Premier Marathons is the sole commercial company in the Middle East and Asia region that provides dedicated services to the road running community as its core objective.

Established by Nathan Clayton in 2001 as he was planning and structuring the inaugural Beirut Marathon, a race he co-founded, Premier Marathons has gone on to be involved at varying levels in races across the region ever since.

Premier Marathons most recently made its mark in the UAE when, alongside various government agencies, it created the RAK Half Marathon which witnessed a world record breaking time in its first edition and has in only two editions become known as the world's top winter half marathon.

Managing Director, Nathan Clayton: "The Premier Marathons Team believes in international standards for international races and in promoting levels of technical accuracy in all races that strive to set the standard in this region of the world, Premier Marathons key focus is on getting it right every time and assisting regional events in setting up or improving upon existing races, regardless of the size of the field or current level of the event.

We further believe that road races can offer a multitude of benefits, including the spirit of competition, being structured as a community orientated activity, improving people's health, as a vehicle for increasing awareness of social issues, acting as a fundraising conduit for charitable causes and simply just for having fun. We are advocates of the belief that regardless of how old an event may be, how large the field is, how much prize money may be on offer or which celebrity is on the start line, that the success of an event is a direct result of putting the runners first, no matter where they finish on the day."

Premier Marathons online

The Premier Marathons website received a major overhaul in 2008 and now features a whole host of running related services including secure online registration in a choice of currencies, runner's forum, event listings and ratings and lots more. More regional races currently use our services than any other site. Our site is industry SSL secured, hosted on our own dedicated server and maintained by our German Team of web developers.

It's about time...

In addition to our core business of running events, Premier Marathons also operates ChampionChip UAE, the UAE based partner of ChampionChip; the world's leading timing technology for active sports events.
For more information please visit www.championchipuae.com

Fundraising made easy!

New to the Premier Marathons family in 2008 is My Fundraising Page.com, an online service where participants in an event can build their own fundraising page to raise money to benefit their chosen charity. This is not only a great way for people to raise funds, but a great awareness vehicle for charities to get some much needed exposure. Other similar services have come before us, but we believe we're the first in the region and the first to accept multiple currencies - more access hopefully means more funds raised by you for charity! For more information please visit www.myfundraisingpage.com

For more information about Premier Marathons please contact us