https://www.time-to-run.com/forums/ Mon, 25 May 2026 20:27:52 +0000 MyBB https://www.time-to-run.com/forums/Thread-WPA-excel-at-SA-Half-Marathon-Champs-2009 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:41:42 +0000 TheEd]]> https://www.time-to-run.com/forums/Thread-WPA-excel-at-SA-Half-Marathon-Champs-2009 [SIZE="2"]The Western Province Athletics team to the SA Half Marathon Championships on Port Elizabeth on Saturday, 4 July 2009 won five individual and three team medals. In the process two Western Province records were bettered.

Lindikhaya Mthangayi was the first WP athlete across the line, winning the silver medal in a time of 61:32, bettering the WP record of 61:58 set by Makhosonke Fika in 2001.

The men’s and women’s senior teams both won bronze medals. The men’s team of Mthangayi, Zolani Ntongana (62:23), Avukile Ntongana (64:24) and Anthony Godongwana (65:29) returned the best WP senior result at the SA Half Marathon Championships in a number of years. The women’ team was Bulelwa Mtshagi (79:13); Thozama April (79:15); Nomvuyisi Seti (81:24) and Kirsty Weir (82:42)

Gold medals were won by Olga Howard (89:41) in the women’s 50-59 category and the women’s 40-49 team (Michelle Bartman (81:28), Joanna Thomas (83:39) and Elmarie Coetzee (84:04)).

The team’s other silver medals were won by Michelle Bartman in the women’s 40-49 category, her time also bettering her own WP record; Vladimir Kotov (73:59) in the men’s 50+ category; and Albertus Bok (82:35) in the men’s 60+ category.

The full list of prize winners below

Prizes NEDBANK ASA CHAMPIONSHIPS Date: 2009/07/04
POS NAME SURNAME PROV / CLUB R/ NO LIC NO AGE SEX HMS
Category : Open Men
1 Stephen Mokoka AGN 1 0 24 M 1.01.26
2 Lindikhaya Mthangayi WPA 110 0 30 M 1.01.32
3 Lusapho April EPA 10 0 27 M 1.01.49
Category : Open Ladies
1 Annerien Van schalkwyk AGN 301 0 30 F 1.11.49
2 Rene Kalmer CGA 348 28 F 1.12.25
3 Poppy Mlambo CGA 327 0 28 F 1.14.41
Category : Men 40 - 49
1 Mluleki Nobanda ATRA 197 0 40 M 1.04.48
2 Lindile Tokota ASWD 196 0 41 M 1.08.36
3 Elgin Mokale CGA 208 0 43 M 1.08.46
Category : Ladies 40 - 49
1 Maya Lawrie AKZN 404 0 41 F 1.20.11
2 Michelle Bartman WPA 420 0 45 F 1.21.28
3 Leanne Finlay EPA 415 0 41 F 1.22.19
Category : Men 50 - 59
1 Samuel Mogodi CGA 277 52 M 1.13.28
2 Vladimir Kotov WPA 274 0 51 M 1.13.59
3 Jumario Khuzwayo AMPU 257 0 51 M 1.17.05
Category : Ladies 50 - 59
1 Olga Howard WPA 465 0 50 F 1.29.41
2 Annatjie Botes ASWD 456 0 51 F 1.30.17
3 Margie Saunders EPA 461 0 55 F 1.30.50
Category : Men 60 +
1 Tamsanqa Jusayi EPA 295 0 67 M 1.21.53
2 Albertus Bock WPA 297 0 63 M 1.22.35
3 Don Charles CGA 298 60 M 1.23.18
Category : Ladies 60 +
1 Liz Ruickbie CGA 482 0 62 F 1.33.51
2 Veronica Van niekerk BOLA 287 0 63 F 1.36.13
3 Elaine Greenblatt CGA 481 0 60 F 1.36.23
Category : Junior Men
1 Sithembele Fanekho ATRA 166 0 18 M 1.07.47
2 Asanda Malunga ATRA 167 0 16 M 1.08.43
3 Sakhiwo Gangca EPA 172 0 19 M 1.10.11
Category : Junior Ladies
1 Lusanda Bomvana ATRA 371 0 17 F 1.19.31
2 Thenjiswa Mkukhwane ATRA 372 0 15 F 1.29.29
3 Asiphe Nondaphu ATRA 373 0 15 F 1.30.02[/SIZE][/COLOR]]]> [SIZE="2"]The Western Province Athletics team to the SA Half Marathon Championships on Port Elizabeth on Saturday, 4 July 2009 won five individual and three team medals. In the process two Western Province records were bettered.

Lindikhaya Mthangayi was the first WP athlete across the line, winning the silver medal in a time of 61:32, bettering the WP record of 61:58 set by Makhosonke Fika in 2001.

The men’s and women’s senior teams both won bronze medals. The men’s team of Mthangayi, Zolani Ntongana (62:23), Avukile Ntongana (64:24) and Anthony Godongwana (65:29) returned the best WP senior result at the SA Half Marathon Championships in a number of years. The women’ team was Bulelwa Mtshagi (79:13); Thozama April (79:15); Nomvuyisi Seti (81:24) and Kirsty Weir (82:42)

Gold medals were won by Olga Howard (89:41) in the women’s 50-59 category and the women’s 40-49 team (Michelle Bartman (81:28), Joanna Thomas (83:39) and Elmarie Coetzee (84:04)).

The team’s other silver medals were won by Michelle Bartman in the women’s 40-49 category, her time also bettering her own WP record; Vladimir Kotov (73:59) in the men’s 50+ category; and Albertus Bok (82:35) in the men’s 60+ category.

The full list of prize winners below

Prizes NEDBANK ASA CHAMPIONSHIPS Date: 2009/07/04
POS NAME SURNAME PROV / CLUB R/ NO LIC NO AGE SEX HMS
Category : Open Men
1 Stephen Mokoka AGN 1 0 24 M 1.01.26
2 Lindikhaya Mthangayi WPA 110 0 30 M 1.01.32
3 Lusapho April EPA 10 0 27 M 1.01.49
Category : Open Ladies
1 Annerien Van schalkwyk AGN 301 0 30 F 1.11.49
2 Rene Kalmer CGA 348 28 F 1.12.25
3 Poppy Mlambo CGA 327 0 28 F 1.14.41
Category : Men 40 - 49
1 Mluleki Nobanda ATRA 197 0 40 M 1.04.48
2 Lindile Tokota ASWD 196 0 41 M 1.08.36
3 Elgin Mokale CGA 208 0 43 M 1.08.46
Category : Ladies 40 - 49
1 Maya Lawrie AKZN 404 0 41 F 1.20.11
2 Michelle Bartman WPA 420 0 45 F 1.21.28
3 Leanne Finlay EPA 415 0 41 F 1.22.19
Category : Men 50 - 59
1 Samuel Mogodi CGA 277 52 M 1.13.28
2 Vladimir Kotov WPA 274 0 51 M 1.13.59
3 Jumario Khuzwayo AMPU 257 0 51 M 1.17.05
Category : Ladies 50 - 59
1 Olga Howard WPA 465 0 50 F 1.29.41
2 Annatjie Botes ASWD 456 0 51 F 1.30.17
3 Margie Saunders EPA 461 0 55 F 1.30.50
Category : Men 60 +
1 Tamsanqa Jusayi EPA 295 0 67 M 1.21.53
2 Albertus Bock WPA 297 0 63 M 1.22.35
3 Don Charles CGA 298 60 M 1.23.18
Category : Ladies 60 +
1 Liz Ruickbie CGA 482 0 62 F 1.33.51
2 Veronica Van niekerk BOLA 287 0 63 F 1.36.13
3 Elaine Greenblatt CGA 481 0 60 F 1.36.23
Category : Junior Men
1 Sithembele Fanekho ATRA 166 0 18 M 1.07.47
2 Asanda Malunga ATRA 167 0 16 M 1.08.43
3 Sakhiwo Gangca EPA 172 0 19 M 1.10.11
Category : Junior Ladies
1 Lusanda Bomvana ATRA 371 0 17 F 1.19.31
2 Thenjiswa Mkukhwane ATRA 372 0 15 F 1.29.29
3 Asiphe Nondaphu ATRA 373 0 15 F 1.30.02[/SIZE][/COLOR]]]> https://www.time-to-run.com/forums/Thread-Tribute-to-Frans-Du-Toit Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:40:45 +0000 TheEd]]> https://www.time-to-run.com/forums/Thread-Tribute-to-Frans-Du-Toit
It made no sense. Frans, who ran every day of his life, who looked after himself so well. Frans, who lived for athletics. Frans, who loved a joke, jovial Frans.

I was shocked, and so too, I am sure, will be everyone who knew him.
We have been friends for more than two decades, talking athletics, working together, sharing information, helping each other. Distance Running Results depended on Frans for Western Cape results, and every Sunday evening, without fail, his results would be in my e-mail inbox. So they were this Sunday, with the message that he had been ill since Friday.

But, according to reports, he was up and about on Monday morning, left home to go to a shop, and was struck down by a heart attack.
Frans was a fixture at Western Cape road races, and when he was not announcing (which he did all over the Western Province and Boland), he was standing at the finish line, clipboard in hand, recording the results for Monday’s issue of Die Burger. He also wrote for TygerBurger and was an expert on schools athletics. He had a network of contacts second to none. There was little happening in road running and athletics in the Western Cape he was unaware of.

He was the soul of the high-profile MTBS track meeting, the biggest schools meeting in the Western Cape, which he organised in his inimitably thorough and detail-driven way for many years.

An ex-teacher at J.G. Meiring High School, Frans was one of the “old school” – diligent, precise, articulate, well-read and with a formidable work ethic, yet fun-loving and with a wonderful sense of humour. Information had to be accurate and on time, and he did not suffer fools gladly. But he was always ready for some light-hearted banter or gossip.

I last saw him at the Two Oceans, where he, Stephen Granger and myself sat in the media tent watching the race unfold on television. We exchanged views on the race, made jokes, and prided ourselves that we, together with Manfred Seidler, were the only “serious” road running journalists there. All the while Frans was bustling around, trying to get results, fretting about his deadline, making notes.

We spoke last week about the upcoming races this past weekend, and getting the results. He complained about the way Die Burger has downscaled its publication of local sports news, and how he saw that as a sad step in the wrong direction.

On Sunday evening, true to form, there was his usual compilation of results (which appear in this issue). Little did I know then that it would be the last.
Frans du Toit was a great friend, a super person, and a passionate lover of athletics. The sport – all aspects of it – will be much the poorer without him.

Few of his kind remain.[/COLOR]

'This tribute originally appeared in Riël Hauman’s weekly newsletter Distance Running Results.'

The funeral service of the late Frans du Toit will take place on

Friday 5 June 2009 at 14h00 in the

Heidekoppie NG Church, Protea Road, Protea Heights, Brackenfell.]]>
It made no sense. Frans, who ran every day of his life, who looked after himself so well. Frans, who lived for athletics. Frans, who loved a joke, jovial Frans.

I was shocked, and so too, I am sure, will be everyone who knew him.
We have been friends for more than two decades, talking athletics, working together, sharing information, helping each other. Distance Running Results depended on Frans for Western Cape results, and every Sunday evening, without fail, his results would be in my e-mail inbox. So they were this Sunday, with the message that he had been ill since Friday.

But, according to reports, he was up and about on Monday morning, left home to go to a shop, and was struck down by a heart attack.
Frans was a fixture at Western Cape road races, and when he was not announcing (which he did all over the Western Province and Boland), he was standing at the finish line, clipboard in hand, recording the results for Monday’s issue of Die Burger. He also wrote for TygerBurger and was an expert on schools athletics. He had a network of contacts second to none. There was little happening in road running and athletics in the Western Cape he was unaware of.

He was the soul of the high-profile MTBS track meeting, the biggest schools meeting in the Western Cape, which he organised in his inimitably thorough and detail-driven way for many years.

An ex-teacher at J.G. Meiring High School, Frans was one of the “old school” – diligent, precise, articulate, well-read and with a formidable work ethic, yet fun-loving and with a wonderful sense of humour. Information had to be accurate and on time, and he did not suffer fools gladly. But he was always ready for some light-hearted banter or gossip.

I last saw him at the Two Oceans, where he, Stephen Granger and myself sat in the media tent watching the race unfold on television. We exchanged views on the race, made jokes, and prided ourselves that we, together with Manfred Seidler, were the only “serious” road running journalists there. All the while Frans was bustling around, trying to get results, fretting about his deadline, making notes.

We spoke last week about the upcoming races this past weekend, and getting the results. He complained about the way Die Burger has downscaled its publication of local sports news, and how he saw that as a sad step in the wrong direction.

On Sunday evening, true to form, there was his usual compilation of results (which appear in this issue). Little did I know then that it would be the last.
Frans du Toit was a great friend, a super person, and a passionate lover of athletics. The sport – all aspects of it – will be much the poorer without him.

Few of his kind remain.[/COLOR]

'This tribute originally appeared in Riël Hauman’s weekly newsletter Distance Running Results.'

The funeral service of the late Frans du Toit will take place on

Friday 5 June 2009 at 14h00 in the

Heidekoppie NG Church, Protea Road, Protea Heights, Brackenfell.]]>