The Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon is an international event held annually on the first Sunday of December in the city of Singapore. The marathon attracts participants from all over the world with runners from countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, China and other European and Asian countries.

It is part of "The Greatest Race on Earth", fully sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank The other three legs of this four-marathon race are the Hong Kong Marathon, the Mumbai Marathon and the Nairobi Marathon.

In 2007, the event attracted approximately 40,000 participants and with a money purse of US$25,000 for the winner in the 2007 MEN'S OPEN category and LADIES' OPEN winner.

This event has 3 main categories, namely the Mini-Marathon-10 km, Half-Marathon-21 km and the Full Marathon-42.195km.

This race starts early at 5.30 am and it brings runners through the central business district, turning into the Marina South Park, u-turning back to the city before heading to the east coast where runners can feel the cool morning breeze. Full marathoners will make another u-turn at the east coast area before heading back to the central business district. The humid weather makes this a tough race even for the world's elite runners.

The full marathon course record was set by Elijah Mbogo of Kenya in 2007 with a time of 2:14:22.

List of winners

Year	Winner men	Nationality	Time	Winner women	Nationality	Time
2007	Elijah Mbogo		2:14:22,	Alem Ashebier		2:37:08,
2006	Amos Matui		2:15.01	Salina Kosgei		2:31.55
2005	Amos Matui		2:15.57	Irina Timofeyeva		2:34.42
2004	Philip Tanui		2:17.02	Helen Cherono		2:39.37
2003	John Kelai		2:19.02	Yu-xi Wang		2:43.57
2002	Joseph Riri		2:18.46	Constantina Tomescu		2:36.06
2001	Tadesse Hailemariam		2:23.02	Worknesh Tola		2:53.29
2000	Nixon Nkodima		2:27.07	Ruwiyati		2:53.11
1999	Ernest Wong		2:48.43	Ruwiyati		2:54.53
1998	Zacharia Mosala		2:27.27	Jing Lu		2:59.58
1997	Tsutomu Sassa		2:28.08	Ruwiyati		2:49.54
1996	Tor-Erik Nyquist		2:24.17	Sylvia Rose		2:48.19
1995	Somkert Winthochai		2:35.39	Yoki Chow		3:20.19
1994	Robert Nolan		2:22.40	Mieke Pullen		2:50.38
1993	Tan-Choon Ghee		2:42.22	Irene Chua		3:23.18
1992	Gareth Spring		2:22.22	Yvonne Danson		2:43.34
1991	Tikaram Gurung		2:42.02	Yvonne Danson		2:47.27
1990	Kuruppu Karunaratne		2:21.10	Ye-mei Li		2:47.47
1989	Ricky Khoo		2:39.09	Toh-So Liang		2:53.09
1988	Hans Pfisterer		2:22.49	Ye-mei Li		2:46.04
1986	Alain Lazare		2:19.04	Kersti Jakobsen		2:39.03
1984	Tommy Persson		2:18.30	Kersti Jakobsen		2:41.34
1982	Raymond Crabb		2:24.19	Winnie Lai-chu Ng		2:55.11

External links

• singaporemarathon.com
• Why I Run the Marathon Memoirs of a runner who has completed 7 Singapore Marathons.