Press Release - Gold Coast Airport Marathon - 12/3/13

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Gold Coast Airport Marathon named QSport 2013 Queensland Sport Event 

The 35th annual Gold Coast Airport Marathon was last night named the QSport 
2013 Queensland Sport Event at the Queensland Sport Awards in Brisbane.

The win confirms the event's status as an international standard sporting 
event.

"This is a tribute to everyone who has helped build the event into 
Australia's leading marathon over then past three and a half decades," 
Events Management Queensland General Manager Cameron Hart said today.

"That includes the Surfers Paradise Rotary Club originators back in 1979 
and the tens of thousands of people who have worked or volunteered since to 
make the Gold Coast Airport Marathon the top class race weekend and event 
showpiece that it is today," he said.

The Marathon was successful against finalists the calibre of the Queensland 
Open Golf Championship, State of Origin 2, the British and Irish Lions v 
Wallabies Rugby Union Test and the National Taekwondo Championships.

Events Management Queensland Director and Gold Coast sports matriarch 
Daphne Pirie was also recognised on the evening by induction into the 
Queensland Sport Hall of Fame.

The Gold Coast Airport Marathon is a Queensland Tourism Awards Hall of 
Famer and earlier this year took out the Spirit of the Gold Coast gong at 
the Gold Coast Media Awards.

It has also been granted a prestigious IAAF Bronze Label – the first 
Australian marathon to achieve such a distinction.

"We're already well down the track with the planning of our 5-6 July 2014 
event and we look forward to building once again on the Gold Coast Airport 
Marathon's great national and international reputation," Mr Hart said.

"Our completely new website www.goldcoastmarathon.com.au will be 
launched later this month, something that will really help generate a lot 
of excitement for next year's event," he said.

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