Fortis Pretoria North boasts new outfits
The hugely successful Fortis Pretoria North Athletics Club recently celebrated their new outfits with an inaugural Cross-country competition at their home ground.
By this time, the Fortis Pretoria North Athletics Club does not really need introduction.
The achievements of this club’s athletes are well known and it’s especially in the field of Cross-country, where the club currently has no equal in the Gauteng North province.
After all the frustration of the Covid restrictions, athletes from everywhere these days are taking part in this sport with new perspective.
For Fortis Pretoria North, the relaxation of regulations and their consequent return to active participation also meant other renewals.
Club members were recently able to take part in the unveiling of their new outfits. The new feathers come in the form of their new running vests, which was launch at the club’s base at Hillside Golf Course recently.
After 26 years the club has produced 389 provincial athletes who among them won 39 medals at national as well as international level during this time.
Fortis Pretoria North also was the winner of most of the Gauteng North Cross Country league competitions through the past 10 years, producing 67 provincial athletes in 2019.
The inauguration of the club’s new outfits was celebrated with a race at the golf course, where the club practices regularly.
In the men’s division, the race was won by one of the club’s stalwarts, Bongani Nkosi.
The ladies section winner, 37-year-old Adel Terblanche, joined the club in 1997, won the South African Cross-country championships at the age of 16 and after school won a scholarship to study in the USA in Birmingham Alabama. She returned to South Africa and joined the club again, where she remains one of this club’s top athletes.
This launch was also attended by Buks Meyer the Chairman of Gauteng North’s Cross-Country Commission. The Gauteng North Cross-Country League meets North of Church Street will be hosted this year at Hillside Golf Course.
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