It's a special golden era for SA athletics

There have been golden periods when South Africa has had more quality at the highest level of international track and field, but athletics in this country is experiencing unprecedented depth.

- Wesley Botton

On Tuesday, there were a total of 16 athletes competing at World Athletics Continental Tour meetings in Switzerland and Italy.

We also have 70 youth and junior athletes competing this week at the African U-18 and U-20 Championships, and next week a full national squad will turn out at the World Student Games.

On top of this, we've never had so many athletes competing on the top-flight Diamond League circuit.

At the Rabat leg of the series earlier this season we had 10 South Africans competing.

There have been seasons in which we haven't had 10 athletes competing throughout the entire Diamond League campaign.