Highway working queen Gerda Steyn will once more be the highest athlete to observe when the beginning gun goes off on the 54th Totalsports Two Oceans Extremely Marathon in Cape City on Saturday.
The 54th Totalsports Two Oceans Extremely Marathon, one of the vital scenic and iconic races on the planet, begins in Cape City on Saturday 5 April 2025, jumpstarting SuperSport’s 2025 Marathon Season protection.
Whereas Your World of Champions, SuperSport, has already showcased the Barcelona, Rome and NYC Half marathons in March, Two Oceans marks the primary Extremely Marathon broadcast on SuperSport this season, kicking the marathon season properly into gear.
SA’s Gerda Steyn, girls’s record-holder and icon of the game, is once more the highest runner to observe at this yr’s race, the place she’s going to possible be tailed by compatriot, teammate and fellow Olympian Irvette van Zyl. The 2 are set to battle it out, stride-for-stride, for the proper to be topped the quickest girl over 56 kilometres.
For Steyn, SA’s reigning road-running queen, Two Oceans presents a possibility for a sixth successive title and to cement her place as one of many biggest athletes the nation has ever produced.
Watch Gerda Steyn’s journey in an unique movie documentary on Your World of Champions, SuperSport, on DStv CatchUp.
Within the males’s race, defending champion Onalenna Khonkhobe is decided to make historical past with a back-to-back win. After an unforgettable triumph in 2024, the place he stormed to victory in 3:09:30, Khonkhobe introduced his arrival to the ultra-distance world. His Nedbank teammate Lloyd Bosman, who completed second in 2024, will likely be trying to go one place additional this time round.
2023 winner Givemore Mudzinganyama, who completed third final yr, in addition to four-time Olympian and three-time Cape City Marathon champion Stephen Mokoka, are two elite runners who can by no means be dominated out of any race.
SuperSport’s protection of this yr’s marathons will transfer to Rotterdam (thirteenth), Paris (thirteenth), Boston (twenty first), Madrid (twenty seventh) and London (twenty seventh) earlier than the month of April concludes, making it one of the vital thrilling durations for street working on the calendar.
On 8 June, the Comrades Marathon hits the tar because the world’s gaze fixes on one of many world’s most storied Extremely Marathons. The Sanlam Cape City Marathon headlines in October, whereas the African Financial institution Soweto Marathon happen on 2 November.
Catch the Two Oceans Marathon on Saturday, 5 April 2025, on SuperSport Selection (DStv Channel 209) at 5am CAT.
