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Namibia’s marathon runner Lavinia Haitope delivered a commanding performance to win the women’s 21.1-kilometre (km) race at the 2026 AUSC Region 5 Marathon in Pretoria, South Africa, yesterday.<\/p>\n
Haitope clocked 1:14:41 to cross the finish line ahead of South Africa’s experienced distance runner Irvette van Zyl, who settled for second place, as the Namibian claimed the regional title.<\/p>\n
The event attracted close to 5 200 runners across its various race categories, bringing together athletes from…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Namibia’s marathon runner Lavinia Haitope delivered a commanding performance to win the women’s 21.1-kilometre (km) race at the 2026 AUSC Region 5 Marathon in Pretoria, South Africa, yesterday. Haitope clocked 1:14:41 to cross the finish line ahead of South Africa’s experienced distance runner Irvette van Zyl, who settled for second place, as the Namibian claimed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":248961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,51766,5150,4706,724,257,6324,254,16293,10099],"class_list":["post-248960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-haitope","tag-marathon","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-region","tag-south-africa-today","tag-storms","tag-victory"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248960","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=248960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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