Will there be a seven star medal for six-star finishers at Sydney Marathon? When is the general ballot date for entry into the 2025 TCS Sydney Marathon presented by ASICS? This and other frequently asked questions (FAQ) here in our special feature on the TCS Sydney Marathon. This week, SportPlus.sg invited two key members of the TCS Sydney Marathon team to SportPlus Studios to find out what runners can expect in 2025, after Sydney Marathon joined the ranks of the world's most prestigious marathons as a World Marathon Major. James Constantine, digital marketing manager at Pont3, organisers of the Sydney Marathon; and Monika Denkova, Marketing Executive at Pont3; were joined by Melvin Wong, Team Singapore and SEA Games athlete and Sydney Marathon ambassador to Singapore in 2023, as well as Arthur Tong, founder of Elevate Performance Coaching - coaching partner for #SGtoSydney and Cheryl Tay, content creator and key opinion leader, and a participant of the 2024 Sydney Marathon.

Congratulations to all the Singaporeans who ran their hearts out and finished the Sydney Marathon. It’s been a journey, we can now say #SGtoSydney is complete! ✅

Post race interviews with Singapore's runners at the 2024 Sydney Marathon.

It was the biggest ever TCS Sydney Marathon Presented by ASICS, and a record number of Singaporeans were part of over 24,000 runners who flagged off at Miller Street in North Sydney. The city was in its final year as a candidate race to become an Abbot World Marathon Major, and will soon find out the results before the year's end. With the electrifying atmosphere that engulfed the capital of New South Wales on the morning of 15th September though, it's hard to imagine anything but a positive result.

He's featured at several races like already all over Singapore. This year, Samuel Chua is looking for a fresh set of challenges and he's set his eyes on one — the rolling hills of the TCS Sydney Marathon Presented by ASICS. Using his struggles from his first marathon last year as motivation, Samuel Chua hopes to overcome new challenges and achieve his goals at the upcoming Sydney Marathon.

A hustler through and through, Sydney Marathon-bound runner Muhammad Mulyadi juggles not only running and a full-time job, he is also a coach at Elevate Performance Coaching. With "Find Your Shadow" as his motto, Muhammad Mulyadi sees no limits and continues to push himself with Sydney Marathon now on the horizon.

It was all smiles at the Singapore Sports Hub as some 150 runners gathered last evening for the third and final Sydney Marathon: Singapore Chapter Community Run, just three weeks and five days to the TCS Sydney Marathon presented by ASICS. Led by ASICS Running Club Head Coach Shah Feroz and the pacers from Superhero Runners and Garmin Run Club Singapore, participants were taken through their paces of a 6km or 8km run towards the Marina Barrage, running alongside trainees of the Garmin Training Camp for this October's Garmin Run 10km and 21km.

The event is the second of three Sydney Marathon Singapore Chapter activations that is slated to take place in the months leading up to this year's Sydney Marathon presented by ASICS on 15 September 2024, as part of overall efforts to engage with over 400 runners from Singapore who have signed up for this year's Sydney showpiece. The second Sydney Marathon Singapore Chapter run that was led by popular local running community Fast and Free Running Club had witnessed 300 sign-ups by Thursday - less than a week after registrations opened