Bruce Fordyce

Bruce Fordyce, born 3 December 1955 in Hong Kong, is a South African marathon and ultramarathon athlete who also opposed apartheid, and he is best known for winning the Comrades Marathon a record nine times, eight of them consecutively. He moved to Johannesburg at age 13, studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, and first ran the Comrades in 1977, placing 43rd. He won it every year from 1981 to 1988 and again in 1990, and his record of 5:24:07 for the down run stood for 21 years until 2007. He also won the London to Brighton Ultramarathon three years in a row and is a former world record holder over 50 miles and over 100 km.