{"id":89706,"date":"2026-01-25T09:24:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T07:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=89706"},"modified":"2026-01-25T09:24:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T07:24:56","slug":"malungane-smashes-records-at-abrie-van-staden-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=89706","title":{"rendered":"Malungane smashes records at Abrie van Staden-meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89712\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-89712\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1850-1-333x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TIISETSO MALUGAnE (Curro Hazeldean) on his way to shatter the meeting record for the 800m for Boys u16 during the annual Abrie van Staden-meeting. Malungane won the event in 1 minute and 52.70 seconds. PHOTO: Marius nortj\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If his performance during the annual Abrie van Staden-meeting hosted by Ho\u00ebrskool Garsfontein is anything to go by \u2013 <strong>Tiisetso Malungane<\/strong> (Curro Hazeldean) will break a lot of middle-distance records during the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Malungane produced a full 1 000 points in the 1500m according to the Athletics South Africa (ASA) points system, winning the race in 3 minutes and 52.72 seconds. This bettered the previous meeting record by more than 22 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record stood behind <strong>Quinton van Huysteen<\/strong> of Montana\u2019s name since 2012 at 4 minutes and 15.21 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>He was pushed to the end by <strong>Bulela Mganu<\/strong> (Tuks Sport School), who also dipped under the previous record with a time of 3:58.05 to secure a silver medal.<\/p>\n<p>In the 800m, Malungane won the race in 1 minute and 52.70 seconds to also set a new meeting record. This record was bettered by almost five seconds as the previous record of 1:57.81 stood since 2005, behind M Koekemoer of EG Jansen.<\/p>\n<p>Mganu won gold in the 3 000m in a new record time of 8 minutes and 44.69 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>In the sprints, Curro Hazeldean\u2019s <strong>Funo Nemakonde<\/strong> won the 100m for Boys u14 in a brilliant 11.56 seconds. This is also the new meeting record.<\/p>\n<p>In the 200m, he won the race in 23.39 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts, <strong>Marcelle Werner<\/strong> (u17), also secured gold in both short sprints as he won the 100m (10.91) and 200m (21.81) in quickfire times. In the 200m, Northcliff\u2019s <strong>John Ndlovu<\/strong> (21.84) almost spoiled Werner\u2019s party.<\/p>\n<p>Werner ran his time in the first heat, while Ndlovu ran his in the third and final heat of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Ndlovu bagged a gold medal in the 400m for Boys u17 as he crossed the finish line in 49.02 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Another athlete to keep an eye on is <strong>Chibunna Ehirim<\/strong> of Curro Aurora, who won the 200m for Boys u16 in 22.12 seconds while also bagging a silver medal in the 400m in 50.85 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>He was beaten in the 400m by <strong>Matimba Baloyi <\/strong>of Curro Hazeldean, who took gold in a meeting record time of 49.37 seconds. Baloyi also secured a first place in the 400m-hurdles as he crossed the finish line in 55.50 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>In the 400m for Boys u19 <strong>Adam Motlaung<\/strong> (Curro Hazeldean) left his opposition behind winning in an excellent time of 47.48 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If his performance during the annual Abrie van Staden-meeting hosted by Ho\u00ebrskool Garsfontein is anything to go by \u2013 Tiisetso Malungane (Curro Hazeldean) will break a lot of middle-distance records during the 2026 season. Malungane produced a full 1 000 points in the 1500m according to the Athletics South Africa (ASA) points system, winning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}