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Gerda Steyn

1990 - Today

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Gerda Steyn (born 3 March 1990) is a South African marathon and ultramarathon athlete. She set the down-run record for the 90 km Comrades Marathon in 2023 with a mark of 5:44:54, becoming the fourth woman under 6 hours for that race. She also holds the record for the 56 km Two Oceans Marathon and has won that event 6 consecutive times, starting in 2018. On 11 April 2021, she became the SA marathon record holder with a time of 2:25:28 at the Xiamen Tuscany Camp Elite Marathon in Siena, Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gerda Steyn is the 9,731st most popular athlete (up from 9,900th in 2019), the 495th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 499th in 2019) and the 70th most popular South African Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Gerda Steyn ranks 9,731 out of 6,025. Before her are Łukasz Przybytek, Nilakanta Sharma, Jorge Armando Ruiz, Micah Wilkinson, Karl-Martin Rammo, and Belly-Cresus Ganira. After her are Julia Ratcliffe, Alston Ryan, Manuel Sanders, Alí Solís, Summer Rappaport, and Maria Kyridou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1990, Gerda Steyn ranks 1,843. Before her are Atonye Nyingifa, Kaia Parnaby, Alise Fakhrutdinova, Agata Perenc, Nicholas Purnell, and Vanessa Chalá. After her are Sandrine Billiet, Oliver Cook, Kateřina Minařík Kudějová, Ognjen Stojanović, Amanda Chidester, and Gemma Howell.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Gerda Steyn ranks 495 out of 454. Before her are Tanya Seymour (1983), Elroy Gelant (null), Irvette van Zyl (1987), Charles Elwes (1997), Abbubaker Mobara (1994), and Manish Kaushik (null). After her are Al-Hussein Gambour (1989), Marthe Yankurije (1994), Thabo Cele (1997), Charlene du Preez (1987), Ashleigh Buhai (1989), and Marc Mundell (1983).

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Among ATHLETES In South Africa

Among athletes born in South Africa, Gerda Steyn ranks 70. Before her are Simone Ackermann (1990), Tanya Seymour (1983), Elroy Gelant (null), Irvette van Zyl (1987), Charles Elwes (1997), and Manish Kaushik (null). After her are Al-Hussein Gambour (1989), Marthe Yankurije (1994), Charlene du Preez (1987), Ashleigh Buhai (1989), Marc Mundell (1983), and Lee-Anne Pace (1981).

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