Thabang Mosiako, the South African 5 000m champion, was in awesome form winning the 10km in 29:10. Phillimon Mathiba crossed the line in second place running 30.29.

David Manja proved that he is back to his best by winning the men’s 21km in 1:13:39. Joel Mmone his training partner was second in 1:13:54.

Oneilwe Dintwe won the women’s 21km in 1:20:05 while Obed Kopong was third in the men’s marathon. He ran a time of 2:26:15.

**The women’s 10km SPAR Grand Prix-series is set to become a humdinger. To try and predict who is going to win after the first two races is just foolhardy. Louisa Labello  (Nedbank RC) won in Cape Town and the past weekend in Port Elizabeth Kesa Molotsane (KPMG) was the first to sprint across the line.

Last year’s Grand Prix champion, Irvette van Zyl (Nedbank RC), is still battling to fire on all cylinders. She was second in both races.

Over the weekend in Port Elizabeth she was hampered by an ankle injury but being Van Zyl she was always going to go down fighting.

She started the race fast and stayed in the lead until the 8km mark. Then Moletsane, who had been running in a group of six or seven runners, pulled away.  She surged past Van Zyl and kept her lead until the end, although Van Zyl started closing in on her in the last 500 metres. In the end the two athletes were only separated by 8 seconds.

“At 9kms, I got my second wind. I thought to myself ‘dammit, I can still run’, and I started closing the gap” said Van Zyl who sprained her ankle last week.

She was outsprinted in both the SPAR Races. 

“I will have to try to work out how to deal with it in the next race.”

Moletsane’s winning time in Port Elizabeth was 33.13 minutes with Van Zyl finishing in 33:21 was eight seconds behind her. Mapaseka Makhanya finished in 33.40, six seconds ahead of Nolene Conrad.

Currently Molotsane is the Grand Prix log leader with 59 points, with Van Zyl in second place with 57 points and Labello in third place with 42 points.

** Lungile Gongqa (Nedbank RC), the Two Oceans Ultra-winner, finished third in the SSISA/UCT Memorial 10 km in Rondebosch. He ran a time of 30:46. The race was won by Siboniso Soldaka (CPUT) in a time of 30:27. The women’s race was won by Bulelwa Simae (Ned RC) in 39:10.

** Siviwe Nkombi (Nedbank RC) clocked 2:30:07 to finish third in the Langebaan Country Estate Weskus Marathon. Ursula Frans (Nedbank RC) was second in the women’s race. She ran 3:15:12.

** Moses Kurgat (Nedbank RC) finished second in the Waterberg Executive Mayor’s 28 km in Nylstroom. His time was 1: 9:12. Paul Nyairo (Nedbank RC) was second in the men’s 10km running 32:10.

**Tabitha Tsatsa (Nedbank RC) raced to a second place finish in the Konica Minolta Jackie Mekler 25km. Her time was 1:43:04.

**Zama Mokoena (Nedbank RC) won the women’s 4km race at the Deloitte Challenge and Savages Cross Country meeting in KwaZulu-Natal. Loveness Madziva was victorious in the women’s 10km-race with Mokoena finishing second.