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The King of Comrades

How Bruce Fordyce won South Africa's famous Comrades Marathon nine times in the 1980s.

Between 1981 and 1990, Bruce Fordyce won South Africa’s Comrades Marathon – one of the most famous races in Africa – a record nine times. He talks to Simon Watts about one of the ultimate tests of endurance and how he used the event to protest against the Apartheid regime.

PHOTO: The start of the Comrades Marathon (AFP/Getty Images)

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9 minutes

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Mon 8 Apr 2019 03:50GMT

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  • Thu 4 Apr 2019 08:50GMT
  • Thu 4 Apr 2019 23:50GMT
  • Mon 8 Apr 2019 02:50GMT
  • Mon 8 Apr 2019 03:50GMT

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