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Gatebe shatters Comrades 'down' record─── 11:12 Sun, 29 May 2016
Durban - South Africa's David Gatebe has broken the 'down' record in this year's Comrades Marathon.
Gatebe, running for the TomTom Athletics Club, stopped the clock in a time of 5:18.19, breaking Russian Leonid Shvetsov's 2007 record of 5:20.49.
Shvetsov has since been implicated in a doping scandal.
Gatebe won the Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon in 2013, pocketed R500 000 for his efforts - R400 000 for the victory and a bonus R100 000 for being a South African winner put up by the Department of Sport and Recreation South Africa.
Fellow South African Ludwick Mamabolo finished second in a time of 5:24.05, with another local runner Bongmusa Mthembu in third in 5:26.39.
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