Blast from the past: Cox powers to top of Dakar Rally podium

Today in SA sports history: January 10

1970 — Flank Piet Greyling scores a try as the Springboks draw 8-8 with Ireland at Lansdowne Road in Dublin. Fullback HO de Villiers converted the try and added a penalty.

1993 — Rudolph Seale and John “Shoes” Moshoeu score second-half goals as the SA soccer team beat Botswana 2-0 in a friendly in Gaborone.

1999 — Alfie Cox on a KTM wins the 295km ninth stage of the Dakar Rally from Bobo Dioulasso in Burkina Faso to Mopti in Mali in 3hr 37min 09sec, five minutes ahead of Carlo de Gavardo of Chile. Cox went on to finish third overall in the motorcycle class. 

2004 — Bafana Bafana are beaten for the first time by Mauritius as they go down 0-2 in a Cosafa Cup match in Curepipe. It was the ninth time the two sides had faced each other, with SA having won on five occasions. SA coach Shakes Mashaba couldn’t attend the match because he was serving a seven-day suspension handed to him by the SA Football Association for causing the premature retirement of some players and including injured players in his team for the Africa Cup of Nations.  He subsequently had the suspension overturned in court.

2015 — Substitute Sibusiso Vilakazi socres in the 76th minute to equalise in a friendly against Cameroon in Libreville, Gabon. The match was a warm-up ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea.