It was time to celebrate at the Diamond Athletics Club on Saturday.
The Albemarle-based club held its year-end prize-giving at the Victoria Lake Club, where it honoured its top achievers for the year.
The club has been running for a decade and is headed up by John and Maria Diamond, with Maria being the head coach.
They specialise in sprints, hurdles and long jump.
The club has about 70 members across three hubs, one in Germiston, one in Kathorus and one in Daveyton.
The athletes from the Germiston-based hub train from Mondays to Thursdays at the Germiston Stadium.
In addition to athletics training, the club also offers biokinetics and physiotherapy to athletes to make sure they perform at their best.
They are in need of either a shuttle to transport athletes to competitions or monetary donations towards purchasing a shuttle.
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The top-achieving athletes were:
• Tiffany Martin: Double gold for 80m and 100m in the girls aged 11 section.
• Ndumiso Simelane: Gold at the CGA (Central Gauteng Athletics) Championship in long jump, with a jump of 5.78m in the boys 13 years old section.
• Markus Swanepoel: Gold for a long jump of 4.83m in the boys 11 years old section. He also started the season as a CGA champion, jumping 4.67m in October.
• Elviano Johnson broke the eight-year 200m record of 22.23 seconds twice during the season. He ran 22.02 seconds in heats and 21.91 seconds in the CGA final, in the boys 14 years old section. He also jumped 7.12m in long jump, making him the CGA champion in his section.
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