2025 USATF Half Marathon Championships Coming to Working 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 right this moment.
The championships, to be run as a part of the Publix Atlanta Half Marathon on Sunday, March 2, will assist choose Crew USA for the 2025 World Highway Working Championships, set for San Diego, CA, September 26-28. The highest three women and men finishers will qualify.
“On March 2, it is going to 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 highway racing the town has ever seen,” stated CEO Wealthy Kenah. “The folks of Working Metropolis USA got here out to assist the Olympic Marathon Trials in astonishing numbers; this time, they will run together with the athletes vying for an opportunity to symbolize 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 instances 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.
Picture: 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 lively and wholesome Atlanta. Via working and strolling, Atlanta Observe Membership motivates, conjures up, 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 working group in the USA. Along with the AJC Peachtree Highway Race, essentially the most important 10K working occasion on the earth, Atlanta Observe Membership directs greater than 50 occasions every year, together with the Publix Atlanta Marathon, PNC Atlanta 10 Miler, and Invesco QQQ Thanksgiving Day Half Marathon. Via the assist of its members and volunteers, Atlanta Observe Membership additionally maintains a number of group initiatives, together with organizing and selling the Kilometer Youngsters youth working program to metro Atlanta youth, honoring highschool cross nation and observe and discipline athletes by means 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.
