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Race Recap: Spar Mercury Women’s 10-K Challenge
Posted June 25th, 2007 at 5:00 AM by Bob Ramsak
Section: News & Results
René Kalmer, a 26-year-old teacher from Krugersdorp, scored an emphatic victory in the second race of the Spar Grand Prix Series, storming away from the start and clocking a personal best of 32:54 in the Spar Mercury Women’s 10-k Challenge. After also having won the first race in the series, in Port Elizabeth on May 5, Kalmer now tops the points table with 66 points, 13 ahead of Poppy Mlambo, who finished third here.
Apart from Kalmer, the highlight of the day was produced by 42 year-old Russian Madina Biktagirova, who was sixth in a superb 34:59. Just a week ago, in the same stadium where this race also finished, Kingsmead, she finished third in the Comrades Marathon over a distance almost nine times farther than this.
Fellow veteran Grace de Oliveira, who won the last gold medal in the Comrades, was 24th here. Kalmer’s younger sister Christine, a student in civil engineering at the University of Arkansas, finished eighth in 35:27, her fastest time since 2004.
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