South Africa's most talented young track and field prospects will take their opportunity to go
\nunder the spotlight this week when they converge in Cape Town for the ASA U-16, U18, U20 and
\nU23 Track and Field Championships to be held at Green Point Stadium between 27-29 March
\n2025.
\nThe line-ups will feature the country's brightest prospects on the track, including some of the
\nworld's most promising sprinters and hurdlers across a range of distances.
\nIn the U23 men's division, the likes of world junior 400m champion Udeme Okon and Olympic
\nsilver medallist Lythe Pillay are expected to light up the track, while all eyes will be on national
\nsenior 100m champion Viwe Jingqi in the U23 women's sprints. Then there\u2019s Chane Kok the 2023
\nAfrican U20 champion in women\u2019s 100mH Women
\nIn the U20 age group, in-form SA junior 100m and 200m record holder Bayanda Walaza and will
\nturn out as the favourite in the men's sprints, though he is expected to face a challenge from in-
\nform athlete Karabo Letebele, who won the men's 100m race at the recent ASA Grand Prix
\nmeeting in Tshwane. Walaza is the U20 champion in 100m and 200m, and an Olympic Games
\n4x100m silver medallist.
\nThere will also be a lot of attention on versatile 17-year-old star Tumi Ramokgopa, who recently
\nset a national record in the U20 women's 100m hurdles.
\nAiden Smith will be the favourite in the men\u2019s shot put after winning the first leg of the ASA Grand
\nPrix Series in Tshwane two weeks ago and so is Njabulo Mbatha in the 400mH men who was
\ndecorated with a bronze medal in the 4x400m at the World U20s in 2024. Mbatha showed hisreadiness when the 18-year-old shocked Africa Record holder and defending champion Ferdinand
\nOmanyala of Kenya in the Tshwane Grand Prix.
\nAlso adding to the glamour are 2024 African champion Brian Raats in men\u2019s high jump and
\nBenjamin Richardson, a favourite in the 200m men – another soldier decorate at the 2024 African
\nchampionships in 4x100m (silver) and 100m (Bronze).
\nBradley Nkoana, a bronze medallist at the World U20 and a Olympic 4x100m silver, is amongst the
\ndrawcards in 200m men, alongside Udeme Okon – a World U20 in the 400m and a World 4x400m
\nsilver medallist.
\nThe athletes competing at the ASA U16, U18, U20 and U23 Championships will have an
\nopportunity to qualify for multiple major championships to be held later this year.
\nThese events include the ASA Senior Championships, to be held in Potchefstroom between 24 and
\n26 April 2025, as well as the African Athletics U20 Championships in Algeria next month and the
\nWorld athletics Championships in Tokyo in September.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s going down in Cape Town this week,\u201d said James Moloi, the President of Athletics South
\nAfrica. \u201cThese are exciting times. We can safely predict that a minimum of two national records
\nwill fall. It\u2019s just a question of which one.
\n\u201cWe look forward to what promises to be another super time of action in South African athletics
\nwhere new champions will be unearthed and the contest for supremacy will keep us on our feet.
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