STATISTICS
Entry Stats & Facts # 4
Nothing makes a statistically-minded runner like me more excited than getting my hands on a database as rich in info as the Comrades Marathon entries database, and I had hours of fun going through it all and finding these interesting stats and stories. – BY THE RUNNING MANN
TOP 50 CLUBS
Here are the 50 clubs with the biggest representation at Comrades 2025. Hollywood AC KZNA keep their spot at the top of the chart and break 1000 runners for the first time. They also have an excellent entered-to-qualified conversion rate of 97.8 %.( Their CGA branch, in seventh place, does even better, with a 99.1 % conversion rate).
Team Vitality CGA keeps second spot and Team Vitality AGN replaces RunZone in third. RunZone shares this position with Waterfall City AC, and top the‘ regular’ running club charts. The‘ old school’ traditional clubs are headed by Benoni Northerns( 8th), Polokwane City( 9th) and Dolphin Coast( 10th).
Credit must go to RCS Gugulethu AC, who score 100 % on the entrants-to-qualified runners test. Others in the top 25 who perform well on this count are Magnolia with an even 99 %, and 98.3 % for the Fat Cats AC, whose entrants clearly want their slice of the Comrades cake.
Only 20.4 % overall of the qualified entries are female, but two of the Top 50 clubs can boast that over 1 in 3 of their runners lack a Y chromosome: Durbanville( 36.4 %) and Jeppe Quondam( 35.8 %). However, if you are a straight lady or a gay guy looking for talent, then the three clubs to join for a training run with potential benefits( 90 % or greater male) are Sibanye Stillwater, Faranani or Sasol Marathon Club.
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