/ 12 January 2000

THUGWANE TO RACE LONDON MARATHON

SOUTH Africa’s Olympic champion Josiah Thugwane is one of seven leading athletes to join a strong men’s field for April’s London Marathon. Organisers said on Tuesday that reigning champion Abdelkader El Mouaziz of Morocco, Italy’s European champion Stefano Baldini and Portugal’s twice winner Antonio Pinto had also agreed to take part. World record holder Khalid Khannouchi of Morocco is also due to run in the event on April 16.