Comrades is more than a race. It’s a global movement of endurance, sacrifice, and shared belief. The International Ambassador Programme exists to grow that movement — one country, one runner, one story at a time.
In international entries. Every entry traces back to an ambassador.
Guiding principle: Authenticity and trust over follower numbers.
Represent Comrades in your local running community — at clubs, events, online.
Convert interest into actual entries from runners in your country.
Talks, info sessions, club visits, training group events.
Authentic content — your training, your race, your story.
Be the local voice for CMA’s international communications.
Tracked through your unique referral link.
Talks, info sessions, club visits, and training group events you host.
Stories, posts, videos, and social presence.
Media coverage, partnerships, and relationships you unlock locally.
Each season an ambassador earns up to 100 points across four pillars. Points come only from verified activity submissions — every post, session and shift is logged individually and checked before it counts. Each pillar has a hard cap, so points stop accruing once it is hit. The seasonal total maps to an annual tier; Diamond is a separate legacy tier earned by Gold status in 3 of the last 4 completed seasons.
5 points per verified post or campaign share. Content that amplifies Comrades across your channels.
10 points per organised session or meetup, plus 5 points per verified runner support case.
10 points per briefing attended (max 2/season) plus 5 points per submitted status log.
15 points for an expo shift commitment and 10 points for welcome activation engagement.
Every ambassador is listed — secondary ambassadors appear next to their country's primary (e.g. Brazil — Nato, Zilma). Countries still awaiting entry targets show Outstanding.
| Country | Ambassador | 2027 Target | Status |
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Applicants who submitted the contact form but are not yet in the active ambassador list.
Every logged activity is one auditable submission. Submissions land as pending and only count toward a season score once an admin verifies them — scores are derived from verified rows, never hand-entered.
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| Country | Peak Entries | Ambassador |
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| Country | Uncovered States | Uncovered Entries (2026) | Top Uncovered States | Ambassador Location(s) |
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Average entries per country (South Africa excluded). 2020 and 2021 are absent because no Comrades was held in those years.
Newest first, up to 500 recent events: successful and failed sign-ins, pages viewed and every data change. Stored server-side in logs/activity.jsonl.
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Who can sign in and what they see. Super Admin — everything incl. managing these accounts. General Admin — the full dashboard (Ambassadors, heat map, trends, targets, KPI verification) but no user management. Ambassador — only their own profile and stats.
Every date the portal shows. Season dates appear on each ambassador’s Journey timeline and in the dashboard’s “Coming up” card — ballot deadlines, expo days, race day. Briefings also feed the attendance picker ambassadors log against. Changes here save straight to the live portal.
Ambassadors guess the total Comrades 2027 ballot entries from their Home screen. Closest guess wins a Mr Price trolley dash at the Expo. Each ambassador has one guess they can change until the closing time. After the draw, enter the actual total, then choose the winner — ties are flagged for you to decide. The result shows on every ambassador’s Home screen once a winner is chosen.