Athletics: Easier run for Cope

New Zealand 10,000m champion Nicole Cope, of Auckland, will attempt to add the New Zealand half-marathon title to her CV in Huntly on Sunday.

Cope has experienced the half-marathon distance in a different and more difficult way in the past, coming after a swim and cycle, in the New Zealand half-ironman championship.

In 2000 and 2003 Cope won the New Zealand half-ironman championship and for three years in a row, from 1998, she won the national duathlon title.