By Press sports reporter ONE-LAP speedster Richard Buck has earned a call-up to the Great Britain team for the Under 23 European Championships. Despite not reaching the qualification standard of 46 seconds, the selectors believe the City of York AC runner has the potential to break through that barrier after an injury-hit start to the outdoor season. He and City of Leeds runner Richard Strachan will be the GB s 400 metres representatives in Debrecen, Hungary, on July 12-15. Buck is still battling his way back to full fitness and got another race under his belt this week when he won in Celle Ligure, near Genoa, Italy.
Deur Reporter 20 Januarie 2021 06:09
Madibaz judo exponent, Lwazi Mapitiza, recently achieved a major career highlight when he returned with a bronze medal from the African Judo Championships in Madagascar.
The tournament, which took place in Antananarivo, saw the Nelson Mandela University sports management student competing in the under 100kg category.
Lwazi Mapitiza, won a bronze medal at the African Judo Championships in Madagascar, recently. Photo: SUPPLIED
Mapitiza described his third place at the African champs, which he was attending for the fifth time, as the best achievement of his career.
“My goal going into the competition was to bring back a medal, hopefully a gold medal, but I was still happy to return with the bronze,” said Mapitiza, who lives in New Brighton.
Madibaz student-athlete Lwazi Mapitiza achieved a bronze medal at the African Judo Championships in Madagascar in December.
Madibaz judo exponent Lwazi Mapitiza achieved a major career highlight when he returned with a bronze medal from the African Judo Championships in Madagascar in December.
The tournament, which took place in Antananarivo, saw the 30-year-old Nelson Mandela University sport management student competing in the under-100kg category.
The sport categorises competitors according to their weight and Mapitiza was slotted into the 91-100kg division.
He described his third place at the African champs, which he was attending for the fifth time, as the best achievement of his career.
Died: October 26, 2020. DAVID Gracie, who has died aged 93, was a world-class Scottish amateur athlete in the early 1950s, whose relatively brief career resulted in his not being accorded the extent of recognition he perhaps deserved. His specialist event was the 440 yards/400 metres hurdles in which he reached the Helsinki 1952 Olympics semi-final and was unfortunate not to advance. Achieving this after only one year’s experience of the demanding event, with extremely basic training facilities and negligible coaching, was remarkable and highly praiseworthy. As the Glasgow Herald noted, Gracie “went out in much the hotter semi-final of the 400 metres hurdles, but he did himself especial credit. He beat [Roland] Blackman, the third American, and [Rune] Larsson, a former Olympic finalist, and was in the race right to the last few yards. His time of 52.4 seconds was the best-ever of a British athlete, and about four yards faster than [Harry] Whittle’s English native rec