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eventREF E-0013501Revised

16 June 2001

SA Policeman Wins 90km Comrades Marathon

SA Policeman Wins 90km Comrades Marathon

Updated
30 Sep 2019
SA Policeman Wins 90km Comrades Marathon

A member of the South African Police Services (SAPS) from Mafikeng in North West, Andrew Kelehe, won the 90km Comrades Marathon from Pietermaritzburg to Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. Kelehe dedicated his win to his late baby daughter who died at the age of eighteen months in February 2000. He won the down run marathon in the second-fastest time of 5 hours 25 min 51 sec, the first SA Black man to win since Sam Tshabalala in 1989.

How we know this

  1. 01Burger, D. (ed)(2002). South Africa Yearbook 2001/02, Pretoria: GCIS, p. 509
  2. 02Xinhuanet., (2001), 'South African Policeman Wins "Comrade Marathon"', from xinhuanet, 17 June, [online], Available at news.xinhuanet.com [Accessed: 11 June 2014]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). SA Policeman Wins 90km Comrades Marathon. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013501

South African History Online (2011) 'SA Policeman Wins 90km Comrades Marathon', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013501 (Accessed: 19 October 2026).

South African History Online, SA Policeman Wins 90km Comrades Marathon [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013501, (accessed 19 October 2026).

"SA Policeman Wins 90km Comrades Marathon." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013501. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "SA Policeman Wins 90km Comrades Marathon." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013501.

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