Disabled Sports South Africa

Bridgitte, Shaun lead way

SA Sprint canoeists enjoyed a weekend of fierce competition at the SA Sprint Kayaking Championships held at Nagle dam outside Pietermaritzburg.

Van Dyk sets sights on ninth Boston win

South African wheelchair racer Ernst van Dyk is confident he’ll be in with a shout for his ninth victory in the 114th Boston Marathon in the United States on Monday.

Izak into Open final

South African Davis Cup player Izak van der Merwe reached the Soweto Open Final at the Arthur Ashe Tennis Centre on Friday with a nail-biting 4-6 6-3 7-6 (4) win over Austria’s Alexander Peya.

The biggest surprise of the day at the SA Sprint Kayak Championships at Nagle Dam on Friday came in the men’s K1 1000-metre final, when Shaun Rubenstein had to settle for the bronze medal, six seconds off the blistering pace set by Nick Stubbs and Len Jenkins, who claimed gold and silver respectively.

Louw joins qualifiers

Spurred on by his surprise defeat in the 100m freestyle on Thursday, Gideon Louw was the first to set a Commonwealth Games A-Qualification time in the 50m freestyle semi-finals at the fifth day of the Telkom SA National Aquatic Championships in Durban on Friday.

Du Toit steams on

Multiple Paralympic gold medallist and world record holder Natalie Du Toit won her sixth gold medal of the Telkom SA Aquatic Championships in Durban on Thursday evening and also set another world record.

Izak is last man standing

Leading local tennis prospects Chanel Simmonds and Nikala Scholz bombed out of the Soweto Open in the second round at the Arthur Ashe Tennis Centre on Wednesday – but there’s still high hopes of their future careers.

Natalie’s new WR

Natalie Du Toit’s world record was the highlight of day two of the Telkom SA National Aquatics Championships in Durban on Tuesday.

Birthday bonus for Chad

KwaZulu-Natal’s Chad Le Clos gave himself the best possible birthday present when he raced to a FINA A qualifying time and put himself firmly in contention for selection for the Commonwealth Games in the 200-metre butterfly on the first day of the Telkom SA National Aquatics Championships in Durban on Monday.

Eagles, WP win titles

The CGA OJ Eagles retained their title as champions when they crushed Western Province 7-3 on the final day of the Telkom SA National Water Polo Championships in Durban.

Titles for Ho, Du Toit

There were no surprises or upsets at the Telkom SA National Open Water 10km swim at the Midmar Dam on Saturday as Olympians Chad Ho and Natalie Du Toit added the 2010 10km national title to their names.

Rene races to fourth win

Rene Kalmer of the Nedbank Central Gauteng club led from start to finish in the fine running conditions as she made it four wins in four years and seven overall at the Western Cape leg of the Spar Women’s Challenge 10km series, which started at the Bellville Stadium.

More qualifiers in Durban

Neil Versfeld, Heerden Herman and Mark Randall became the latest three additions to the list of Commonwealth Games A-Qualification on the final day of the Telkom SA National Aquatic Championships in Durban, bringing the total to 14.

Izak ousted in Soweto

Victory proved a bridge too far for South African Izak van der Merwe as he tumbled to a 7-6 (2) 6-3 defeat to Jamaican Dustin Brown in the final of the Soweto Open men’s singles at a sun-scorched Arthur Ashe Tennis Centre.

Rahme, Smith head junior line-up

Johannesburg-based pole vault sensation Cheyne Rahme and South Western Districts hammer star Annemie Smith are among the 29-person national squad named by Athletics South Africa in preparation for the13th IAAF World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada, from July 19-25.

Oscar and Co head for Manchester

Four of South Africa’s top athletes have been honoured with an invitation to the prestigious BT Paralympic World Cup in Manchester in May this year.

Top-seeded Baltacha serves notice

The opening round of the Soweto Open men’s and women’s tennis tournaments have not been kind to fancied players over the past two days, but on Tuesday women’s top seed Elena Baltacha of Great Britain gave notice that she’s a very likely winner.

Local wild cards come out swinging in Soweto

Local wild cards Chanel Simmonds and Nikala Scholtz both downed seeds while unseeded Swede Filip Prpic knocked off another highly fancied player as the first round of the $200 000 Soweto Open men’s and women’s tournaments got under way at the Arthur Ashe Tennis Centre on Monday.

Twenty-six juniors qualify for world champs

Central Gauteng steeplechase athlete Thato Makhafola and Western Province triple jumper Valentina da Rocha set national junior records with 26 athletes having posted world junior championship qualifying performances during the two-day Yellow Pages SA Youth and Junior Track and Field Championships, which ended in Germiston on Sunday.

Rahme, Smith steal show

Pole vault sensation Cheyne Rahme and hammer throw star Annemie Smith rewrote the record books on their way to achieving world junior championship qualifying performances, on the opening day of the Yellow Pages SA Youth and Junior Track and Field Championships at the Germiston Stadium on Saturday.

Youth target champs

Expect girl power to be at the fore when national senior hammer throw champion Annemie Smith and hurdles sensation Rikenette Steenkamp lead the medal hunt at the Yellow Pages SA Youth and Junior Track and Field Championships at the Germiston Stadium on Saturday and Sunday.

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