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: facebook.com/shinyataagreement
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.
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