With 17,920 runners having for qualified this year’s 96th Comrades Marathon on Sunday, 11 June, the Comrades Marathon Association (CMA) has issued the provincial entry statistics.
The lion’s share of entries hail from Gauteng, followed by KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape.
Gauteng: 7398
KwaZulu-Natal: 3491
Western Cape: 1517
Eastern Cape: 1141
Mpumalanga: 772
Limpopo: 662
Free State: 505
North West: 450
Northern Cape: 154
On Comrades day runners, their families, supporters, volunteers and the nation at large will once again join in the celebratory spirit of The Ultimate Human Race by running the great race, assisting at 42 refreshment stations along the 87.7km route or cheering from the sidelines.
CMA Race Director, Rowyn James says, “We look forward to a fantastic running of this year’s 48th Down Run. Runners will be representing their respective provinces in numbers and as much as this is a truly international race, it is our South African athletes who have made the Comrades Marathon such an epic event. We warmly welcome everyone to KwaZulu-Natal.”
The 96th Comrades Marathon will be run on Sunday, 11 June 2023, starting at the Pietermaritzburg City Hall at 05h30 and ending 12 hours later at the Hollywoodbets Kingsmead Cricket Stadium in Durban. The distance will be 87,7km. This will be the 48th Comrades Down Run.
