Estlé in the AAA Manchester, 2006
By Tom Pollak »
Top Surrey road walker Estle Viljoen is targeting the Commonwealth Games in India next summer.
The former all-Africa race walking champion is hopeful she can make the English team for the event after reverting to race walking in earnest in the past few months.
Competing for her county in August, she won the women’s 3000m walk at the South of England senior inter-counties match at Chelmsford in 14 minutes 27.24 seconds. In September, the 39-year-old Mitcham schoolteacher, who belongs to Hercules Wimbledon Athletic Club, won the British Masters 10km road walking championship at Leicester in 54:11 and also finished runner-up in the UK senior championship decided in conjunction with the event.