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Saturday, 15 May 2021, 4:57 pm
The
2021 Hawke s Bay Marathon. Photo: Bruce
Jenkins.
More than 8,000 competitors
hit the course for the fifth running of Hawke’s Bay
Marathon today, the biggest in the event’s
history.
Participants tested themselves across three
distances, the Havana Coffee 10km, 2degrees Half Marathon
and New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty Marathon,
with the sold-out events finishing at the iconic Elephant
Hill Estate & Winery.
Once across the finish line,
people enjoyed the Elephant Hill Estate & Winery
offering New Zealand’s best finish line festival, plenty
of entertainment, and a range of local Hawke’s Bay food
and wine.