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He won the race for the first time on his first attempt in 1930 at age 21. In 1931 Hayward broke a bone in his foot while training for
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Comrades Marathon for 34 years, until it was broken in 2023 by Maros Johannes
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Hayward into taking a running job, to put in stakes for diamond mining claims. In 1927 at the age of 19, he joined a Boy’s Club and was invited to go running. In 1929, he read about the
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