The wait is over as the much anticipated event of the year, the Penang Bridge International Marathon(PBIM), is officially open for online registration.

The Penang Bridge, at 13.5km, is one of the world's longest bridge. Since Sept 1985, more than 130,000 vehicles ply across the Penang Bridge daily and this monumental bridge is only closed to traffic once a year for only ONE occasion.......The Penang Bridge International Marathon!

The Penang Bridge International Marathon is the largest mass-participation sports event in Penang! It brought together more than 19,000 people from 56 different countries worldwide and all over the nation to run across the Penang Bridge!

Come join us whether it is to be for pleasure, for fitness, to lose weight, to improve on a personal best performance or to compete against others for a prize, all of you are, knowingly or unwittingly participating in one of the greatest sports event in Malaysia.

Penang Bridge International Marathon 2010 will be held on the 21st November 2010. Download our form for your offline registration.

The day finally came when Shaharudin Bin Hashim, Muniandy Ramadass and Subramaniam Rangar - the Top 3 Full Marathon Malaysian Men Open Winners of the recent Penang Bridge International Marathon (PBIM) were sent by the PBIM Committee to run in the 2010 C&D Xiamen International Marathon held on 2nd January 2010.

Accompanying the runners to Xiamen, China was Penang Bridge International Marathon Chairman YB Danny Law Heng Kiang who was also there to attend the 2nd Xiamen Marathon Forum. This is the very first time that winners of a marathon in Malaysia were sent to participate in any overseas marathon as part of a bonus to their win. The main objective of the Penang Bridge International Marathon Committee in doing so was to encourage the marathon runners by gaining the experience of running in an overseas international marathon such as the Xiaman International Marathon in order to improve their running performance. It is also to show the PBIM Committee's support to the organiser of the Xiamen International Marathon in hope that they too will support the Penang Bridge International Marathon by sending some of the Xiamen runners to participate in the coming PBIM event on 21st November 2010. By making this effort, the committee wishes to establish a solid relationship with Xiamen which is the Twin Sister City of Penang.

The morning of the 2010 C&D Xiamen International Marathon was filled with high spirits of the runners, spectators, perfomers and officials alike. This year, the Xiamen International Marathon managed to attract 53,000 runners; 20,000 runners more than the previous year of 33,000 participants! Dancers in colourful cultural silk costumes can be seen and the loud beating of drums can be heard over the excitement of the crowd. PBIM Chairman YB Danny Law was invited up on stage for the gun-off session together with representatives from Greece, Prague, South Africa and Korea to officiate the grand start of the 2010 C&D Xiamen International Marathon at 8am China time. After the start, all VIPs proceeded to the 2nd Xiamen International Marathon Forum where YB Danny Law was invited to give a 15-minute presentation on the Penang Bridge International Marathon in which he shared with the audience which includes the media, officials, VIPs and the Xiamen International Marathon Committee on the strength of the Penang Bridge International Marathon and also Penang, as a wonderful destination to visit. The video of the recent Penang Bridge International Marathon was also shown during this presentation which drew numerous praises for the event especially on the Lion Dance, Chingay, Rebana Drums and the PBIM Lucky Draw.

The Top 3 Malaysian runners had finished their run with Muniandy Ramadass completing the marathon in 2:40hrs, Subramaniam Rangar in 2:47hrs and Shaharudin Bin Hashim in 2:50hrs.

Muniandy Ramadass related his experience by saying, "I'm happy that for the first time after earning a top placing in any marathon in Malaysia, the Penang Bridge International Marathon have sent us to participate in an overseas marathon. For that we feel very appreciated in a marathon event. I am thankful to be here to have a wonderful experience of the well-organised Xiamen International Marathon."

Subramaniam Rangar also shared his experience by commenting, "I would like to thank the Penang Bridge International Marathon Committee for supporting me to run in the Xiamen International Marathon and I am very grateful that PBIM has taken such initiative to help us improve our performance."

Shaharudin Bin Hashim also stated, "I am happy to have been sent here to experience the Xiamen International Marathon running route which has been considered one of the best marathon routes known for its almost straight roads and cool chilly weather which is just nice to run a marathon in. I have been to many marathons such as in Taiwan and North Korea. But by far, I am very satisfied to have been sent to participate in the Xiamen International Marathon."

Throughout the trip, the Xiamen International Marathon Organiser were very accommodating towards PBIM Chairman YB Danny Law and the top 3 Malaysian as they even brought them on tours to the Xiamen Olympic Museum, Tennis Complex and Wu Lang Yu Island.

With that, we wish to thank the Xiamen International Marathon Organiser for their kind hospitality and we will see you again in Xiamen on 1st January 2011!

Dear Runners of the Penang Bridge International Marathon,

The Penang Bridge International Marathon Committee wishes to express our immense gratitude to all of you for playing such a big part to the success of our run. We hope that you have enjoyed your run as much as we had enjoyed doing our very best to make this run special for you. All we hope for in this event is that you have made plenty of memories and we believe many personal achievements as it takes great courage to take on the challenge. We applaud you as the end of the day, you are the champions!

Do join our event again next year as we promise it will be a better and more exciting one. Year after year, improvements are to be made therefore next year's event will be one of a whole new level. For those of you who came all the way for this run, we hope that you enjoyed your stay in Penang and had taken the time to relish in Penang's famous hawker food. As the holiday season now begins, we wish you all the best in your future undertakings and a happy holiday to you. Do plan a trip with your friends and family to Penang again soon and show them a good time here.

Once again, thank you for being the biggest reason to the success of our event

See you again on 21st November 2010!

Yours Truly,
Danny Law Heng Kiang

Chairman of Penang Bridge International Marathon

EXCO for Penang State Tourism Development and Culture

Letters from Sponsors and participants:

From Mr Siew, Digi Regional Manager:
It has been a great 8 months of exhaustive preparation, meetings, hundreds of emails and the altruistic sharing has finally come to this final chapter of the Penang Bridge International Marathon 2009.
On behalf of DiGi Telecom, we would like to express our appreciation and thanks for all your support and patience. It has been a great and meaningful event for all of us in DiGi.
Once again thank you and wishing you the best and we look forward to work with you again soon.

From Mr Choo Cheng Liang:

HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR A  SUCCESSFUL ORGANISATION OF PBIM 2009
We look forward for PBIM 10 which surely will be brought to a greater height .

From Mohd Azmi
Congratulations of succefully organizing this year event. You must be proud recieving all congratulatory emails, smses, messages from all over the place. You team earned it. Well done.
I am also impressed you already started counting down PBIM 2010, Sunday 21st Nov 2010. No time wasted in promoting this event. Hopefully i would be able to join the next year event because I may be posted to work in another contries next year.
Once again kudos, congratulations, job well done. Cant wait for next yeat PBIM 2010.
Thank you to you and your team!

From Dave:

Thanks for a fantastic event – best ever. My brother-in-law ran both the Melbourne marathon and the PBIM, and said PBIM was much better organized!

From Shariff (Singapore Blade Runner):

Firstly i would like to say thankyou.
I am so happy to run in Penang. There are so many Malaysian fans there!
My timing is improved and the route is so cool.
By next year i will come back with new target for 42km and hope to get a nearby hotel near Queensbay.
Thanks to all the volunteers for taking care of me during my runs.
See you again in Penang.

From Tricia:

Just dropping a note to say thank you for your help with the goodie bag. The event was well-organised and I had a great time at the run. Well done!

From David Spence:

First of all could I say a very BIG thank you to you and the rest of your team for the excellent way in which you handled my late arrival. Your colleague who eventually looked after me was incredibly helpful and I am very grateful for her attentiveness given everything else that she needed to do in the final hours before the start of the race.
I hope that you and the rest of the team get the recognition that you all deserve from the people that matter regarding this event as in my opinion you all put on a splendid show for visitors like me.
Please feel free to forward this message to your colleague so that she will know how grateful I am.

PBIM commemorative photos is now available for download. Search engine for individual bib number will be ready in 1 week time.