/ 27 January 1999

RAMAALA WINS ROAD RACE

South African Hendrick Ramaala scored his first major international success when he won the men’s IAAF cross country challenge event in Belfast, Ireland on Saturday. Road running specialist Ramaala was 30 metres behind at the beginning of the final lap in the eight kilometres event but won a sprint finish ahead of Kenya’s Laban Chega and Denmark’s former European champion Carsten Jorgensen.