Gerda Steyn

Gerda Steyn is an elite long-distance athlete whose career spans road marathons and the world’s most demanding ultramarathons. A double Olympian, she competed in the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympic Games. She is a four-time Comrades Marathon winner and holds the up and down run records, alongside six victories at the Two Oceans Marathon with a course record. On the road, she has recorded a marathon personal best of 2:24:03. Off the course, she is a qualified quantity surveyor, bringing discipline, precision, and endurance to performance under sustained pressure, across multiple competitive formats over more than a decade internationally.

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