1967 — Anne McKenzie, less than a month before turning 42, finishes second in the 880 yards (805 metres) at the British women’s amateur athletics championships in London in 2min 7.4sec. She was well behind England’s Ann Smith, bronze medallist at the Commonwealth Games the previous year, but McKenzie’s time for 800m was measured at 2:06.5, which counted as a world record for the 40-44-year age group. It stood until 1994 and by 2022 it was still third on the all-time list. McKenzie, despite focusing on track and field so late in life, had been SA’s pre-eminent female middle-distance runner in the 1960s.
1979 — Jody Scheckter finishes seventh in the French Grand Prix in Dijon, but it’s enough to keep his lead of the drivers’ championship.
2007 — India clinch the three-match ODI series against SA 2-1 when they edge the weather-hit final by six wickets with four balls remaining in Belfast. Justin Kemp top-scored with 61 in SA’s 148/7 off 31 overs. Yuvraj Singh struck an unbeaten 61 to steer India home.
2019 — Bafana Bafana go down 0-1 to Morocco in their final Africa Cup of Nations group match in Cairo. Even though they won only one group game and lost two, SA still advanced as the fourth-best third-placed team from the six groups.
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