ATHLETICS NEWS - Stephen Mokoka and Nolene Conrad were the top South African finishers at the IAAF World Half-Marathon Championships in a tough day of competition for the Rainbow Nation in Valencia, Spain on Saturday.
Mokoka put up a fight in a large lead group, but Kenyan athlete Geoffrey Kamworor stretched the field with an incredible surge, clocking a 13:01 split between the 15km and 20km marks. Kamworor went on to win his third straight global 21.1km title in 1:00:02.
Though he was swallowed up by the field in the closing stages, Mokoka held on to finish 16th in 1:01:26.
