Modderbee Jail warder Lesiba Mmotlana and Benoni Northerns Athletic Membership (BNAC) runner Alexandra Westner emerged victorious within the males’s and ladies’s 42.2km races on the inaugural MNS Attorneys Carnival Metropolis Marathon on Could 1.
Mmotlana clinched the lads’s race forward of Fortunate Morajane and Completely happy Vuyo, whereas Westner beat Pertonella Khumalo and Sheree Rogers to the ladies’s title.
Males’s race
The Correctional Companies RC runner was overwhelmed with feelings when speaking to the media after his victory, saying that it was his first-ever marathon victory.
“It’s my first time profitable a race. Due to Ben Maluleka for pacing me within the first lap. I missed good occasions in marathons final 12 months. I used to be on a program to attain six consecutive sub-three-hour marathons. I achieved it at this time. That’s why I’m emotional,” he mentioned.
The athlete led the lads’s race early on however realised on the midway level that he was within the lead. He ran the primary 13km in 50:05, earlier than overlaying the following 21km in 01:24:44.
He then ran the remaining 8km in 38:09, finally breaking the tape in 02:52:57, shattering his marathon file of 02:55:32 achieved eventually 12 months’s Sanlam Cape City Marathon by 02:35.
“I’m so excited. I’m now trying ahead to the Comrades. I hope to attain a back-to-back silver medal,” mentioned Mmotlana.
Morajane was 04:08 off the tempo after ending second in 02:57:05 and Vuyo accomplished the highest three 19 seconds after the Workforce Eish runner.
Ladies’s race
Victory was the furthest factor on Westner’s thoughts when she stood on the beginning line. She was concentrating on a Comrades Marathon C seeding and maintained a mean tempo of 05:08min/km within the first half of the double-lapper race.
She breezed by way of the primary 13km in 01:06:23 in third place earlier than taking the lead and finishing the following 21km in 01:47:54.
Westner elevated her tempo to five:09min/km within the final 8km to finally breast the tape in 03:38:58.
“I’m extraordinarily glad. The primary place is actually a bonus. I used to be going for my Comrades C seeding. A win makes my coronary heart glad. It was an excellent race, well-organised and it had such an excellent vive on the water stations,” she mentioned.
The runner-up Khumalo of Run Zone crossed the road in 03:41:05, whereas the Boksburg Athletic Membership’s (BAC) Sheree Rogers completed 14 seconds behind in 03:41:19.
Half-marathon
Kabelo Mwahla and Deneke Snyman clocked 01:10:32 and 01:37:29, respectively, to win the lads’s and ladies’s 21.1km races.
Qhubeka AC’s Mwahla beat the BAC’s Maphuti Majetja, who clocked 01:10:36 for second place, and Desmond Makola (01:17:13) to the title.
Alberton Athletic Membership’s Snyman completed 01:44 forward of runner-up Claudia Figueira of Bedfordview Athletic Membership, with Figueira’s teammate, Veronica Warmington, third in 01:43:00.
Tshiamo Sedumedi, the MD of the headline sponsor, MNS Attorneys, expressed gratitude to the over 1 800 runners who participated within the race.
“Kudos to Mamepe Striders and the MNS crew that put this collectively. It was well-organised. It was our first race. We had been check driving. We’ll return to the drafting board to see what else could be carried out to enhance the race. The intention is to have this partnership with Mamepe for so long as potential,” he mentioned.
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