World Record Holder
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 Comrades Marathon).
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