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p4 :: Industry
People on the move
THERE HAVE been staff changes at
Sports Trader with Nelle du Toit joining
Iziko Museums to further her online
publishing career and Yamkela
Mkebe joining as our newest journalist.
Du Toit (above right) was responsible
for Sports Trader’s online
publications for the past two years.
Mkebe (above left) holds a journalism
diploma from Cape Peninsula
University of Technology and
has work experience as a journalist
for a community newspaper and as
a researcher for a fi lm and television
production company.
Rhianah Fredericks (below right)
has taken over the responsibilities
for our online publications and she is
supervised by Carin Hardisty (below
left), who is being groomed to manage
all Sports Trader publications.
Hardisty has been “in training”
Sports Trader :: 2014 March
at Sports Trader since high school,
when she assisted with the publication
of the Retail Directory during vacations.
She obtained a B.A. Drama
(technical and management) degree
from the University of Stellenbosch,
after which she joined Sports Trader
as a writer and designer nine years
ago. Since then, she has become responsible
for the design of the magazine
and many of the adverts we’ve
published, as well as writing in-depth
articles.
Fredericks has an honours degree
in English from UWC and
taught in rural Limpopo before joining
Sports Trader as an intern in
the beginning of last year. She has
become a valuable staff member,
responsible for most of the online
newsletter copy and several interesting
in-depth articles.
Reebok has signed
champion obstacle
racer Claude Eksteen
who will be wearing
their technical apparel
and performance
shoes in all future obstacle
races.
Before starting obstacle
racing in 2013,
Eksteen competed on
the international triathlon
circuit, achieving
various international
and local victories. He later switched to trail running, where he reached
elite ranks and became one of the best trail runners in the country.
World record holder and adidas
running ambassador,
Wilson Kipsang, will be coming
to Cape Town in April to
support this year's Old Mutual
Two Oceans Marathon participants.
Kipsang competed in and won
every race in which he ran last
year in adizero adios Boost —
including the NYC Half Marathon
(1:01:02) and the Berlin
Marathon (WR 2:03:23).
Dunlop’s Dominika Cibulkova
(#13 in women’s tennis at time
of going to print) created an
upset in the Australian Open
by beating some of the world’s
best players to reach the fi nal,
where she was beaten by China’s
Li Na. Cibulkova is the fi rst
Slovakian woman tennis player
to reach the fi nal of a Grand
Slam.
She plays with a Dunlop Biomimetic
M4.0 racket.
Wilson players, Grigor Dimitrov and Simona
Halep are up-and coming tennis
stars, who are improving their rankings
in the ATP and WTA singles.
Inov-8, locally distributed by Rebel
Elite Fiteness, has signed
two of the world’s fi ttest athletes:
Anna Tunnicliffe (Olympic
gold medalist in the laser radial
class and two-time World Sailor
of the Year) and Dan Bailey
(a former track and fi eld star at
Ohio University).
Tunnicliffe (left) made her debut
at the CrossFit Games last
July and reached ninth position,
while Bailey placed eighth.
They will wear shoes from inov-8’s
F-Lite and Fastlift ranges
in 2014.
New Balance SA has signed Protea
Cricket player, David Miller, who will
be using their bats and other items on
the pitch.
Miller made his debut in 2010, when
he replaced Jacques Kallis in a game
against the West Indies and scored
tops in the T20 (his fi rst).
By the 2011/2012 season, Miller averaged
68 with the bat and was contracted
to the Kings XI Punjab. He also
plays for Yorkshire England in their
C
domestic league.
In the 2013 IPL, Miller hit 101 off 38
M
balls in a game against Bangalore, the
third fastest ever recorded in the Y history
of the IPL.
Dimitrov has won
his fi rst career ATP
World Tour title (in
Stockholm) and has
reached a new career
high of #19 on
the ATP singles rankings.
Halep has beaten
former US Open
Champion, Samantha
Stosur in Moscow
to claim her fi fth WTA title of the
year. She is now ranked #10 on the
WTA singles table.
Skechers, locally distributed by Footwear
Trading, has renewed their sponsorship
of Olympic Silver medallist
long distance runner, Meb Kefl ezighi.
The athlete will remain the offi cial
brand ambassador of the GOrun line
till the end of 2016 and will also continue
working with the Skechers Performance
Division, testing and developing
new products. Skechers is also
launching a GO MEB running shoe line
in his honour.
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