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Records fall as 65,000 take to the streets
On a huge day for recreational running around
Australia, about 65,000 fun runners took to the streets on Sunday,
September 19 at the Sydney Running Festival and the City-Bay Fun
Run in Adelaide.
With both events breaking their previous participant records, the
popularity of funs runs around the country appears to increase each
year.
In Sydney, Commonwealth Games hopeful Kurt
Fearnley took out his sixth Sydney wheelchair marathon
title and legendary distance runner Steve
Moneghetti placed fourth in the Australian half marathon
championships.
Isaac Serem of Kenya, competing in his first ever marathon, was the
winner of this year’s Blackmores Sydney Marathon in a time of
2:25.17, while in the women's marathon it was Brisbane’s
Helen Stanton who took line honours in a time of
2:49.58.
Meanwhile, over in Adelaide a record crowd of almost 31,000 took
part in the City-Bay Fun Run with Commonwealth Games marathon
representative Martin Dent taking out the feature
12km event for the fourth time.
The first female to complete the run was Adelaide's
Jessica Trengove, who was using the event as
preparation for the IAAF world half-marathon championships in China
next month.
Congratulations to all who took part in the two events and raised
well over $2million for various charities.
For full results, visit the event websites below:
Sydney Running Festival
City-Bay Fun Run
More reports and photo galleries can be found via:
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney Running Festival)
The Advertiser (City-Bay Fun Run)
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