The King of Comrades
How Bruce Fordyce won South Africa's famous Comrades Marathon nine times in the 1980s.
Sporting Witness · BBC World Service
April 4, 20198m 58s
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Show Notes
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)