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Steyn achieves historic fourth win
Cape Argus
|June 09, 2025
GERDA Steyn has described winning the Comrades Marathon as "an out-of-body experience". On a day when Louis Massyn became the first man to complete the race 50 times, the Hollywood Athletics Club athlete reigned supreme once again.
Steyn secured her fourth Comrades Marathon title - an unprecedented feat for a woman - with a composed run of 5:51:19, and yet her elation resembled that of a first-time winner.
"The feeling? You feel like you are not inside your own body," she said during the post-race press conference at Moses Mabhida Stadium. "It's like you look down on yourself doing it. To get to a point where you are in the finishing straight and you are going to win it - it is meaningful and impactful."
This story is from the June 09, 2025 edition of Cape Argus.
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