Caroline Wöstmann

Caroline Wöstmann, born on 18 January 1983 in Johannesburg, is a South African marathon and ultra-marathon athlete. She began running in 2009 after the birth of her first child, took a silver medal at the 2012 Comrades Marathon, and then joined the Nedbank Running Club and trained at the University of Pretoria's High Performance Centre. In 2015 she won both the Two Oceans Marathon and the 90th Comrades Marathon, becoming the first South African woman in 14 years to win the Comrades and only the second, after Frith van der Merwe in 1989, to win both races in the same year. She was named Athletics Gauteng North's Female Athlete of 2014.