The Trinidad and To­ba­go Mid­night Marathon has been of­fi­cial­ly list­ed on the Ab­bott World Marathon Ma­jors Glob­al Marathon Cal­en­dar, mark­ing a first for Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Caribbean run­ning com­mu­ni­ty.

The an­nounce­ment was made by the BAFAS­PORTS Foun­da­tion, which said the in­ter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion places the event among oth­er glob­al marathons and sup­ports its mis­sion to pro­mote health, well­ness, and sports tourism through en­durance ac­tiv­i­ties.

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of BAFAS­PORTS, Nigel Bel­lamy, said the list­ing is a sig­nif­i­cant achieve­ment for the or­gan­i­sa­tion and the lo­cal run­ning fra­ter­ni­ty. Bel­lamy said it recog­nis­es the ef­forts of the team, part­ners, and ath­letes who have con­tributed to the event’s growth.

He added that the in­clu­sion on the glob­al cal­en­dar would at­tract more in­ter­na­tion­al run­ners to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Mid­night Marathon forms part of the Caribbean Mil­lion Mile Chal­lenge, which fea­tures a se­ries of races held at mid­night, in­clud­ing a 10K, a half marathon, and a full marathon. The races have be­come a key fix­ture in the re­gion­al run­ning sched­ule.

Bel­lamy said the Ab­bott list­ing will in­crease the event’s vis­i­bil­i­ty among thou­sands of run­ners world­wide and strength­en Trinidad and To­ba­go’s po­si­tion as a des­ti­na­tion for en­durance sports.

BAFAS­PORTS con­tin­ues to pro­mote phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty through sev­er­al ini­tia­tives—in­clud­ing the NCC Car­ni­val 1K and 5K, Ma­yaro Co­conut Beach Run, Girl­sRunTT, Caribbean Cross Coun­try Cham­pi­onship, and Com­mu­ni­ty Pop­ups—aimed at en­cour­ag­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion in sport and sup­port­ing char­i­ta­ble caus­es.