For a country renowned for producing ultra-distance runners adept at tackling tough route races, South Africa's failure to win the men's section of the Soweto Marathon is baffling.
The prestige of winning the race alone should be enough incentive to see the runners striving to end the foreign domination from the last seven editions run since 2011.
When it was last run in 2019, the best South African man finished a distant eighth place and Ntsindiso Mphakathi believes he could have done better than that spot had he not rushed into the lead.
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