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Records tumble in 22km Cape Town Marathon Trail Run
Both the men’s and women’s 22km trail run winners from 2018 retained their titles on Saturday.
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Teboho Noosi and Bianca Tarboton not only successfully defended their titles in the Cape Town Marathon 22km Peace Trail Run, but both broke their own course records with Noosi making it a hattrick of wins.
Noosi took no prisoners as he immediately shot into the lead and progressed to destroy his opposition.
By the time he hit the trails, Noosi was already leading the race. Through the first check point of 8.5km the defending champion had a lead over Norwegian Borger Melsom of over a minute. His lead grew all the time and at 15km Melsom had dropped to fifth with Siboniso Soldaka moving into second, some 1:10 behind Noosi.
Clearly Noosi was leaving nothing to chance and continued to hammer the pace, eventually coming home in 1:25.40 – some two minutes and 50 seconds inside his own course record of 1:28.30 from 2017.
Noosi took his third title on the trot. Soldaka also came in under the previous record, finishing in 1:26.15. Siviwe Nkombi rounding out the top three (1:30.52).
“I took control from the gun,” said Noosi. “I knew early on that I was in good shape and decided to push for my record. I am really happy to break it by such a margin.”
Teboho Noosi shatters his own course record in the @CTMarathon @wildrunnerza 22km Peace Trail Run clocking 1:25.40. #CTMarathon#PeaceTrail2019#Wildrunnerza pic.twitter.com/p8rysEugjL
— Cape Town Marathon (@CTMarathon) September 14, 2019
Tarboton raced away with the women’s race. Just as in the men’s race, Tarboton took control early on in the race by surging up the climb to the bottom of Packs Track before the runners had even hit the trail. She extended her lead up the climb to Signal Hill and consolidated her lead as she headed off to the Glen.
By 8.5km she had a 1:41 lead over trail legend Landie Greyling who is returning to form after giving birth to her first child. Traboton came home in 1:45.31 to win the 22km Women’s race, taking 29 seconds off her own record from 2018.
Greyling held on to second place, with triathlete, Vicky van der Merwe rounding out the top three.
“I had no idea what was happening behind me,” said Tarboton. “I just went off, ran my own race and kept going. Breaking the record was a bonus for me.”
The 12km Peace Trail run was won by Admire Rushika and Lijan van Niekerk in the men’s and women’s races respectively.
Cape Town Marathon trail run results
Results 22km Peace Trail Run
Men: 1 Teboho Noosi 1:25.40 (New Course Record), 2 Siboniso Soldaka 1:26.15, 3 Siviwe Nkombi 1:30.52, 4 Gershwill Jacobs 1:32.35, 5 Borger Melsom 1:34.30
Women: 1 Bianca Tarboton 1:45.31, 2 Landie Greyling 1:54.15, 3 Vicky van der Merwe 2:00.50, 4 Amy Mathew 2:07.26, 5 Melissa Da Silva Gouveia 2:09.29
Results 12km Peace Trail Run
Men: 1 Admire Rushika 50:01, 2 Pule Tjaone 50:18, 3 Francois Maquassa 50:23
Women: 1 Lijan van Niekerk 1:04.05, 2 Maphuti Phaka 1:05.55, 3 Natalie Smit 1:13.12 – African News Agency (ANA), Editing by Michael Sherman
