GIFT LEOTLELA

Gift Leotlela

Gift Leotlela reflects on a dream season

If anyone had told Gift “Gift of Speed” Leotlela that he would end the year as a national 100m champion and a World Championships finalist, he admits he would have laughed it off.

Team South Africa relay team made up of Bayanda Walaza, Shaun Maswanganyi, Bradley Nkoana and Akani Simbine during the final of the mens 4x100m relays on day 14 of the 2024 Paris Olympic Game

Gift Leotlela, Akani Simbine ready to lead SA charge at World Champs

South African sprinters Gift Leotlela and Akani Simbine are in high spirits after winning their respective Men's 100m heats at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

SA athletics coach Thabo Matebedi with Olympian Bayanda Walaza

Athletes fund Coach Thabo Matebedi's trip for Italy training camp

Reigning African Coach of the Year, Thabo Matebedi has revealed to SABC Sport that his athletes Bayanda Walaza, Sinesipho Dambile, and Gift Leotlela have funded his trip to Italy to assist them ahead of the World Championships.

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - MARCH 19: Bayanda Walaza wins the 200m race during the 2025 Athletics Grand Prix 2 at University of Johannesburg Athletics Stadium on March 19, 2025 in Johannesbu

Thabo Matebedi excited for Bayanda Walaza, Gift Leotlela's Brussels showdown

South African sprint training partners Bayanda Walaza and Gift Leotlela are set to face each other tonight in the men’s invitational 100m race at the Diamond League meeting in Brussels, Belgium. 

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