Adriaan Wildschutt
Adriaan Wildschutt has broken his own South African 10 000m record. Photo: X @CitiusMag / @janfigueroa07

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Adriaan Wildschutt breaks Hendrick Ramaala’s 24-year-old 10 000m SA record

Adriaan Wildschutt is the new holder of the South African 10 000m record, breaking the old mark on Saturday that stood for 24 years. LOOK | Two Oceans Marathon record-breaker Gerda Steyn downs a beer – PICTURE Competing at the Track Fest meeting in Los Angeles, Wildschutt stopped the clock in a time of 27:23.10. In doing so, Wildschutt, still only […]

By Garrin Lambley
07-05-23 12:05
in Fab South African Stuff
Adriaan Wildschutt
Adriaan Wildschutt has broken his own South African 10 000m record. Photo: X @CitiusMag / @janfigueroa07

Adriaan Wildschutt is the new holder of the South African 10 000m record, breaking the old mark on Saturday that stood for 24 years.

LOOK | Two Oceans Marathon record-breaker Gerda Steyn downs a beer – PICTURE

Competing at the Track Fest meeting in Los Angeles, Wildschutt stopped the clock in a time of 27:23.10.

In doing so, Wildschutt, still only 25 years old, broke Hendrick Ramaala’s record of 27:29.94 which was set in then Port Elizabeth in 1999.

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Adriaan Wildschutt, who was born in Ceres in the Western Cape, runs for the Hoka NAZ Elite team in the United States.

 

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