With over 39,000 finishers in 2006, it ranked as the 9th largest race in the world[REF] and the 3rd largest 10-km race, behind only the Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta and the Bolder Boulder in Boulder.
On April 15, 2007, the Sun Run had a record number of participants, with 54,317[REF] people registered to participate in the 10-km and 2.5-km races, making it the largest road race in Canada, the second largest in North America and the third largest in the World [REF].