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IOL News
10-06-2025
- Business
- IOL News
Gerda Steyn's total earnings from winning the 2025 Comrades Marathon
GOOD DAY AT THE OFFICE Gerda Steyn earned a total of R1,644,000 from winning the 2025 Comrades Marathon, combining her first-place prize with additional performance bonuses. Picture: Sibonelo Ngcobo/Independent Media While the winner's cheque of R874,000 would have seemed like a great payday for women's Comrades Marathon champion Gerda Steyn on Sunday, it turns out the Smiling Assassin earned almost double that in total. In addition to her first-place prize of R874,000, Steyn earned R550,000 for the best average pace in the women's race, R220,000 as the first SA athlete home, and a handy R50,000 for reaching the Cell C Hot Spot first in the latter stages of the run. If you add all that up, it totals a whopping R1 644,000. Most people would quip 'not bad for a day's work', when in actual fact the performances of Steyn have been built through years of dedication and hard work in training to reach this point.
The Citizen
09-06-2025
- Sport
- The Citizen
Lucrative victories: How much Dijana and Steyn earned in prize money
Steyn received a little more than Dijana for reaching a hotspot point first. Tete Dijana after winning the men's race at the Comrades Marathon on Sunday. Picture: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images Comrades Marathon winners Tete Dijana and Gerda Steyn were well rewarded on Sunday, raking in more than R1.5 million each at the annual ultra-distance race in KwaZulu-Natal. Dijana held off a challenge from Dutch athlete Piet Wiersma to win the men's race in 5:25:28, securing his third career Comrades victory. Steyn won the women's race by nearly five minutes, completing the 90km contest in 5:51:19 to earn her fourth Comrades title. Prize money and bonuses For their efforts, both athletes took home R874 000 as the race winners. In addition, they received R200 000 as the first South African runners to finish, while Steyn also picked up R50 000 for being the first woman through a hotspot point in the second half of the race. While neither athlete broke their own race records, which were set on a course that was more than two kilometres shorter in 2023, they both also received R500 000 for setting the fastest average pace ever recorded in the men's and women's 'down' run events. In total, Dijana took home R1.574 million and Steyn earned R1.624 million.
