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The 2027 TCS Sydney Marathon is scheduled for August 29, starting in North Sydney and finishing by the Sydney Opera House. The ballot has closed; results are due November 3.
01 · Event details
Timing: Sunday, August 29, 2027 · published
Venue or host area: The organiser lists the start on Miller Street in North Sydney and the finish at the Sydney Opera House. Its current course map and GPX downloads are labelled 2026, not 2027.
Access: The 2027 ballot closed October 19; successful applicants' payment cards are scheduled to be charged November 3. Selected official travel packages and charity entry are separate routes with their own terms.
02 · Plan the visit
The 2027 ballot opened September 29 and closed October 19, 2026; successful applicants' cards are scheduled to be charged November 3. The official international-entry page says selected travel packages include guaranteed entry, but this does not apply to every package. Confirm the exact package and entry terms before paying. The course map and GPX currently offered on the event page are labelled 2026, so wait for the 2027 route file before making course-specific plans.
03 · Location
New South Wales' capital wraps around a drowned river valley, so the harbour shapes both the geography and most journeys across the city.
The airports serving Sydney and its region:
Connections, terminals and transfer arrangements change — confirm them with the airline and the organiser rather than planning around a fixed transfer time.
The organiser lists the start on Miller Street in North Sydney and the finish at the Sydney Opera House. Its current course map and GPX downloads are labelled 2026, not 2027.
The catalogue marker shows Sydney, Australia at city or region level only — it is not an entrance, a gate, a course or a transfer route. For the event’s position among its category peers, open the Marathon overview and map.
04 · Overview
A marathon from Miller Street in North Sydney, across the Harbour Bridge and through the city's eastern suburbs, finishing beside the Sydney Opera House. The course runs past the Opera House and under the bridge within the first few kilometres, and the field is around 40,000 across the marathon and its companion events — the largest running festival in the southern hemisphere.
Sydney gives the majors a southern-hemisphere race and a course that is almost entirely harbour landscape: the bridge crossing and the Opera House finish are the two images the event is built on. Becoming a major in 2025 moved it from a well-regarded city race to a global destination marathon with a ballot that now draws applicants from Europe and North America. It is also the major that fits a European winter training block, running in late August.
The Sydney Marathon was first run in 2001, when the Sydney Running Festival was created as a multi-distance event around the harbour, and it grew into Australia's biggest marathon. The event spent years as a candidate for the Abbott World Marathon Majors before being admitted as the seventh major, with Cape Town announced as the eighth for 2027. The Opera House finish and the North Sydney start are the modern course's signature, and the ballot now draws applicants from Europe and North America rather than mostly from Australia.
| First held | 2001, on the Sydney Running Festival programme |
|---|---|
| Series | Abbott World Marathon Majors — the seventh race |
| Entry | Ballot, charity and qualifying places |
| Course | North Sydney to the Opera House, via the Harbour Bridge |
| Timing | Late August |
05 · Research & credits
Evidence and event information reviewed 2026-10-31. Published edition facts are separated from typical timing and historical context.
No affiliate links. This guide is for travel planning, not a guarantee of entry or event conditions.
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