The club’s men and female athletes made clean sweep over the weekend at the Avis Van Rental Run2Raise 10km race in George.

 

The men’s 10km race was won by Godwin Heyns in a time of 35:01. Aviwe Kinana was second in 37:31 and Melikhaya Msizi third in 38:17.

 

Stephany Petro was victorious in the women’s race clocking a time of 39:53. Melissa van Rensburg raced to a second place finish in 40:31 with Cecilia Nel third in 44:14.

 

**Another good result for Nedbank Running Club was Rudo Mhonderwa winning the MiWay Wally Hayward half-marathon in a time of 1:21:41.

 

The Wally Hayward Marathon was a tightly contested affair with only 83 seconds separating the first three athletes. William Mokwalakwala (MiWay) won in 2:23:41 followed by Charles Soza (Ned RC) in 2:24:41 and Charles Tjiane (Maxed Elite) third in 2:25:04.

 

The women’s marathon boiled down to a duel between Cobie Smith (Vitality) and Samulekiso Moyo (Ned RC). In the end it was Smith who prevailed winning in a time of 3:04:22 with Moyo finishing second in 3:05:04.

 

Simon Bopape (Ned RC) was third in the men’s junior 21km-race. He was timed at 1:23:32.

 

** Precious Duma (Ned RC) raced to victory at the Hibiscus 50km running 4.18.40. Nonkululeko Mbambo was second in 4.27.53 and Mahlohonolo Lepheane third in 4.43.45

**Nedbank Running Club won the team prize at the Jacob Zuma 42km. The victorious athletes are: Sthembele Faneko 2.33.51, Mzwenkosi Mjaja 2.40.10, Bongani Mdletshe 2.48.59 and Syvion Madikane 2.52.51.

 

**A really good result was Asefa Mengistu (Ned RC) finishing 7th in the London Marathon running a time of 2:10:04.