Gerda Steyn prolonged her streak to an astounding sixth successive Two Oceans Marathon titles on Saturday.
The Hollywood Athletics Membership runner was as soon as once more dominant within the race that noticed her lead from the begin to an unchallenged ending tape on the UCT rugby fields, crossing the road in 3:29:11.
Talking after her win, Steyn stated: “I’m so proud to be right here and be capable of use my God-given expertise, and to take pleasure in it in the way in which that I do, is nothing however a blessing. I’m grateful for a way at present performed out.”
She stated that her race technique labored from the beginning.
“I deliberate to go a bit bit quicker within the first half of the face, and I wished to be round a minute faster than I used to be final yr, which is a giant quantity to take off, and I used to be proper on plan.”
This yr the title sponsors dangled a significant carrot with a R250 000 incentive for breaking the document, however Steyn says finishing this feat was not high of thoughts.
“I’m not in any respect (disenchanted), I really feel it was 100% profitable. You possibly can’t all the time break the document, getting a sixth victory in a row is a ten out of 10. I deliberate to go a bit quicker within the first half, a minute faster than final yr and I used to be proper on plan as a result of it made everybody drained. I opened a niche early on and it was enjoyable and a motivation.”
Saturday’s race proved that Steyn is the darling of South African working and he or she says the help is one thing she is so appreciative of.
“I can not put into phrases, from the primary kilometre and to the kilometre, it has simply been ‘Go, Gerda, Go!’ It’s bathe for help, and I hope with my efficiency at present I can share it with that quantity of help that I’ve obtained.”
Kenya’s Shelmith Muriuki was second with a time of three:37:51 with Neheng Khatala of Lesotho in third coming in 3:40:39.
High 10 girls’s finishers on the 2025 Two Oceans Marathon
1. Gerda Steyn (RSA) 03:29:11
2. Shelmith Muriuki (KEN) 03:37:51
3. Neheng Khatala (LSO) 03:40:39
4. Carla Natalia Molinaro (GBR) 03:43:45
5. Dikeledi Majara (LSO) 03:46:24
6. Nobuhle Tshuma (ZIM) 03:51:13
7. Worke Amena (ETH) 03:51:57
8. Meseret Biru (ETH) 03:53:19
9. Landie Greyling (RSA) 03:57:39
10. Deanné Laubscher (RSA) 03:59:12
In the meantime, Lesotho’s Khoarahlane Seutloali pulled off a shock victory within the males’s race.
The Hollywood Athletics Membership runner clocked a comparatively gradual time of three:10:46.
South Africa’s Siboniso Sikhakhane was second in 3:11:17 forward of compatriot Fortunate Mohale of Nedbank Operating Membership in 3:11:26.
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