This year’s Comrades Marathon Down Run, scheduled for Sunday, 11 June 2023, will have a different finish as it returns to the Hollywoodbets Kingsmead Stadium after a seven-year break.
Organizers of the Comrades Marathon have announced the Down Run race, scheduled for Sunday, 11 June 2023, will have a different finish as it returns to the Hollywoodbets Kingsmead Stadium after a seven-year break.
The world-famous 90km ultramarathon will not end at the Moses Mabhida Stadium (MMS), as has been the case with the 2018 and 2022 Down Runs. This is due to the Comrades race date returning to its traditional date of the second Sunday in June from the previously held August date. In doing so, the traditional June date had already been allocated by MMS to the hosting of the 2023 Cosafa Cup at the landmark venue, thereby necessitating the move.
“𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗯𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲”
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CMA Race Director, Rowyn James says, “Kingsmead Stadium is our preferred finish venue for this year’s Down Run, as the venue is accustomed to hosting the Comrades Marathon and the revised route should be an ease in transition for the runners. We would like to thank the team at MMS for partnering with CMA during the 2018 and 2022 races and we look forward to hosting our athletes on Sunday, 11 June.”
The 96th Comrades Marathon will start at the Pietermaritzburg City Hall at 5h30 and finish 12 hours later at the Hollywoodbets Kingsmead Stadium in Durban on Sunday, 11 June 2023. This will be the 48th Down Run.
