On 18 September, over 33,000 runners took part in the Sydney Marathon and other events at the 2016 Sydney Running Festival. CLAIR Sydney was there to assist the City of Nagoya with its two runners and exhibition booth.
The two citizen entrants from Nagoya, who were invited by the Sydney Marathon Committee, chose to participate in the full and half marathon. One of them, Mr Taiki Ito, who came 11th in the men’s full marathon, and the other runner, Ms Mirai Jinno, who is a high school student and completed the half marathon inside her target time, commented that she had fun and enjoyed the beautiful sites of Sydney during her run.
The following day, both of them made a courtesy call to the City of Sydney where they met with Councilor Robert Kok. He praised the continuous marathon relationship following the sister marathon agreement in 2012.
Prior to the race (September 14-17), Sydney Town Hall hosted the Sydney Running Festival’s Event Expo, where competitors picked up their running bibs and visited exhibition stands, including one for Nagoya City Marathon, the sister marathon of Sydney’s event since a partnership agreement was signed in 2012.
This event is one of the most popular overseas marathons for Japanese with more than 600 Japanese entries out of the total 33,000 participants.
