Supported by our 3 Champions for Peace Paula Radcliffe, Tegla Loroupe and Wilson Kipketer, the 18 members of Team Peace and Sport ran the 2011 ING New York City Marathon and raised more than $50,000 for our field operations.

After months of training, the team met up in New York City on Friday November 4 and headed to the “The Expo” at the Jacob Javits Center. There, everybody registered for the race and got their running kits and, most importantly, their BIB numbers: the Holy Grail for all runners in the world, the entry to the world’s biggest and most famous marathon.

After a final training session with the Champions on Saturday 5 in Central Park under a beautiful blue sky (who better to train with than Paula and Tegla, totalling 5 NY Marathon victories between them?) all 18 teammates started the 26.2-mile race on Sunday November 6 at 9:40am sharp.

An amazing experience for everybody, truly a day to remember: surpassing their own limits for a good cause in the outstanding scenery of the Big Apple!

Peace and Sport warmly thanks all the members of our team and all those who generously sponsored them.

We’ll be back in 2012!

Put Sunday November 4, 2012 in your diary...

and start training!!

Appointed as an Official Charity in the ING New York City Marathon for the first time, Peace and Sport’s 20 entries have been allocated to people passionately committed to the international organization’s cause. A reflection of the international scope of the organization, these 20 runners come from all around the world: Australia, New Zealand, USA, D.R. of Congo, Senegal, Turkey, France, UK, Poland, Iran and USA. In line with the tradition of the Marathon, each runner has committed to raise a minimum of $3,600 to be able to run for Team Peace and Sport.

These funds will be entirely dedicated to implementing peace-promotion through sport projects in countries where Peace and Sport operates: i.e. the Great Lakes region in Africa, Haiti, Colombia, Israel-Palestine, East Timor and Ivory Coast

Birant Akarslan	Sara Bozorg	Jean-Pierre Bugada	Phil Brown
Bruno Catelin	Alexandra Dziekonzka	Sylvain Heraud	Jean-Claude Kongolo
Guillaume Larnicol	Didier Lesourd	Kaveh Mehrabi	Paul Miquel
Erik Monjalous	Pennie Psaltis	Peter Scudner	Gregory Verpoorten
Alyn Ware