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Swartbooi wins Victory Races

Lucketz Swartbooi and Helalia Johannes

Luketz Swartbooi gave a great performance to win the final leg of the Old Mutual Victory Races in Windhoek on Saturday. Swartbooi completed the 21km event in a new record time of 65 minutes 30 seconds for the Windhoek course that takes the athletes over some steep hill climbs on the Daan Viljoen road.

The 44-year-old Swartbooi took the lead from the start with a group of five other athletes incuding Reinhold Iita, Ruben Indongo, Mynhard Kuanivi, Frans Hosea and Johannes Naitembu.