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Sydney Marathon in Sydney
The Sydney Marathon began as a Sydney 2000 Olympic test event and has run every year since, crossing the Sydney Harbour Bridge before finishing at the Sydney Opera House. Confirmed in November 2024 as the seventh Abbott World Marathon Major alongside Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York, it has rapidly grown into one of Oceania's largest marathons and a major draw for international runners.
The Sydney Marathon carries a direct link to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, having begun life as the Host City Marathon, a test event staged along the same course the Olympic marathoners would run later that year, and it has continued every year since as one of the clearest sporting legacies of that Games.