The Comrades Marathon Association has almost doubled its prize purse to R4.31m, it said in a statement on Saturday.
The men’s and women’s winners of the June 11 ultra-marathon from Pietermaritzburg to Durban will pocket R500,000, up from R260,000, the runners-up will be paid R250,000 and the 10th-placed finishers will get R20,000.
The CMA said the move demonstrated its commitment to “restore the prize money back to the levels before the Covid-19 pandemic”. A R500,000 bonus would also be paid to anyone breaking the Down Run best times — David Gatebe’s 5 hr 18 min 19 sec and Frith van der Merwe’s 5:54:43 from 1989. The first South African across the line would get R200,000 and the first runner from KwaZulu-Natal would be paid R60,000.prize purse will be a substantial R4.31-million, a 90% increase on last year's R2.27 mill.
Its nearly a doubling of 2022 1st prize from R260k to R500k with 2nd & 3rd overall showing similar increases; from R130k to R250k for 2nd & R90k to R180k for 3rd.
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