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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Hayward, Wally
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Description area
Dates of existence
1908 - 2006
History
10 July 1908 – 28 April 2006
Wally Hayward, a Conrades Marathon legend, was a guest at the first St Stithians Athletics meeting in 1954 and signed a copy of the programme that can be seen in the Norman Tickton Collection. Hayward won the Comrades Marathon 5 times between 1930 and 1954 and ran it for the last time in 1988 at the age of 80 in a time of 10:58:03.
For details of Wally Hayward's extraordinary running career, see:
https://ultrarunninghistory.com/wally-hayward-legend/