The races keep their names
The Full Three, The Three, The Ocean, The Drive. A partner presents the race, so the name travels into every result, every headline and every conversation between runners.
The 45th year
Partners
The businesses and organisations behind the 45th. When you’re in Bunbury, give them your custom.
Thank you
Who makes the 45th happen
Major event sponsorCity of BunburyRoads, foreshore and the sister-city welcome. The city this race has never left.
On race day
Race partners
The Full Three · Marathon42.2 km · all three waters, twice
The Ocean · 10K10 km · the hill without the distance
The Drive · 5K5 km · families and first-timers
Nutrition supplierBix Nutrition · electrolyte and fuel
Across the weekend
Supporting partners
Little SpencerThe bakehouseHome of the Saturday shakeout
SEN RadioPromotionOn air in the lead-up to the 45th
WARP · WA Running PodcastPacersThe pacing teams for The Full Three and The Three
Bunbury Runners Club ↗Organiser, every year since 1982
Southwest Academy of SportEvent benefactor
Partner with the 45th
You cannot buy a start line this old. You can stand on it.
There is a finite number of forty-five-year-old start lines on earth, and none of them are for sale.
The marathon sold out in 2026, and runners aged 18–29 became the biggest group in the field — more than doubling in two years. At around 1,500 runners, a partner is not one logo among thirty.
+109%
Growth in 18–29 marathon finishers, 2024–2026
1,500
Runners across the weekend
14 yrs
Longest single sponsorship (Medibank Private, 1986–2000)
45
Editions by April 2027
The curve
They found it on their own
Half marathon finishers
Marathon finishers
Own a whole weekend
Pacers, the Saturday shakeout, the archive exhibition, the finish tape. At this size, one brand can shape how the whole weekend feels.
Two places
Open for the 45thMajor event partner, and The ThreeNaming across the festival, the finish line, the Runners Village and the archive — or presenting the half marathon, the biggest field of the weekend. The last major partner stayed fourteen years.
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