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Kelehe and Wostmann claim SA Comrades win─── 08:47 Mon, 01 Jun 2015
Gift Kelehe and Caroline Wostmann have become the first South African’s to win both the men’s and women’s races at the Comrades Marathon since 1992.
With the race celebrating its 90th running yesterday it was almost fitting for the reace to belong to the South African’s.
Kelehe won the up-run in a time of five hours 58 minutes 36 seconds and was followed across the lines by Ethiopia’s Mohammed Hussein some seven and a half minute later.
Wostmann who became the first South African woman to claim the Two Oceans-Comrades double in the same year clinched the women’s race in a time of 6 hours 12 minutes and 22 seconds, with Charne Bosman claiming second in a time of 6 hours 33 minutes and 24 seconds.
Meanwhile, Michael and Laura de Haast of Bloemfontein completed their Comrades double with the duo running from Pietermaritzburg to Durban along the Dusi River Valley on Saturday and then tackling the Comrades with the rest of the field yesterday.
The couple completed the Comrades in 11 hours 38 minutes 58 seconds to complete their over 200 km run.
Men's Gold: 1. Gift Kelehe – 05:38:36, 2. Mohammed Husein – 05:46:14, 3. Hatiwande Nayamande – 05:48:19, 4. Lebohang Monyele – 05:52:32, 5. Teboho Selo – 05:54:03, 6. Joseph Mphuthi – 05:54:29, 7. Claude Moshiywa – 05:55:17, 8. Stephen Muzhingi – 05:56:36, 9. Sandile Ngunuza – 05:57:08, 10. Thuso Mosiea – 05:59:08.
Women's Gold: 1. Caroline Wostmann – 06:12:22, 2. Charne Bosman – 06:33:24, 3. Elena Nurgalieva – 06:40:36, 4. Olesya Nurgavieva – 06:41:18, 5. Nina Podnebesnova – 06:41:48, 6. Eleanor Greenwood – 06:44:03, 7. Emmerentia Rautenbach – 06:45:22, 8. Joasia Zakrzewski – 07:00:45, 9. Simona Staicu – 07:01:14, 10. Yolandi Maclean – 07:01:49.
Morgan Piek / OFM News
