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IOL News
09-06-2025
- Sport
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Comrades Marathon: He did it! Johannes Maros Mosehla finishes Comrades Marathon at 83!
INSPIRING Johannes Maros Mosehla broke his own record as the oldest finisher in Comrades Marathon history at 83-years-old on Sunday. Picture: While the headlines were justifiably dominated by Tete Dijana and Gerda Steyn at the Comrades Marathon on Sunday, one runner slowly shuffled across the finish line without much fanfare in a new record. That, of course, was Johannes Maros Mosehla who broke his own record as the oldest ever finisher in race history at 83-year-old. The inspiring runner crossed the line in 11 hours 47 minutes and 27 seconds (11:47:27), just a little over 12 minutes before the cutoff. Mosehla did not run the race last year, after becoming the oldest ever finisher at Comrades in 2023 at the age of 81. That made him the oldest-ever runner to finish Comrades, beating out the record held by the legendary Wally Hayward, who finished the race at the age of 80 in 1989. Hayward was a five-time winner of Comrades during his heyday.
IOL News
05-06-2025
- Sport
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Johannes Maros Mosehla, 83, poised to break records as oldest Comrades Marathon runner again
Johannes Maros Mosehla, 81, from Limpopo in Polokwane At 83, Johannes Maros Mosehla is set to break his own record as the oldest-ever Comrades Marathon finisher. Picture: Sibonelo Ngcobo Should he line up for the Comrades Marathon on Sunday, Johannes Maros Mosehla will once again be the oldest competitor at the annual ultra-marathon between Pietermaritzburg and Durban. Mosehla is now aged 83-years-old and in 2023 he was the oldest competitor in the field at 81 when he crossed the line, and is once again entered in this year's event. That made him the oldest-ever runner to finish Comrades, beating out the record held by the legendary Wally Hayward, who finished the race at the age of 80 in 1989. Hayward was a five-time winner of Comrades during his heyday. Mosehla's first Comrades came back in 2005 as a relative spring chicken at the age of 63. That year he was unable to finish the race, but since then he has completed a staggering 10 Comrades.
