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The Melbourne Marathon has been held annually since 1978. The 42.195 km run over the traditional marathon distance is the main race within the annual Melbourne Marathon Festival. The race celebrated its 30th birthday in 2007 with a new course which featured the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) as both the starting point and finishing point. A ...
Caulfield Racecourse is one of Melbourne, Australia's best-known horse-racing tracks. Commonly known as "The Heath" by local racegoers, [1] It is home to the Melbourne Racing Club. Horse-racing started there in 1859 on a bush track where the Melbourne Hunt Club met. A racecourse was then laid out on the site of the club's dog kennels.
The Melbourne Marathon Festival has been held every year from 1978, except 2020. The festival is composed of the marathon , half-marathon, 10 km, 5.7 km, 4 km walk, and Kids 2.5 km races. Because of Covid-19 related restrictions, it was decided in September that the 2021 event would be postponed to December and split over two days.
The average distance run per road day was 54.73 km; there were five rest days taken. The average distance including rest days was 51 km for the 74 days. This has been declared as a new Melbourne-to-Darwin Trans-Australian record by Phil Essam, former Australian ultra-running vice-president, historian, statistician and author.
Meanwhile, in 2010 the Melbourne Racing Club introduced a new Sandown Cup into the program. This event became a Listed race in 2012 and is held over 3,200 metres. [4] In 2021, the race was moved to Caulfield Racecourse permanently and occurs two weeks later than its original date, which was one week after the conclusion of the Flemington ...
In 2007, Hamish Blake reportedly ran the length of a marathon around a track in Melbourne, "in an attempt to beat Katie Holmes's marathon time. He succeeded, in a time of 5:25:00." [66] Joe Strummer guitarist and lead vocalist for punk band the Clash, claimed to have run the Paris Marathon in 1982; no records exist of his attempt or finish. [67]
In 1979, at the age of 56, he competed in the Adidas Sun Superun 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) race which crossed the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne. He ran the race at a very respectable 64 minutes and was interviewed by the media. [6] Cliff then ran the Melbourne Marathon with a time of 3:21:41 in 1979. He would go on to compete in 1980, 1981, and ...
A prize home lottery is a lottery run by charitable organizations, such as the Returned and Services League of Australia (Queensland Branch), [35] Surf Life Saving Australia, yourtown, [36] Mater Health Services, RSPCA Australia, Royal Melbourne Hospital and SA Hospital lottery. There is also a Multiple Sclerosis Lottery.