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The 2015 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon is the 19th edition of the popular running event, founded in 1997, held on January 25th 2015. In addition to the full marathon, a 10km run and a half marathon are also held. The winner of the men’s and women’s races each receives US$65,000.Around 70,000 runners take part each year across all events. The defending champions are both Ethiopians, Feyera Gemeda who won the 2014 men’s edition in 2 hours 15 minutes and five seconds and Rehima Kedir, who won the women’s in 2:34.53. The current men’s record is 2:11.27 held by Dejere Abera; the women’s record is 2:30.12 held by Misiker Demissie.
A surreal Sunday scene emerges around this time every year, with the city's highways and tunnels carpeted with tens of thousands of people in colourful sporty outfits.
Sportswear company Puma has apologised for a catty Hong Kong Marathon marketing stunt that appeared to have its claws out for Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying.
A runner who collapsed just 100 metres from the finishing line at the Hong Kong Marathon on Sunday has died in hospital.
Organisers of the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon will push for all of Hennessy Road to be opened for next year's event, but the ceiling of 73,000 entries is unlikely to be raised.
This year’s Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon was won on Sunday morning by Ethiopia’s Sentayehu Merga Ejigu in 2:12:59 (net time), almost 2 minutes better than the best score in 2014.
Nearly 65,000 people took to the streets of Hong Kong this morning, not to occupy the city but to compete in the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon.
Standard Chartered chief Benjamin Hung was sceptical when the bank first planned to sponsor the race - and admits its growth is beyond their wildest dreams
Standard Chartered chief executive Benjamin Hung Pi-cheng yesterday called on 7.2 million people to embrace the Hong Kong Marathon, saying small opposing minorities with big voices would soon be silenced - and even "embarrassed" - by a city on the run.
If you can't beat them, join them - that was the thinking of promising Hong Kong distance runner Wan Cheuk-hei as he travelled to Taiwan to join a group of elite runners to find out why they seemed to be making so much better progress than him
Yee Wo Street in Causeway Bay will be reoccupied next Sunday, this time by thousands of runners - but organisers admit they will be powerless to prevent possible protests along the route.
Youngsters who in the past could only watch the Hong Kong Marathon and associated races on television can now get ready for a piece of the action.
Eager runners snapped up all 23,000 slots for the popular half-marathon race in next year's Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon within three hours yesterday morning.
The Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon has reached its saturation point, its top official William Ko Wai-lam said yesterday after organisers revealed that the quota for the race in January.
