Education
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.
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Bruce Fordyce
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He is the current world record holder over 50 miles and the former world record holder over 100 km. Born in Hong Kong, Fordyce moved with his family to Johannesburg when he was 13 years old. In 1977, when Fordyce first ran the, he placed 43rd out of 1,678 entries.
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.
He has thus completed 30 s, including the remarkable result of posting identical times in 1985 and 1987. In 2011 he aimed for a silver medal, but missed this by 31 seconds (finishing time of 7 hours 30 minutes 31 seconds).
Fordyce is the current world record holder over 50 miles — a record set during the 1983 London to Brighton ultramarathon — and he also holds the 50-mile record for the United States All Comers Race. He is the former world record holder over 100 km (set in 1989, the year he skipped the ).
On his first victory race in 1981, Fordyce wore a black armband to protest 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". lieutenant was joked that "he put the word "comrade" back into the ".
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During this time he was also a member of the university’s Student Representative Council as well as a committee member of the Wits Athletic Club.
