{"id":20134,"date":"2013-06-03T21:29:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T19:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/russian-pair-reign-again-at-comrades\/"},"modified":"2013-06-03T21:29:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T19:29:30","slug":"russian-pair-reign-again-at-comrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/russian-pair-reign-again-at-comrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian pair reign again at Comrades"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Nurgalieva Twins, Queens of the Comrades Marathon.
Image courtesy of: www.ziyawamag.com<\/p>\n

Elena Nurgalieva continued her dominance of the Comrades Marathon<\/a> with her eighth win.<\/p>\n

In the end, the twin combination of Elena and her sister Olesya, once again made the race their own in conditions far from ideal with the temperature, coupled with wind, rising as they made their way from Durban<\/a> to Pietermaritzburg<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n

The pair made their presence felt early on as they contested the lead from the off and were untroubled with the eventual winner Elena crossing the finish line in 6:27:08 while Olesya \u2013 in her first Comrades since the birth of her first child \u2013 was a little under a minute behind.<\/p>\n

Irina Antropova \u2013 who celebrated her 31st birthday yesterday \u2013 completed the Russian clean sweep of the podium with a time of 6:44:36.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very, very hard race. I don\u2019t remember it so hot and windy,\u201d Elena, who has now won the last five \u201cup\u201d runs she has contested, said in the aftermath of the defence of her Comrades crown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe result was slower if you compare the last eight years but anyway I\u2019m satisfied with my result,\u201d she added before admitting she was proud of the efforts of her sister who sat out last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd having my sister second after having a child. People didn\u2019t believe in her but she did it.\u201d \u2013 The Citizen<\/a><\/p>\n

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