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Honolulu Marathon Participants
How can the small city of Honolulu (population: 905,
601) draw an average of 25,000 participants to the
Honolulu Marathon each year? And the more amazing thing
is, most of the participants to the Honolulu Marathon
are not locals. In fact, since 1989, majority of
participants come from Japan. In 1991, for instance,
when the Honolulu Marathon had 14, 605 starters, 70.6%
or 10, 236 participants came from Japan. In 2008, 14,
409 participants out of a total of 23,231 registrants
were from Japan.
Japan is not the only Asian country that has its foot in
the marathon. Runners from other Asian countries like
Russia and South Korea are also often present at the
Honolulu Marathon. Europeans and Africans (especially
from Kenya and Tanzania) also often join the race.
There’s no limit to the number of participants admitted
to the Honolulu Marathon. Interested participants need
only to register during the scheduled dates and pay the
entry fee. Rates vary depending on schedule and location
of participants. For the 2008 Honolulu Marathon, for
instance, the entry fee for non-US participants was $140
if they registered by October 31, $170 if they
registered from November 1 to 14, and $200 if they
registered from November 15 to December 13. US
(including Hawaii participants) had to pay only $107,
$135, and $200 respectively. Participants can either
register online, or download the PDF Registration
Information and Marathon Registration Entry Form then
hand-deliver them to the Honolulu Convention Center.
Participants at the satellite races in US bases in the
Middle East composed of soldiers numbering to an average
of a hundred annually. Finishers of the satellite
marathons in the Middle East also get shirts and medals
at the end of the race.
The number of participants to the
Honolulu Marathon varies each year. All the same, the
number’s so large Honolulu Marathon is always considered
as one of the ten largest marathons in the world. The
Honolulu Marathon made a world record in 1995: 34, 434
participants gathered at the Ala Moana Center to run
their way through Waikiki, Hawaii.
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