SYDNEY : If all goes well when the biggest marathon field ever gathered in Australia races 42 kilometres around the streets of Sydney on Sunday, World Marathon Majors will soon add a seventh race to the elite series.
The Sydney Marathon will become the first race since Tokyo in 2013 to join long-established majors in New York, London, Boston, Berlin and Chicago if it passes the WMM assessment criteria for the second straight year.
Larden has been race director since 2005 when there were 2,300 finishers and has overseen the growth to the 25,000 runners who will test themselves over a newly re-jigged course on Sunday. The size of the field and a new start location - back at North Sydney Oval where the Olympic marathon got underway in 2000 - will make the task a bit harder for Larden and his team, but he is optimistic they will deliver.
"It's World Marathon Majors, and the word 'world' is in there, and we are not really worldwide, right?" WMM chief executive Dawna Stone told Reuters outside the city's world renowned Opera House.
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