Standerton joins in parkrun’s 20 years celebration
The Riverpark parkrun birthday event saw 70 participants compete. They ran five personal bests and one first-timer.
Parkrun celebrated its 20th year this past weekend with a nationwide party run where they encouraged volunteers to dress up for the party.
A special message was released by the parkrun founder, Paul Sinton-Hewitt, where he explained the roots of parkrun and the event that started it.
According to him, the first parkrun consisted of four volunteers and 13 runners in Bushy Park, London.
Today, more than 10 million people are registered across 23 countries and 2 500 different locations.
“I hope in the next 20 years parkrun is still as I intended it – free, for everyone, forever,” said Sinton Hewitt.
The Riverpark parkrun birthday event saw 70 participants compete. They ran five personal bests and one first-timer. Thabo Patrick Tsotetsi finished the route first in 33:49. Janko van der Linden achieved a new personal best with 23:12.
Eugene Viljoen completed the dash at 25:39, followed by Riaan Dippenaar (27:16) and Pieter Grobbelaar (27:35).
Thikolelwi Collins Madau finished at 29:30 and Andrew Ainsworth completed the 5km at 29:31.
The volunteers who made this event possible are Charl van Wyk, Jakobus van der Linden, Jennifer Naidoo, Karen van der Linden, Leandri van Wyk, Lizette Jansen van Rensburg, Lydia Roets, Preyanka Dorasamy, Renette da Sousa, Willy Smith and Zeldine Strydom.
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