Ruhan has his sights set on World Championships
Stellenbosch University student Ruhan van Rooyen of Blouberg is on track to qualify for the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar. Despite being born with paraplegia in his lower left...
View ArticleGolden victory for Verdi and Johnson
By Mark Etheridge Three-time Paralympian Phillippa Johnson will go into the festive season break cock-a-hoop after a great equestrian victory in Belgium at the weekend. Johnson, a double gold-medallist...
View ArticleSithole, Montjane meet the Mayor ahead of Masters
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has welcomed the world’s best wheelchair tennis players back to London with a game of mini tennis at City Hall. An elite field of 20 players is in London to compete in the...
View ArticleEarly setback for SA’s Paralympians at the Masters
London tennis Paralympians Lukas Sithole and Kgothathso Montjane have lost the opening matches of the NEC Wheelchair Masters in London, writes Mark Etheridge. Sithole went down in straight sets, 6-1...
View ArticleParalympic gold medallist Bouwer calls quits on career
By Mark Etheridge Let there be no doubt about it… Team South Africa has something of a mountain to climb if they are going to get close to emulating their achievements at the 2012 Paralympics in...
View ArticleYoungsters in the hot seat for WBSA’s Moroccan tour
Wheelchair Basketball SA have put their faith in the future, with no fewer than five of last years national Under-23 team, set to be a part of on-court action when the Sasol SA Senior National Mens...
View ArticleSA wheelchair basketballers into quarters in Morocco
The Sasol South African senior mens wheelchair basketball team have booked their place in the quarterfinals of the 2nd Agadir International Tournament in Morocco, by recording a comfortable 54-40...
View ArticleAmawheelaboyz down Morocco for semi-final spot
Fortune favours the brave! Ask the Sasol SA national senior mens wheelchair basketball team who showed courage and determination to see off Morocco B 54-34 and book a place in the semi-finals of the...
View ArticleNew look wheelchair basketballers go down fighting
The Sasol South African senior mens wheelchair basketball team put up another brave display in going down 49-41 against Africas No1 ranked side Algeria in semi-final action at the 2nd International...
View ArticleSithole has his sights set on Open de France glory
South African tennis ace Lucas Sithole has spent the last month preparing for the BNP Paribas Open de France Super Series starting in Paris on Tuesday. The BNP Paribas Open de France Super Series is...
View ArticleParalympian ace Sithole ousted at Open de France
Our 2012 Paralympian, Lucas Sithole, has failed to make the finals of the NBP Paribas Open de France in Paris. Australia’s Dylan Alcott earned his first victory over World No. 2 Sithole on the...
View ArticleExtra insight for AmaWheelaBoys
The national senior men’s wheelchair basketball team recently increased their visual awareness, through Eyegym’s sports science programme, conducted at the national team’s training camp at Mandeville,...
View ArticleErnst sprints to World Championships gold in US
By Mark Etheridge South African cycling is all smiles after some super successes in the UCI World Para-Cycling world championships in Greensville, South Carolina. Paralympian veteran Ernst van Dyk...
View ArticleVan Dyk rewarded with world No1 rankings
By Mark Etheridge Patience and perseverance go hand in hand… or so it has proven to be for Ernst van Dyk as he rode to gold in the men’s H5 event at the UCI Para-Cycling Road World Championships in...
View ArticleSithole, Montjane downed at US Open
Defending champion and 2012 Paralympian Lucas Sithole missed out on making the final of the US Open quads tennis final at Flushing Meadow, New York, at the weekend. And fellow Paralympian Kgothatso...
View ArticleIPC Athletics World Championships now a month earlier
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar, will now take place between 22-31 October, four weeks earlier than originally...
View ArticleDanny and Queen set sights on Strand title
The Groblersdal tennis pair of Danny Mohlamonyane and Queen Nhlapo’s hopes of capturing the Airports Company South Africa Strand Open will be put to the test at the Futures event being held in Strand,...
View ArticleBadminton named as new sport for 2020 Paralympics
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board has approved the first 16 sports for inclusion in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games sports programme, including badminton which will make its...
View ArticleChampion Van Dyk crashes in Chicago warm-up
South Africa’s wheelchair marathon ace Ernst van Dyk will take on Sunday’s Chicago Marathon shaken but not stirred, writes Mark Etheridge. That’s after the Paralympic legend crashed in his warm-up...
View ArticleVan Dyk makes the podium at Chicago Marathon
By Mark Etheridge Defending champion Ernst van Dyk had to settle for third in a sprint for the line in the wheelchair section of the Chicago Marathon on Sunday. Van Dyk, who had crashed during his...
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