Gold Coast Marathon

The Gold Coast Marathon is an annual marathon race on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is "Australia's premier road race",[1] and is one of only two marathons in Australia to hold an IAAF Gold Label status (the other being Sydney). The event is held on the first Sunday of July each year with races also being held the day before. The event was first held on 2 September 1979 as part of a health awareness campaign for the Gold Coast.

Gold Coast Marathon
DateJuly
LocationGold Coast, Australia
Event typeroad
DistanceMarathon, Half marathon
Established1979
Course recordsMen's: 2:07:50 (2019)
Yuta Shitara
Women's: 2:24:49 (2018)
Ruth Chebitok
Official siteGold Coast Marathon
Participants5,769 (2019)

The men's course record of 2:07:50 hours is held by Yuta Shitara (2019), while Ruth Chebitok is the women's course record holder with her run of 2:24:49 hours in 2018.[2][3]

History

The inaugural Gold Coast Marathon was held on 2 September 1979 in the suburb of Evandale. It started and ended at the Evandale Civic Centre and consisted of 6 laps over Chevron Island Bridge, through Surfers Paradise and over the Isle of Capri Bridge. There were 124 competitors in the marathon, 144 competitors in the half marathon and 423 competitors in an additional fun run. The winning male and female were Eric Sigmont from Victoria and Mary Murison from Lismore. [4]

The 2020 edition of the race was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, with all registrants receiving refunds.[lower-alpha 1][6][5]

Winners
Year Men's winner Time (h:m:s) Women's winner Time (h:m:s)
2020cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic[6]
2019 Yuta Shitara 2:07:50 Rodah Tanui 2:27:56
2018 Kenneth Mungara 2:09:49 Ruth Chebitok 2:24:49
2017 Takuya Noguchi 2:08:59 Abebech Afework 2:25:34
2016 Kenneth Mungara 2:09:00 Misato Horie 2:26:40
2015 Kenneth Mungara 2:08:42 Risa Takenaka 2:28:25
2014 Silah Limo 2:09:14 Asami Kato 2:28:51
2013 Yuki Kawauchi 2:10:01 Yukiko Akaba 2:27:17
2012 Alemayehu Shumye 2:10:35 Kaori Yoshida 2:30:36
2011 Nicholas Kamakya 2:10:01 Goitetom Haftu 2:30:08
2010 James Mbugua 2:13:53 Kaori Yoshida 2:31:33
2009 William Chebor 2:11:58 Lauren Shelley 2:42:22
2008 Kazuo Ietani 2:14:17 Shireen Crumpton 2:38:16
2007 Toyokazu Yoshimura 2:20:07 Ayumi Hayashi 2:33:22
2006 Lee Troop 2:14:13 Jennifer Gillard 2:41:06
2005 Dickson Marwa 2:16:10 Jackie Fairweather 2:34:42
2004 Gemechu Woyecha 2:15:47 Anna Thompson 2:40:53
2003 Dickson Marwa 2:12:53 Shireen Crumpton 2:40:10
2002 Rod de Highden 2:15:22 Saori Kawai 2:37:48
2001 Phil Costley 2:13:36 Yuko Arimori 2:35:40
2000 Joseph Kahugu 2:16:39 Samantha Hughes 2:44:04
1999 Fred Kiprop 2:14:02 Hiromi Igarishi 2:35:19
1998 Fred Kiprop 2:11:15 Jane Salumäe 2:33:34
1997 Pat Carroll 2:11:21 Susan Hobson 2:32:43
1996 Magnus Michelsson 2:20:20 Sylvia Rose 2:40:17
1995 Roderic De Highden 2:13:59 Julie Rose 2:38:42
1994 Hajime Nakatomi 2:15:05 Yuko Yamazoe 2:43:20
1993 Sean Quilty 2:15:31 Erico Asai 2:29:29
1992 Katsumi Kitajima 2:14:14 Mari Tanagawa 2:35:45
1991 Shinji Kawashima 2:14:01 Jackie Hallam 2:36:23
1990 Allan Carman 2:15:15 Hiromi Satoyama 2:40:57
1989 Brad Camp 2:10:11 Jan Fedrick 2:51:30
1988 Pat Carroll 2:10:44 Ngairie Drake 2:39:25
1987 Laurie Adams 2:18:24 Janet McAfee 2:54:22
1986 Peter Mitchell 2:14:59 Margaret Reddan 2:47:09
1985 Pat Carroll 2:17:10 Margaret Reddan 2:54:55
1984 Pat Carroll 2:23:16 Margaret Reddan 2:57:13
1983 Laurie Adams 2:16:22 Rhonda Bushby 2:49:17
1982 Alain Lazare 2:19:21 Jill Colwell 2:43:25
1981 Rod Lyons 2:24:04 Margaret Reddan 2:58:33
1980 Andrew Lloyd 2:23:02 Mary Murison 2:58:33
1979 Eric Sigmont 2:28:44 Mary Murison 2:58:17

See also

Notes
  1. Registrants who paid by credit card would receive refunds automatically (minus credit card fees), while other registrants would receive a full refund via direct deposit after supplying bank details.[5]

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "IAAF: Mungara takes third Gold Coast Marathon victory while Chebitok sets race record- News - iaaf.org". iaaf.org. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  3. "Yuta Shitara sets race record in Gold Coast Marathon victory". Japan Times. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  4. History of the Gold Coast Marathon: 1979 Archived 14 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20200520000502/https://goldcoastmarathon.com.au/faq-2/
  6. https://goldcoastmarathon.com.au/2020/05/20/event-update/
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