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NZ Herald
01-05-2025
- Sport
- NZ Herald
Rotorua Marathon 2025: New Lakefront finish announced, Marae to Marae relay returns
'With entertainment, food, and community all in one place, it's set to be one of the most memorable finishes in the event's storied history' The Marathon starts at 8am on Saturday from the Government Gardens and takes in a historic lap of the lake. Rotorua local Michael Voss returns to defend his Rotorua Marathon title and last year's runner-up Cullen Thorby is set to challenge. Daniel Balchin will also be one to watch, coming into the race with a 2:22.25 best from Auckland in 2022. Billie-Lee Haresnape finished third in the 2022 edition of the event and returns in 2025. Also in the top contenders is Rachel O'Brien who finished 4th in 2024 with a strong 3:10.21 performance and Angela Hancock who enters with a best of 2.58.49 from Sydney Marathon in 2024. This year the event also hosts the 2025 NZ Master's Marathon Championships. Thousands of tamariki take over the lakefront Beginning the action on Friday morning, more than 2400 tamariki will lace up for the Matthews Sport Vision Kids' Mini Marathon. Covering 2.2km along the Rotorua Lakefront, the event brings together students from dozens of local schools for kids of all ages to get active and involved. Te Arawa Marae to Marae Relay returns The Te Arawa Marae to Marae Relay returns on Saturday, for the first time since the 1990s. Featuring more than 25 teams and 900 participants, the relay takes in 10 stages across key sites around Rotorua, including eight marae and two awa (rivers). Each team is made up of about 30 runners of all ages. The relay begins at Te Papa-i-Ōuru Marae in Ōhinemutu, completes the iconic loop of the lake and finishes at the new Red Stag Rotorua Marathon event village. Whakarewarewa Forest hosts new 12km course A new addition to this year's schedule is the new Go Media 12km, which begins at Te Puia. Runners will start their journey near the Pohutu Geyser and finish at the event village at the Rotorua Lakefront. National titles on the Tarmac at Runway5 Saturday night ends with the Runway5 event at the Rotorua Airport runway. This 'fast and flat spectacle' will double as the New Zealand 5km Road Championships, drawing the country's top speedsters to battle it out under lights for national honours. In the people's 5km, runners take on the full length of the runway.
CBS News
21-04-2025
- Health
- CBS News
Woman diagnosed with brain cancer is running all six major marathons to raise money for research
A retired teacher from Austin, Texas, will run the Boston Marathon on Monday in hopes of raising awareness for brain cancer research. Thirty-three-year-old Montgomery Lax was diagnosed with a rare brain cancer, called oligodendroglioma, in 2022. She is partnering with Dana-Farber to run all six major marathons, which include the New York City, Tokyo, London, Boston, Chicago, and Sydney Marathons. "I got to meet with a doctor that's studying my type of cancer, and they've raised about like $7 million just this year with all of the runners that are doing the Boston Marathon," Lax said. She has already run both the New York City and Chicago Marathons, alongside receiving chemotherapy and undergoing surgery. For patients like Montgomery, it is only a matter of time before the tumor returns. The life expectancy for someone with her type of cancer is 10 to 12 years, she said. She says that brain cancer research is already underfunded compared to other types of cancer. She fears that the current pullback on federal funding will make it worse. "The work that Dana-Farber is doing and raising money for charity is really important and getting to run marathons while I do that is really fun," Lax explained. Montgomery visited the marathon finish line on Sunday, excited to finish the 26.2 miles on Monday with optimism and a smile. She is hoping to finish the race in under five hours. Then she says she plans to have a hot bath and a hamburger to celebrate her big accomplishment. "Marathons are hard right? But I think when you've been through cancer yourself, it's really not as hard as going through cancer, but you can do it to inspire other people and raise funds at the same time," Lax said. Montgomery plans to run the Sydney Marathon in August.
The Guardian
14-03-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Kenya great Eliud Kipchoge to run Sydney Marathon in race's ‘major' debut
Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, perhaps the greatest runner in history, has declared he will run the Sydney Marathon in August in a huge boon to the event's standing. The 40-year-old maestro, back-to-back Olympic marathon champion in 2016 and 2020 and the only runner ever to record an unofficial sub two-hour time in the event, says he's excited to be competing in the first year that the Sydney race has been designated a World Marathon Major. It will be Kipchoge's first time running in Oceania, a coup that left race organisers describing his presence in the 31 August showpiece as 'a dream come true'. Kipchoge is trying to prove he's still the event's undisputed master after a calamitous 2024 in which he could only finish 10th in Tokyo, his lowest placing at a marathon in his career, before dropping out at mile 19 when going for the Olympic hat-trick in Paris. 'I'm so excited,' Kipchoge said in a statement. 'This is not only my first time running the TCS Sydney Marathon, but also my first time running in Oceania. Running in Australia is a great opportunity for me.' Kipchoge's record of 16 wins in 21 official marathons included 10 consecutive victories between 2014 and 2019, and he'll first try to get back to winning ways after his Paris disappointment in the London Marathon on 27 April before his Sydney odyssey. Kipchoge is officially the second-fastest marathoner of all-time with his 2:01:09 in Berlin in 2022, but he also famously clocked 1:59:40 in Vienna in a special race set up for him to run fast where normal competition rules weren't in place. 'It's a dream come true,' said Sydney race director Wayne Larden, of Kipchoge's participation. 'His presence will elevate the event to new heights, bringing an unprecedented level of excitement, prestige and global attention.' Sydney, here we come! 🫡🇦🇺@EliudKipchoge 🇰🇪 is set to compete at the TCS Sydney Marathon on Sunday 31 August more 🗞️ #NNRunningTeam #TCSSydneyMarathon Kipchoge has made it his mission in his later career to bring marathon running to an ever-more global audience. Sign up to Australia Sport Get a daily roundup of the latest sports news, features and comment from our Australian sports desk after newsletter promotion 'I'm excited to see the fans, I'm excited to sell the idea of making the world a running world, to sell the idea of marathoning to Australia as a running nation,' he said. He also had one other big ambition in Australia. 'I especially want to see kangaroos,' said Kipchoge. 'I don't want to come to Australia and miss seeing kangaroos.'
Reuters
13-03-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Former Olympic champion Kipchoge to run Sydney Marathon
March 13 (Reuters) - Twice Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge will run the Sydney Marathon in August, he said on Thursday. The 40-year-old Kenyan, who won back-to-back Olympic titles in 2016 and 2020, became in 2019 the first man to run a marathon in under two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna. That did not count as an official record, however, as standard competition rules were not in place. "I'm so excited," Kipchoge said in a statement. "This is not only my first time running the TCS Sydney Marathon, but also my first time running in Oceania. Running in Australia is a great opportunity for me." He has a record of 16 wins in 21 officially ratified marathons, including 10 consecutive victories from 2014-19. Kipchoge, who has run the second fastest official marathon ever with a time of 2:01:09, will take part in next month's London Marathon before heading to Sydney.
The Guardian
24-02-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Kenya's Brimin Kipkorir suspended after testing positive for banned substances
The Kenyan marathon runner Brimin Kipkorir has been suspended provisionally, after he tested positive for prohibited substances, the Athletics Integrity Unit said on Monday. Kipkorir won the Sydney Marathon in 2024 in a course-record time of 2hr 06min 18sec, and the Frankfurt Marathon in 2022 and 2023. 'The AIU has provisionally suspended Brimin Misoi Kipkorir (Kenya) for the presence/use of prohibited substances (EPO, furosemide),' the AIU said in a statement. 'This sample was collected out of competition on 22 November 2024.' Marathon running has been hit with a spate of high-profile doping cases in recent years, particularly from the sport's powerhouse nation, Kenya. Kenya's Diana Kipyokei was stripped of her 2021 Boston Marathon title for doping in 2022 and was handed a six-year ban.
