Africa-Press – Eswatini. The Comrades Marathon usually attracts over 100 EmaSwati runners and same is expected to in the 2025 edition to be held on Sunday, June 8, 2025.
The Comrades Marathon Association (CMA) officially announced on Thursday that the route distance for the highly anticipated 98th edition of The Ultimate Human Race is a challenging 89.98km. This will be the 49th Down Run.
The race starting point is at the Pietermaritzburg City Hall and finishing 12 hours later with a street finish outside Durban’s People’s Park. There are over 22 000 runners from all over the world to attend the event.
According to a statement released by CMA, the 2025 race will be slightly longer than the 87.701km of the previous Down Run (2023), as the finish has been moved from the Hollywoodbets Kingsmead Cricket Stadium to an exciting new street finish outside People’s Park, in the northbound lanes of Masabalala Yengwa Avenue.
This will include a finish-line grandstand for spectators erected in the southbound lanes of Masabalala Yengwa Avenue, as well as a hospitality and entertainment area in People’s Park, and space allocated for running club tents on either side of the finish. The longest Down Run in the history of the Comrades was 92km in 1971.
Runners will also be very pleased to know that no steps will need to be climbed after they finish, with a short, flat walk from the finish-line to either the Club Tent hospitality area, or nearby parking areas – and a free shuttle service throughout the day will make getting to the car even easier.
The first group will start at 5:45am and the second group setting off at 6:00am.
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