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The Comrades Marathon has long been known as the unofficial world championships of ultrarunning and this year, a world class international and local field will be lining up outside the Durban City Hall, among more than 20,000 other runners for the 97 th Comrades Marathon and 49 th Up Among this year’s top contenders will be: INTERNATIONALS: WOMEN ALEXANDRA MOROZOVA – RUSSIA Morozova boasts 5 Comrades Marathon gold medal finishes from 5 starts and will be very strong on the Up Run. A former winner having won the race in 2022, Morozova has been on the podium in the top 3 in all but one of her Comrades finishes. Last year she was 6 th but still ran her fastest ever time of 6:14:32.

Coached by former winner Oleg Kharitonov, Morozova will be in the hunt come race day. DOMINIKA STELMACH – NEDBANK RUNNING CLUB INTERNATIONAL (POLAND) With a very strong ultradistance running pedigree and 3 Comrades Marathon gold medals to her name, Stelmach knows how to run the race having achieved a best of 2 nd place in 2022 as well as golds on both the Up and Down Runs. CAITRIONA JENNINGS – NEDBANK RUNNING CLUB INTERNATIONAL (IRELAND) An Irish native that represented her country in the 2012 Olympic Games Marathon, Jennings finished on the podium in 3 rd at her first Comrades Marathon in 2019 on the Up Run.



She returned last year to Comrades to make it two golds from two starts running a very fast 6:10:26 for 5 th . ANDREA POMARANSKI – NEDBANK RUNNING CLUB INTERNATIONAL (UNITED STATES) A 4.

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