JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge
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Road running
Road running is the sport of running on a measured course over an established road . These events would be classified as long distance according to athletics terminology, with distances typically ranging from 5 kilometers to 42.2 kilometers in the marathon. They may involve large numbers of runners...
owned and operated by JPMorgan Chase, with an intended focus on promoting "fitness in the workplace". Teams are organized by company or organization, and the JPMorgan Chase Foundation makes charitable donations proportional to the number of participants.
The Corporate Challenge began in 1977
1977 in sports
1977 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.-Alpine skiing:* Alpine Skiing World Cup** Men's overall season champion: Ingemar Stenmark, Sweden** Women's overall season champion: Lise-Marie Morerod, Switzerland-American football:...
with a single race in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, with 200 runners from 50 companies. The top-finishing teams in all 12 cities will qualify to compete in the fifteenth, the Championship Race, held in October in New York City.
Not all participants race competitively; large percentages walk or jog the entire course, with the purpose being camaraderie within and among the corporate teams. The festival atmosphere during and after the race attracts non-runners as well.
A new and primary focus for this year’s event is the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge’s Teaming Up For A Greener Tomorrow initiative. JPMorgan Chase aims to implement the greenest road race in each city that the Corporate Challenge is held. To date, the Series has saved more than six tons of paper (through online registration and paper-free marketing practices), recycled on-site more than 10 tons of plastic and glass, and saved more than 5,000 gallons of crude oil (through alternate modes of transportation by participants). That’s more than 900 million BTUs, or enough energy to light a home for nearly 10 years.
The 25th annual JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge Championship was held on October 6, 2007, with Enos Matalane of Transnet Rail Engineering (Johannesburg) and Claire Martin of Royal Mail Letters (London) earning the men's and women's individual titles. Transnet, Polizei Hessen (Frankfurt) and Royal Mail Letters earned the men's, women's and mixed team titles, respectively.
With nearly 74,000 participants in 2008, the Frankfurt event was the world's largest footrace that year.
| City | 2008 | 2007 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Runners | Companies | Date | Runners | Companies | |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 6 March | 10,000 | 272 | 1 March | 10,338 | 288 |
| Singapore Singapore Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the... |
26 April | 12,748 | 351 | 3 May | 11,856 | 343 |
| Chicago, Illinois | 22 May | 23,603 | 632 | 24 May | 22,766 * | 578 * |
| Rochester, New York Rochester, New York Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City... |
29 May | 11,135 | 442 | 31 May | 10,397 * | 411 * |
| Buffalo, New York Buffalo, New York Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the... |
5 June | 12,399 | 421 | 7 June | 11,563 | 372 |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 11 June | 73,719 | 2,589 | 13 June | 67,270 | 2,446 |
| New York City New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... |
18 June | 18,281 | 299 | 20 June | 17,500 | 329 |
| New York City | 19 June | 18,215 | 346 | 21 June | 17,500 | 544 |
| Syracuse, New York Syracuse, New York Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States, the largest U.S. city with the name "Syracuse", and the fifth most populous city in the state. At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,170, and its metropolitan area had a population of 742,603... |
24 June | 6,698 | 256 | 26 June | 6,153 | 268 |
| Boston, Massachusetts | 26 June | 13,863 | 633 | 28 June | 12,887 | 556 |
| London, England | 9 July | 13,653 | 268 | 11 July | 12,969 | 329 |
| London, England | 10 July | 13,043 | 277 | 12 July | 13,031 | 307 |
| San Francisco, California San Francisco, California San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland... |
17 September | 19 September | 5,320 | 232 | ||
| Championship (New York City) | 4 October | 7 October | ||||
| Sydney, Australia | 12 November | 14 November | 6,921 | 306 | ||
* unofficial results
Bold indicates current records