town 1- Western Province Female Road Runner of the Year 2- Western Province Female Top performance of the Year 2- Western...
Read MoreOutstanding performance by Boxer Athletics Club Elite Junior Athlete, Simonay Weitsz who won 6 awards at Zwartkop High School Awards day. Awards Won: Sports Girl of the year 2016. Best Middle Distance Athlete 2016. Best Senior XC Athlete 2016. Best Top 10 Athlete 2016. Special Athletics Award 2016 Special XC...
Read MoreWith the final Spar Ladies 10km that took place in Johannesburg on Sunday - 9 October, the Spar Grand Prix series came to an end. The Spar Grand Prix is a series of 10km races that took place in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, Pretoria...
Read MoreTHE cloudburst predicted to hit the Mother City today will likely give way to perfect conditions on Sunday for the Cape Town Marathon, but the fleet-footed African athletes are promising to kick up a storm of their own. Up to 20 000 runners from 70...
Read MoreThis is the first time Boxer has two Boxer Athletics Club representatives at the Olympic Games - meet Lebo Phalula (LP) and Elroy Gelant (EG) who took time out of their busy schedules to answer a few questions before setting off for the Rio Olympics: Question...
Read MoreLEBOGANG Phalula (Boxer) flew through the finish line in yesterday morning's Maritzburg SPAR Women's 10/5km in a respectable time of 34:41 — slicing off one minute 29 seconds off last year's winning time. The visibly relaxed athlete, whose only quest was to win the race,...
Read MoreSASCOC on Thursday announced an additional 113 athletes to the Team South Africa squad that will carry the nation’s flag at the 2016 Olympic Games to be held from 5-21 August in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The additional names come after the completion of the final...
Read MoreSupplied by: Andrew N Bosch, PhD; Associate Professor; Division of Exercise Science & Sports Medicine; Department of Human Biology; University of Cape Town; Sports Science Institute of South Africa. Introduction During prolonged running events such as the marathon and ultra-marathon, three fuels are used by the muscle that are...
Read MoreMost runners participating in the Comrades Marathon this year will have watched a previous Comrades marathon at some point, either live or on TV, and many will have participated previously in the race. Despite this, however, many on the start-line will ruin their race by...
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