A FLATTER route for this year’s Cape Town Marathon in September should lead to faster times‚ organisers said on Wednesday.The 42km route starts and finishes in Green Point and will take the 7,000 runners as far south as Claremont."The new course is flatter‚ which will make it faster‚ and the times should be quicker throughout the field‚" said race ambassador Elana Meyer‚ who broke multiple road running world records during her career."With another world-class line-up expected to compete this year‚ there will definitely be a good chance of seeing records broken on the day."The race is the only International Amateur Athletics Federation Silver Label marathon in Africa‚ and organisers said the new route would help to bridge the gap with globally renowned races so that the Cape Town event became Africa’s iconic city marathon.In last year’s race‚ Kenyan Shadrack Kemboi won in 2hr 11min 41sec‚ just over two minutes outside the fastest time run on a standard course on South African soil‚ s...
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