2025 USATF Half Marathon Championships Coming to Running City USA
Top U.S. Athletes Will Compete on March 2 as Part of Publix Atlanta Marathon Weekend
ATLANTA – October 23, 2024 – Atlanta Track Club will host the 2025 USATF Half Marathon Championships as a Publix Atlanta Marathon Weekend spotlight on March 1-2, the Club introduced immediately.
The championships, to be run as half of the Publix Atlanta Half Marathon on Sunday, March 2, will assist choose Team USA for the 2025 World Road Running Championships, set for San Diego, CA, September 26-28. The high three women and men finishers will qualify.
“On March 2, will probably be nearly 5 years to the day since Atlanta Track Club hosted the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials as half of the largest weekend of street racing the town has ever seen,” stated CEO Rich Kenah. “The folks of Running City USA got here out to help the Olympic Marathon Trials in astonishing numbers; this time, they will run together with the athletes vying for an opportunity to signify their nation.”
Professional 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 should have run the next occasions between September 1, 2023, and February 3, 2025:
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I’ll announce extra particulars within the coming months.
Photo: 2024 Publix Atlanta Marathon Weekend by Paul McPherson
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About Atlanta Track Club
Atlanta Track Club is a nonprofit dedicated to creating an energetic and healthy Atlanta. Through operating and strolling, Atlanta Track Club motivates, conjures up, and engages the group to take pleasure in a more healthy life-style.
With greater than 37,000 members, Atlanta Track Club is the second-largest operating group within the United States. In addition to the AJC Peachtree Road Race, essentially the most important 10K operating occasion on the planet, Atlanta Track Club directs greater than 50 occasions every year, together with the Publix Atlanta Marathon, PNC Atlanta 10 Miler, and Invesco QQQ Thanksgiving Day Half Marathon. Through the help of its members and volunteers, Atlanta Track Club additionally maintains a number of group initiatives, together with organizing and selling the Kilometer Kids youth operating program to metro Atlanta youth, honoring highschool cross nation and observe and subject athletes by Atlanta Track Club’s All-Metro Banquets and supporting the Grady Bicycle EMT program. For extra info on Atlanta Track Club, go to atlantatrackclub.org.