Miami Marathon
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The Miami Marathon is an annual marathon sporting event hosted by the cities of Miami and Miami Beach, Florida, as well as the county of Miami-Dade. With its inaugural race on February 2nd, 2003, the Miami Marathon has been one of the fastest-growing annual marathons, attracting world-class distance runners.
PR Racing, Inc. manages this event with the goal of bringing world-class marathoning to South Florida.
[edit] Race
The Miami Marathon is open to all runners, male and female, from any nation, and is an official Boston Marathon qualifier.
The 26.2 mile race is typically run on the last Sunday in late January or the first Sunday in early February, at approximately 6:10am. The Miami Half Marathon, a 13.1 mile race, is started concurrently. A wheelchair division of the marathon begins 5-10 minutes before the footrace.
The legendary Frank Shorter, Olympic marathon gold medalist in 1972, typically starts the race. Beginning on Biscayne Boulevard next to the American Airlines Arena (home of the Miami Heat), the course takes runners eastbound on the MacArthur Causeway, past cruise ships docked at the Port of Miami, to South Beach. From there, competitors travel northbound along the famous Ocean Drive, through the City of Miami Beach, and then westbound along the Venetian Causeway and back to the mainland and the City of Miami. Here, the Miami Half Marathon finishes and the full marathon continues southbound through the financial district, Brickell, into Coconut Grove, and then back through Brickell and downtown Miami to complete the 26.2 miles at Bayfront Park.
The average temperature at the start of the race is 58.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
[edit] Marathon Winners
Men
2003 - David Ruto, 2:12:22
2004 - William Gomez Amorin, 2:14:42
2005 - Elias Rodrigues Bastos, 2:17:24
2006 - Ruben Garcia Gomez, 2:18:15
2007 - Teshome Gelana, 2:17:51
Women
2003 - Volga Yudziankova, 2:40:23
2004 - Stacie Alboucrek, 2:42:32
2005 - Sandra Ruales Mosquera, 2:37:00
2006 - Hiromi Ominami, 2:34:11
2007 - Ramilla Burangulova, 2:40:22
