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Bruce Fordyce was born on 3 December, 1955 in Hong Kong, is a South African runner. Discover Bruce Fordyce's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?
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3 December 1955 |
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Hong Kong |
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South Africa
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Bruce Fordyce Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Bruce Fordyce's Wife?
His wife is Jill Fordyce
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Bruce Fordyce Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Bruce Fordyce worth at the age of 68 years old? Bruce Fordyce’s income source is mostly from being a successful runner. He is from South Africa. We have estimated Bruce Fordyce's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Bruce Noel Stevenson Fordyce (born 3 December 1955 in Hong Kong) is a South African marathon and ultramarathon athlete.
He is best known for having won the South African Comrades Marathon a record nine times, of which eight wins were consecutive.
He also won the London to Brighton Ultramarathon three years in a row.
He is the former world record holder over 50 miles and the former world record holder over 100 km.
Born in Hong Kong to Evan Noel and Nancy Ann (Née Stevenson), Fordyce moved with his family to Johannesburg when he was 13 years old.
He completed his school career at Woodmead High School and subsequently attended the University of the Witwatersrand, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977 and his Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in 1979.
During this time he was also a member of the university's anti-apartheid Student Representative Council as well as a committee member of the Wits Athletic Club.
In 1977, when Fordyce first ran the Comrades Marathon, he placed 43rd out of 1,678 entries.
He placed 14th in 1978, 3rd in 1979, 2nd in 1980, and was the winner for an unprecedented eight consecutive years from 1981 to 1988; he won it again in 1990.
No other runner in the history of the Comrades has achieved this feat.
Fordyce won the London to Brighton ultramarathon 3 years running from 1981 to 1983.
On his first victory race in 1981 he wore a black armband to protest against the 20th anniversary celebrations of the apartheid republic attracting boos and even some rotten tomatoes thrown by a fellow runner.
Fordyce has claimed this protest as "one of the proudest moments in my life".
He has thus completed 30 Comrades Marathons, including the remarkable result of posting identical times in 1985 and 1987.
Fordyce also held the record time for the "up" run (Durban to Pietermaritzburg) and his record of 5:24:07 for the "down" run (Pietermaritzburg to Durban) stood for 21 years from 1986 until it was broken in 2007 by Russia's Leonid Shvetsov.
In 2004, he was voted 64th in the Top 100 Great South Africans.
In 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of the Witwatersrand.
In 2011 he aimed for a silver medal, but missed this by 31 seconds (finishing time of 7 hours 30 minutes 31 seconds).
Fordyce also introduced the parkrun running events to South Africa in November 2011.
This is a collection of free-entry weekly 5k run events.
There are now 210 parkrun events in South Africa as of 16 October 2023.
Fordyce ran his 500th parkrun at Delta Park, Johannesburg, the first South African parkrun venue, on 14 October 2023.
In addition to having written two books about the Comrades Marathon, Fordyce was also a sports columnist for various newspapers and magazines, and a SABC television commentator for the 2014 event.
He is also a motivational speaker and the chief executive officer of the South African Sports Trust.
Fordyce was the world record holder over 50 miles, when he covered the distance in 4hr 50min 51sec at the 1984 AMJA 50 Mile Ultramarathon in Chicago, IL, until the record was broken by Jim Walmsley on 5 May 2019.
Fordyce holds the 50-mile record for the United States All Comers Race.
Fordyce was strongly anti-apartheid.
