The 10th year anniversary of the OSIM Sundown Marathon concluded in style with around 27,000 runners running through the night to beat the sunrise this year.
The iconic homegrown night race saw the inclusion of the largest sports carnival in the country – the first Sundown Night Festival, which boasted an art-box night festival concept comprising an exciting slate of programmes lined-up over five consecutive nights from 21 March leading up to race day on 26 March.
For the first time, the Sundown 5km Earth Hour Run took place as part of the Earth Hour celebrations. People from all over Singapore came together to run a cumulative distance of over 550,000km across all categories at this year’s Sundown Marathon – enough to circle the earth at least 10 times – in support of wildlife, forests and oceans.
The run also piloted alternative sustainable solutions for marathon events such as reusable bottles and edible water molecules as extra options at the hydration station, and plantable medals in addition to the traditional finisher medals.
Adrian Mok, Managing Director of HiVelocity Events, the organiser of Sundown Marathon said:
Our 10th year was a landmark event for us, and we wanted to open up new experiences for our participants this year. Although our focus has always been providing the best experience possible for our runners, we’ve always wanted to cater to more than just the runners. These include their supporters and the mass public. We didn’t want it to be the case of just picking up their race packs. It was also about engaging them during the race pack collection, all the way up to event day, which was the aim of the Sundown Night Festival. We want to ensure that there’s always something for everyone at the race village, regardless of whether you’re a participant or not. That’s the beauty of the Sundown Marathon.
OSIM Sundown Marathon 2017 Race Results
42.195 Full Marathon
The Women’s Marathon category was won by 35-year-old Briton Laura Holton, who crossed the finishing line with a time of 3:16:51 comfortably ahead of Hu Xiuying (3:32:15) and Sherlynn Tan (3:37:14).
The Men’s Marathon category was won by Andreas Huse from Norway, who crossed the finishing line with a time of 2:49:52.
21.1KM Half Marathon
Retaining her 21KM Women’s title for the second year in a row was Singaporean Rachel See, with a time of 1:32:00. Second and third place goes to Italian Giulia Bossi (1:34:33) and Singaporean Aileen Tan (1:35:04) respectively.
The Men’s category was won by Song Yang Yang of China, in 1:20.54 ahead of Singaporean Evan Chee (1:22:31) and German Matt Hoffmann (1:24:42).
10KM Challenge
The Men’s 10KM category was won by Kenyan Dennis Isika in 33:30, while Rachel Longstaff from Britain took home the crown in the Women’s 10KM category with a time of 37:56.
Sundown With Love
One of the key highlights of the OSIM Sundown Marathon 2017 was its charity outreach programme – Sundown With Love. Runners can support and join 12 Sundown Ambassadors to help raise funds for their chosen beneficiaries.
The Sundown With Love donation site will be open until 30 April 2017.
Meanwhile, check out our OSIM Sundown Marathon 2017 race photos.
