2025 USATF Half Marathon Championships Coming to Operating Metropolis USA
Prime 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 at this time.
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 Operating Championships, set for San Diego, CA, September 26-28. The highest three women and men finishers will qualify.
“On March 2, it will likely be virtually 5 years to the day since Atlanta Observe Membership hosted the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials as a part of the most important weekend of street racing town has ever seen,” stated CEO Wealthy Kenah. “The individuals of Operating 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 characterize 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 will need to 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. By means of operating and strolling, Atlanta Observe Membership motivates, evokes, and engages the group to get pleasure from a more healthy way of life.
With greater than 37,000 members, Atlanta Observe Membership is the second-largest operating group in the USA. Along with the AJC Peachtree Highway Race, essentially the most important 10K operating occasion on the earth, 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. By means of 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 operating program to metro Atlanta youth, honoring highschool cross nation and monitor and subject athletes by way of 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.