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The Comrades Marathon Association has announced that it’s increasing its prize money for the 2023 Comrades Marathon by a substantial 90%.
The association says the total prize purse will be a substantial R4.3 million, up from last year’s R2.2 million. This means that the Men’s and Women’s winners will almost double their prize money and take home half a million rand this year, up from R260 000 last year.
And if the record is broken, the winners will receive a further R500 000, bringing their total prize money to a million rand.
Prize money for the iconic race was halved since the Covid-19 pandemic halted all sporting events in 2020. The 96th Comrades Marathon is a down run from Pietermaritzburg to Durban on the 11th of June.
