What a year 2019 was! Our reporters Bongani Magasela, SihleNdebeleSK and trueG_88 look back on the year that was in sport.
Any boxing review of 2019 would have to start with IBO, WBA, IBF WBO heavyweight boxing champion of the world Anthony"AJ" Joshua. The 30-year-old Englishman recently reclaimed titles from Andy Ruiz Jr in Saudi Arabia with a skilled and disciplined performance.Many wrote off Bafana's chances at the 2019 Afcon in Egypt but the team performed better than expected.SA made it to the last eight but were knocked out by Nigeria.
On top of that, the launch of the eagerly-awaited women's professional league by SA Football Association in September also ranks among the good things that happened in women's football this year.David Notoane led SA to qualification for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. The Junior Bafana Bafana achieved this feat through finishing third at the Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt last month.
This is SA's third Olympic qualification, having been part of the 2000 and 2016 editions in Sydney, Australia, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazi,l respectively.
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