# Athletics: Elroy Gelant on Sunday broke the 31-year-old South African men’s marathon record in Hamburg, Germany. Gelant took fourth place at the Hamburg Marathon, completing the 42.2-kilometre race in 2 hours, 5 minutes and 36 seconds. The 38-year-old athlete, a former South African record holder over five-thousand metre on the track, ripped nearly a full minute off the national record set by Gert Thys in Tokyo in 1999. Gelant obliterated his personal best and also qualified for the marathon race at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September.
Athletics: Gelant breaks SA marathon record in Hamburg