Vic Clapham was the founder of the Comrades Marathon, the world's largest ultra-marathon, of approximately 90 km held annually between Durban and Pietermaritzburg in South Africa.
As a World War I veteran, Vic Clapham conceived the race to commemorate the South African soldiers killed during the war. It was run for the first time on 24 May 1924 and has been run more than 80 times since then, with an average field of over 10,000 runners.
Read more about Vic Clapham: Early Life, First World War, The Comrades Marathon