{"id":432822,"date":"2011-05-30T15:29:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T15:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/30\/zimbabwe-muzhingi-wins-2011-comrades\/"},"modified":"2011-05-30T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T15:29:35","slug":"zimbabwe-muzhingi-wins-2011-comrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/30\/zimbabwe-muzhingi-wins-2011-comrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Muzhingi Wins 2011 Comrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"32.6905829596\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buanews.gov.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BuaNews<\/a> (Tshwane)<\/p>\n<p>Kemantha Govender<\/p>\n<p>29 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Durban \u2014 A very &#8216;happy&#8217; Stephen Muzhingi has bagged his third straight Comrades Marathon in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Zimbabwean has now run six comrades and drew from a wealth of experience to win the ultra marathon yet again. He ran the 87-km race in 5:32.45.<\/p>\n<p>South Africans Fanie Matshipa and Claude Moshiywa took second and third place respectively. The top 10 were made up of seven South African runners.<\/p>\n<p>Muzhingi broke away from Matshipa, with whom he shared the lead for around 20kms, with 14km remaining to the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>The Zimbabwean athlete admitted to struggling over Polly Shortts, the last of the race&#8217;s five big hills.<\/p>\n<p>Muzhingi said he was feeling pain and stiff legs during the Polly Shortts stint but recovered quickly to stay on course for the end of the race.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men&#8217;s results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 Stephen Muzhingi (ZIM) 5:32.45<\/p>\n<p>2 Fanie Matshipa (RSA) 5:34.29<\/p>\n<p>3 Claude Moshiywa (RSA) 5:42.05<\/p>\n<p>4 Jonas Buud (SWE) 5:42.44<\/p>\n<p>5 Gift Kelehe (RSA) 5:43.59<\/p>\n<p>6 Chasara Masiyatsva (ZIM) 5:44.33<\/p>\n<p>7 Ludwick Mamobolo (RSA) 5:50.17<\/p>\n<p>8 Charles Tjiane (RSA) 5:50.46<\/p>\n<p>9 Brian Zondi (RSA) 5:51.08<\/p>\n<p>10 Mncedisi Mkhize (RSA) 5:51.17<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105302042.html\" title=\"Zimbabwe: Muzhingi Wins 2011 Comrades\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zimbabwe: Muzhingi Wins 2011 Comrades<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BuaNews (Tshwane) Kemantha Govender 29 May 2011 Durban \u2014 A very &#8216;happy&#8217; Stephen Muzhingi has bagged his third straight Comrades Marathon in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday morning. The Zimbabwean has now run six comrades and drew from a wealth of experience to win the ultra marathon yet again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zimbabwe: Muzhingi Wins 2011 Comrades - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/30\/zimbabwe-muzhingi-wins-2011-comrades\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Zimbabwe: Muzhingi Wins 2011 Comrades - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"BuaNews (Tshwane) Kemantha Govender 29 May 2011 Durban \u2014 A very &#039;happy&#039; Stephen Muzhingi has bagged his third straight Comrades Marathon in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday morning. 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