Gold Coast Marathon

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Gold Coast Marathon
Gold Coast Marathon, 1986 (51762442017).jpg
Starting line of the 1986 race
DateJuly
Location Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Event type Road
Distance Marathon, half marathon
Established1979(45 years ago) (1979)
Course recordsMen's: 2:07:50 (2019)
Flag of Japan.svg Yuta Shitara
Women's: 2:24:22 (2024)
Flag of Japan.svg Yuki Nakamura
Official site Official website
Participants5,769 (2019)

The Gold Coast Marathon is an annual road marathon on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, first held in 1979. Marketed as "Australia's premier road race", [1] the marathon is one of two races in Australia to hold World Athletics Label status, the other being Sydney Marathon. [2] [3] The marathon is held on the first Sunday of July each year, with other races held the day before.

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The men's course record of 2:07:40 was achieved by Naoki Koyama in 2023. Lindsay Flanagan is the women's course record holder with her run of 2:24:43 in 2022. [4] [5]

History

The inaugural Gold Coast Marathon was held on 2 September 1979 in the suburb of Evandale as part of a health awareness campaign for the Gold Coast. It started and ended at the Evandale Civic Centre and consisted of six 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. [6] [7]

The 2020 edition of the race was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, with all registrants receiving refunds. [lower-alpha 1] [9] [8] Four days before the scheduled event, the 2021 edition of the race was cancelled due to a three-day snap lockdown in parts of Queensland, including the Gold Coast, that was announced earlier that day. [10] [11] [12] [lower-alpha 2] The lockdown would have ended hours before the start of the event, which would have made attempting to hold the event impractical. [13]

Winners

Key:    Course record (in bold)

Ed.YearMen's winnerTime [lower-alpha 3] Women's winnerTime [lower-alpha 3] Rf.
11979 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Eric Sigmont2:28:44 Flag of New Zealand.svg Lindsey Simmons2:50:17
21980 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Andrew Lloyd2:23:02 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mary Murison2:58:33
31981 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Rod Lyons2:24:04 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Margaret Reddan2:58:33
41982 Flags of New Caledonia.svg Alain Lazare2:19:21 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jill Colwell2:43:25
51983 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Laurie Adams2:16:22 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Rhonda Bushby2:49:17
61984 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Pat Carroll 2:23:16 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Margaret Reddan2:57:13
71985 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Pat Carroll 2:17:10 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Margaret Reddan2:54:55
81986 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Peter Mitchell2:14:59 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Margaret Reddan2:47:09
91987 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Laurie Adams2:18:24 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Janet McAfee2:54:22
101988 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Pat Carroll 2:10:44 Flag of New Zealand.svg Ngaire Drake 2:39:25
111989 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Brad Camp2:10:11 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jan Fedrick2:51:30
121990 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Allan Carman2:15:15 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Hiromi Satoyama2:40:57
131991 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Shinji Kawashima 2:14:01 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jackie Hallam2:36:23
141992 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Katsumi Kitajima2:14:14 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Mari Tanigawa 2:35:45
151993 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Sean Quilty2:15:31 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Eriko Asai 2:29:29
161994 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Hajime Nakatomi2:15:05 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Yuko Yamazoe2:43:20
171995 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Roderic De Highden2:13:59 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Julie Rose2:38:42
181996 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Magnus Michelsson2:20:20 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Sylvia Rose2:40:17
191997 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Pat Carroll 2:11:21 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Susan Hobson2:32:43
201998 Flag of Kenya.svg Fred Kiprop 2:11:15 Flag of Estonia.svg Jane Salumäe 2:33:34
211999 Flag of Kenya.svg Fred Kiprop 2:14:02 Flag of Japan.svg Hiromi Igarishi2:35:19
222000 Flag of Kenya.svg Joseph Kahugu 2:16:39 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Samantha Hughes2:44:04
232001 Flag of New Zealand.svg Phil Costley 2:13:36 Flag of Japan.svg Yuko Arimori 2:35:40
242002 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Rod de Highden 2:15:22 Flag of Japan.svg Saori Kawai2:37:48
252003 Flag of Tanzania.svg Dickson Marwa 2:12:53 Flag of New Zealand.svg Shireen Crumpton 2:40:10
262004 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Gemechu Woyecha 2:15:47 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Anna Thompson2:40:53
272005 Flag of Tanzania.svg Dickson Marwa 2:16:10 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jackie Fairweather 2:34:42
282006 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Lee Troop 2:14:13 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jennifer Gillard2:41:06
292007 Flag of Japan.svg Toyokazu Yoshimura 2:20:07 Flag of Japan.svg Ayumi Hayashi2:33:22
302008 Flag of Japan.svg Kazuo Ietani 2:14:17 Flag of New Zealand.svg Shireen Crumpton 2:38:16
312009 Flag of Kenya.svg William Chebor 2:11:58 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Lauren Shelley 2:42:22
322010 Flag of Kenya.svg James Mbugua 2:13:53 Flag of Japan.svg Kaori Yoshida 2:31:33
332011 Flag of Kenya.svg Nicholas Kamakya 2:10:01 Flag of Ethiopia.svg Goitetom Haftu 2:30:08
342012 Flag of Ethiopia.svg Alemayehu Shumye 2:10:35 Flag of Japan.svg Kaori Yoshida 2:30:36
352013 Flag of Japan.svg Yuki Kawauchi 2:10:01 Flag of Japan.svg Yukiko Akaba 2:27:17
362014 Flag of Kenya.svg Silah Limo 2:09:14 Flag of Japan.svg Asami Kato 2:28:51
372015 Flag of Kenya.svg Kenneth Mungara 2:08:42 Flag of Japan.svg Risa Takenaka 2:28:25 [14]
382016 Flag of Kenya.svg Kenneth Mungara 2:09:00 Flag of Japan.svg Misato Horie  [ jp; de ]2:26:40 [14]
392017 Flag of Japan.svg Takuya Noguchi  [ jp ]2:08:59 Flag of Ethiopia.svg Abebech Bekele 2:25:34 [14]
402018 Flag of Kenya.svg Kenneth Mungara 2:09:49 Flag of Kenya.svg Ruth Chebitok 2:24:49 [14]
412019 Flag of Japan.svg Yuta Shitara 2:07:50 Flag of Kenya.svg Rodah Tanui 2:27:56 [14]
cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to coronavirus pandemic [9] [11]
422022 Flag of Japan.svg Jo Fukuda 2:10:55 Flag of the United States.svg Lindsay Flanagan 2:24:43 [5]
432023 Flag of Japan.svg Naoki Koyama 2:07:40 Flag of Kenya.svg Rodah Tanui 2:27:10 [4]
442024 Flag of Kenya.svg Timothy Kipkorir 2:08:52 Flag of Japan.svg Yuki Nakamura 2:24:22

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. [8]
  2. The lockdown was announced in response to an unvaccinated hospital worker who had been travelling throughout Queensland while she was potentially infectious for over a week. [12]
  3. 1 2 h:m:s

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