Sport at Balwin Properties

Get Fit. Stay Healthy.
Play with Balwin Sport.

Balwin Sport exists to promote a healthy and sustainable lifestyle for our clients and staff, while focusing on the upliftment of the communities around where we develop, through creating sport transformation opportunities, and growing the Balwin brand.

This is achieved through hosting and partnering with events in and around our developments, highlighting the lifestyle opportunities available to residents of our estates experienced the Balwin Lifestyle before.

Our core sports are Cycling, Padel (Development), Running, Soccer & Swimming, with the Balwin Foundation at the root of the development of these sports in our communities.

Join us to get fit, stay healthy, and play with Balwin Sport.

Cycling

Balwin Properties support the local events hosted by Cycling South Africa at Thaba Eco Lifestyle Centre and Thaba Trails, in support of the fantastic work that they are doing for the young cyclists in South Africa, with a variety of events being hosted from XCC, XCO, EDR and XCM. Both Regional and National events have been hosted as well as the AFCON in 2023. The trails are well maintained cut specifically for each event. The trails are open to riders of all levels from beginners who want to learn to ride to the more experienced rider training for bigger events around the country and internationally, with a 10km, 25km and 40km offering available for all skill levels.

Padel

Balwin Properties drive to make sport accessible to all is continues in the worlds fastest growing sport, that is generally only accessible to the more affluent communities. Through Balwin Sport we have the ability to utilise the facilities owned by Balwin Lifestyle to enable those who generally would not have the means or access to these facilities to play and learn the game, with the hope of unearthing the next padel world champion. We have run multiple charity events and brought in a number of kids from less fortunate communities to learn from our coaches and giving them the opportunity to play the game that they may never have had access to.

Swimming

Safety around water is a valuable life skill that many are not provided with. Balwin has taken on the challenge of teaching as many of our residents, staff and communities around our developments how to swim and be safe around water. Through the utilization of our existing swimming pools and lagoons in the developments, as well as community pools and swim schools in the local area, we have taught over 1,000 people to swim. Not only are we teaching people to swim but we are also teaching the teacher, by empowering our lifeguards to become Learn to Swim instructors, thereby providing them with employment opportunities throughout the year, when the pools are normally closed for the colder months. This eco system provides employment, education, training and provides life saving skills to many.

Soccer

As part of Balwin’s commitment to unearthing talent and giving those who don’t have the means the ability to benefit from great coaching, training programs are being rolled out at each of the Balwin developments with a soccer field, allowing the residents kids the opportunity to receive a free training session once a week, from top class coaches, right within the developments themselves, encouraging kids to get out of the apartments and get fit and healthy in the outdoors and to play with their respective neighbours. This is a value add specifically to benefit our residents and their kids, who don’t all have the opportunities to participate in coordinated sporting programs and benefit from great coaching.

Running

Balwin Sport has become a household name in the running community through the support of a number of running clubs and their respective races in the areas around where we have property developments, including the Wild Joburg Trail run at Thaba Trails, the Balwin Sport Marathon Series, consisting of 4 races in each city where Balwin is present, the False Bay 50 in the Western Cape and the Mandela Day Run & Walk. We are also the presenting partner at monthly runs for the local community in Umhlanga, with the Umhlanga Pearls Run & Walk and the Monthly Rock Up and Run in Ballito, all benefitting the Balwin Residents and the local communities, while both raising funds for fantastic causes.

The Balwin Sport Marathon Series has grown to over 25,000 participants across the 4 races with Balwin Sport helping the host clubs put together some of the most popular races in the country, allowing the clubs to raise funds for their development programs and support runners without the means to be able to participate and achieve their goals. The Series encourages runners who participate to visit the Balwin developments nationwide for the chance to win a fully furnished apartment, thereby changing a runner’s life for ever.

Message from Balwin Sport

Balvin Sport is the brainchild and dream of our CEO, Steve Brooks. Its goal is to promote a healthy and sustainable lifestyle for our clients and staff while creating sports development opportunities and growing the Balwin brand.

Balwin Sport, a vital part of the Balwn Foundation, stands on three pillars: Training, which uplifts the local communities through artisanal skills development; Charity, which provides focused support to the needs of the local communities; and Sport, which champions our leading sporting clubs of Running (Road Trail), Cycling (Road & MTB), Soccer, and the globally popular Padel.

We have run successful events, including the Balwin Sport Marathon Series, Ultimate Athlete, various MTB events with Cycling South Africa and Gauteng Cycling, Trail running races in Wild Joburg, the Rise Up Run and Ride in Umhtali, and the Mandela Day Walk & Run.

Ryan Kalk
MD of Balwin Sport and Balwin National Sales Manager

Balwin Sport Marathon Series

Balwin Sport has created a first-of-its-kind series with four marathons in the same country all connected with the common thread of promoting fitness & health while giving participants in the 5/10/21/42Km races the unique opportunity to win a fully furnished apartment, as well as the chance to qualify for the Comrades Marathon.

Four iconic races in each region within which we develop have been included in the Series: the Jeppe Marathon, the Peninsula Marathon, the Pretoria Marathon, and the Dolphin Coast Marathon. These are all clubs with an extensive history, well-run comrades and races, and good athlete development programs.

We have brought on many strategic partners to add value to the clubs and the runners, including Capitol Hotels, Biddulphs, Asics, 32Gi, Techniblock, and more. Look out for the next annual event on the events link below.