The Great Ocean Road Marathon is a long-distance run held in Victoria, Australia since 2005. The main race stretches 44km from Lorne to Apollo Bay along the coastal route. It is the main race within the annual Great Ocean Road Running Festival, which also includes 60km, 23km and 6km runs, 5km and 10km walks and a 1.5km Kids Gallop. In 2019 a total of 8200 runners took part across the events. The event began in 2005, founded by Les Noseda with the assistance of The Apollo Bay Chamber of Commerce, Ross Stephens, Nick Polgeeft, Gerry Tidd and Joe Di Ceccio. It is now owned by MARI.MARI Group Portfolio The course record of 2:27:37 was set in 2019 by Australian runner Nick Earl. Earl broke the previous record of 2:27:42 set in 2011 by James Kipkelwon of Kenya, who also won the event in 2012.
Past winners Key:
EditionYearMen's winnerTime (h:m:s)Women's winnerTime (h:m:s)1st 2005 2:31:13 3:31:092nd 2006 2:43:55 3:15:363rd 2007 2:36:35 2:58:154th 2008 2:36:43 3:10:595th 2009 2:44:55 2:59:416th 2010 2:29:41 3:07:417th2011 2:29:16 3:20:168th2012 2:27:42 2:59:369th 2013 2:27:50 3:08:4410th 2014 2:32:33 3:07:5111th 2015 2:37:23 3:01:5612th 2016 2:33:00 3:06:3713th 2017 2:32:44 3:10:5314th 2018 2:35:43 3:06:3215th 2019 2:27:37 3:04:36 2020 postponed due to coronavirus pandemic16th 2021 2:48:20 3:09:1617th 2022 2:30:20 3:04:2818th20232:46:053:06:0219th20242:36:353:04:23
References
External links Great Ocean Road Marathon Site