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Timothy Noakes
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Timothy David Noakes, MB ChB, MD, FACSM, holds the Discovery Health Chair of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of Cape Town. He is also Director of the UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine and co-founder with Morné du Plessis of the Sports Science Institute of South Africa. While a student at UCT, he rowed for the South African Universities on two consecutive seasons and was awarded University full Blue colours. He began long distance running in 1972, and, at the time of his last marathon in 1990, had run more than 70 marathon and ultra-marathon races including seven Comrades Marathons (best time 6 h 49 min) and 15 Two Oceans marathons (best time 3h 59 min). In recent years he has been more active in cycling and triathlon events and has completed the Argus 105-km cycle race on eight occasions.
Among other things, he is
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