China Airlines Half Marathon Elite Men

Australians will feature heavily on the start line for the 2025 China Airlines Half Marathon with national half marathon record holder Brett Robinson (59:57) lining up with Aussie national marathon record holder and last year’s winner of the event Andy Buchanan (1:00:28) and second placegetter Isaac Heyne (1:01:13).

Liam Boudin (1:01:40) and Australian 10km national record holder, Sam Clifford (1:02:00) round out the top five Australian men who will also all be competing for the 2025 Australian Half Marathon Championships title as well as overall race glory.

The Australians will need to fend off a serious challenge from Japan led by Yuma Nishizawa (1:00:29) who recently placed third in the 2025 All Corporate Half Marathon Championships in Yamaguchi. Nishizawa will be joined by four countrymen in Hideyuki Tanaka (1:00:43), Yoshiki Oshiro (1:00:43), Hirotsugu Yoshikawa (1:00:45) and Jun Nobuto (1:00:56) who all have great prospects for a podium finish in their first Gold Coast event.

To add to the international field Chinese runner Yue Hong (1:02:15) will contest his first half marathon on the Gold Coast whilst New Zealand’s Oli Chignell (1:03:22), Matthew Baxter (1:04:12) and Cameron Graves (1:04:17) will look to achieve new goals on the Gold Coast and take a swag of new PBs home across the ditch.

Hong Kong’s national half marathon record holder, Wan Chun Wong (1:04:30) will bring his best form to the race to challenge the male field where any of the top seeds could take line honours.

Joel Tobin-White (1:02:03), Tom Do Canto (1:02:15), Ryan Gregson (1:03:00), Jacob Cocks (1:03:57), Andre Waring (1:04:16) and debut half marathon young guns James Hansen, Hamish Longworth and Will Garbelotto round out a quality Aussie half marathon field.

The China Airlines Half Marathon is stacked with form and boasts a male field peppered with experience and enthusiasm. Contenders will be out to take down Benson Masya’s long-standing 1992 race record of 1:01:16 and etch their names in the Gold Coast event’s history and roll of honour. The Australian all-comers record of 1:01:11 set by Pat Carroll in 1994 could also be in jeopardy.