2025 USATF Half Marathon Championships Coming to Working Metropolis USATop U.S. Athletes Will Compete on March 2 as A part of Publix Atlanta Marathon Weekend
ATLANTA – October 23, 2024 – Atlanta Observe Membership will host the 2025 USATF Half Marathon Championships as a Publix Atlanta Marathon Weekend spotlight on March 1-2, the Membership introduced immediately.
The championships, to be run as a part of the Publix Atlanta Half Marathon on Sunday, March 2, will assist choose Group USA for the 2025 World Highway Working Championships, set for San Diego, CA, September 26-28. The highest three women and men finishers will qualify.
“On March 2, will probably be nearly 5 years to the day since Atlanta Observe Membership hosted the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials as a part of the largest weekend of highway racing the town has ever seen,” mentioned CEO Wealthy Kenah. “The folks of Working Metropolis USA got here out to assist the Olympic Marathon Trials in astonishing numbers; this time, they’ll run together with the athletes vying for an opportunity to symbolize their nation.”
Skilled athletes will compete for a $20,000 first-place prize for each women and men, topping a championships-only purse of not less than $110,000.
To qualify with a assured entry into the USATF Half Marathon Championships, athletes should have run the next occasions between September 1, 2023, and February 3, 2025:
10,000 meters: 28:20 (males), 32:40 (girls)10K Highway: 29:20 (males), 33:30 (girls)Half Marathon: 1:07:00 (males), 1:17:00 (girls)Marathon: 2:17:00 (males), 2:37:00 (girls)
I’ll announce extra particulars within the coming months.
Photograph: 2024 Publix Atlanta Marathon Weekend by Paul McPherson
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About Atlanta Observe Membership
Atlanta Observe Membership is a nonprofit dedicated to creating an energetic and wholesome Atlanta. Via working and strolling, Atlanta Observe Membership motivates, conjures up, and engages the group to get pleasure from a more healthy life-style.
With greater than 37,000 members, Atlanta Observe Membership is the second-largest working group in america. Along with the AJC Peachtree Highway Race, probably the most important 10K working occasion on this planet, Atlanta Observe Membership directs greater than 50 occasions annually, together with the Publix Atlanta Marathon, PNC Atlanta 10 Miler, and Invesco QQQ Thanksgiving Day Half Marathon. Via the assist of its members and volunteers, Atlanta Observe Membership additionally maintains a number of group initiatives, together with organizing and selling the Kilometer Children youth working program to metro Atlanta youth, honoring highschool cross nation and monitor and area athletes by Atlanta Observe Membership’s All-Metro Banquets and supporting the Grady Bicycle EMT program. For extra info on Atlanta Observe Membership, go to atlantatrackclub.org.
