Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon in Capetown, South Africa on traditional Easter Saturday date

Zimbabweans and Russians dominated the Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon in Capetown, South Africa on 22 March (its traditional Easter Saturday date).

Marco Mambo took the men's title, recording 3:11:35 for the 56km race to win by just under a minute from South African Mzwanele Maphekula. Russian twins Olesya and Elena Nurgalieva finished 1-2 in the women's race, with Olesya about 150m ahead of Elena.

Russian women also filled the next two places and the only South African woman to break four hours in this year's race was Riana Van Niekerk in 5th with 3:53:09.

In the associated Half Marathon event Zimbabwean George Majaji pipped South Africa's Lusapho April 1:03:31 to 1:03:34, while Lesotho's Mamorallo Tjoka won the women's race by a similar margin from Zimbabwe's Tabitha Tsatsa, 1:15:05 to 1:15:08.

Source: www.aims.org