Bruce "Digger" Hargreaves (born 1953) is an Australian amateur athlete, corporate speaker and businessperson. He has completed 154 marathons and 45 ultramarathons as at December 2021.[citation needed]
Bruce is a Melbourne Marathon Spartan Legend, meaning that he has completed it every year since it began in 1978 along with 4 other runners.[citation needed] He was the Australian Ambassador for the Comrades Marathon-A 90km road race in South Africa, the worlds largest Ultra Marathon from 2008 until 2018, and in 2018 he was appointed as one of the only 2 "Comrades Marathons Ambassadors at Large", and also in 2018 he was awarded the prestigious "Spirit of Comrades" award. Bruce has also completed the event seven times.[1]
He has race directed, coordinated and advised numerous races and is currently the Race Director of both the Port Morseby and Tamborine Mountain Marathon and was a regular pacer in various marathons around both Australia and the world. A serious illness in 2018 slowed him down, so he volunteered as a "sweeper" at the Gold Coast Marathon and still regularly runs Marathons.[citation needed]
Bruce has a personal best in the marathon of 2:47:02.[citation needed] He has run a sub-3 hour marathon nine times.[citation needed]
References edit
- ^ "Comrades Marathon Ambassadors". www.comrades.com. Archived from the original on 3 June 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2011.