Gold Coast Marathon

Gold Coast Marathon
Date	July
Location	Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Event type	Road
Distance	Marathon, half marathon
Primary sponsor	Village Roadshow Theme Parks
Established	1979 (42 years ago) (1979)
Course records	Men's: 2:07:50 (2019) Yuta Shitara Women's: 2:24:49 (2018)
Official site	Gold Coast Marathon
Participants	5,769 (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 the only race in Australia to hold World Athletics Label status.^[2] The marathon is held on the first Sunday of July each year, with other races held the day before.

The men's course record of 2:07:50 hours was set by Yuta Shitara in 2019, while Ruth Chebitok is the women's course record holder with her run of 2:24:49 hours in 2018.^[3][4]

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.^[5][6]

The 2020 edition of the race was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, with all registrants receiving refunds.^[a][8][7] 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.^{[9][10][11][b]} The lockdown would have ended hours before the start of the event, which would have made attempting to hold the event impractical.^[12]

Winners[]

Key:    Course record (in bold)

Ed.	Year	Men's winner	Time[c]	Women's winner	Time[c]	Rf.
1	1979	Eric Sigmont	2:28:44	Mary Murison	2:58:17
2	1980	Andrew Lloyd	2:23:02	Mary Murison	2:58:33
3	1981	Rod Lyons	2:24:04	Margaret Reddan	2:58:33
4	1982	Alain Lazare	2:19:21	Jill Colwell	2:43:25
5	1983	Laurie Adams	2:16:22	Rhonda Bushby	2:49:17
6	1984		2:23:16	Margaret Reddan	2:57:13
7	1985		2:17:10	Margaret Reddan	2:54:55
8	1986	Peter Mitchell	2:14:59	Margaret Reddan	2:47:09
9	1987	Laurie Adams	2:18:24	Janet McAfee	2:54:22
10	1988		2:10:44	Ngaire Drake	2:39:25
11	1989	Brad Camp	2:10:11	Jan Fedrick	2:51:30
12	1990	Allan Carman	2:15:15	Hiromi Satoyama	2:40:57
13	1991	Shinji Kawashima	2:14:01	Jackie Hallam	2:36:23
14	1992	Katsumi Kitajima	2:14:14	Mari Tanagawa	2:35:45
15	1993	Sean Quilty	2:15:31	Erico Asai	2:29:29
16	1994	Hajime Nakatomi	2:15:05	Yuko Yamazoe	2:43:20
17	1995	Roderic De Highden	2:13:59	Julie Rose	2:38:42
18	1996	Magnus Michelsson	2:20:20	Sylvia Rose	2:40:17
19	1997		2:11:21	Susan Hobson	2:32:43
20	1998	Fred Kiprop	2:11:15	Jane Salumäe	2:33:34
21	1999	Fred Kiprop	2:14:02	Hiromi Igarishi	2:35:19
22	2000		2:16:39	Samantha Hughes	2:44:04
23	2001		2:13:36	Yuko Arimori	2:35:40
24	2002	Rod de Highden	2:15:22	Saori Kawai	2:37:48
25	2003	Dickson Marwa	2:12:53		2:40:10
26	2004	Gemechu Woyecha	2:15:47	Anna Thompson	2:40:53
27	2005	Dickson Marwa	2:16:10	Jackie Fairweather	2:34:42
28	2006	Lee Troop	2:14:13	Jennifer Gillard	2:41:06
29	2007		2:20:07	Ayumi Hayashi	2:33:22
30	2008	Kazuo Ietani	2:14:17		2:38:16
31	2009		2:11:58		2:42:22
32	2010		2:13:53	Kaori Yoshida	2:31:33
33	2011	Nicholas Kamakya	2:10:01		2:30:08
34	2012	Alemayehu Shumye	2:10:35	Kaori Yoshida	2:30:36
35	2013	Yuki Kawauchi	2:10:01	Yukiko Akaba	2:27:17
36	2014		2:09:14		2:28:51
37	2015	Kenneth Mungara	2:08:42	Risa Takenaka	2:28:25	[13]
38	2016	Kenneth Mungara	2:09:00	[jp; de]	2:26:40	[13]
39	2017	[jp]	2:08:59	Abebech Bekele	2:25:34	[13]
40	2018	Kenneth Mungara	2:09:49		2:24:49	[13]
41	2019	Yuta Shitara	2:07:50		2:27:56	[13]
—	—	cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to coronavirus pandemic				[8][10]

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External links[]

• Gold Coast Marathon