Sydney marathon joins likes of New York, London and Tokyo as ‘major’ event
Submitted 8 months ago by vividspecter@lemm.ee to australia@aussie.zone
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/nov/04/sydney-marathon-world-major-new-york-london-tokyo
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Haven’t read the article, does this mean its classed as an Olympic qualifying event?
vividspecter@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It doesn’t say in the article, but this article claims that you can qualify to the Olympics by placing top 5 in a World Athletics rated platinum label event. Since Sydney Marathon became a Platinum Label event in 2022 , you could already qualify to the Olympics through that race.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Oh okay. I only have a vague sense of these things due to family members being big into running.