/ 26 April 1999

TERGAT WINS AGAIN

KENYA’S five-time world cross country champion Paul Tergat let compatriot Thomas Nyariki and Morocco’s Khalid Skah dictate the pace until sprinting over the last 400 metres on Saturday to win the five mile (8km) Balmoral Challenge road race in 22 minutes and 27 seconds. Tergat first outpaced Nayariki in a sprint dual and then held off Skah over the last stages to edge the Moroccan by one second. Nayariki was third in 22:32. The annual race was held in the grounds of the 50000-acre estate at Balmoral Castle, the Queen’s summer residence.

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