Barnes targets Games
By Mark Etheridge Commonwealth Games medallist Heinrich Barnes is still confident of being part of Team South Africa at the Olympic Games in London later this year. The Oregon, US based wrestler has...
View ArticleSASCOC salute Olympic wrestler Van Zyl
South Africa’s Olympic governing body SASCOC learnt with great sadness on Tuesday of the death of South African Wrestling Federation Honorary Life member Manie van Zyl. Van Zyl passed away on Monday at...
View ArticleWrestling gives way for 2020 Olympic Games
Wrestling has been dropped from the Olympic Games from 2020 by the International Olympic Committee to make way for a new sport. But the event could enjoy a reprieve as it now joins a shortlist of...
View ArticleWrestling regains its place at the 2020 and 2024 Olympics
Wrestling has been reinstated into the Olympic programme for the 2020 and 2024 Games, trumping baseball/softball and squash after the ancient sport underwent sweeping reforms since being provisionally...
View ArticleWrestlers hopeful of strong presence in Scotland
Our leading wrestlers are already focused on pinning down places on Team South Africa at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland later this year, writes Mark Etheridge. As matters stand, the SA...
View ArticleThree gold… and many more medals for SA in Egypt
By Mark Etheridge South African wrestlers grabbed three gold medals in a hugely successful medal haul at the recent continental championships in Alexandria, Egypt. A cadet, junior and senior team were...
View ArticleTop grapplers head for Cairo
Thirty-five of the South African wrestling’s top young talent left for a sweltering Cairo, Egypt to compete in the African Cadets Championships later this week. It is a first for many of these...
View ArticleBarnes gets to grips with world champs
By Mark Etheridge Leading South African wrestler Heinrich Barnes is busy building towards world championships in September. The Pretoria grappler is currently still in the United States where he is...
View ArticleWrestlers grab medals galore in Egypt
Our wrestlers have returned from Egypt with a whole heap of medals from various competitions in the capital of Cairo. The men and women competed in the freestyle and Greco-Roman categories and also in...
View ArticleTop grapplers gear up at Tuks
The country’s top amateur wrestlers will all be in action at the weekend for the annual Big-5 tournament held at the University of Pretoria. Among the 500 entrants are the members of the senior Protea...
View ArticleBarnes on course for India
By Mark Etheridge Commonwealth Games bound wrestler, Heinrich Barnes was again the top South African performer at the Fila World Senior championships in Moscow, Russia at the weekend. United...
View ArticleNew Delhi: Barnes confident
By Mark Etheridge Leading grappler Heinrich Barnes goes into the next month’s Commonwealth Games buoyed by his seventh spot at the recent Fila World Wrestling Championships in Moscow, Russia....
View ArticleGrapplers go for glory
Team South Africa’s wrestlers will be strong contenders for medals at the Commonwealth Games which get underway in Delhi, India on Sunday. Topping the list of possible medal winners is Heinrich Barnes...
View ArticleAddinall’s historic moment
Wrestling is making good on its promise to deliver medals to the South African cause. Richard Addinall was the first winner of a wrestling medal since South Africa’s readmission to the Commonwealth,...
View ArticleFifth spot for Heinrich Barnes
OPEX programme wrestler Heinrich Barnes placed fifth in the annual Dave Schultz Memorial competition in Colorado Springs, California. Barnes, silver medallist in last year’s Commonwealth Games in New...
View ArticleHungarians lend a hand
South Africa’s top wrestlers are getting to grips at a training camp in Pretoria ahead of the Senior Africa Championships later this year. The High Performance Centre is the venue for the camp and a...
View ArticleBronze for Barnes
Our Commonwealth silver medallist in India last year, Heinrich Barnes added another international medal to his tally at the 2011 Spanish Open Championships in Madrid at the weekend. On this occasion it...
View ArticleGrapplers fight for places
South Africa are currently in action at the senior World Wrestling Championships in Istanbul, Turkey and Commonwealth Games medallist Bella Lufa Hugues opened the mat for SA with a fine performance....
View ArticleBarnes targets Games
By Mark Etheridge Commonwealth Games medallist Heinrich Barnes is still confident of being part of Team South Africa at the Olympic Games in London later this year. The Oregon, US based wrestler has...
View ArticleErasmus eliminated at Olympic qualifier in Turkey
By Mark Etheridge For the second consecutive Olympic Games, South Africa will have no wrestling representation in Rio de Janeiro later this year. That’s after Martin Erasmus was beaten at the...
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