Huseyidin Mohamed Esa received the boys’s race in a course document 2:04:55 and Dera Dida Yami secured the ladies’s title in 2:23:18.
As anticipated, a strong international contingent led the cost on Sunday, dominating the Sanlam Cape City Marathon.
With a handful of elite SA athletes withdrawing forward of the race resulting from damage, worldwide guests have been the primary protagonists within the males’s contest.
Delivering a spectacular efficiency in ultimate situations, Huseyidin Mohamed Esa of Ethiopia wound up the tempo with relentless surges within the closing levels to win the race in 2:04:55, attaining the quickest 42km time ever run on African soil.
His compatriot, Yihunilign Adane, took second place in 2:04:59, and Kenyan athlete Kalipus Lomwai was third in 2:05:06.
With the highest 10 males operating below the earlier course document (2:08:16) no South Africans featured on the entrance of the sphere.
Skilled veteran Stephen Mokoka, a three-time winner of the race, was the primary SA competitor to complete, with the 41-year-old athlete taking thirteenth place in 2:10:48 to cut practically 5 minutes off his personal nationwide document for athletes over the age of 40.
Kenyan legend Eliud Kipchoge, a former world document holder and two-time Olympic champion, ended sixteenth in 2:13:29.
Different outcomes
Within the ladies’s race, Ethiopia’s Dera Dida Yami triumphed in 2:23:18, lower than a minute exterior the course document of two:22:22 set by native star Glenrose Xaba in 2024.
Mestawut Fikir took the runner-up spot in 2:23:46 and Waganesh Amare completed third in 2:23:57, with Ethiopian athletes sweeping the rostrum.
“Round 36km I used to be actually assured I used to be going to win the race,” Yami stated.
“My purpose was to interrupt the course document however at the moment was not my day to interrupt it. Subsequent time with good preparation I’ll come again and I’ll do it.”
Mia Morrison was the primary SA lady to complete, taking fifteenth place in 2:49:52.
Within the wheelchair races, British athlete David Weir, a former Paralympic marathon champion, received the title in 1:30:20, and Manuela Schar of Switzerland, a former world marathon champion, took the ladies’s occasion in 1:43:25.
On Saturday, native athletes dominated the 10km Peace Run, with South African document holder Maxime Chaumeton securing victory within the males’s occasion in 27:42, and Tayla Kavanagh setting a private better of 31:26 within the ladies’s occasion, crossing the road simply 14 seconds exterior the nationwide document (31:12) held by Xaba and climbing to 3rd place within the all-time SA rankings.
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