Two-time Team SA Olympian Gerda Steyn blazed her way to a sixth successive win in the 56km Two Oceans Marathon around Cape Town on Saturday. Lesotho’s Khoarahlane Seutloali won the men’s race.
Steyn’s time of 3h 29min 11sec was outside the course record she had set last year, but she maintained that it was the win, not the record, that she had set out to accomplish.
“I am not at all (disappointed), I feel it was 100 percent successful. You can’t always break the record, getting a sixth victory in a row is a 10 out of 10. I planned to go a little faster in the first half, a minute quicker than last year and I was right on plan because it made everyone tired. I opened a gap early on and it was relaxing and a motivation.”
Seutloali pulled ahead on the final stretch to become the first man from Lesotho to win the Two Oceans since 2015. Representing Hollywood Athletics Club, Seutloali surged to the front in the closing kilometres, clinching victory with a time of 3:10:46. South Africans Sboniso Sikhakhane (3:11:17) and Lucky Mohale (3:11:26) were second and third.
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