QSB training camp on this month
The penultimate Quinton-Steele Botes (QSB) athletics training camp will take place early this month.
The 24th annual camp is slated for 4 to 7 January at the Independence Stadium in the capital.
More than 7 000 athletes, coaches, teachers and parents have benefited from the camp over the past 23 years. The camp was started by the late Quinton-Steele Botes to promote and improve sport, especially athletics in Namibia. He died on 23 June 2014 after a long fight with cancer. He was a local sport consultant, sport administrator and former technical manager for the Namibia National Olympic Committee.
Botes's dream was to keep the programme in operation for 25 years.
Local coach Leoni van Rensburg took it upon herself to see that dream through. Van Rensburg, who is the caretaker of the QSB training camp, told Nampa on Thursday that she would like to make the 25th annual training camp the biggest of its kind yet. In a media statement issued the same day, she said the focus of the camp is for athletes and track-and-field officials to get access to new information and techniques and exercises that help improve their performances, while teachers and parents are informed of how they could assist athletes throughout the year. Marathon Sugar, Coca-Cola, Bank Windhoek, Wimpy, Arebbusch Lodge, Olympia Liquor Shop, Avis Rent-a-Car, Dunlop 2000, Tren Tyre, Hyundai, Food Lovers Market and Remax Welwitschia made it possible for athletes and coaches from across Namibia to participate in the 24th QSB training camp. The athletes will be trained in track-and-field events such as sprints, middle- and long-distance running, relay, hurdles, long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault, shot put, discus, javelin and hammer throw.
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The 24th annual camp is slated for 4 to 7 January at the Independence Stadium in the capital.
More than 7 000 athletes, coaches, teachers and parents have benefited from the camp over the past 23 years. The camp was started by the late Quinton-Steele Botes to promote and improve sport, especially athletics in Namibia. He died on 23 June 2014 after a long fight with cancer. He was a local sport consultant, sport administrator and former technical manager for the Namibia National Olympic Committee.
Botes's dream was to keep the programme in operation for 25 years.
Local coach Leoni van Rensburg took it upon herself to see that dream through. Van Rensburg, who is the caretaker of the QSB training camp, told Nampa on Thursday that she would like to make the 25th annual training camp the biggest of its kind yet. In a media statement issued the same day, she said the focus of the camp is for athletes and track-and-field officials to get access to new information and techniques and exercises that help improve their performances, while teachers and parents are informed of how they could assist athletes throughout the year. Marathon Sugar, Coca-Cola, Bank Windhoek, Wimpy, Arebbusch Lodge, Olympia Liquor Shop, Avis Rent-a-Car, Dunlop 2000, Tren Tyre, Hyundai, Food Lovers Market and Remax Welwitschia made it possible for athletes and coaches from across Namibia to participate in the 24th QSB training camp. The athletes will be trained in track-and-field events such as sprints, middle- and long-distance running, relay, hurdles, long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault, shot put, discus, javelin and hammer throw.
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