Thousands hit the pavement for annual Manitoba Marathon

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 15, 2025 11:08 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Clear skies, cooler temperatures and cleanable aerial prime graced the streets for thousands of runners who deed the pavement connected Sunday during the yearly Manitoba Marathon. 

The lawsuit kicked disconnected astatine 7 a.m. astatine the Princess Auto Stadium successful southbound Winnipeg. Runners are participating successful a fig of races, including the 42.2 kilometre full marathon.

About fractional of the astir 12,500 participants who signed up for this year's lawsuit are caller runners, Rachel Munday, the enforcement manager of the contention told CBC. 

"It's a moving boom," she said. 

The Manitoba Marathon is conscionable the latest illustration of races passim the state seeing an summation successful wide participation, Munday said. 

Just shy of 1,300 radical registered for the afloat marathon, Munday said, marking 1 of the largest numbers recorded successful the race's history.

"It's not conscionable astir the numbers … it's a caller demographic, it's a divers group, there's radical from each inheritance and it's truly breathtaking to spot everybody successful the community," Munday said. 

A fig of roads are closed connected Sunday to accommodate the marathon including University Crescent betwixt Chancellor Matheson Road and Pembina Highway, the metropolis said successful a quality release.

Wellington Crescent has a fig of partial closures arsenic the marathon way switches from Portage Avenue this year. 

Single lanes of postulation are also in effect including eastbound successful Jubilee Avenue from Pembina Highway.