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The Sydney Marathon is a marathon held annually in Sydney, Australia each September. The event was first held on the 30th of April 2000 and called The Host City Marathon as a test event for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, and has continued every year since, as a legacy of the 2000 Summer Olympics . [ 2 ]
The Sydney Half Marathon, currently branded as the HOKA Runaway Sydney Half Marathon for sponsorship reasons, is an annual half marathon through Sydney's central business district. The course takes in such sites as The Rocks , the Sydney Harbour Bridge , the Sydney Opera House , and the Royal Botanic Gardens .
In November 2024, it was announced that the Sydney Marathon would be added as the seventh race in the World Marathon Majors. The inaugural Sydney event in the series will be August 31, 2025. [3] Also in November 2024, the Cape Town Marathon passed stage 1, with stage 2 evaluation set for October 2025 and possible inclusion as a major in 2026. [4]
The Sydney Marathon is a participation legacy project from the Sydney 2000 Olympics, when the marathon course started in North Sydney and passed some of the city's landmarks before finishing at ...
The 31-year-old El Goumri finished the hilly 42m kilometer (26-mile) course around prominent Sydney landmarks in 2:08:20 to win his first marathon title since winning the Dublin Marathon in 2019.
After Sydney’s elevation, Abbott World Marathon Majors is looking to expand the series further, with the Cape Town and Shanghai marathons in the candidacy process. The two marathons could join ...
Sydney Marathon: Sydney Australia: 29 Sep: BMW Berlin Marathon: Berlin Germany: 13 Oct: Bank of America Chicago Marathon: Chicago United States: 20 Oct: TCS Amsterdam Marathon: Amsterdam Netherlands: 3 Nov: TCS New York City Marathon: New York United States: 1 Dec: Maratón Valencia Trinidad Alfonso Zurich: Valencia Spain: 1 Dec: Shanghai ...
This was the 24th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Returning runners from the 1996 marathon included all three medalists (gold medalist Josia Thugwane of South Africa, silver medalist Lee Bong-Ju of South Korea, and bronze medalist Erick Wainaina of Kenya) along with fourth-place finisher Martín Fiz of Spain, seventh ...