Singapore Marathon

Singapore Marathon

The Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon is an international event held annually on the first Sunday of December in the city of Singapore. The marathon attracts participants from all over the world with runners from countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, China and other European and Asian countries.

It is part of "The Greatest Race on Earth", fully sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank [http://www.thegreatestrace.com/therules.html] . The other three legs of this four-marathon race are the Hong Kong Marathon, the Mumbai Marathon and the Nairobi Marathon.

In 2007, the event attracted approximately 40,000 participants and with a money purse of US$25,000 for the winner in the 2007 MEN'S OPEN category and LADIES' OPEN winner.

This event has 3 main categories, namely the Mini-Marathon-10 km, Half-Marathon-21 km and the Full Marathon-42.195km.

This race starts early at 5.30 am and it brings runners through the central business district, turning into the Marina South Park, u-turning back to the city before heading to the east coast where runners can feel the cool morning breeze. Full marathoners will make another u-turn at the east coast area before heading back to the central business district. The humid weather makes this a tough race even for the world's elite runners.

The full marathon course record was set by Elijah Mbogo of Kenya in 2007 with a time of 2:14:22.

List of winners

External links

* [http://www.singaporemarathon.com/en/ singaporemarathon.com]
* [http://www.geocities.com/raymondrjs/marathonwhy.html Why I Run the Marathon] Memoirs of a runner who has completed 7 Singapore Marathons.


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