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Lesotho national, Namakoe Nkhasi, set a personal best time in winning the Nelson Mandela Bay half marathon on Saturday, but local runner Melikhaya Frans in second, earned himself the ASA National title in a new Eastern Province record.

The Adventure Racing World Championships are coming to Africa for the first time in 2023. The event will be hosted by Expedition Africa, and held in the Kouga region of the Eastern Cape in October next year.

South Africa's involvement into the top-flight of Northern Hemisphere club rugby has received a massive boost with the confirmation that the four Vodacom United Rugby Championship teams and the Toyota Cheetahs will play in next season's two European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) knockout competitions, the Heineken Champions Cup and the Challenge Cup.

The HSBC Cape Town Sevens returns to the Mother City on the weekend of 9-11 December this year, when the best men's and women's sevens teams in the world will return to the DHL Stadium for the first time since 2019.

The 2019 SPAR Grand Prix winner, Helalia Johannes (Nedbank) recorded a world best as she sprinted to victory in the SPAR Women's 10km race in 31.53 at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha on Saturday morning. She became the first woman in the world over 40 to run 10kms in under 32 minutes.

South African ultra-endurance athlete Cameron Bellamy has set his sights on completing the longest ever lake swim in Asia, a quest he had to put on hold during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The 39-year-old Bellamy has already amassed 10 Guinness World Records, which include the first human-powered crossing by rowboat from South America to Antarctica - and the longest channel swim in history over 151km from Barbados to St Lucia.

The 18th edition of the IRONMAN African Championship and 2nd edition of the IRONMAN 70.3 Nelson Mandela Bay have both been confirmed to take place on Sunday, 5 March 2023, with the race start returning to Hobie Beach below the iconic Shark Rock Pier

Nelson Mandela Bay's homegrown Ironman hero Kyle Buckingham is emigrating to the United States where the 2-time Ironman African Champion will be based in Tucson, Arizona.

Nelson Mandela Bay's master-blaster Tristan Stubbs has received his maiden Proteas call-up ahead of the 5-match T20 series against India on the sub continent from 9-19 June.