SPAR Grand Prix

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The #SPARGrandPrix 60+ category, where the top 4 runners beat the 44-minute mark in #CapeTown to earn bonus points: defending champion Judy Bird (41:03), Dalene Sonnekus (42:44), Ester Brink (43:07), and Suzanne Marais (Baldwin Strand) (43:32) remain front runners. #CelebrateHer

Last year’s 50–59 SPAR Grand Prix winner, Elizabeth Potter (Boxer), tops her category. The top three runners in the 50–59 category — Potter (38:46), Nerida Lubbe (39:07), and Janene Carey (39:30) — all earned five bonus points for finishing under 40 minutes. #CelebrateHer

In the 40–49 age group, Este van Tonder (Nedbank) leads the #SPARGrandPrix standings after winning the #SPARWomensChallenge #CapeTown ahead of 2nd Elme Middlemost (Nedbank) 38:05 3rd Michelle Minnaar (West End) 39:11 #CelebrateHer

Tayla Kavanagh (Hollywood) gave defending champion Glenrose Xaba (Boxer) a wake-up call on Sunday when she surged past her with 500 metres to go, winning the opening race of the 2026 10km SPAR Grand Prix series in Cape Town. #CelebrateHer

Karabo Mailula (Tuks) will be hoping for a podium finish on Sunday in the 10km #SPARWomensChallenge #CapeTown , the first #SPARGrandPrix series race of 2026. #CelebrateHer

Evergreen @irv87 Irvette Van Zyl (Hollywood) former three times #SPARGrandPrix champion will be one of the favourites for Sunday’s 10km #SPARWomensChallenge #CapeTown #CelebrateHer

Defending champion Glenrose Xaba is hoping to make history this year by becoming the first athlete to win the #SPARGrandPrix for a fourth time and she intends to throw down the gauntlet at the #CapeTown SPAR Women’s 10km Challenge at Greenpoint on Sunday. #CelebrateHer

Media and invited guest spoils for Sundays #CapeTown #SPARWomensChallenge #SPARGrandPrix #CelebrateHer

The local #CapeTown production lines have been busy preparing race packs for the sold out 18000 women runners entered into in this year's #SPARWomensChallenge #SPARGrandPrix #CelebrateHer

18 000 goodie bags have been packed for Sunday’s #CapeTown #SPARWomensChallenge 😊 #CelebrateHer

And BOOM 💥 it's only 1 Dat to go to the most beautiful road race in #CapeTown the 2026 #SPARWomensChallenge the first #SPARGrandPrix race of the season!

Counting down to 2 days to go before Sunday's #SPARGrandPrix series 10km road race in #CapeTown part of the #SPARWomensChallenge.... Are you ready!

It's only 3 days left until Sunday's #CapeTown #SPARGrandPrix with 18 000 fabulous women taking over the streets of the Mother City. .. Let's #CelebrateHer #SPARWomensChallenge

We into the final countdown... 4 days to go until the opening race of the 2026 #SPARGrandPrix series in #CapeTown

We five days away from a sell out 18 000 #SPARGrandPrix #SPARWomensChallenge #CapeTown it's going to be epic! #CelebrateHer

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The #SPARGrandPrix is proud to partner with Athletics South Africa in their series.... The largest women's only 10km road race series in the world and the most beautiful road race series in #SouthAfrica ! #CelebrateHer

We only 6 days away from the most beautiful road race in #CapeTown #SPARGrandPrix #SPARWomensChallenge #CelebrateHer

"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another". - #NelsonMandela #HumanRights #humanrightsday #humanrightsday2026 #CelebrateHer