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Allan Cumming
Allan Cumming (born 21 March 1996) is a South African hammer thrower. He won the gold medal at the 2022 African Championships. His personal best is 73.00 metres, set in 2021 in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Career Cumming finished fourth at the 2015 African Junior Championships in Ethiopia, narrowly missing out on the podium. That same year he began competing at the collegiate level for North-West University, breaking the Varsity Sports record with a personal best throw of 58.13 m at his maiden meet in Stellenbosch. He was selected for his first senior international competition, the 2018 African Championships held in Nigeria, though he finished in sixth place after throwing for 67.37 m. In 2019, Cumming won a bronze medal at the South African Championships before placing eighth at the Summer Universiade in Italy. Cumming won his first senior national title at the 2021 South African Championships, recording a throw of 72.78 m to defeat incumbent champion Tshepang Makhet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Track And Field
Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events. Track and field is categorized under the umbrella sport of athletics, which also includes road running, cross country running and racewalking. The foot racing events, which include sprints, middle- and long-distance events, racewalking, and hurdling, are won by the athlete who completes it in the least time. The jumping and throwing events are won by those who achieve the greatest distance or height. Regular jumping events include long jump, triple jump, high jump, and pole vault, while the most common throwing events are shot put, javelin, discus, and hammer. There are also "combined events" or "multi events", such as the pentathlon consisting of five events, heptathlon consisting of seven events, and decathlon consisting of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varsity Sports (South Africa)
Varsity Sports SA, is a group university sports leagues in South Africa. Its members all belong to the University Sport Company, and may each enter only one campus per competition, though they may enter different campuses for different competitions. History The Varsity Cup tournament was founded in 2008, featuring the rugby teams of eight universities. Varsity Sports was created as an offshoot in 2012. In the first season rugby sevens and beach volleyball were played. In 2013, athletics, field hockey, association football and netball were added. In 2016, mountain biking was added. Member universities Sports Varsity Sports currently runs competitions in six sporting codes. These are athletics, beach volleyball, association football, field hockey, netball and rugby sevens. Athletics and football have events for both men and women. Rugby, has only a men's event. Volleyball, netball and hockey have only female events, though men's hockey will be added in 2014. List of Varsity sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Athletics
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics, covering track and field, cross country running, road running, race walking, mountain running, and ultra running. Included in its charge are the standardization of rules and regulations for the sports, certification of athletic facilities, recognition and management of world records, and the organisation and sanctioning of athletics competitions, including the World Athletics Championships. The organisation's president is Sebastian Coe of the United Kingdom, who was elected in 2015 and re-elected unopposed in 2019 for a further four years. World Athletics suspended the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) from World Athletics starting in 2015, for eight years, due to doping violations, making it ineligible to hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachelor Of Education
A Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) is an undergraduate professional degree which prepares students for work as a teacher in schools. In some countries such as Tanzania and Kenya, additional tasks like field work and research are required in order for the student to be fully qualified to teach. It may also be accompanied with or followed by tests for licenses or certifications required for teachers in some areas. Countries where colleges and universities award the degree Argentina Since the Educational Reform of 2006, a National Institute for Teacher Education (INFD) was established to develop a standard and coherent teacher training structure throughout the country. According to the Argentine Ministry of Education, the creation of the INFD has helped greatly to reform the previous system establishing a national requirement of a 5-Year National Bachelor of Education to work across the nation at public schools, while there are private universities granting a 4-Year Provincial Bachelor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of South African Records In Athletics ...
The following are the national records in athletics in South Africa maintained by Athletics South Africa (ASA). Outdoor Key to tables: + = en route to a longer distance A = affected by altitude h = hand timing OT = oversized track (> 200m in circumference) a = aided road course according to IAAF rule 260.28 Men Women Mixed Indoor Men Women Notes References ;General *World Athletics Statistic Handbook 2022National Outdoor Records*World Athletics Statistic Handbook 2022;Specific External links ASA web site {{National records in athletics South Africa Records Athletics Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inside The Games
''Inside the Games'' (also known as insidethegames and insidethegames.biz) is an Olympic news website edited by the British sports journalist Duncan Mackay. Mackay launched the site in 2005, originally as insidethegames.com, following the announcement that London has been chosen to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. The name of the site was changed to insidethegames.biz in 2009. ''Inside the Games'' is based in Bletchley, near Bletchley Park. Mackay was a winner of the 2009 Internet writer of the year award at the British Sports Journalism Awards by the Sports Journalists' Association for his work on insidethegames. The insidethegames site was involved in a court litigation in 2010 with Zulu Creative, a web design company previously used by insidethegames. The site is currently published by Dunsar Media. In addition to the Olympics, the site now covers Paralympics, Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SuperSport (South African Broadcaster)
SuperSport is a South Africa-based group of television channels carried on the DStv & Canal+ satellite platforms as well as GOtv terrestrial platform. It provides sports content in South Africa, Nigeria and many other African countries. SuperSport previously also had operations in Europe in the Scandinavian, Benelux, Italy, Eastern Europe, Greek & Cypriot regions and had sports channels started by FilmNet, being owned by MultiChoice at the time which have since been replaced. They also had operations in Thailand, under the current name True Sport & Egypt and Middle East via Cable Network of Egypt (CNE) & Arab Radio and Television Network respectively. The channel broadcasts most of the major sporting events and leagues of association football, rugby, cricket, tennis, golf, motorsport, cycling, boxing, wrestling, hockey, athletics. It was formerly the world's largest broadcaster of live rugby and cricket (having been overtaken by Sky Sports), and also the world's second larges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The South African
''The South African'' is an English-language South African online news publication created in March 2003 by the multinational media company, Blue Sky Publications, and it operates as an online news and lifestyle publication with offices in South Africa and the United Kingdom. The publication started as a London-based broadsheet newspaper aimed at providing news for South Africans living in London. It was available in a weekly tabloid format and distributed at the entrances of London Tube stations until June 2015 when it became an entirely online news source for South African news. History 2003–2015: print and online years News published online but also in a weekly print format newspaper distributed at train station entrances in London. 2015–present: online only The last print issue was printed on 15 June 2015, as readers were by then mostly based in South Africa and readership growth had declined after a change in SA to UK immigration policies. The publication's focus hence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tshepang Makhethe
Tshepang Makhethe (born 19 February 1996) is a South African hammer thrower. Makhethe finished tenth at the 2014 World Junior Championships. He won the silver medal at the 2015 African Junior Championships followed by the bronze medal at the 2016 African Championships. He finished eighth at the 2017 Universiade, ninth at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and fourth at the 2018 African Championships. He won his first national title at the 2019 South African Championships, ending Chris Harmse's reign of 23 consecutive victories. His personal best throw is 71.28 metres, achieved in March 2017 in Sasolburg. Achievements National titles * South African Championships ** Hammer throw: 2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ... * Championships ** Hammer throw: 2019 Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 2019 Summer Universiade
Athletics was contested at the 2019 Summer Universiade from July 8 to 13 at the Stadio San Paolo in Naples, Italy. Medal summary Men's events Women's events Medal table Participating nations * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * References External links2019 Summer Universiade Napoli − Athletics [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 South African Athletics Championships
The 2019 South African Athletics Championships was the 109th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for South Africa. It was held on 25–27 April at the Germiston Stadium in Germiston. It served as the selection meeting for South Africa at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. Results Men Women References ;Results ASA SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019 at GERMISTON STADIUM Athletics South Africa. Retrieved 2021-04-02. External links Official website of Athletics South Africa {{2019 in athletics South African Athletics Championships, 2019 2019 in athletics (track and field), South African Athletics Championships 2019 in South African sport, South African Athletics Championships Sport in Gauteng Sport in Germiston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Press (South Africa)
City Press is a South African news brand that publishes on multiple platforms. Its flagship print edition is distributed nationally on Sunday, and it has a daily newsletter, online platform, and other social media platforms. These include Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. The publication also runs a popular, daily morning newsletter called ''On a Point of Order'', a play on the South African Parliament scene, which frequently sees members of Parliament rising "on a point of order" to protest against something that somebody has said. Its other newsletters include: * Football Fever, a thrice weekly curation of news and analysis on the beautiful game; * Sundays With City Press, which features all the highlights of the print edition; and * #Trending – The Good Guide, a guide to all the latest culture, entertainment and tech news. History and operations The newspaper was established in 1982 as the ''Golden City Press'' by James R. A. Bailey and the South African Associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
