| News From: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
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Organizers Mourn Marathon Winner
(Gold Coast.com.au)
Alex Shumye passed away as a result from injuries sustained during a car accident. The 2012 Gold Coast Marathon champion had hoped to return to defend his title in 2013
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| News From: Monday, July 2, 2012 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Post-Race Review/ Results |
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Ethiopian Shumye Wins Gold Coast Marathon
(The Age.com)
Alemayeho Shumye just missed the course record by winning the Gold Coast Marathon with a time of 2 hours 10 minutes and 35 seconds.
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| News From: Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Europeans Mark Rise Of Gold Coast Marathon
(Gold Coast.com.au)
The Gold Coast Marathon has long attracted Japanese runners and even throngs of Africans. The arrival of runners from Europe has signaled a new rise of the popular marathon down under.
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Gold Coast Marathon Money Needs Boost For Aussies
(Gold Coast.com.au)
Shane Nankervis, the top Aussie contender for the Gold Coast Marathon, thinks race organizers will have to raise prize money for Australians in order to see another native winner. Lee Troop was the last to win the race six years ago.
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| News From: Friday, June 15, 2012 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Pre-Race Review/ Lineup |
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Elite Runners Expected To Topple Record At Gold Coast Marathon
(Goldcoast.com.au)
Race organizers of the Gold Coast Marathon think elite entrants into this year's race will better the course record of 2 hours 10 minutes and 1 second. The top 5 entrants have personal bests under the record.
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| News From: Tuesday, April 3, 2012 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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5000 Expected for Airport Marathon
(The Press.co.nz)
Over five-thousand runners are expected to hit the tarmac of the Christchurch Airport in June. That number could be the largest since the devastating earthquakes that forced the marathon out of the city.
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| News From: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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"I Could Feel The Record Slipping Away..." Mok Ying Ren At Gold Coast Marathon
(Red Sports)
Mok Ying Ren ran the Gold Coast Marathon with a time of 2 hours 27 minutes and 5 seconds on July 3rd. He recounts how the course record slipped away.
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| News From: Monday, July 4, 2011 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Post-Race Review/ Results |
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Kenyans Blitz Marathon Field
(Gold Coast.com.au)
The long standing Gold Coast Marathon record was broken by ten seconds over the weekend when Kenyan Nicholas Manza won with a time of 2 hours 10 minutes and 1 second.
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Kenyans Sweep Gold Coast Marathon
(NZ Herald.)
Nicholas Manza broke the 22-year-old Gold Coast Marathon record by winning with a time of 2 hours 10 minutes and 1 seconds.
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Plans Underway To Take Gold Coast Marathon Further
(Gold Coast.com.au)
Just after a record breaking marathon weekend, race organizers for the Gold Coast Marathon will grow the race in the future to include other events and expand the international field.
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Winner And Delegate Both Impressed At Gold Coast Marathon
(Gold Coast.com.au)
Nicholas Manza set the Gold Coast Marathon race record with a winning time of 2 hours 10 minutes and 1 second.
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| News From: Thursday, March 24, 2011 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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New Ambassadors, Sponsor For Gold Coast Marathon
(Goldcoast.com.au)
The thirty-third Gold Coast Marathon will be held on July 3 with more than twenty-five thousadn participants and a new sponsor.
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| News From: Thursday, January 27, 2011 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Gold Coast Marathon To Bust 25,000 Runners Mark
(Goldcoast.com.au)
The Gold Coast Marathon hopes to break the twenty-five thousand runner mark for the 2011 race. The race will keep the two-day format instituted last year.
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| News From: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Marathon Could Be Australia's Top Event
(Gold Coas.com.au)
The Gold Coast Marathon has been named as of the top ten events in Australia. It is held annually in July and hosted over 23,000 competitors.
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| News From: Tuesday, July 6, 2010 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Gold Coast Marathon Massages Games Bid
(Gold Coast.com.au)
The Gold Coast Marathon hopes to host the Commonwealth Games and delegates were on hand to see how the marathon is run and how volunteers and the community celebrate the event.
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| News From: Monday, July 5, 2010 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Post-Race Review/ Results |
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Gold Coast Teen Finishes Thanks To Strangers
(Goldcoast.com.au)
Stephen Mahoney began to stumble just fifty meters before the finish line of the Gold Coast Marathon. The kindness of strangers allowed him to finish his first marathon.
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Kariuki Wins Gold Coast Marathon But No Record
(Goldcoast.com.au)
James Mbugua to win his second marathon at the Gold Coast Marathon with a time of 2 hours 13 minutes and 53 seconds.
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Young Kenyan Crowned Gold Coast Marathon King
(Goldcoast.com.au)
James Kariuki won the Gold Coast Marathon ran 2 hours 13 minutes and 53 seconds. Kaori Yoshida of Japan took home top honors for the women with a time of 2 hours 31 minuetes and 33 seconds.
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World Record For Portenski
(NZ.sports.com)
Bernie Portenski set a world record in the marathon for her 60 to 64 age group by running 3 hours 1 minute and 30 seconds at the Gold Coast Marathon
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| News From: Saturday, July 3, 2010 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Valley Runners Take On Marathon
(The Daily Examiner)
Fifty Yamba runners are headed to the Gold Coast Marathon which will serve as host for more than twenty-three thousand runners for the marathon, half-marathon, 10K, 5K, 4K and 2K races.
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Women Dominate Gold Coast Marathon
(Gold Coast.com.au)
The Gold Coast Marathon will host more female participants than male runners for the first time in the race's thirty-one year history.
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| News From: Friday, July 2, 2010 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Pre-Race Review/ Lineup |
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Race On To Smash Gold Coast Marathon Record
(Gold Coast.com.au)
The fastest field in recent history is set to toe the line at the Gold Coast Marathon and race promoters feel the course record set in 1989 could fall.
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Challenge Set For Gold Coast 42km Race
(Tweed Daily News)
The Gold Coast Marathon started thirty-one years ago and attracted one-hundred twenty-four runners. The 2010 race will host more than five-thousand participants.
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Gold Coast Marathon Effort For Athletes
(The Gladstone Observer)
Brett Stevens is hoping to run under three hours and thirty minutes for the Gold Coast Airport Marathon. Stevens is hoping to be in the top twenty to twenty-five percent of all finishers.
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Runner Takes On Marathon Challenge
(The Chronicle)
Catherine Laird will take off on her first half-marathon run at the Gold Coast Marathon events. It started as a way to recover from injuries sustained in a car accident. It has become a passion.
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| News From: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Gold Coast Marathon Records On The Line
(ABC.net.au)
The Gold Coast Marathon kicks off this weekend with more than twenty-three thousand runners expecting to participate.
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| News From: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Gold Coast Marathon Fashion Running Hot
(Goldcoast.com.au)
Getting sweaty is taking on a whole new fashion statement at the Gold Coast Marathon. Neon colors have made a splashing return.
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| News From: Monday, June 28, 2010 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Coast Marathon Set Cracking Pace
(Gold Coast News)
Less than five days remain until the Gold Coast Airport Marathon. The marathon kicks off the busiest period for tourism during the winter season.
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| News From: Friday, June 25, 2010 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Brits Lead Foreign Charge To Gold Coast
(Gold Coast.com.au)
More than fifteen-thousand runners are expected for the Gold Coast Airport Marathon. Direct flight into Brisbane are allowing more and more foreigners to run the marathon down under.
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| News From: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Race Ahead With The Gold Coast Airport Marathon In Brisbane
(The Open Press)
The Gold Coast Airport Marathon will take place on July 4th with over twenty-three thousand participating in events surround the marathon weekend.
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| News From: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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$250,000 Campaign For Gold Coast Marathon
(Gold Coast)
The 2010 Gold Coast Marathon has been launched with a two-hundred and fifty thousand tourism marketing campaign that should lure more runners to the region.
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| News From: Sunday, May 23, 2010 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
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Fee Hike For Gold Coast Marathon
(Gold Coast News)
The entry fee for the Gold Coast Marathon have gone up by fifty percent over the last five years which has made it very difficult for the surrounding community members to participate.
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| News From: Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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The Marathon Effect
(Coolum & North Shore News)
Running a marathon takes between thirty-thousand and fifty-thousand steps to run a marathon. The stress on the body is more than most any other physical challenge yet every year thousands pound the pavement leading to the Gold Coast Marathon
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| News From: Friday, July 10, 2009 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Running feat on leg
(Goldcoast.com.au)
Shane Mundy, 46, finished his first marathon at the Gold Coast Airport Marathon and now owns a permanent reminder of the race in the form of a tattoo on his leg. Two years ago the threat of a heart attack "scared him into action."
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| News From: Sunday, July 5, 2009 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Post-Race Review/ Results |
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Kenyan takes out Gold Coast Marathon on debut
(Brisbane Times)
Kenyan William Chebor took out the top seeded Shane Nankervis of Victoria to capture the overall Gold Coast Marathon title with a time of 2 hours 12 minutes nearly 5 minutes ahead of Nankervis
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| News From: Thursday, July 2, 2009 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Bulletin pair tackle the long run at Gold Coast Marathon
(Gold Coast News)
Cameron Hart, Queensland Events general manager, knows the starting line at Broadwater Parklands will be a tight squeeze for the twenty-one thousand runners. Kenyans are staged to break the course record and members of the Bulletin staff are expected to complete the 26.2 mile distance as well.
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Records already broken at Gold Coast Maratrhon
(Gold Coast News)
For eight years in a row the Gold Coast Marathon has set a new registration record. Numbers have soared from sixteen-thousand to twenty-one thousand in just three years.
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Nankervis wary of African wild cards in Gold Coast Marathon
(Gold Coast News)
Shane Nankervis has Australia's highest seeding in this weekend's Gold Coast Airport Marathon. He is wary of a group of four African runners who could show up and do anything. Nankervis is hoping to run 2 hours and 14 minutes to snatch a spot on the podium.
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| News From: Sunday, June 14, 2009 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Race Ahead With The Gold Coast Airport Marathon In Brisbane
(PR Inside.com)
The Gold Coast Marathon will host more than twenty-three thousand runners participate in the marathon, half-marathon and 10K.
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| News From: Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Gold Coast Marathon
(Australia.to News)
Sunday July 5th will mark the start of another Gold Coast Airport Marathon in the land down under. Entries for the marathon are thirty-two percent higher than previous years and entries from interstate and overseas are on the rise as well.
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| News From: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Entries open for Gold Coast Marathon
(GoldCoast)
More than 20,000 thousand runners are expected to participate in the Gold Coast Airport Marathon, half-marathon, 10K, 5K and junior dash on July 5th where the winner of the marathon will claim $10,000 and a bonus of $15,000 if the winner breaks 2 hours and 10 minutes.
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| News From: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Japan, land of rising outbound tourism headed toward Gold Coast Marathon
(Gold Coast)
Japan has seen a spike in outbound tourism with several airlines boosting capacity for an increase in demand around the time of the July's Gold Coast Marathon. Despite the dismal Japanese economy bookings are on the rise.
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| News From: Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Cash Key To Luring Marathon's Best For Gold Coast Airport Marathon
(Gold Coast.com.au)
Gold Coast Marathon organizers found that the only way to lure top elite to rival the likes of the London, Boston and New York marathons, would be to pay each sub-2:10 elite runner $25,000 just to compete in addition to prize money. The race has been working with stakeholders to encourage up-and-coming athletes to participate and had been targeting Japan for faster runners. Underlying it all, they still want to make a great race for the over twenty thousand who participate in their running events.
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| News From: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Gold Coast Airport Marathon Organizers Consider Marathon Changes Amid Spectator Death
(ABC News)
A seventy-nine-year-old man was struck by a motorcycle on Sunday while crossing the Gold Coast Highway during the Gold Coast Marathon prompting the race organizers to consider rerouting the course for next year. Marathon general manager Cameron Hart says organizers will consider any recommendations from the police investigation.
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| News From: Monday, July 7, 2008 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Post-Race Review/ Results |
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Shireen Crumpton Dedicates Goldcoast Airport Marathon Win To Family
(Otago Daily Times)
Shireen Crumpton, the winner of the women's race of the Gold Coast Airport Marathon, dedicated her victory to her ill husband and son.
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Gold Coast Airport Marathon Spectator Dies
(Goldcoast.com.au)
A spectator watching the 2008 Goldcoast Airport Marathon died after being struck by a motorcycle that was carrying a cameraman.
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Proud Effort From All Brand Of Runners At The Gold Coast Airport Marathon
(Goldcoast.com.au)
Recap of all the races held at the 2008 Gold Coast Airport Marathon
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| News From: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Pre-Race Review/ Lineup |
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Four-time Marathon Winner Pat Carroll Brings Big Squad
(Gold Coast.com.au)
Pat Carroll, four-time winner of the Gold Coast Marathon, will be bringing one hundred eighty weekend warriors he has trained including Premier Anna Bligh to participate in the various race events. Carroll who will run the half-marathon himself, won in 1983, '84, '88 and '97 races, the 1995 Beppu Marathon and still holds an Australian all-comers record for a half marathon of 61:11. Premier Bligh is hoping to break two hours in the half marathon.
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| News From: Thursday, June 19, 2008 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Champ's dismay as Gold Coast Marathon record stands
(Goldcoast.com.au)
Course record holder from 1989 Brad Camp is disappointed his Gold Coast Marathon record still stands after nineteen years. Seoul Olympian Camp said Australian athletics desperately needed to attract top athletes from other sports into disciplines. His standing record remains at 2:10:11.
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| News From: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 |
| | Gold Coast Airport Marathon |
| | Human Interest Story |
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Gold Coast Marathon's 18,000 target within reach
(Goldcoast.com.au)
THE Gold Coast marathon looks set to crack the 18,000 entry mark with more than 16,000 registrants and two weeks until the race closes. The running events will be a significant tourism injection for the Gold Coast in Australia.
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