JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge

The JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge is an annual series of 3.5-mile (5.63 km) road footraces owned and operated by JPMorgan Chase, with an intended focus on promoting "fitness in the workplace"^[1]. Teams are organized by company or organization, and the JPMorgan Chase Foundation makes charitable donations proportional to the number of participants^[1].

The Corporate Challenge began in 1977 with a single race in New York City, with 200 runners from 50 companies. The top-finishing teams in all 12 cities will qualify to compete in the fifteenth, the Championship Race, held in October in New York City^[2].

Not all participants race competitively; large percentages walk or jog the entire course, with the purpose being camaraderie within and among the corporate teams. The festival atmosphere during and after the race attracts non-runners as well.

A new and primary focus for this year’s event is the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge’s Teaming Up For A Greener Tomorrow initiative. JPMorgan Chase aims to implement the greenest road race in each city that the Corporate Challenge is held. To date, the Series has saved more than six tons of paper (through online registration and paper-free marketing practices), recycled on-site more than 10 tons of plastic and glass, and saved more than 5,000 gallons of crude oil (through alternate modes of transportation by participants). That’s more than 900 million BTUs, or enough energy to light a home for nearly 10 years.

The 25th annual JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge Championship was held on October 6, 2007, with Enos Matalane of Transnet Rail Engineering (Johannesburg) and Claire Martin of Royal Mail Letters (London) earning the men's and women's individual titles. Transnet, Polizei Hessen (Frankfurt) and Royal Mail Letters earned the men's, women's and mixed team titles, respectively.

With nearly 74,000 participants in 2008, the Frankfurt event was the world's largest footrace that year.^{[citation needed]}

run 2007 in Frankfurt

Corporate Challenge participation

City	2008			2007
	Date	Runners	Companies	Date	Runners	Companies
Johannesburg, South Africa	6 March	10,000	272	1 March	10,338	288
Singapore	26 April	12,748	351	3 May	11,856	343
Chicago, Illinois	22 May	23,603	632	24 May	22,766 *	578 *
Rochester, New York	29 May	11,135	442	31 May	10,397 *	411 *
Buffalo, New York	5 June	12,399	421	7 June	11,563	372
Frankfurt, Germany	11 June	73,719	2,589	13 June	67,270	2,446
New York City	18 June	18,281	299	20 June	17,500	329
New York City	19 June	18,215	346	21 June	17,500	544
Syracuse, New York	24 June	6,698	256	26 June	6,153	268
Boston, Massachusetts	26 June	13,863	633	28 June	12,887	556
London, England	9 July	13,653	268	11 July	12,969	329
London, England	10 July	13,043	277	12 July	13,031	307
San Francisco, California	17 September			19 September	5,320	232
Championship (New York City)	4 October			7 October
Sydney, Australia	12 November			14 November	6,921	306

* unofficial results
Bold indicates current records

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "2007 marks 31st annual running of JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge". Official Corporate Challenge web site. http://www.jpmorganchasecc.com/events.php. Retrieved 2007-06-01. 
2. ^ "JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge". New York Sports Commission. Archived from the original on 2007-04-14. http://web.archive.org/web/20070414034510/http://www.nyc.gov/html/sports/html/chasecc.html. Retrieved 2007-06-01. 

• http://www.sportingspectrum.com/index.php?type=9&id=38
• http://www.buffalonews.com/145/story/85014.html
• http://rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070328/LIVING/703280338/1007

External links

• Official web site