10 Jun '18: Results Comrades

Comrades

Sunday, 10 June 2018

The Moses Mabhida Stadium makes for a truly stunning finish to the Comrades Ultra Marathon!  Not without logistical challenges though, as runners must scale another massive flight of stairs, 3 levels, to exit or visit the club areas.  But arriving in the stadium, after 90 Kms on your feet, with crowds cheering must be amazing. 

Our first finisher was Nic De Beer (Silver, 06:53), who runs for KPMG and is frequently seen tearing up lane 8 at track on a Tuesday morning.  Congratulations to the following members on their Bill Rowan medals:  Colin Timmis (7:58, DURBAC), Gary Laue (8:13, WCoast),

Pieter Calitz (8:17, Chappies); Victoria Reuvers (8:32, Wildrunner); Marié Wessels (8:34); Daniel Sass (8:39); Robert Timmis (8:44); Erica Terblanche (8:48); Gregory Torr (8:51) and Mari Bester (8:52).

Esther Patience finished her 7th Comrades in (10:57) and earned a bronze medal (sub-11) for the first time.

Sean Featonby finished his second attempt in 11:25 and said: “Absolute relief, monkey off my back and rockstar wife with beer waiting!”

Our last finisher was Kelvin Trautman (11:58:35), often seen tearing up lane 4 at track on a Wednesday afternoon.  Kelvin ran at the tail end of the race, often in the opposite direction, carrying camera equipment, to complete a personal project, called The BackMarkers Project.  He is documenting the slowest ultra marathon runners from around the world.  Runners World published a lengthy feature on it this month and his story will be soon be published in a couple magazines overseas.  You can view some of his work on kelvintrautman.com.

All our members’ results are listed below:

#
Name and Surname
Event
Cat
Finish
Sex
License
 
 
Category
Pos
Time
Pos
Cub
1
Nic De Beer
MM40
48
06:53:16
152
KPMG 
2
Colin Timmis
MM40
358
07:58:16
986
Durbac
3
Gary Laue
MM40
470
08:13:08
1240
West Coast 
4
Pieter Calitz
MM40
505
08:17:31
1335
Chappies 
5
Victoria Reuvers
FFOPEN
65
08:32:41
105
Wild Runner 
6
Marié Wessels
FFOPEN
69
08:34:26
109
ATC Running Club
7
Daniel Sass
MMOPEN
1025
08:39:04
1891
ATC Running Club
8
Robert Timmis
MMOPEN
1128
08:44:34
2084
ATC Running Club
9
Erica Terblanche
FF40
52
08:48:15
153
ATC Running Club
10
Gregory Torr
MM40
928
08:51:50
2395
ATC Running Club
11
Mari Bester
FFOPEN
117
08:52:08
182
ATC Running Club
12
Virginia Lin
FFOPEN
205
09:24:53
337
ATC Running
13
Grant Bowles
MMOPEN
1971
09:38:14
3976
Strand Atletiekklub
14
Trevor Rolfe
MM40
1780
09:49:21
4505
Cape Multisport Club
15
Tom Orpen
MMOPEN
2238
09:51:37
4615
ATC Running Club
16
Carl Foster
MMOPEN
2284
09:53:22
4722
ATC Running Club
17
Lee Schoombie
MMOPEN
2286
09:53:31
4729
ATC Running Club
18
James Faulds
MM40
2127
10:04:00
5302
ATC Running Club
19
Dean Johnston
MMOPEN
2694
10:15:55
5764
ATC Running Club
20
Kenneth Stephen
MMOPEN
2733
10:18:03
5858
ATC Running Club
21
Caitlin Wolstenholme
FFOPEN
465
10:23:03
887
ATC Running Club
22
Kirsty Bobrow
FFOPEN
478
10:24:56
923
ATC Running Club
23
Morne Botha
MMOPEN
3264
10:40:08
7200
West Coast Athletic Club
24
Jayfred Moses
MMOPEN
3278
10:40:44
7229
ATC Running Club
25
Willem Pieters
MMOPEN
3300
10:41:35
7284
ATC Running Club
26
Willem Le Roux
MMOPEN
3301
10:41:35
7285
ATC Running Club
27
Adrian Diergaardt
MMOPEN
3536
10:48:34
7850
Durbac
28
Rebecca Laird
FF40
536
10:50:47
1416
ATC Running Club
29
Esther Patience
FF40
612
10:57:44
1647
ATC Running Club
30
Charl Souma
MMOPEN
3893
10:57:48
8750
ATC Running Club
31
Handre Lourens
MMOPEN
3897
10:57:49
8754
ATC Running Club
32
Sonja Britz
FFOPEN
865
11:05:47
1755
ATC Running Club
33
Pippa Van Den Berg
FFOPEN
876
11:08:00
1780
ATC Running Club
34
Kirk Kennedy
MMOPEN
4303
11:23:52
9894
ATC Running Club
35
Jd Neill
MMOPEN
4381
11:25:54
10080
ATC Running Club
36
Nicol Carstens
MMOPEN
4382
11:25:54
10081
ATC Running Club
37
Sean Featonby
MM40
3973
11:25:55
10082
ATC Running Club
38
Sarah-Leigh Jenkins
FFOPEN
1109
11:30:58
2311
ATC Running Club
39
John Cleophas
MM40
4154
11:31:31
10525
ATC Running Club
40
Romario Sardinha
MMOPEN
4871
11:43:17
11449
ATC Running Club
41
Garth Napier
MMOPEN
5411
11:57:44
12921
ATC Running Club
42
Kelvin Trautman
MMOPEN
5442
11:58:35
13010
ATC Running Club