A bumper anniversary celebration has today been announced for the Cardiff Half Marathon, following the successful return of the event to the streets of the Welsh capital this weekend. The race will be celebrating its 20th anniversary on Sunday 1 October next year. Founded in 2003 when just 1,500 runners took part, the event has
The Wizz Air Cardiff Half Marathon returned in style today, pushing fundraising efforts past the twenty million pounds mark since the event first descended on the capital in 2003. Ahead of race day, event organisers Run 4 Wales reported that fundraising figures for this weekend’s race stood at an incredible £2.3 million. This year’s incredible
It was a double win for Kenya at the Wizz Air Cardiff Half Marathon on Sunday (2 October). Race favourite, Geoffrey Koech stormed to win the men’s elite race, finishing just one second outside of the hour mark. Sprinting across the finish line in 1:00:01, he was happy with his performance: “The course is good.
Early this year, we announced that the Wizz Air Cardiff Half Marathon was on track to generate its 20 millionth pound in fundraising at the 2022 event, as we urged runners to get behind the ‘race to £20 million’ to help us achieve this incredible milestone. A wide range of causes will be represented at
The Wizz Air Cardiff Half Marathon takes to the streets on Sunday 2 October and while it’s a big day for locals, it is also attracting more runners from from overseas and from outside of Wales than ever before. Among the record number of international runners is Jim Gilbert of Ontario, Canada. The Cardiff Half
As part of the #EinDinas theme celebrating a record number of runners travelling for the Wizz Air Cardiff Half from overseas, we’ve partnered with the popular language-learning app Duolingo UK to bring you some useful phrases in our ancient language. It’s estimated that just under 500,000 learners are currently learning Welsh on Duolingo, contributing to
If you’re looking to achieve a target finish time at the Wizz Air Cardiff Half Marathon, rest assured that the HOKA pacers will be on hand to help. Built by runners for runners, HOKA running shoes elevate your potential on the track, in the field and on the road. Their strapline is “Fly Human Fly”,
The team behind the Wizz Air Cardiff Half Marathon and water partner Brecon Carreg have been working together on efforts to improve the sustainability of the event. Run 4 Wales today shared plans for the event on 2 October, devised in collaboration with Official Partner Brecon Carreg, who have recruited a team of ploggers
The Wizz Air Cardiff Half Marathon will feature its strongest Elite Field to date and in 2022 has compiled an International Field with more nationalities represented than ever before. This year the field will host athletes from; Canada, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Kenya, New Zealand, Norway, Uganda and Wales. Geoffrey Koech (59:32) is the fastest on
Wizz Air will celebrate their first Cardiff Half as title partners by providing half marathoners with £15 flight vouchers as a thank you for their participation. Runners can redeem their £15 voucher by visiting the Wizz Air stand in the Event Village and showing their race number, open on both Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd
