THE date for the 2022 Comrades Marathon has been confirmed. The 95th edition of the famous ultra-marathon is scheduled to take place on Sunday, August 28.
The mighty race will be run for the first time in two years after it was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The race will start in Pietermaritzburg and finish in Durban.
In recent years the Comrades was run in June, but this new August date was proposed by the Comrades Marathon Association (CMA), and approved by KwaZulu-Natal Athletics (KZNA).
CMA chairperson Cheryl Winn said the date of the 100-year-old Comrades Marathon has over the years shifted from as early as mid-May to as late as mid-July.
“(It was) Originally staged on a public holiday known as Empire Day on 24 May 1921, later settled for years on Republic Day 31 May, and with the dawn of the new South
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