EP75: Sydney Shines On Its Majors Debut
Marathon Talk
World Marathon Majors
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The TCS Sydney Marathon took place this past weekend, and we have all the news from a momentous day in marathon running as Sydney arrived as an Abbott World Marathon Major!
Joining Martin on this week's show, we have Abbott World Marathon Majors Chief Operating Officer Danny Coyle, who was on the ground, in the shadow of the Opera House, to give us his thoughts on both the race day, the city, and also the performances of Sifan Hassan, Eliud Kiphcoge, and the winner of the men's elite race, Hailemaryam Kiros.
We're also joined by Simon Bolton, who is now a Seven Star athlete, who will give us his participants perspective of the race and we're also very pleased to welcome Michelle Weltman MBE, head of disability at London Marathon Events, who also joins us from Sydney, to talk to us about wheelchair racing, her thoughts on Sydney, the current series championship and some wider commentary on where wheelchair racing can go in the future.
We've got a jam-packed show for you, and we hope you enjoy it.
In this episode of Marathon Talk:
0:00 - Martin and Danny discuss the 2025 TCS Sydney Marathon.
15:48 - Simon Bolton joins us to give the runners' perspective of the race, fresh from collecting his Seventh Abbott World Marathon Majors star.
22:44 - Michelle Weltman MBE is our guest as we get an update on the current state of play in the wheelchair championship, along with much more insight about the sport as it looks to grow alongside the new Major races.
41:06 - A small preview of what we have lined up for our next show, where Deena will hopefully join us from Tokyo at the World Athletics Championships.
Links & references
Abbott World Marathon Majors
https://www.worldmarathonmajors.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wmmajors/
https://www.tiktok.com/@marathontalk
Martin Yelling
https://www.instagram.com/martinyelling/
Michelle Weltman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-weltman-mbe-964911b0/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 75 of Marathon Talk, powered by Abbott World Marathon Majors. |
| 0:06.1 | On this week's show, we have all the news from Down Under as the TCS Sydney Marathon |
| 0:10.8 | takes centre stage, welcoming the world to its treats for the first time as an Abbott World |
| 0:16.5 | Marathon major. We'll be joined by both participants and officials who were there at the |
| 0:22.4 | Opera House to give us the full lowdown from the finish line. Also joining us from Sydney's |
| 0:28.3 | Michelle Welkman, she's with us to talk all things wheelchair racing after an exciting weekend of |
| 0:34.7 | racing that's made at least one of the disciplines very interesting. |
| 0:40.6 | All this and more on Marathon Talk. |
| 0:43.3 | Now joining me today, whilst Dina is swooned with the Sharks off the Great Barrier |
| 0:47.7 | Reef, is Abba World Marathon Major's chief operating officer fresh off the plane from Sydney. Please welcome Danny Coyle. |
| 0:56.4 | Hello, Danny. |
| 0:57.4 | I don't know about fresh, Martin, but yes, I've made it off the plane. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm well. How are you? |
| 1:02.0 | I'm all right. |
| 1:02.7 | I mean, yeah, I think I'm pretty good. |
| 1:04.6 | I was watching Sydney from the, you know, the comfort of home, |
| 1:08.4 | whereas you were there in real life. |
| 1:13.0 | Should we have a little chat about the race? |
| 1:15.8 | Absolutely, yeah. |
| 1:17.9 | I mean, the whole race week really was spectacular. |
| 1:20.9 | I was in town from Wednesday morning. |
| 1:24.8 | I landed, and we had a team of about eight or nine from Abbottwall Marathon major staff over there. |
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