Shaun Meiklejohn

Shaun Meiklejohn is a South African marathon and ultramarathon athlete, born in Pretoria in 1961 and raised in Carletonville, who is best known for winning the 1995 Comrades Marathon, the 89 kilometre race between Durban and Pietermaritzburg. He has completed the race 33 times and earned ten gold medals between 1989 and 1999. In 1994 he finished fourth for South Africa at the World 100 km Championships in Japan, repeated that placing a year later in the Netherlands, and won the London to Brighton ultra. He returned to Comrades after a seven year break and won the masters category in 2013, 2014 and 2015, and has raised money for several charities. He runs for the SAVE Orion Athletics club.