Don spence professional bike racer 198110/7/2023 ![]() ![]() With three previous winners, Ludwick Mamabolo, Bongmusa Mthembu and Claude Moshiywa just strides behind the leader, Bernard Dandadzi, in the lead group through the midpoint, the only certainty was that anyone could win. The lead had been changing by the minute as the relentless pace continued down the hill to the halfway mark at Drummond. ![]() Once the city had been left behind, a large group, in which all the big names were present, had already assembled in the vanguard, for the dash across the rollercoaster section between the top of Polly Shortts, through Camperdown and Cato Ridge to the crest of Inchanga. In the end, the record was not broken… it was destroyed… shattered… trashed.ĭavid Gatebe lowered the previous best, set by Russian, Leonid Shvetsov, by 2m 22s an inordinate result in an age when records are broken by fractions of a second and, in doing so, he set the bar at a level that may prove to be many years ahead of the next generation of aspirant winners. The vexing question was ‘would the Down Record be broken?’ It was not who would be handed the Mayoral Baton, as the race leader, upon entering Kingsmead Stadium. ![]() With the finish still 44 kilometres away, one aspect of the race was certain. Mild to warm sunshine throughout the day. ![]()
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