About 1,000 people had queued up by 12 noon at Raffles Place for a spot in the marathon scheduled for December 4th, 2011. (Photo © Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore)
Raffles Place, Thursday, June 23, 2011 — The organisers of the Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore have increased the capacity of the event to 70,000 runners for this year. Last year, the event had 60,000 runners.
The organisers, the Singapore Sports Council (SSC), opened registration for the run today.
Based on the feedback from last year’s race, SSC is exploring ways to move the baggage collection point closer to the Padang from the F1 Pit building.
SSC is also looking to ease the congestion at the merging point of all three routes. It has been a perennial complaint of runners that they find their way obstructed by those who, by that point in the race, are reduced to walking pace and end up blocking those who are still running.
“The Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore has become a signature event for our city. Given the roaring demand in 2010, we are increasing participation to 70,000 people with help from our title sponsor Standard Chartered Bank,” said Mr Lim Teck Yin, Chief Executive Officer, SSC, and Chairman of the SCMS 2011 Organising Committee.
Apart from familiar features like the routes through the heart of Singapore, a new 5km Fun Run has been introduced. The new 5km Fun Run will add to the current range of 10km, 21km, 42km and Kids Dash race distances.
For further details of the SCMS 2011, please visit www.marathonsingapore.com and www.facebook.com/marathonSG.
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