Technical Delegate

Dave Cundy is Australia's most experienced marathon director. He has been the Race Director of the Canberra Marathon since 1980; was the Race Director of the Sydney Olympic Marathons and from 2001-2006 was the Technical Director of the Gold Coast Marathon. He is also the Race Director of the Great Wall Marathon in China. Dave works closely with the sport's governing bodies.

He is an international road running technical official with the IAAF; a Grade ‘A’ AIMS/IAAF course measurer; the AIMS/IAAF Course Measurement Administrator for Asia & Oceania; has served for some 20 years on Athletics Australia's Distance Running Commission; and managed many Australian distance running teams. He was awarded life membership of his local Distance Running Club in 1985; a Merit Award by his local Athletics Association in 1990; an Athletics Australia Merit Award in 1997 and the Australian Sports Medal from the Australian Government in 2000.

Dave was the official course measurer for the 1998 (Kuala Lumpur) and 2006 (Melbourne) Commonwealth Games Marathons, the 2004 World Half Marathon Championships in New Delhi, the 2007 Osaka World Championships and 2008 Beijing Olympic Marathons, and has been appointed as the official measurer for the 2010 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Nanning (CHN). From 2011 he will take up duties as official verifier of the course for the London Marathon.

Dave has been an active marathon runner, finishing each of his 31 marathons with a best time in the 1981 Melbourne Marathon of 2.41.33. Dave was co-opted to the Board of Directors of AIMS (the Association of International Marathon and Distance Races) at the Niagara World Congress in 2002 and elected to the Board at the Valencia World Congress in 2005. Dave is active on the Membership and Technical Committees and has responsibility for the management of the AIMS website.