Public-address announcer Steve King will again call out the finishers this morning
More than 200,000 runners, from Olympians to weekend duffers, have streamed across the line in the 44 years of the Royal Victoria Marathon races.
“I love the energy and get so enthused by the people,” said King, who has called the Royal Victoria Marathon races since 1996. “It’s all about people’s personal achievements and desires being fulfilled, whatever level they are at,” said King, who worked the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games, and is also legendary in triathlon for his decades of calling Ironman Canada in his hometown of Penticton.
“That unmistakable sound of Steve King’s voice each year … he is the human finish-line AI,” said Keith Wells, executive director of the Greater Victoria Sport Tourism Commission. King was himself a runner “from the first day at school at age five” and has competed around the world, including in the Royal Victoria Marathon and famed Comrades Marathon in South Africa.
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