Bruce Hargreaves

In 2018, the Comrades Marathon Association awarded Bruce one of the three 'Spirit of Comrades' awards bestowed each year.(http://www.comrades.com/home-about/spirit-of-comrades?tmpl=component&page=Jaco)

Bruce has led pacing groups in five different countries (Australia, India (Mumbai: 2012/2014), New Zealand (Rotorua 2014, Auckland 2015), USA (New York 2014) and Germany (Berlin 2017).

Bruce was the Australian Ambassador for the Comrades Marathon from 2008 until 2015, and now is the second person along with Mr Mark Bloomfield from Washington DC to be granted the status of "Ambassador at Large" for the Comrades Marathon Association. The Comrades Marathon is held annually in South Africa, and as at 2016, Bruce has successfully finished 7 Comrades Marathons.

He is also a Melbourne Marathon Spartan Legend which means he has completed every Melbourne Marathon since the event began in 1978 (along with six other runners: See: http://melbournemarathonspartans.com/legends/ ). In 2017 the Melbourne Marathon had its 40th Edition when 6 Legends completed their 40th Melbourne Marathon and all six followed up in 2018 with their 41st Melbourne Marathon. No other race in the world has had a 41 year streak from Event 1, and Melbourne has 6 runners who have run and finished all editions of their race.

Bruce is also an Ambassador for the Townsville Marathon (Far North Queensland) which is run on the 1st Sunday of August every year since 1970.(http://www.townsvillerunningfestival.com/)

The "Time Honoured" Lamington Classic, Australia's oldest trail run which was established in 1970.

Bruce "Digger" Hargreaves (born 1953) is an Australian-based marathon runner who has completed 150 marathons and 45 ultra-marathons(races longer than the Olympic Marathon distance of 42.195 km) as at October 2018.