2023 Spar Grand Prix defending champion Tadu Nare has beaten top 10km contenders Glenrose Xaba and Neheng Khatala to win the Spar 10km Women’s Challenge road race, which set off from Kings Park Stadium in Durban at 9am on Sunday, 23 June, 2024.
Nare, running in the colours of Nedbank RC Ethiopia, finished in 31:13 to beat Xaba (Boxer AC, 31.56) and Lesotho long distance runner, Khatala (Hollywoodbets, 32.13), in the Durban leg of the 2024 Spar Grand Prix.
Leading SA distance runner Xaba had won the opening two races of the season in Cape Town in March and Windhoek, Namibia, in April, but Nare was not a starter in either of those races due to injury, and demonstrated the pedigree of her continental challenge in the 2024 series’ third event in Durban on Sunday.
With both Nade and Xaba having completed their wins in the second tier of potential bonus points on offer, the two will be tied for the lead in the 2024 Spar Grand Prix leaderboard, and it depends on how many of this season’s remaining three qualifying races Nare will start in, to determine whether Nare will mount a concerted effort to defend her 2023 series title.
The next Spar 10km race follows at the Lowveld Botanical Gardens in Mbombela on Saturday 13 July, ahead of the next Spar Grand Prix Series 10km race at Supersport Park in Tshwane on Saturday, 3 August, 2024.
Photo Caption: 2023 Spar Grand Prix defending champion Tadu Nare (centre) has beaten top 10km contenders Glenrose Xaba (right) and Neheng Khatala to win the Spar 10km Women’s Challenge road race, which set off from Kings Park Stadium in Durban at 9am on Sunday, 23 June, 2024. Photo: Spar Grand Prix on X
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