Zola Budd Pieterse

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Issue

June 2010

Off & Running: Former Olympiad Zola Budd Pieterse still pounds the pavement—but now she’s doing drills alongside Coastal Carolina University track athletes

Photographs by

Bobby Altman

First birthday celebration

Running barefoot in the 5000 meter in South Africa with a time of 15:01-an unofficial world record 1985

Zola Budd and coach Von Zyl Naudé after she finished fourth in the 1993 World Cross Country Championships

Former Olympic track competitor Zola Budd Pieterse hasn’t stopped running. She devotes her time and experience as a volunteer coach at Coastal Carolina University.

With her mother, Tossie, in the 1990s.