Nick Durandt dies

LEGENDARY boxing trainer Nick Durandt died after a motorcycle accident near Clarens in the Free State yesterday afternoon.

Damien Durandt, his son, was with him when he died in a Bethlehem hospital.

Durandt, 53, wrote his name indelibly in the annals of South African boxing by producing more champions than any other trainer in the country, in a career spanning 30 years. He produced about 100 SA boxing champions.