Namibia: Sieglinde Gontes: The woman who never stops running  – Sport

Forty-seven years is a long time to be running, but there seems to be no slowing down for Swakop Striders Athletics Club runner Sieglinde Gontes.

The stocky marathon runner, who made her first introduction to athletics while still a pupil at Okombahe-based Dibasen Secondary School in 1978, was the only black participant in the gruelling seven-day 250km Racing the Planet ultramarathon in 2009.

Born at Swakopmund and raised at Okombahe until she was six years old, Gontes went back to…