Willie Davids

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Parrott makes a case for Sacos coaches

  BY ALLAN PARROTT THE article in which Johan Landsman imagined how Tessa Hefele and Suezette Arendse would have improved...

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Speed sensation Odessa Krause lit up the track

CLEMENT DU PLESSIS “I’VE never seen anything like that before. An athlete with so much natural speed, aggression, pluck and...

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Mercia holds her own against the best

BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS FORMER senior schools athlete Mercia Smith (Misroll) was able to make a successful transition to senior...

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Cash-strapped Toll in race to Masters

  FORMER senior schools’ and senior men’s 800m champion Michael Toll could hardly believe it when in the new era...

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How Wilfred Daniels breathed new life into coaching

  BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS EACH generation of athletes would call their era the ‘golden period’ of athletics. The 1960’s...

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Former athlete honours coach Willie Davids

          By Emeraan Ishmail  DURING the “golden years” of non-racial sport during Apartheid in the 1980’s,...

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Coach Cameron brought out the best in his athletes

THEY do the all the hard work, preparing their athletes at no costs, they double-up as officials and sometimes as...

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SASSSA sprint champion Benjamin steps up and wins SA senior men’s 800m title

BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS HE was the schoolboy South African under 19 sprint champion in 1968 and the South African...

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Perseverance pays off for speedster Kevin Africa

A MAN of few words, Kevin Africa just got on with it on the track. He has the distinction of...

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