{"id":11018,"date":"2026-06-12T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/?page_id=11018"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:30:38","slug":"comrade-marathon-2026-top-contender-ziphindile-dlamini-eyes-iconic-green-number","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/?page_id=11018","title":{"rendered":"COMRADE MARATHON 2026 TOP CONTENDER | Ziphindile Dlamini eyes iconic Green Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-1-1-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11025\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-1-1-683x1024.jpeg 683w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-1-1-200x300.jpeg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-1-1-768x1152.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-1-1-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-1-1-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-1-1-400x600.jpeg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-1-1-scaled.jpeg 1706w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Region:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Limpopo, Mpumalanga &amp; North West (LMN) Region, Witbank, Carolina Correctional Centre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number of Comrades Marathon completed and Personal Best<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Nine (x4 bronze, x3 Bill Rowan and X2 Robert Mtshali) &amp; 08:23 in 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Target for Comrades Marathon 2026<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Sub 10 hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-3-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11023\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-3-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-3-300x200.jpeg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-3-768x512.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-3-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-3-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/Dlamini-3-400x267.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Eight times DCS Comrades Marathon champ under female category<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sportswoman of the year \u2013 DCS National Sports Awards 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Won several races in Mpumalanga both open and age categories.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Represented Department of Correctional Services at the 2025 Southern African Corrections, Prisons &amp; Penitentiary Services Sports and Cultural Games (SADC Games) hosted in Namibia, Windhoek<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Region: Number of Comrades Marathon completed and Personal Best: Target for Comrades Marathon 2026: Achievements:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2851,"featured_media":11022,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11018"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11026,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11018\/revisions\/11026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}