Cape Town Marathon

2022 - 10 - 14

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Road closures: The Cape Town Marathon will impact these MyCiTi ... (CapeTown ETC)

The Sanlam Cape Town Marathon is taking place this weekend with short distance peace runs as well as the two trail runs on Saturday 16 October 2022, ...

[here](https://resource.capetown.gov.za/cityassets/Media%20Centre%20Assets/MyCiTi%20Deviations.pdf). - 105: Sea Point – Fresnaye – Civic Centre - 104: Civic Centre – Waterfront – Sea Point - D05: Dunoon – Parklands – Table View – Civic Centre – Waterfront - T01: Dunoon – Table View – Civic Centre – Waterfront The event will come with road closures that will have an impact on public transport, including the MyCiTi service.

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CT Marathon organisers ready for bid to join World Marathon Majors (Eyewitness News)

The 2022 edition is expecting approximately 18000 runners from Cape Town, the rest of the country and the globe.

Race director, Renee Jordaan: "I think the event's at a world-class level. Stephen Mukoka has a very strict strategy to help him clench the The 2022 edition is expecting approximately 18,000 runners from Cape Town, the rest of the country and the globe.

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Feba: Worthing charity boss runs London Marathon and Cape Town ... (Sussex Express)

A Worthing charity boss who took up running in his late 40s, having done very little sport in his youth, is now preparing for the second of two marathons in ...

The training is tough and the event itself is brutal but I have some confidence based on the knowledge that I have covered the 26.2 miles twice before. Bob said: "There is clearly limited time for full recovery and I will therefore need to consider my plan for that event very carefully but I'm determined to press on as best I can. Then the rescheduled October 2020 event was also cancelled, so he ran a different local route with his brother.

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Groote Schuur Hospital staff to run Sanlam Cape Town Marathon for ... (Independent Online)

Around 50 Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) staff with friends and family will take part in the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon this weekend to raise funds for the ...

The Surgical Recovery Project was established as a direct response to addressing the backlog. To date, the GSHT has raised R12.5 million, with R2.5 million still required to ensure its target of R15 million for the first year of the project is reached. The project had set out to perform 1 500 catch-up elective surgeries over the first year of the project, with the plan of continuing the following two years to ensure the backlog was complete.

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This Capetonian is running the Sanlam Marathon to help the homeless (CapeTalk)

Claire Bolus is a twenty-five-year-old Capetonian running for charity at Sunday's 2022 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon.

The services that The Hope Exchange offer are incredible. I've driven past The Hope Exchange... The plans that they have are also amazing... I've seen [The Hope Exchange] during runs. Find out more about The Hope Exchange and what you can do to help It was more the idea of homelessness that drove me to The Hope Exchange and just seeing the amount of homelessness when I was running and driving in Cape Town on a day-to-day basis, I was like, 'I would love to be able to do something but in my own limited capacity'.Claire Bolus, masters graduate The plan for the race came first but I've always wanted to run for a cause... The master's graduate says that after she decided to run the marathon, she wanted to run for a cause she was passionate about. The Hope Exchange is an organisation that aims to get homelessness off of Cape Town by looking at long-term solutions to reintegrate them into society and restore their dignity. Pippa Hudson speaks to 25-year-old Capetonian, Claire Bolus, about why she chose to run for a cause at the 2022 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon. Bolus will be raising funds for The Hope Exchange - formerly known as The Carpenter Shop. This Capetonian is running the Sanlam Marathon to help the homeless

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A weekend for Cape Town marathon runners to get in gear (CapeTalk)

John Maythan spoke to Mike Finch, editor of Runner's World and Bicycling magazines about the upcoming Sanlam Cape Town Marathon.

most importantly they need to have a certain amount of entries and people that finish the raceMike Finch, editor of Runner’s World and Bicycling magazines There are certain parameters, there certain rules that they need to adhere to... This year's feature of the marathon is a special one as it is the first time that the marathon is an Abbott World Marathon Majors candidate.

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Cape Town Marathon's bid to become the 7th major could have a ... (News24)

The Cape Town Marathon is in the first year of a three-year-long Abbott World Marathon Majors candidacy. The 42.2km race hopes to become a world-class event and ...

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Defending champ Mokoka shrugs off pressure of Cape Town ... (News24)

South Africa's Stephen Mokoka is the local favourite as this weekend's Cape Town Marathon offers a new challenge for the professional and the novice.

It can be cold, hot or raining, you have to go through the process," Mokoka told News24 Sport on Friday. "I never put pressure on myself. "The marathon is a very long event, it demands a lot in a human body, in the muscles and brain, psychologically," said Mokoka. - South Africa's Stephen Mokoka is the local favourite, as this weekend's Cape Town Marathon offers a new challenge for the professional and the novice. The Cape Town Marathon has been revamped as a WMM candidate in its first year of a three-long evaluation as the African race competes with Australia's Sydney Marathon and China's Chengdu Marathon for the seventh spot. The three-time Olympian set a Cape Town Marathon record of 2:08.31 in 2018 and, in March this year, Mokoka broke the 50km men's world record at the Runified Breaking Barriers Ultra Marathon in Gqeberha, setting a time of 2:40:13, which World Athletics recognised.

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Frans to set the pace in Sanlam Cape Town Marathon's men's race (HeraldLIVE)

Seasoned Nelson Mandela Bay athlete Melikhaya Frans is set to take part in 2022's Sanlam Cape Town Marathon on Sunday — not as a competitor but as a ...

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