Running

Comrades 2011

In the women’s race of the Comrades Marathon, Russian twins Elena and Olesya Nurgalieva went through the halfway point in three-hours and four minutes, a little over four minutes ahead of South Africa’s Farwa Mentoor.

Elena tumbled at the 27km mark, colliding with some of the men in a large group surrounding the siblings, but recovered quickly and managed to catch up.