Bruce Fordyce

Fordyce won the Comrades Marathon nine times in the 1980s, including eight in a row, on a hilly road course of roughly 90km where patience matters more than speed: he was famous for sitting well back early and reeling the leaders in. He also won the London to Brighton race three times and set a world best for 50 miles in 1984. Few ultrarunners have matched his mastery of pacing a long road race.