The Sanlam Group is organizing the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon, which will take place on Sunday, 24 May 2026, in Cape Town, South Africa.
More than 27 000 runners are expected to participate in this year’s race. Eliud Kipchoge, widely regarded as one of the greatest long-distance runners in history, has announced that the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon will mark the first chapter of his “Eliud’s Running World” project, a series of seven marathons to be run across all seven continents.
Since its launch in 2007, the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon has rapidly grown into one of the flagship events on the global running calendar, attracting elite athletes and thousands of runners from around the world to Cape Town each year.
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