Thousands of runners are expected to let their fingers do the walking when local entries for the 2025 Two Oceans Marathon open on Monday, Cape {town} Etc reports.
Next year’s Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon will be the 54th edition, with ‘the world’s most beautiful marathon’ scheduled for April 5 and 6, 2025 (Ultra and Half Marathon).
Africa’s most popular road race attracts over 3,000 international runners each year and is highly regarded as a top ‘bucket list’ running event around the world.
Once again, South African runners will enter through a draw or ‘lottery’ procedure. Runners who want to enter will enter a draw or ‘lottery’ and will be assigned an entry once their name is drawn.
Entrants will get confirmation of their entry after paying for it, providing they meet the qualifier and any other conditions mentioned by the appropriate deadline. Runners may participate in only one event.
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The draw for South African entries begins on Monday, September 30, 2024, at 1 PM and ends on Sunday, October 6, 2024, at midnight.
Certain types of runners, such as Blue Number Club members, Yellow Numbers, and Athletics South Africa (ASA) club runners, will have an advantage in the drawings.
The drawings will take place on Monday, October 7, 2024.
Runners taking part in the draw may pay for their entry only once their name has been successfully drawn and are allocated an entry.
Runners drawn in the ballot have until midnight on Saturday, 30 November 2024 to make their payment. Entries not paid by the payment due date will be forfeited.
Charity entries will open at 1 PM on Friday, 1 November 2024. Fees will be uploaded once the final Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon 2025 charity partners have been confirmed.
Event dates, entry fees and all relevant information will be communicated subject to these events being confirmed in due course.
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Any officially timed and measured marathon or longer distance, run after 1 July 2024, can be used as a qualifier. When verifying runners as club members, clubs will also be required to verify runners’ qualifying times.
The submission of a completed 10km, 15km or 21km race(s) run after 01 July 2024 will be used to determine participants’ placements in the respective seeding pens on Race Day.
When verifying runners as club members, clubs will also have to verify runners’ seeding times.
All entry information, dates, entry opening times and fees can be found at: www.twooceansmarathon.org.za
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