Gatebe shatters Comrades 'down' record

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Cape Town - South Africa's David Gatebe has broken the 'down' record in this year's Comrades Marathon.

Gatebe, running for the TomTom Athletics Club, stopped the clock in a time of 5:18.19, breaking Russian Leonid Shvetsov's 2007 record of 5:20.49.

Shvetsov has since been implicated in a doping scandal.

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16 Oct 2020