The Lion of the North on a success trail
Mohlala also run in the Steel to Steel 50km race in a time of four hours and 17 seconds and the 42, 2km McCarthy Volkswagen Pretoria race in 2011 in a time of four hours and 37 seconds
He is known as the Lion of the North not for nothing but Molopo Patrick Mohlala is known on the roads and on the athletics track as he is a runner.
Mohlala is a member of the Eskom Athletics Club.
He has run the Comrades Marathon 15 times and achieving 15 medals in the process and his best time was eight hours 14 seconds running from Pietermaritzburg to Durban in 2003 and 2004 with a time of eight hours and 51 seconds.
He has also competed in the 50km Loskop Marathon and his best times was four hours and eight seconds in 2001 and the Matla Black Gold Mine 42, 2km race with a time of three hours and ten seconds in 2003.
Mohlala also run in the Steel to Steel 50km race in a time of four hours and 17 seconds and the 42, 2km McCarthy Volkswagen Pretoria race in 2011 in a time of four hours and 37 seconds.
He has run the Mall of the North 42,2km race (3,49), Greatest Training Race 32km (2,15) Coaldust Road Runners 42,2 race (3,59).
Mohlala has also competed in the 56km Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town in 2018 in a time of five hours and 58 seconds, the City to City Pretoria to Johannesburg 50km race in a time of four hours 38 seconds in 2008 and 42,2km Vaal Marathon in a time of three hours 25 seconds.
“I will be running in the Loskop Marathon this year and I will be aiming for my 20th medal in the race. I have a lot of medals, some of which are kept at my other home,” said Mohlala displaying some of his many medals in Vosman
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