It was a roller coaster year for SA sport and while there were multiple performances to celebrate, 2014 will also be remembered for its tragedies.
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi was one of SA’s greatest athletes but never received the acclaim he deserved.
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The Mpumalanga community safety department has provided more details regarding the accident that killed Olympic silver medallist Mbulaeni Mulaudzi.
President Jacob Zuma says SA has lost a true hero and disciplined athlete in Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, who died in a car crash on Friday.
How did South Africa’s greatest 800m runner, with a slew of medals including Olympic gold, retire so quietly and without the accolades he deserved?
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi is not throwing in the towel just yet. In fact, the reigning 800 metres world champion scoffs at the idea that he’s about to turn 31
Thousands of people welcomed athlete Caster Semenya on her return to Johannesburg on Tuesday.
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi won South Africa’s second gold medal on the final day of the World Athletics Championships in Berlin on Sunday night.
Lucky Sindane assesses which South Africans have the potential to bring medals home.
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South Africa’s 800m star and Olympic silver medal winner in 2004, is still on track for a medal in Beijing.
With injuries behind him, Mbulaeni Mulaudzi is confident of making an impact at the London Grand Prix at the Crystal Palace Stadium on Saturday.
SA go into their fifth Olympic Games since sporting isolation with their medal hopes once again pinned on their swimmers and track and field athletes.
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi started his international campaign on a high note at the IAAF Golden league meeting in Berlin on Sunday when he clocked a fast time of 1:44,68 in the 800m. Mulaudzi was narrowly beaten by Kenya’s Abraham Chepkirwok who won the race in 1:44,53 but his performance will give his confidence a major boost for the rest of his European campaign.
Leonard Chuene will have the last laugh on Sunday over his number-one enemy, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc), when he is re-elected as president of Athletics South Africa. No one is standing against him. In the run-up to the elections, Chuene has been under pressure to resign.
With just four months to go before the Beijing Olympics only eight South African track and field athletes have achieved qualifying times. Athletics South Africa says there is nothing to worry about. This is despite the fact that South Africa won no medals at the last two International Association of Athletics Federations world championships in Finland and Japan.
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South Africa’s star 800m runner, narrowly failed to win his second world indoor gold medal in Valencia on Sunday night but he ran one of the best races of his career only to be beaten by a sensational Sudanese 18-year-old star, Abubaker Kaki Khamis.
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/ 23 February 2008
Five athletes achieved the ”A” qualifying standard for the Beijing Olympic Games at Germiston on Friday night, and the men’s junior pole-vault record was also broken. Ter de Villiers won the men’s 400m hurdles in a qualifying time of 48,71 seconds, followed by Alwyn Myburgh (48,99) and Ockert Cilliers (49,18).
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/ 21 December 2007
October 20 was South Africa’s biggest sporting day of the year. The venue was the Stade de France in Paris and the outcome was the right to call the Webb Ellis trophy ours for the next four years. The Springboks beat England 15‑6 in a tense final. Lucky Sindane looks back at the sporting highlights of 2007.
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/ 14 September 2007
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and LJ van Zyl, two of South Africa’s top athletes, have both lost their number-one positions on the latest IAAF world rankings in the 800m and 400m hurdles respectively. It followed after their disappointing performances at the recent World Championships in Osaka, Japan.