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Huse, Holton win OSIM Sundown Marathon as event draws 27,000 runners

SINGAPORE - Norway's Andreas Huse and Briton Laura Holt emerged the big winners at this year's OSIM Sundown Marathon which saw some 27,000 runners taking part in the 10th anniversary edition of the night race held over the weekend.

SINGAPORE - Norway's Andreas Huse and Briton Laura Holt emerged the big winners at this year's OSIM Sundown Marathon which saw some 27,000 runners taking part in the 10th anniversary edition of the night race held over the weekend.

Huse won the Men's Marathon in 2hr 49min 52sec while Holt was pleasantly surprised to come out tops in the Women's Marathon in 3:16:51 as she had only arrived in Singapore on Friday.

"I was enticed by the novel experience as I’ve never run at night before. I was really pleased with my finish because it was so hectic to fly in from Dubai only a day before, and complete a full marathon," said Huse.

"I was just focused on running at my own pace and trying to adapt to the humidity here, so it was such a pleasant surprise,"

Retaining her 21KM Women’s title for the second year in a row was Singaporean Rachel See, with a time of 1:32:00, while the Men’s category was won by Song Yang Yang of China, in 1:20.54.

This year’s event saw the inclusion of the largest sports carnival in the country – the inaugural Sundown Night Festival, which featured an art-box night festival concept.

The organisers put together a slate of programmes lined-up over five consecutive nights leading up to race day including a Bliss Out Yoga Session, Master Pilates class, Body Combat class, Zumba workouts, and live performances by local singers and bands such as Shigga Shay, Inch Chua, Sphaeras and The Facade.

“Our 10th year was a landmark event for us, and we wanted to open up new experiences for our participants this year," said Adrian Mok, the managing director of HiVelocity Events, the organiser of Sundown Marathon. 

"Although our focus has always been providing the best experience possible for our runners, we’ve always wanted to cater to more than just the runners. These include their supporters and the mass public. We didn’t want it to be the case of just picking up their race packs.

"It was also about engaging them during the race pack collection, all the way up to event day, which was the aim of the Sundown Night Festival. We want to ensure that there’s always something for everyone at the race village, regardless of whether you’re a participant or not. That’s the beauty of the Sundown Marathon,” 

This year's Sundown Marathon also featured the Sundown 5km Earth Hour Run  as part of the Earth Hour celebrations.

People from all over Singapore came together to run a cumulative distance of over 550,000km across all categories – enough to circle the earth at least 10 times – in support of wildlife, forests and oceans.

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