Afrigather Zimbabwean runners reigned supreme within the half marathon of the TotalSports Two Oceans Marathon on Saturday morning, with debutant Moses Tarinyiku triumphant in a three-means walk pause whereas Lucky Chidzivo won the females’s walk at a canter.
Tarakinyu showed sizable combating spirit to unsuitable the pause line after 21.1 km in a time of 1: 03: 31, excellent 1.55 seconds sooner than South Africa’s Elroy Gelant, the defending champion from 2019 after the 2020 and 2021 editions of the walk possess been scrapped because Covid-19.
One more South African, Desmond Mokgobu, came third and the head three possess been engaged in a thrilling fight to the pause line.
“I am very elated with this first discipline,” Tarinyiku acknowledged on the pause.
“It’s far my first time taking fragment within the Two Oceans. I struggled a microscopic bit from the 17km and I kept taking a explore at where Elroy became once “
In the females’s walk, Lucky Chidzivo gave Zimbabwe the double when she won in 1: 14: 49 in a technique more dominant kind.
Chidzivo executed a staggering 25 seconds sooner than Ethiopia’s Kore Tamiru Gelaye whereas one other Zimbabwean in Caroline Mhandu came third.
“I had abdominal cramps and became once vomiting last evening so so to utilize right here is such a pleasure. Right here’s a dream come correct. Yearly my wish has always been about stenting on that high podium.”
South Africa’s supreme finishers possess been Laura Labuschagne (4th) and Stella Marais (Sixth).
