About

Photo: Sri Chinmoy, 1931 ¬ 2007

Sri Chinmoy founded the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team in 1977 as a service to the running community and to promote self-transcendence through sports.

Over the years, the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team has become the largest sponsor of ultra-distance running in the world. In New York the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team stages a number of ultra marathon events ranging in distances from 47 to 3100 miles and internationally has staged the National 24 Hour Championships in Switzerland, New Zealand, Canada and Australia.

An accomplished decathlete and sprinter in his youth, Sri Chinmoy always emphasised the spiritual benefits of physical fitness through sports. Since making his home in America in 1964, Sri Chinmoy completed 21 marathons, 4 ultra marathons and competed at numerous Master Games track meets. Sri Chinmoy wrote and lectured extensively on the subject of running, training and the importance of physical fitness.

A competitor at any Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team event across the globe can be assured of the same high standard and quality of care. In the early years of the "running boom," the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team events established standards and levels of service to participants that have now become commonplace: regular drink stations, post-race food and prizes right up the age groups to 70+ years.

We look forward to seeing you at one of our events in the near future.

"Run and Become.
Become and Run.
Run to Succeed in the Outer World,
Become to Proceed in the Inner World."
- Sri Chinmoy