www.wpa.org.za November 2013 Newsletter Editorial The WPA Annual General Meeting was held on 8 October, which included the biennial elections of new office bearers. I would like to extend congratulations to all the newly elected office bearers; I look forward to working with you all over the next two years. Please find below a complete list: 2013 ELECTION RESULTS President Jakes Jacobs (Strand) Vice President Kevin Harlock (UCT) Additional Members Internal Allen Barnes (Stragglers) External Norma Nonkonyana (Wild Runner) Finance Officer Richard Van Schalkwyk (Edgemead) Cross Country Commission Chairperson Russell Mehl (Top Form) Commission Members Nazema Abels (Bonteheuwel) Glen Bentley (UWC) Gavin Burgess (Bonteheuwel) Viyounefer Dreyer (UWC) Cliffie Jacobs (SANDF WP) Andy James (Bonteheuwel) Chris Mitchell (Celtic Harriers) Ben Oliver (Bonteheuwel) Race Walking Commission Chairperson Pieter Vorster (Bellville) Commission Members Francois Brandt (Fish Hoek) Chandra-Jay Dunn (Spartan Harriers) Lindela Madikizela (SANDF WP) Keith Reynolds (Bellville) Lydia Richards (Spartan Harriers) Candice Vorster (Bellville) Road Running Commission Chairperson Chris Dooner (SANDF WP) Commission Members Wynand Beukes (Sanlam) Francois Gouws (Edgemead) Chris Goldschmidt (Celtic Harriers) Charlotte Kettlewell (Acsis Vob) Frikkie Kotze (NB Multisport) Busisiwe Matiwane (Celtic Harriers) Sipho Sithole (Correctional Services) Priscilla Williams (In Touch) Track & Field Commission Chairperson Cedric Van Wyk (South Peninsula) Commission Members Stephen Daniels (South Peninsula) Alroy Dixon (Bellville) Adri Jordaan (Bellville) Julie Longden (Tygerberg) Stanley Malange (RCS Guguletu) Mariana Meyer (Tygerberg) Jacob Mfini (Acsis Vob) Mandy Skinner (Easterns Kraaifontein) Disciplinary Committee Mohamed Abduroaf (LOA Itheko) Farouk Meyer (LOA Itheko) Alan Nelson (Plexus Durbanville) Technical Officials Committee Chairperson Nazema Abels (Bonteheuwel) WPA again hosted a very successful SA 50 km Race Walking Championship at the Youngsfield Military Base. WPA is proud to announce that we placed 3rd overall. Well done to the Race Walking Commission and the committed team who assisted in delivering a very successful event, despite the horrible weather conditions. The WPA Annual Awards evening was hosted on 25 October; we were thrilled to witness an enthusiastic and well attended event and would like to thank the clubs, athletes and administrators for their support. A complete list of award winners and photographs are available on www.wpa.org.za. WPA is anticipating an exciting Track and Field season. The season has started and we witnessed an excellent performance from Zandri Bailey with a throw of 48:41 and also a PB in the Junior Women Javelin competition. The final leg of the Kids Athletics program is well under way. Some excellent performances have already been achieved by the participating children. Special thanks must be expressed to Allen, Aphiwe and Tracy for their hard work and long hours facilitating this program. Coupled with that is the next round of WPA Coaches Courses to be held in November. The club administration program continues to facilitate a smooth and correct admin database within the province at all levels. The program updates will soon be completed; this will assist clubs in communicating directly with their members. The current member information must be completed before licenses will be sold to the club for the 2014 season. Running Regards Jakes Jacobs CCComComomommissionmission News CROSS COUNTRY At the WPA – AGM held on 8 October 2013, the following members were selected to serve on the WPACC Commission: Chairperson : Russell Mehl (Top Form) Commission members : Andy James (Bonteheuwel) Ben Oliver (Bonteheuwel) Gavin Burgess (Bonteheuwel) Viyounefer Dreyer (UWC) Nazema Abels (Bonteheuwel) Cliffie Jacobs (SANDF-WP) Glen Bentley (UWC) Chris Mitchell (Celtic Harriers) The selectors for the two-year term will be: A James (convener) V Dreyer G Burgess The following members will serve on the Mike Walters Trophy committee: B Oliver (convener) N Abels C Mitchell The 2014 Cross Country season will consist of 8 league meetings, 1 relay and the WPACC/Schools Championships. The relay will be a big start to the season and will be sponsored by K3 Water & Energy Sachets. Medals as well as attractive lucky draw prizes will be awarded. The commission plans to stage training camps for Junior/Senior athletes at UWC during the December/January school holidays. More information will be available to the clubs in due course. For 2014 the commission is going to be concentrating a lot on our Junior/Senior athletes, which will call for close co-operation with Coaches, Schools and Development. New courses/venues, some in disadvantaged areas, are an attraction, to bring the sport to the people. Herewith is the WPACC fixture list for the 2014 season. 2014 WPA CROSS COUNTRY FIXTURE LIST DATE EVENT ORGANISER VENUE TECHNICAL ADVISOR 12 April Relay Pinelands Pinehurst P/S B Oliver / N Abels 03 May 1st League UWC UWC A James / V Dreyer 10 May 2nd League Bonteheuwel CPUT Bellville South G Burgess / G Bentley **18 May 3rd League Top Form T.B.A. C Jacobs / C Mitchell 24 May 4th League Fish Hoek Fish Hoek R Mehl / N Abels 7 June 5th League Eskom Koeberg Nature Reserve A James / B Oliver **20 July 6th League Velocity Atlantis G Burgess / G Bentley 26 July 7th League MP Titans Rocklands V Dreyer / C Jacobs 02 August 8th League Correctional Services Pollsmoor A James / B Oliver 16 August WPACC/ Bonteheuwel CPUT Bellville South WPACC Commission Schools Champs ** These are Sunday events starting at the usual times. RACE WALKING SA 50km and Interprovincial Race Walking Championships – Cape Town – 12 October 2013 Western Province Athletics once again played host to the SA 50km and Interprovincial Race Walking Championships at Youngsfield. Despite some of our best SA walkers competing at the World Masters Championships in Brazil, we saw a record number of 196 race walkers from 9 different Provinces competing in the various race distances from 50km down to the 3km. Credit must go to Western Province Athletics for stepping up in support of hosting the event at such short notice. Athletes were greeted by a cold, grey, wet and windy morning. This never deterred any spectators from supporting their athletes – possibly the fact that Olympian Marc Mundell and African Champion Lebogang Shange in action in the 20k had something to do with it. 13 Athletes took part in the 50km. Sandra Steenkamp (AGN) and Mojalefa Molise (AGN) won Gold for their Province in a time of 5:19:53 and 4:23:39 respectively. Some amazing individual race walking results were achieved; our own Ross McDonald bettered the previous SAMA M40 record in the 10k in a time of 48:54, Fred Clements (AGN) broke the M70 SAMA record in 1:06:39 in the 10k and David Morgan-Smith (ASWD) bettered the M75 record in 1:08:01 in the same race. In the 20km Ladies race, CGA race walker Elsa Meyer (W65) bettered the SAMA record with her time of 2:03:18. Anel Oosthuizen (ASWD) competing as a Junior made it quite clear that she was going for a new SA Record which she bettered by over a minute with a time of 49:25. She is now ranked 40th in the Junior World Rankings for the 10km walk. Another stunning performance was achieved by young Pierre Vermaak (CGA) competing in the 5km. He set a magnificent time of 23:27. This is a great comeback after being hit by a taxi while out training two years ago. The racing concluded with the 1km development race, where our little WPA development walkers entertained the crowds with some stylish striding. After all the walking, the medal table did the talking. Although winning the most medals, WPA finished in third with 11 Gold medals. CGA finished second with 12 gold medals with AGN taking the honours to finish first with 13 Gold medals. A special word of thanks must go out to the City of Cape Town for their contributions, as well as the WPA office for their hard work in assisting the WPRWC to host a very successful Championship. Next year promises to be even bigger and better with the future of not only SA race walking, but also WPA race walking looking bright. WPARWC FINAL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS Gold Silver Bronze Total Medals 1 Athletics Gauteng North 13 8 2 23 2 Central Gauteng Athletics 12 10 4 26 3 Western Province Athletics 11 11 10 32 4 Athletics South West Districts 4 0 3 7 5 Athletics Central North West 2 0 0 2 8 Boland Individuals 1 4 3 8 6 Kwazulu Natal Athletics 1 2 2 5 9 Athletics Free State 1 2 0 3 7 WPA Individuals 1 0 0 1 10 EPA Individuals 0 0 0 0 11 ASWD Individuals 0 0 0 0 Club NNewsews ATLANTIC ATHLETIC CLUB ANOTHER RECORD FIELD FOR OUTSURANCE 94.5 KFM GUN RUN A record field of close to 19 000 runners and walkers took to the streets of Cape Town in this year’s OUTsurance 94.5 Kfm Gun Run half marathon, 10km and 5km run/walk on a chilly Cape Town morning. The perfect running conditions saw local runner David Manya take line hounors in 64:09, with Lindikhaya Mthangayi in second in 64:21 and Xolisa Tjali third in 64:37. Manja took home R5 000 for his efforts. Tanith Maxwell won the ladies half marathon in 77:24, with Fortunate Chidviso (77:43) and Thabita Tsatsa (78:32) taking second and third places respectively. Maxwell also pocketed R5 000. The 10km saw Sibusiso Madikizela win in 29:32 and Nomvuyisi Seti win the women’s race in 35:38. Councillor Grant Pascoe, mayoral committee member for tourism, events & marketing for the City of Cape Town, fired the Cape Field Artillery gun to start the half marathon and ward councillor for the Atlantic Seaboard fired the cut off gun at 10h30.