SA’s top athletes on a mission to thrill at the Yellow pages Series (Potchefstroom)

Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 March 2010 13:38

Last Friday in Durban, Mulaudzi took the 1500 metres honours in 3 min 43.88 secs having run over 550 metres of the race on his own upfront. This time the world indoor 800 metres champion will return to his favourite 800 metres distance and will be joined by the unlikely figure of Olympic 3000 metres steeplechase finalist Ruben Ramolefi, who will use the outing in Potchefstroom to work on his speed.

Ramolefi ran superbly in windy conditions in Durban last Friday, to win the 3000 metres steeplechase in 8:25.50.

Mokoena may have had his winning effort of 8.22 metres sidelined by the strong wind, but expect the long jump sensation to be out to delight the crowd in Potchefstroom; the same venue where he qualified for the 2009 World Championship.

Javelin star Robert Oosthuizen, who posted a Commonwealth Games qualifying performance in the opening leg of the Yellow Pages Series in Port Elizabeth, has joined Elizna Naude on the national selectors’ shortlist. Elizna Naude discus effort of 64.49 in Durban has put her in the running for the national team action at the Commonwealth Games later in the year.

Add in LJ van Zyl, who excelled in Durban with a winning time of 49.49 in the 400 metres hurdles, and the stage is set for an evening of top class athletics.

But it’s not all about the goings-on at the stadiums on event night, as Yellow Pages and Athletics SA put that special effort into passing on skills and knowledge to the next generation of athletes during the days leading up to the respective events.

Athletes will be conducted motivational talks at Ba Seobi High School, Boitshoko High School, Tlokwe High School, and Seiphemelo High School in Potchefstroom. These school visits forms part of a build-up programme, which also includes  a development clinic to be held on the day prior to the Yellow Pages Series action.

“SA’s top athletes proved at the Durban leg of the Yellow Pages Series that they are on a mission to deliver the type of track and field performances that will draw crowds to the stadiums, and now it’s up to the sports-loving people of our country to come out in great numbers and share in the passion of Yellow Pages Series athletics at its best,” said Lionel Smith, GM: Marketing of Trudon (Publishers Yellow Pages).

“After all, as the athletes say, the larger the crowd, the louder the cheer, the higher their level of adrenalin, the greater the performance.”

With the Yellow Pages male and female Athlete of the meet, each set to collect R15 000, and their points being accumulated throughout the series and the Yellow Pages Senior Track and Field Championships, the top male and female athletes on the points scoreboard at the end of the season will be smiling all the way to the bank with a cheque worth R100 000.

That’s a big incentive, that’s worth going the extra mile, that’s the Yellow Pages Series.

3 March 2010

Issued by Trudon Marketing