From 12-15 September, the Sydney Running Festival Expo and Sydney Running Festival were held in Sydney, which shares a sister city relationship with Nagoya.
The Nagoya City Marathon and the Sydney Running Festival are sister marathon events. Every year, the winning runners from each of the two marathons are sent to participate in their respective sister marathon. There are expo events held the day before each of the marathons, where the sister cities and sister marathons are mutually promoted.
This year, two runners selected from the best performers at this year’s Nagoya City Marathon ran in the Sydney Running Festival, and a booth from Nagoya City was exhibited at the expo.
On 16 September, the two runners paid a courtesy visit to Cr Robert Kok at Sydney Town Hall. Cr Kok welcomed the runners warmly and together they shared their thoughts on the marathon held the day before. The runners also interacted with members of the Sydney Nagoya Sister City Committee during the visit.
From CLAIR Sydney, a staff seconded from the City of Nagoya provided support for appointment acquisitions during the runners’ visit, promotion at the Expo, assistance for the runners on the day of the marathon, and accompanied them on their visit to Sydney Town Hall.
CLAIR Sydney will continue to support the City of Nagoya in their sports exchange and sister city exchange activities in Australia.
From the 3rd to the 13th of December, eight selected swimmers from the Fukuoka Swimming Association visited NSW, where they participated in joint training sessions with a local school and competed in the 2024-25 Speedo NSW Senior State Age Championships.
