A 28-member nationwide crew left for the World Athletics Cross Nation Championships on Wednesday afternoon, and the Athletics SA Cross Nation crew is assured of placing up a struggle once they tackle a few of the world’s greatest distance runners in Tallahassee, United States on Saturday, 10 January, 2026.
The ladies’s element of Group SA will compete within the senior ladies’s 10km race, the U20 ladies’s 6km occasion, and within the senior 4x2km combined relay alongside SA’s males runners.
“It’s a powerful crew, particularly among the many seniors, and we have now athletes who know the way to race in the USA.”
Group SA Coach, Violet Semenya
“We’ve additionally acquired a powerful combined relay crew, and I can’t wait to see their outcomes,” continued Semenya. “In the event that they belief themselves and we belief them, I believe the crew will do nicely.”
A number of SA document holder Glenrose Xaba is probably the most skilled member of the crew, competing in her fifth successive version of the World Athletics Cross Nation Championships, and expressed confidence in main the nationwide squad within the senior ladies’s 10km race.
Although she admits she is perhaps out of her depth towards highly effective groups from all over the world, and should dig deep to be aggressive, Xaba is match and able to give it a shot.
“I’ll strive my greatest to go together with them, however I simply wish to end very robust and benefit from the race. I simply hope I can be wholesome (on the day) as I wish to carry out nicely.”
SA Cross Nation Champion, Glenrose Xaba
“As South Africans we’re beginning to carry out very nicely at worldwide stage. It reveals that we’re enhancing quite a bit, and I’m assured that I can do very nicely.”
Within the combined 4x2km relay, Luan Munnik, Christopher Swart, Karabo Extra and Carina Viljoen can be hoping to problem for a spot on the rostrum.
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Head of delegation, ASA Appearing President John Mathane, mentioned: “Each athlete within the crew has labored exhausting to qualify for this squad and has put in an amazing quantity of effort to arrange within the build-up to this occasion. We want all of them nicely as they put together to tackle the world’s greatest, and we all know they may carry the nationwide flag with pleasure.”
Ladies Members of the Athletics SA Cross Nation Group to the World Championships
Glenrose Xaba – Ladies 10km (AGN)
Maria Karabo Mailula – Ladies 10km (AGN)
Cacisile Sosibo – Ladies 10km (CGA)
Kyla Jacobs – Ladies 10km (WPA)
Cian Oldknow – Ladies 10km (CGA)
Zanele Maisa – Ladies 10km (CGA)
Karabo Extra – Blended Relay (Ladies) (AGN)
Carina Viljoen – Blended Relay (Ladies) (CGA)
Ithuteng Khiba – 6km U20 Ladies (ATRA)
Lara Stander – 6km U20 Ladies (BOLA)
Lara Van Der Merwe – 6km U20 Ladies (AGN)
Andrea Steynberg – 6km U20 Ladies (ACNW)
Omaatla Dikao – 6km U20 Ladies (AGN)
Leandri Pretorius – 6km U20 Ladies (AGN)
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Essential Photograph Caption: A 28-member nationwide crew left for the World Athletics Cross Nation Championships on Wednesday afternoon, and the Athletics SA Cross Nation crew is assured of placing up a struggle once they tackle a few of the world’s greatest distance runners in Tallahassee, United States on Saturday, 10 January, 2026. Photograph: Athletics SA
