Ans Botha to be awarded IAAF Coach of the Year

Wayde Van Niekerk and coach, Ans Botha, photo by PhotoRun.net

CAPE TOWN (RSA): Sport24.co.za informs that Wayde Van NiekerkÂ´s coach Ans Botha will be awarded Coach of the Year by the IAAF later this month. Van Niekerk himself is also is in line for the IAAF World Athlete of the Year. He is currently undergoing rehabilitation after a surgery for an injured knee and will be out for a period of up to six month, ruling him out of the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Interestingly this week US sprinter, Curtis Mitchell, is in Bloemfontein and started to work with Ans Botha.

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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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