Adnaan Mohamed
Sports Writer
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Favourite Rugby Team
Springboks
Favourite Rugby Player
Siya Kolisi
Favourite Sports Ground
Stade de France, Paris
Favourite Sports Movie
Chasing the Sun
Adnaan Mohamed is a vastly experienced professionally decorated multimedia sports journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa who has written for various publications in the Media24 Group - the biggest media house in South Africa.
Fun Fact
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Joining the Springbok Rugby team in a training session and scrumming against the legendary double World Cup winning prop forward, Tendai “Beast” Mtawarira, at the Subiaco Oval in Perth Australia in 2009.
Favourite Sporting Memory
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Wayde van Niekerk breaking the 400m World Record at the Olympic Games in Rio and South Africa winning the Rugby World Cup’s in Japan 2019 and Paris 2023.
Adnaan Mohamed
Adnaan is a former rugby player and ultra-distance marathon runner who participates in and covers a wide range of sports events specializing in rugby and Olympic Sports.
Adnaan has run 21 Two Oceans (56km) Marathons and 20 Comrades (90km) Marathons.
He has covered four Olympic Games Beijing 2008, Rio de Janeiro 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 as well as four Rugby World Cups in New Zealand 2011, England 2015, Japan 2019, and France 2023.
In addition to his work as a journalist, Adnaan is also a sports industry executive. He has served as an elite athlete manager, board member and chairperson of Western Province Athletics.
Adnaan is the founder of theathlete.co.za and is currently freelancing as a broadcast journalist and sports analyst for Newzroom Afrika and produces video content for Gallo Images.