As any runner in South Africa will know, ‘you’re not a real runner until you’ve run the Comrades Marathon’, and this is in no small part due to the incredible legacy left by Bruce Fordyce.
It’s widely known that the Comrades Marathon was the first major sporting competition in South Africa to welcome non-white participants back in 1975 during Apartheid.
Once the 1980s came around, there was one skinny white boy who began to dominate the 90km race, and that of course was Fordyce.
At the age of 25, Fordyce won his first title, and he would be unbeatable for the next seven races in a row.
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