Former road running champion Zithulele Sinqe has died in a car accident.
General manager of Central Gauteng Athletics Mandla Radebe says 48-year old Sinqe was involved in an accident in Balfour yesterday where he worked after forming a development athletics club in the area.
Sinqe, a coach and television commentator over the last few years, will be remembered for his titanic battles with Willie Mtolo, Matthews Temane and Xolile Yawa during South Africa's golden era of road running shortly before the country's return from isolation.
He was crowned SA marathon champion in 1986 with what was then the fifth fastest time in history, clocking 2 hours 8 minutes and 4 seconds in Port Elizabeth to hold off Mtolo, a future New York marathon champion, by 11 seconds.
