ATHLETICS NEWS - There has been some significant shifting in the national rankings in recent weeks, as athletes chase places in Team South Africa for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia in April.
Former Olympic Long Jump silver medallist Khotso Mokoena stuck up his hand ahead of the Games with a 16.65m leap in the Triple Jump competition at a League Meeting in Tshwane on 2 December.
Though he was 70 centimetres short of his own national record, Mokoena's performance lifted him to second place in the Athletics South Africa (ASA) rankings this year in the hop, skip and jump discipline. He climbed to within 10 centimetres of current SA number one, Reneilwe Aphane.
Also in Tshwane on 11 November, former World Championships 200m bronze medallist Anaso Jobodwana, clocked 10.16 seconds over the 100m distance, climbing to seventh place in the national rankings and clipping 0.03 off the qualifying standard for the Games.
Two SA records were recently set in the Under 18 age group at domestic meetings in the Western Cape.
