{"id":230331,"date":"2026-04-14T02:53:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwean-athlete-nobuhle-nobunkosi-tshuma-crawls-across-the-finish-line-to-secure-bronze-and-a-r100000-prize\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T02:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:53:31","slug":"zimbabwean-athlete-nobuhle-nobunkosi-tshuma-crawls-across-the-finish-line-to-secure-bronze-and-a-r100000-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwean-athlete-nobuhle-nobunkosi-tshuma-crawls-across-the-finish-line-to-secure-bronze-and-a-r100000-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean Athlete Nobuhle Nobunkosi Tshuma Crawls Across the Finish Line to Secure Bronze and a R100,000 Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">IN a race defined by endurance, it was not only the winners who captured hearts at this year&#8217;s Two Oceans Marathon, but a Zimbabwean runner whose final moments transformed sport into a story of extraordinary human will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">While South Africa&#8217;s Gerda Steyn secured a record-extending seventh consecutive women&#8217;s title in a commanding 3:27:43, and Kenya&#8217;s Margaret Jepchumba took second in 3:33:31, the spotlight shifted dramatically to Nobuhle Nobunkosi Tshuma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Tshuma, who had battled through the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604130331.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN a race defined by endurance, it was not only the winners who captured hearts at this year&#8217;s Two Oceans Marathon, but a Zimbabwean runner whose final moments transformed sport into a story of extraordinary human will. While South Africa&#8217;s Gerda Steyn secured a record-extending seventh consecutive women&#8217;s title in a commanding 3:27:43, and Kenya&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,19781,6632,17728,12239,6402,257,54148,54149,8200,54151,7904,254,54150,421,325],"class_list":["post-230331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-athlete","tag-bronze","tag-crawls","tag-finish","tag-line","tag-news","tag-nobuhle","tag-nobunkosi","tag-prize","tag-r100000","tag-secure","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tshuma","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}