Archive - Nov 9, 2005

Windhoek Harriers Club handed over the proceeds of several races, amounting to N$6 800 to the Christina Swart Opperman Aids Orphan Foundation Trust at a press conference in Windhoek on November 9.
At the occasion a former chairman of Windhoek Harriers, Keith Lewins said that the club had played a big role in the development of sport in Namibia.

Namibian professional tennis coach Elizma Nortje attended the 14th annual International Tennis Federation Worldwide Coaches Workshop in Turkey on October 17 ? 23.
Among the 300 participants from more than 100 nations were some of the world?s best coaches, technical directors and sport psychologists. These included Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, a former world number one and the youngest woman to win the French Open; Steven Martens, the technical director of the Flemish Tennis Association, who has worked with top Belgian players like Xavier Malisse, Justine Henin-Harden and Kim Clijsters; Luis Brugera who runs one of the top tennis academies in Spain and has worked with several world-class players such as his son, Sergei Brugera, a two-time winner of the French Open; and one of the world?s top biomechanists, Bruce Elliot of Australia.