Press Release - Gold Coast Marathon - 5/27/22

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

            Gold Coast Marathon Entrants Urged To Take Advantage 
               Of Standard Entry Fees And Beat The Price Rise

The standard entry fees for this year's Village Road Show Theme Parks Gold 
Coast Marathon will end this Tuesday 31 May @ 11.59pm with runners urged to 
beat the price rise and get their entries in now!

The event will be the largest mass-participation event in Australia this 
year and since COVID-19 decimated the event and festival industry across 
the nation more than two years ago.

Events Management Queensland CEO, Cameron Hart said the organisation had 
taken the time over the last couple of years to review the event operations 
and introduced a two-day program that starts at 6:00am each day kicking off 
with half marathon on Saturday and full marathon on Sunday 3 July.

"The benefits of the earlier starts will see runners starting off just 
before sunrise each day and experiencing the cooler temperatures of early 
mornings, which should see fast times and lots of personal best results.

Mr Hart said they were anticipating over 20,000 runners this year for an 
event that would be a fitting celebration of the return of community and 
mass participation events.

"Whilst sporting events including the rugby league, netball and AFL and 
some music festivals have emerged from the pandemic to now host almost 
capacity crowds, community participation events have been slower to return.

"This event will be a shot in the arm for business and tourism on the Gold 
Coast and in Queensland with thousands of entrants expected to take 
advantage of the state's many and varied world-class attractions pre and 
post event", Mr Hart said.

Entries are continuing to roll in ahead of the Friday 1 July closing date 
for the Saturday events which include the half marathon, 2km and 4km junior 
dash and 5km fun run. Entries for Sunday's marathon, wheelchair 10km and 
marathon and the 10km run will close on Saturday 2 July.

Race enthusiasts hail from all corners of Australia with a number of 
international entrants heading down under from New Zealand, USA, Japan and 
Singapore.

The 2022 Village Roadshow Theme Parks Gold Coast Marathon weekend will also 
feature the ASICS Half Marathon, Southern Cross University 10km Run, Gold 
Coast Airport 5km Run, the Health and Wellbeing Queensland 2km and 4km 
Junior Dashes and the always-hotly-contested CPL 42km and 10km wheelchair 
races.

The Gold Coast Double 63.3km event – contested by hardy runners competing 
in both Saturday's half and Sunday's full marathon - will also be 
contested.

People wanting further information on the 2022 Village Roadshow Theme Parks 
Gold Coast Marathon events can visit www.goldcoastmarathon.com.au

The Village Roadshow Theme Parks Gold Coast Marathon is organised by Events 
Management Queensland, a major event management company wholly owned by the 
Queensland Government as part of Tourism and Events Queensland.

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