It is no secret that the Nedbank RC athletes have set their sight on dominating South Africa’s oldest and most prestigious ultra-race as they did at the Two Oceans. The club’s athletes made local running history by winning all four the elite races.

Fikile Mbutuma, Eric Ngubane, Ludwick Mommobola, , Claude Moshiywa and Mike Fokoroni are just some of the athletes who has the ability to race from the front when the real battle to be crowned as “Comrades King” starts.”
Last year’s winner of the Comrades women’s race, Charné Bosman, has her sights set on achieving something very few South African female ultra-racers had been able to do and that is to win the up and down runs in consecutive years. The last athlete to have achieved this unique feat was Frith van der Merwe when she won the 1988 and 1989 races.

**As to the weekend’s results. Nedbank Running Club can claim to have impacted on the international racing scene as Moses Kiptoo won the African Day 21km in London in a time of 1:04:35 with Precious Mashele finishing second in 1:04:53.

**The big event over the weekend was the FNB Cape Town 12 ONERUN which was one by Morris Gachaga (Kenya) in 33:27. David Manja who finished fifth was the best placed Nedbank RC-athlete. He ran a time of 34:10.
The women’s race was won by Britain’s Tish Jones in a time of 39:50. Rutendo Nyahora (Ned RC) was fifth in 41:24.

**Liza-Marie Kingston raced to a second place finish in the Sunridge Village 10km in Port Elizabeth. Her time was 39:20.

**Amy Abrahams finished second in the 10km race during the Western Province Cross Country League-meeting in Bellville. Natasha Oosthuizen was second in the women’s 4km race.

**Kutlwisiso Sidinile won the RAC men’s junior 10km race in a time of 32:38.