Having gradually climbed the ranks after taking up the sport as a teenager, distance runner Glenrose Xaba has enjoyed a breakthrough season.
Xaba broke the SA women's 10km and 42km records this year.Glenrose Xaba has risen to national prominence over the last few months, but she’s hardly a new kid on the block.
“I’m very grateful for achieving all the goals I aimed for this year,” Xaba said at the Spar Grand Prix awards this week, where she received a R275,000 cheque and a Proton car to use for a year.After teachers at school spotted her natural ability, and her mother motivated her to nurture her talent, she joined a club.
Diminutive in stature and reserved in her demeanour, Xaba does most of her talking with her feet, but her recent success has helped her find a more extroverted side to her nature.
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