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Gold Coast Airport Marathon grows to a 2-day event
Australia’s largest marathon event, the Gold Coast Airport Marathon, will grow into a two-day event in 2010 highlighting its meteoric rise to one of the world’s premier running events.
The 32nd Gold Coast Airport Marathon will be held on the weekend of 3-4 July with the 10km Run becoming the feature of the new Saturday program.
This event was first staged 30 years ago, with 691 runners. This year more than 23,000 people took part, making it one of the biggest and best holiday marathons in the world.
The full program of races includes the Gold Coast Airport Marathon (42.195km), ASICS Half Marathon, Southern Cross University 10km Run, Gold Coast Bulletin 5km Challenge and Queensland Health Junior Dash (4km and 2km).
Event organisers have dubbed 2010 as the ‘Year of the Marathon’ to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the running of the original marathon by Athenian soldier Pheidippides who ran to Athens from the battlefield of Marathon where the Greek Army had won a crucial battle against the invading Persian Army in 490bc.
Visit www.goldcoastmarathon.com.au for further information about the Gold Coast Airport Marathon.
