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Ryan "Hedgie" Nicholas Sandes (born 10 March 1982 in Cape Town) is a South African trail running. In 2010 he became the first competitor to have won all four of the 4 Deserts races.
Also in 2010, Sandes became the first competitor to have won all four of the 4 Deserts races, each a 6/7-day, self-supported footrace: through the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Gobi Desert in China, the Sahara Desert in Egypt, and lastly through Antarctica. This achievement prompted Mary Gadams, founder and CEO of RacingThePlanet and organiser of the event, to state “Ryan Sandes is clearly one of the top endurance athletes in the world - to have won all 4 Deserts is a remarkable accomplishment.” At the time, only 81 individuals had completed all four trails, and 11 competitors had done them in the same calendar year. In 2010, Time magazine included the 4 Deserts Challenge on a list of the ten most demanding endurance races in the world.
Sandes won the 2011 Leadville Trail 100 in a time of 16:46:54, more than half an hour ahead of runner-up Dylan Bowman. He won the 2012 North Face 100 in Australia in a time of 9:22:45.
In August 2012, he bettered Russell Pasche's record for the 90K Fish River Canyon hiking trail from 10:54 to 6:57.
In 2014, he won the second race in the Ultra-Trail World Series Tour, the Transgrancanaria.
In 2017, he won the Western States Endurance Run, in 16 hours 19 minutes 37 seconds.
In 2018, they set a new FKT for the Great Himalaya Trail (GHT), running 1,504 km in 24 days 4 hours and 24 minutes.
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