Hong Kong Marathon

4 Mar 2013

Two athletes competing in last Sunday's wheelchair half-marathon at the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon event have heavily criticised race organisers. One of them even claimed he was...

Help needed to make dream real

3 Mar 2013

Benjamin Hung Pi-cheng has a dream - that one day the Hong Kong Marathon can be among the biggest and best in the world. The Standard Chartered Bank chief is realistic enough to concede his dream...

Letters to the Editor, February 28, 2013

28 Feb 2013

We would like to point out that the article "Smog in Pearl Delta 'worse than Beijing'" misrepresented how air pollution in the Pearl River Delta should be understood. For those of us who study air...

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What's being said on facebook.com/southchinamorningpost

27 Feb 2013

What's being said on Facebook about hopes that the HK marathon can become one of the best in the world, growth of eco-tours in HK, and claims by Japan's premier Shinzo Abe that China is teaching...

HK marathon can be among world's best, says bank chief

25 Feb 2013

The Hong Kong Amateur Athletic Association said the annual showpiece had reached bursting point with room only for 2,000 more runners this year. The total entry was a record 72,000, with nearly 7,...

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Wonder woman Chow defies the odds at Hong Kong Marathon

Alison Chow Chi-ngan defied the odds to finish as Hong Kong's leading woman in the marathon - five weeks after having knee surgery. It placed her sixth out of the 14 top runners in the Asian...

Julius seizes his big moment with victory in Hong Kong Marathon

The race might be backed by a bank but Julius Maisei's plans for the "life-changing" prize money he won at the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon yesterday is to take the cash and run - as far...

Clinton Mackevicius claims 10km men's title at Hong Kong Marathon

Spurred on by the memory of his recently deceased mother, roving Australian architect Clinton Mackevicius stormed to victory in the 10km men's elite race.

10KM

Joyce Cheung survives fall to win women's 10km race at Hong Kong Marathon

The triathlete and sometime runner overcame a pile-up just after the start to win in 39 minutes and 32 seconds and credited her ability to overcome the pain that followed her fall to a rigorous...

HALF-MARATHON

Yuta Koyama overcomes tough field to win men's Hong Kong half-marathon

The Japanese runner finished in 1:08.49, well ahead of Hong Kong's Thomas Kiprotich (1:11.23) and John Duenas of the Philippines (1:13.18).

HALF-MARATHON

Nurse Christy Yiu claims women's half-marathon in Hong Kong

Christy Yiu Kit-ching made it a hat-trick of victories in the women's half-marathon but still walked from the course shaking her head and claiming she had got her race plan wrong.