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Queens Marathon Celebrates Sri Chinmoy's First Marathon Run
To commemorate the 31st anniversary of their spiritual teacher's first marathon run, members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team held a marathon and a marathon relay. On a saturday morning, March 6, with almost ideal temperatures, 17 runners started the marathon with 16 finishing. Arpan was the overall winner at 3:42. Several relay teams also joined in the marathon run.
Boys
Arpan/3:42:45, Deepra/3:49:49, Gabriel/4:08:09, Shashanka/4:09:16, Satyavrata/4:12:20, Misha/4:13:00, Medur/4:31:15, Dhanu/5:11:09
Girls
Prabhala/3:58:38, Keertivati/4:03:06, Kaneenika/4:09:37, Kanala/4:39:07, Boijayanti/4:39:38, Bipula/4:45:26, Antana/4:56:29, Palash/4:58:36
Dipali Cunningham's 6-Day Race Voted Top Female Age Group Performance of the Year by Ultrarunning Magazine
UltraRunning Magazine voted Dipali Cunningham's race at the 2009 Self Transcendence 6-Day Race at Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York as the top female age group performance of the year. Dipali's 514.83 mile total is the most ever run by a female in America.
Dipali Cunningham (second from the right) at the award's ceremony for the 2009 Self Transcendence 6 and 10 Day Races.
UltraRunning Magazine web site contains a detailed listing of all the Runners of the Year.
International 2 Mile Race Site Launched!
The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team sponsors 2 mile races around the world! Our new web site contains a map where you can click on the individual race location or scroll down below the map and click on the short description of the local race site.
To visit the International 2 Mile Race Site click here.
Video Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Sri Chinmoy’s First Marathon
This video commemorates Sri Chinmoy's first marathon by interspersing actual footage of both the 1979 Chico Marathon and the 2009 Marathon held in New York in honor of that event.
Sri Chinmoy often gave as much significance to the outer life as he did to the inner. As a lifelong athlete he found numerous ways to inspire his students to transcend their perceived limitations in athletics. In so doing he knew that if they set challenging goals for themselves it would also inspire them to make inner progress as well.
In the late 70s he took up the sport of distance running with intense dedication. The running boom was just taking off in America and Sri Chinmoy, at age 47, when most would think of retiring, trained himself to run the most difficult distance of all, the marathon.
On March 3 1979, he completed his first Marathon in Chico California. His time was 4:31 and just 3 weeks later he would run one again. On the 30th anniversary of that event, his students honor him by running the 26 mile distance not just in Queens, New Yorkwhere he lived, but in cities around the world.
Documentary on 3100 Mile Race Screened at Queens International Film Festival
Ukrainian Sets New Marathon Record for SCMT Female
October 25, Slovenia: Congratulations to Natalia Lehonkova of Ukraine who set a new Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team women’s record in the marathon with a time of 2:48:30. She ran in the Lubljana Marathon (Slovenia) which was held on October 25. She placed 10th overall among the women.
For more information contact The Lubljana Marathon.
Commemorative Race Honours Sri Chinmoy
Oct. 10, 2009, Queens, New York
U.S. Olympic Track champion legend Carl Lewis (9 time gold medalist) opened the inaugural annual “Sri Chinmoy Heart-Garden” 2-mile race on Saturday, October 10 with a soul-stirring call to action - that we must keep Sri Chinmoy alive, and in so doing, keep his message of peace and oneness alive for the world to share.
The race was held on Sri Chinmoy Street in Flushing Meadow-Corona Park and began at the Sri Chinmoy Heart-Garden. The international field of runners from over 50 countries first walked with the Harmony Torch held by NYC Councilman Jimmy Gennaro to the gardens where the race began . Participants included Renowned Ray Lumpp, past president of New York Athletics and Olympic Gold Medallist in Basketball, St. John’s University track and field Coach Hurt, Russian Olympian Olesya Zykina, Rich Immarato, long-time head of New York’s Broadway Ultrarunners Club as well as several world record holders in ultra-distance running.
To view The Queens Courier story on the race, please click here.
