Cape Town Marathon Digimag Sanlam Cape Town Marathon | Page 9

Some interesting stats
about your favourite race in Cape Town:
Marathon stats
• 35% are novice runners
• 10% international runners from
82 countries
• The men’s and women’s record was
broken in 2018
- Stephen Makoka – 2:08:31
- Halalia Johannes – 2:29:28
• Top 4 men finished under 2h10
• Top 6 women finished under 2h32
• 34% female; 66% male
Infrastructure needed to become
Africa’s only IAAF Gold Label
status marathon
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2 starts
2 finishes
8 marquees
1 119km fencing
4 093 cones
376 security
563 marshalls
Traffic officials
TV towers
1 bridge
250m blue carpet
17 Water stations 45 Activations along the route
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8 elite water stations
438 000 sachets water
1 375 L Coke & Coke Light
5 charities
600 volunteers
20 bands or DJs
20 charities
10 athletics clubs
10 small spectator zones and restaurants
4 large spectator zones
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