Lentswe, Klerksdorp - The 97th Comrades Marathon will take place on Sunday June 9. The Klerksdorp marathon club will be represented by a whopping 55 athletes who qualified and committed to this year’s marathon. Included in this number are 19 novices - attempting the race for the very first time. The Comrades will be run from Durban’s city hall all the way up to finish in Pietermaritzburg before 17:30, giving athletes 12 hours to complete the 85km. A total number of 23 000 people will be attempting the race this year.
Anton Schoeman who is a member of Klerksdorp marathon club, will be running his 24th Comrades this year. With this being the shortest ever Comrades distance by approximately 500m, the favourites will have their eyes on big prize money. The winning man will need to knock over 4 minutes off Leonid Shvetsov’s 2008 record and run below 5:20:21 to break the record this year.
The winning lady will also need to knock close to 4 minutes off Gerda Steyn’s record set at the last Up run in 2019 by running below 5:55:04 to secure the win.
