Griffith chases fourth title at Gold Coast Airport Marathon

Team Griffith last year won the title of Largest Corporate Team at the week's Gold Coast Airport Marathon.
Team Griffith won the title of Largest Corporate Team at last year's Gold Coast Airport Marathon.

Griffith University hopes to make it four-in a row at this weekend’s Gold Coast Airport Marathon.

Team Griffith has taken out the title of Largest Corporate Team for the past three years and this year hopes to run a massive 16,200km across all events.

A total of 955 students, alumni, staff and family friends are expected to don the red shirt. The event attracts internationalrunners, including Griffith graduate Aileen Ho, whocompleted a Master of Business (Sport Management)in 2006, who is travelling from Singapore for the marathon.

Griffith has a strong connection with sporting events on the Gold Coast and is the Official Presenter of Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Men’s and Women’s Marathons.

This weekend’s Gold Coast Airport Marathon is expected to attract more than 27,000 participants across a range of distances including the 42.2km marathon, wheelchair marathon, half marathon, wheelchair 15km, 10km run, 5.7km challenge and junior dash 4km and 2km races.

Over the race weekend, Griffith will have a marquee for a BBQ breakfast, sports massage and plenty of other activities.

Team Griffith members are also using the event to raise funds for a number of causes including:


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