Distance Running Results Vol
Distance Running Results Vol. 13, No. 22 – 3 June 2013 © Distance Running Results. All rights reserved. ____________________________________________________________________ Distance Running Results (DRR) publishes results of races 800 metres and longer from all over the world with the focus on South African results. DRR is available by subscription only. For subscription information send an e-mail to the address at the end of this issue. Publisher: Riël Hauman ____________________________________________________________________ EDITORIAL If there is such a thing as an undramatic Comrades Marathon, this one was it. Claude Moshiywa was at the front of the 88 th Comrades since he took the lead on one of the five big hills, Inchanga, soon after the halfway mark and for the last 90 minutes he ran unchallenged to the finish in Pietermaritzburg. The hot and very windy conditions slowed him over the last 10 km and he had an especially tough time up the last hill, Polly Shorts, which crests just less than 8 km from the end, but he won comfortably in 5:32:08 to become the first South African winner of the “up” run since Jetman Msutu took the title in 1992. Moshiywa’s winning margin over the Swede Jonas Buud, who sliced through the field in the second half, was 9:12. The reigning “down” run champion, Ludwick Mamabolo, finished fourth, while defending up run champion Stephen Muzinghi took the last gold medal. Five South African men finished in the top ten. In the women’s race it was business as usual, with the Nurgalieva twins filling the first two positions. Elena got her eighth victory, just one short of the record nine of Bruce Fordyce, in 6:27:08.
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