Las Vegas Marathon Facts
Of the 27,100 registered runners for the full and half marathon, interesting facts:
- The breakdown is 7,700 marathon, 19,400 half
- 35% of the participants are running their first full or half marathon
- 59% percent of the registered runners are women
- Entrants from all 50 states and 39 countries
- 85% of the runners are traveling to Vegas from outside Clark County
- Almost 25% of the runners are from California
- 2,000 runners are traveling from Canada
People
27,100 Entrants
902 Charity Runners
$3.5 Million raised for Crohn’s & Colitis
35,000 Spectators
1,000 Volunteers
200 Race Officials
200 Uniformed Police
63 Elite Athletes
45,000 Expo Attendees
Entertainment
250 High School Cheerleaders
500 Pom Poms
35 Bands
175 Musicians
200 Speakers
50 Generators
24 Stages
100 Microphones
325 Guitar Picks
Equipment
28,000 Runners T-shirts
15,000 Finisher’s Medals
100 Sponsor banners along the course
4,000 Feet of Rope
8,000 Feet of Fencing
800,000 Paper Cups
500 Portable Restrooms
778 Tables
1,500 Feet of Barricades
4 Fork Lifts
15 Delivery Trucks
80,000 Safety pins
350 Pens and Pencils
230 Pairs of Work Gloves
35 Tents
5,000 Cones
200 Delineators
2 Tons of Ice
155 Cots
6,000 Garbage Bags
Beverages
78,576 Bottles of water
5,000 Gallons of Cytomax Sports
Beverage
Race Course
29 Course Clocks
38 Mile and Kilometer Markers
21 Refreshment Stations
400 Water Station Volunteers
Medical
4,352 Bags of Ice
2,500 Band-Aids
1,675 Boxes of Gauze
75 1 lb Jars of Vaseline
12,540 Tablets of Pain Reliever
1,785 Tongue Depressors
4,758 Latex Gloves
323 Ace Bandages
2,104 Towels
154 Thermometers
Prize Money
$107,500 prize purse
$15,000 Men’s and women’s champions
$10,000 gender challenge prize bonus
$1,000 first marathon runner from NV
Of the 27,100 registered runners for the full and half marathon, interesting facts:
- The breakdown is 7,700 marathon, 19,400 half
- 35% of the participants are running their first full or half marathon
- 59% percent of the registered runners are women
- Entrants from all 50 states and 39 countries
- 85% of the runners are traveling to Vegas from outside Clark County
- Almost 25% of the runners are from California
- 2,000 runners are traveling from Canada
People
- 27,100 Entrants
- 902 Charity Runners
- $3.5 Million raised for Crohn’s & Colitis
- 35,000 Spectators
- 1,000 Volunteers
- 200 Race Officials
- 200 Uniformed Police
- 63 Elite Athletes
- 45,000 Expo Attendees
Entertainment
- 250 High School Cheerleaders
- 500 Pom Poms
- 35 Bands
- 175 Musicians
- 200 Speakers
- 50 Generators
- 24 Stages
- 100 Microphones
- 325 Guitar Picks
Equipment
- 28,000 Runners T-shirts
- 15,000 Finisher’s Medals
- 100 Sponsor banners along the course
- 4,000 Feet of Rope
- 8,000 Feet of Fencing
- 800,000 Paper Cups
- 500 Portable Restrooms
- 778 Tables
- 1,500 Feet of Barricades
- 4 Fork Lifts
- 15 Delivery Trucks
- 80,000 Safety pins
- 350 Pens and Pencils
- 230 Pairs of Work Gloves
- 35 Tents
- 5,000 Cones
- 200 Delineators
- 2 Tons of Ice
- 155 Cots
- 6,000 Garbage Bags
Beverages
- 78,576 Bottles of water
- 5,000 Gallons of Cytomax Sports Beverage
Race Course
- 29 Course Clocks
- 38 Mile and Kilometer Markers
- 21 Refreshment Stations
- 400 Water Station Volunteers
Medical
- 4,352 Bags of Ice
- 2,500 Band-Aids
- 1,675 Boxes of Gauze
- 75 1 lb Jars of Vaseline
- 12,540 Tablets of Pain Reliever
- 1,785 Tongue Depressors
- 4,758 Latex Gloves
- 323 Ace Bandages
- 2,104 Towels
- 154 Thermometers
Prize Money
- $107,500 prize purse
- $15,000 Men’s and women’s champions
- $10,000 gender challenge prize bonus
- $1,000 first marathon runner from NV
December 5th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Actually they closed the race at 30,000 entries!!! You running?