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Record secures series win for Gamble Pharmacy

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Esau Eppenaar
Gamble Pharmacy’s Mariano Esau hands over the baton to Brandon Eppenaar on their way to securing a record breaking victory on Tuesday evening at the Town Lodge Business Night Relay.

A record breaking sub 56min win in the 17.5km Town Lodge Business Night Relay secured the Series win for the youngsters in the Gamble Pharmacy running team on Tuesday night at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. Undefeated in the Men’s category in all but one of the races in the history of the Night Relay, the team comprising of Uitenhage athletes Duwayne Lucas, Adriaan Gerwell, Aphlyn Taai, Brandon Eppenaar, Mariano Esau secured the 4th and final win of the Series on Tuesday night in a new course record of 55 minutes 58 seconds.

The Gamble men were followed home on Tuesday evening by the SPAR EC DC team with About IT taking 3rd place. The Gamble Pharmacy mixed team also finished the Season unbeaten with another convincing win in the Mixed category ahead of team ‘Social Mix’ from Motherwell and Jaytee Trading whilst the staff from the Harvest Christian School team ‘Run like the Winded’ secured the win in the Ladies category ahead of National Oilwell Varco and the teachers team from Cillie High school. In the walking category it was victory for the Herbalife Team ahead of Team Comeback anchored by John Stevens and in third place JFK Properties.

The Business Night Relay initiative was started by Zsports Events NPC in 2011 thanks to the support of the Mandela Bay Development Agency to highlight the Stadium and North End Lake precinct. “We can’t believe that the 6th season of the Night Relay has come to an end and this year we enjoyed the most magnificent winter evenings for each of the 4 races,” said Series director Mike Zoetmulder. “A huge thanks to the City Lodge Hotels Group for backing this year’s event through their Town Lodge brand, who together with host sponsor Access Management, BOS Sport, Quality Demand Management, ESS Medical, Caltex Eastern Cape, Dynamic Express Services, Atlas Security and Oracle Media make the 2016 Series possible, This was the 2nd year of a 3 year naming sponsorship with Town Lodge and we are looking forward to another awesome year when the Series returns in May 2017.”

Summary Results: Town Lodge Business Night Relay, Tuesday 30th August, Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium

Men Relay
1 Gamble Pharmacy Men (55:58); 2 SPAR DC Eastern Cape Mens (1:01:34); 3 About IT (1:15:41); 4 N.O.V 1 (1:15:46); 5 Rooftop – Feel The Burn! (1:20:31); 6 N.O.V 3 (1:26:09); 7 Rooftop Productions – Speed Freaks (1:26:40); 8  (1:26:58); 9 PWH team (1:28:24); 10 Flash (1:28:42); 11 Worst pace scenario (1:30:52); 12 DSV DYNAMITE (1:37:26); 13 4Tech 2 (1:41:26);

Ladies Relay
1 Run like the winded (1:37:51); 2 N.O.V 2 (1:40:09); 3 S.W.A.T.T (1:43:58); 4 Rooftop Productions – Laptop Ladies (1:49:04); 5 Scrambled Legs and Aching (1:57:08); 6 4Tech 1 (1:59:40); 7 Team Kili (2:01:43);

Mixed Relay
1 Gamble Pharmacy Mix (1:02:59); 2 Motherwell Social Mix (1:13:20); 3 Jaytee Trading (1:16:26); 4 SPAR DC Eastern Cape Mixed (1:18:20); 5 Fit for Christ Worriors (1:18:23); 6 Fit for Christ Eagles (1:23:44); 7 PKF 1 (1:24:11); 8 DHA – Team 2 (1:24:17); 9 PwC Racers (1:24:41); 10 DHA – Team 1 (1:24:56); 11 N.O.V 4 (1:26:03); 12 Fit for Christ Kids (1:27:16); 13 Walmer AC (1:31:46); 14 Deloitte (1:34:05); 15 Mighty Mouse (1:36:12); 16 MEADOW TRUSTEES (1:37:12); 17 Pavement Puffadders (1:37:16); 18 Herbert Hurd Primary School (1:42:41); 19 Quality Demand Management (QDM) (1:46:19); 20 Town Lodge P.E Super Runners (1:47:18); 21 Butt, Sweat & Beers (1:48:12);

Walking Relay
1 Herbalife Dream Team (1:04:32); 2 Team Come Back (1:08:14); 3 JFK Properties (1:17:22); 4 Rooftop Productions – Sweet Soles (1:22:31); 5 Sunridge Park Walk (1:23:06); 6 Incredible Three (1:27:50); 7 PKF 2 (1:28:46); 8 VanTees (1:30:50); 9 power rangers (1:32:03); 10 The Winners (1:34:21); 11 AfriBOOMERS (1:34:32); 12 PKF 3 (1:36:38); 13 PKF 4 (1:36:42); 14 Town Lodge P.E Awesome walkers (1:38:12); 15 Night Relay Walking (1:43:14); 16 Atlas Team 2 (1:45:17); 17 Atlas Security (1:45:20); 18 PWH ladies (1:50:00);

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