Delaine Cools_Comrades Marathon Marketing & Communications Manager

COMRADES 2023<br /> <br />  In 17 days, over 400 athletes from South Africa and around the world will<br /> aspire to be inducted into the Comrades Marathon Green Number Club. Since<br /> 1921, a total of 13,626 runners have completed the epic ultramarathon more<br /> than ten times each, thus earning their place on the coveted Comrades Green<br /> Number Roll of Honour.<br />  2354 international runners from 84 countries are entered into this year’s<br /> Comrades Marathon with the lion’s share of athletes coming from India with<br /> 403 athletes, Zimbabwe with 255, United Kingdom with 224, USA with 173<br /> and Brazil with 142 runners.<br />  In line with the Comrades Marathon Association’s (CMA) commitment and<br /> promise to runners and the media to restore the prize money back to the<br /> levels before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, the CMA is pleased to announce<br /> that this year’s prize purse will be a substantial R4.31-million, effectively a<br /> 90% increase on last year’s R2.27 million.<br />  This represents nearly a doubling of last year’s 1st prize from R260.000 to<br /> R500.000 with 2nd and 3rd overall showing similar increases; from R130.000<br /> to R250.000 for 2nd and R90.000 to R180.000 for 3rd position.