Mokoka’s new record is due to the lockdown
Oct 25, 2020
3 minutes
SIMNIKIWE XABANISA sports@citypress.co.za
PHOTO: ROGER SEDRES / GALLO IMAGES
“We started training under level 4 ... we did things we never do when we’re racing”
Stephen Mokoka’s improvement of the national half marathon record at the world championships in Poland last weekend came as a surprise for most observers in a year disrupted by Covid-19, but it didn’t exactly come out of left field for the athlete himself.
In finishing seventh at the World Half Marathon Championships in
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