Polokwane Athletics Club’s, Matome Rasekgala, and father and son, JJ and Johan van der Merwe, from the Pietersburg Road Runners during Saturday’s Mapungubwe Half Marathon in Polokwane.
POLOKWANE – This half marathon forms part of the annual Mpungubwe Arts Festival over December and is hosted by the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture.
The athletes who started and finished at the Polokwane Rugby Fields could enter the main race of 21,1 km as well as a 10 km race and a 5 km fun run.
This race was also well represented by long distance runners from Polokwane’s three athletics clubs, the Polokwane Athletics Club, Pietersburg Road Runners and Mzanzi Athletics Club.
Athletes from various other athletics and marathon clubs in Limpopo also came to take part in the race.
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