With more than 16-thousand starters and nearly 15-thousand finishers, the Comrades Marathon had an astounding 92,68% finish rate which is the highest ever finishing rate in the history of The Ultimate Human Race.
Nhosikhona “The Pitbull” Mhlakwana will be looking to improve on his previous two Comrades Marathons this year. His chances of running a faster time are improved by the fact that the distance will be slightly shorter than last year.
With less than two weeks to go to the 96th Comrades Marathon on Sunday, 11 June 2023, the Comrades Marathon Association (CMA) has confirmed the following top male and female contenders in this year’s race.
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.
On Sunday 11 June over 400 athletes from South Africa and around the world will aspire to be inducted into the Comrades Marathon Green Number Club.
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A huge contingent of 2354 international runners from 84 countries are entered into this year’s Comrades Marathon. The lion’s share of athletes is from India represented by a massive 403 athletes, Zimbabwe (255), United Kingdom (224), USA (173), and Brazil with 142 runners. The Top 20 international entry breakdown is as follows: Country Male Female …
The Comrades Marathon Association (CMA) initiated the awarding of Winners Jackets to male and female winners of the race in 2015 with that year’s Champs, Gift Kelehe and Caroline Wostmann, being the very first recipients of the grand acknowledgement. 2016 saw the retrospective awarding of Winners Jackets to three previous winners at the official Comrades race day prize giving ceremony; with this becoming a celebratory facet …
Kenya’s Victor Kipruto and Veronica Loleo took line honours in the 2023 Absa RUN YOUR CITY CAPE TOWN 10K in the men’s and women’s races respectively on Sunday 14 May 2023, but it was a hard-fought win for both, particularly in the men’s race with the South Africans showing the Kenyan a little respect. Windy …
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The official route distance of this year’s 96th Comrades Marathon from Pietermaritzburg to Durban will be 87.701km. Upon completion of the official route course measurement conducted by the Comrades Marathon Association’s (CMA) Route Portfolio, Department of Transports Road Traffic Inspectorate and Msunduzi Traffic, CMA Race Director, Rowyn James has confirmed that the official race distance …
