Frith van der Merwe

Frith van der Merwe, born on 26 May 1964, is a South African long-distance athlete who competed several times in the Comrades Marathon, South Africa's ultramarathon, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, setting female records for both the up and down runs. Her 1989 down run record of 5:54:43 was broken by Gerda Steyn in 2023, and her 1989 record of 3:30:36 at the 56 km Two Oceans Marathon was broken by Gerda Steyn in 2022. She is a teacher in Benoni, Gauteng, was honoured in 2012 as Benoni Northerns Sports Club's best ever sportsperson and was inducted into the Gsport Hall of Fame in 2013.