Former and present Comrades Marathon Association chairpersons to participate in Sunday’s virtual race
All surviving CMA chairpersons enter 'Race The Comrades Legends'
NINE former and present chairpersons of the Comrades Marathon Association (CMA) will participate in tomorrow’s (Sunday) ‘Race The Comrades Legends’ virtual event.
CMA vice-chairperson, Mqondisi Ngcobo, has signed up for the traditional 90km distance, planning to head south from his home in Pietermaritzburg on the Umbumbulu Road.
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If successful, he will be awarded the ‘Race the Comrades Legends’ 90km gold medal.
The immediate past two chairpersons, Sifiso Nzuza and Macdonald Chitja, along with board member Isaac Ngwenya, will be running together, albeit with the necessary social distancing.
They aim to complete the newly designated half-Comrades or 45km distance.
Chasing the ‘Race The Comrades Legends’ 21.1km bronze medals are CMA board members Steve Mkasi and Pat Freeman.
Fellow board members, Les Burnard, Celi Makhoba and Zinhle Sokhela, will be going all out – individually or with friends and family- in the hopes of earning the distinctive 10km matt black medal.
As for founding chairperson of the Comrades Marathon Association, Mick Winn, for the first time in 89 years, he will experience being pushed 5km in a wheelchair.
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He will be assisted by his wife, Cheryl, the present chairperson and other family members.
Overall entries to the ‘Race the Comrades Legends’ have surpassed the total number of entries received for the 2020 Comrades Marathon, and now stand at almost 29 000.
For more information, or to enter the CMA’s inaugural virtual race, click on https://www.comrades.com/race-the-comrades-legends-information.
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