Delaine Cools_Comrades Marathon Marketing & Communications Manager

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COMRADES 2023

 In 17 days, over 400 athletes from South Africa and around the world will
aspire to be inducted into the Comrades Marathon Green Number Club. Since
1921, a total of 13,626 runners have completed the epic ultramarathon more
than ten times each, thus earning their place on the coveted Comrades Green
Number Roll of Honour.
 2354 international runners from 84 countries are entered into this year’s
Comrades Marathon with the lion’s share of athletes coming from India with
403 athletes, Zimbabwe with 255, United Kingdom with 224, USA with 173
and Brazil with 142 runners.
 In line with the Comrades Marathon Association’s (CMA) commitment and
promise to runners and the media to restore the prize money back to the
levels before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, the CMA is pleased to announce
that this year’s prize purse will be a substantial R4.31-million, effectively a
90% increase on last year’s R2.27 million.
 This represents nearly a doubling of last year’s 1st prize from R260.000 to
R500.000 with 2nd and 3rd overall showing similar increases; from R130.000
to R250.000 for 2nd and R90.000 to R180.000 for 3rd position.
24 May 2023 6AM English South Africa Sports News · Sports

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