UJ superstar Zarck Visser and fellow University of Johannesburg student Donovan Snyman followed up their victories last week with two more first place finishes in Johannesburg on Monday night.
The men’s javelin was dominated by Chad Herman from NMMU after he threw a 74.11 metres during the event. Herman left his biggest throw to his last which saw him power away from the rest of field and win the event by over six metres. Herman’s second throw was still good enough for him to win the competition but he wanted to throw further and he managed to do that. The race for second was quite close but it saw Jayson Henning produce a throw of 68.75 metres to edge out Ulrich Damon by just 70 centimetres.
The men’s discus was a far closer event which saw a number of athletes close enough to win the event. The eventual winner Donovan Snyman threw his logest throw in the first round of the competition but he was being chased by Wynand Carstens who went all out with his last throw that went over 53 metres but it was not enough as he ended just over a metre short of Snyman’s 54.94 metres. Snyman, who won last week, was able to better his throw from last week which will encourage the athlete from the University of Johannesburg.
It was the first enstalement of the men’s triple jump and UJ, once again, produced the winner of the event when Roger Haitengi out-jumped the others when he leapt 16.33 metres to win by well over a metre. On his home track Haitengi would have felt comfortable with his surroundings and the conditions which would have been a big help for him. Albert Janki from Tuks came in second – he was a further metre further than the third placed athlete.
In the highlight of the meeting Zarck Visser produced a fine exhibition of long jumping to stroll to victory in the men’s long jump. Visser is in the form of his life and no one has jumped further than him this year – in the world. The rest of the competitor were left towatch and admire the ability of the UJ athlete who jumped 7.81 metres last week and went to 8.16 metres this week. The conditions as well as being in front of his home crowd would have bouyed him on and it certainly assisted him.
Men’s Javelin:
Chad Herman (NMMU) 74.11m
Jayson Henning (NWU-Puk) 68.75m
Ulrich Damon (UWC) 68.05m
Ruben Heymans (Kovsies) 64.49m
Kyle Hoedemaker (UJ) 59.62m
Wesley Heunis (Tuks) 58.02m
Luan Retief (Maties) 48.38m
Marco Gerrison (TUT) 33.53m
Men’s Discus:
Donovan Snyman (UJ) 54.94m
Wynand Carstens (Maties) 53.21m
Ruan Murray (NWU-Puk) 52.46m
Charl Grobler (Tuks) 51.30m
Ryno van Winkel (Kovsies) 47.43m
Rudolf Van Vuuren (TUT) 41.13m
André September (UWC) 34.10m
Robert Scheun (NMMU) 31.23m
Men’s Triple Jump:
Roger Haitengi (UJ) 16.33m
Albert Janki (Tuks) 15.06m
Takalani Munyani (TUT) 14.61m
Heinrich Fortuin (Maties) 12.93m
Wian Pienaar (Kovsies) 12.81m
Nkosi Dlamini (NMMU) 12.75m
Hendrick Khumalo (NWU-Puk) 12.66m
Ruduan Arendse (UWC) 11.45m
Men’s Long Jump:
Zarck Visser (UJ) 8.16m
Francois Coetzee (Tuks) 7.66m
Garth Ellis (NMMU) 7.06m
Nardus Greyling (Kovsies) 7.04m
Luvo Nkewu (Maties) 6.97m
Brent Stevens (UWC) 6.83m
Lee van den Berg (NWU-Puk) 6.62m
Sechaba Sefuli (TUT) 6.34m
