Welcome to The Marchathon Step Challenge 2021 Competition and Winners Page.
In order to view the Weekly Competitions and Winners, or enter in the Weekly Photo and Limerick Competitions, please click on the selected header above.
Week 1 Competition Winners
Well done to all who participated in Week 1 of Marchathon. It has been a record-breaking week with the highest number of participants and teams taking part, the number of organisations represented nationwide and of course, the competition entries. Week 1 Winners are listed below and your Marchathon Goodie Bags will be with you all shortly.
Weekly Photo Competition
With over 230 entries, the competition was extremely tough and all the Teams who entered really showed their cheese and creative side. The winners are:
| Team Name | Organisation | Link to winning entry |
| Stephenless 2.0! | Jacobs Engineering | Winning Photo |
| The French Co-ops | Analog Devices | Winning Photo |
| Sole Mates | SSE Airtricity | Winning Photo |
| OT Trekkers | Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan | Winning Photo |
| Skinny Queens | Dublin City University | Winning Photo |
| Le Cirque du Sore Legs | Dublin City University | Winning Photo |
Congratulations to the winners of our Week 1 Prize Draws. The winners are:
Team Target (Weekly Team Average of 50,000 steps): ñam ñam ñam – Trinity College Dublin
Top 25: Who’s idea was this?! – Cork University Hospital
Top 150: Step it up BD DL – BD Medical
Week 2 Competition Winners
Well done to all who participated in the Week 2 Marchathon Competitions. It was another busy week of photo’s entries, Limerick entries and steps. Week 2 Winners are listed below and your Marchathon Goodie Bags will be with you all shortly.
Weekly Photo Competition
| Team Name | Organisation | Link to winning entry |
| Walkaholics | Trinity College Dublin | Winning Photo |
| City Architectors | Dublin City Council | Winning Photo |
| Lazy Walkers | Accenture | Winning Photo |
| Walkie Talkies | MTU – Cork Campus | Winning Photo |
| ACFN Marchers | TU Dublin Blanchardstown | Winning Photo |
| Walker Texas Rangers | Special Olympics Ireland | Winning Photo |
Limerick Competition
| Winner Name | Organisation | Link to winning entry |
| Leigh Power | ESB Group | Winning Entry |
| Mairead Morrisey | Cork County Council | Winning Entry |
| Tom Swift | Dublin City University | Winning Entry |
| Naoise Friel | Department of Transport | Winning Entry |
| Isabel Rossiter | MTU – Cork Campus | Winning Entry |
Team Target (Weekly Team Average of 60,000 steps): Catch Us If You Can – Laois County Council
Top 25: Paw Patrollers – University College Cork
Top 150: Camus Steppers – Analog Devices
Week 3 Competition Winners
Congratulations to everyone who entered the Week 3 Competitions. It was great to see so many Teams get into the St. Patrick’s Day spirit. The Week 3 Winners are listed below and your Marchathon Goodie Bags will be with you all shortly.
Weekly Photo Competition
| Team Name | Organisation | Link to winning entry |
| Smart Steppers | Dublin City Council | Winning Photo |
| Diversity | University of Limerick | Winning Photo |
| Coronary Care Unit 1 GUH | Galway University Hospitals | Winning Photo |
| Powoli I Spokojnie | Analog Devices | Winning Photo |
| Beating the pandemic one step at a time | University of Limerick | Winning Photo |
Team Target (Weekly Team Average of 70,000 steps) – NotAnotherTeamsMeeting – Limerick I.T
Top 25 – Jacobs Winners – Jacobs Engineering
Top 150 – Drive for 5x Steps – Medtronic
Week 4 Competitions
Well done to all who participated in the Week 4 Marchathon Competitions. It was a great week of Competitions to bring Marchathon to a close. The winners for the Week 4 Competitions are:
Weekly Photo Competition
| Team Name | Organisation | Link to winning entry |
| The Niners | Cork University Hospital | Winning Photo |
| Texas Walker Rangers | Special Olympics Ireland | Winning Photo |
| Team Sole Train | SSE Airtricity | Winning Photo |
| INFANT Lockdown Motivation | University College Cork | Winning Photo |
| The Hot Steppers | Dublin City University | Winning Photo |
| The Rhinestone Cowgirls +1 | Limerick City & County Council | Winning Photo |
Limerick Competition
| Winner Name | Organisation | Link to winning entry |
| Geraldine Fahy | Eli Lilly | Winning Entry |
| Cora Needham | Mayo County Council | Winning Entry |
| Deborah Seddon | IT Sligo | Winning Entry |
| Emily Dunne | Maynooth University | Winning Entry |
| Josephine Maguire | Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland | Winning Entry |
Team Target (Weekly Team Average of 85,000 steps): Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk – DePuy Synthes
Top 25: March Hares – Oberstown Children Detention Campus
Top 150: Sensor Superstars – TE Connectivity
‘My Marchathon’ Story
| Winner Name | Organisation | Link to winning entry |
| Luke O’Brien | Cook Medical | Winning Entry |
| Cathrine Jane Dequito | Cork University Hospital | Winning Entry |
| Treasa Kenny | Maynooth University | Winning Entry |
Overall Prize Winners
We can confirm that a record-breaking 7,668 participants took part from 89 Smarter Travel partners from around the country, and together stepped a total of 2.3billion steps!
The Final Marchathon Leaderboard is now LIVE! You can log onto your Active Travel Logger account by clicking the link to see where your Team placed on the Final Leaderboards. You can also download your Marchathon Certificate here.
Overall Prize Winners
Congratulations to the following winners. The remaining winners will be announced y Thursday 1st April.
Overall Organisation Winners
| Best Small Workplace | Best Large Workplace | Best Campus |
| Toast | Eli Lilly | Munster Technological University – Cork Campus |
Organisational Leaderboard Winners – Special Olympics Ireland
Non Desk-Based Leaderboard – Top 3
| Final Position | Team Name | Organisation |
| 1st Place | The Rockers Return | BD Medical |
| 2nd Place | The Usual Suspects | Galway-Mayo IT |
| 3rd Place | March Hares | Oberstown Children Detention Campus |
Desk-based Leaderboard – Top 3
| Final Position | Team Name | Organisation |
| 1st Place | Girls Allowed | Analog Devices |
| 2nd Place | AIT Lightwalkers | Athlone Institute of Technology |
| 3rd Place | Walker Texas Rangers | Special Olympics Ireland |
Overall Leaderboard Top 50 Prize Draw
| Prize Draw | Team Name | Organisation |
| 4th – 10th | The Paw Patrollers | University College Cork |
| 11th – 20th | Medtronic Caters | Medtronic Mervue |
| 21st – 30th | The Walking FOMO’s | Munster Technological University – Cork Campus |
| 31st – 40th | Ministry of Silly Walks | Dublin City Council |
| 41st – 50th | Holywalkamolies | Europcar |
Best Team Members and Best Team Captains
| Best Team Member | Organisation | Best Team Captain | Organisation |
| Joanna Piotrowska | Galway University Hospital | Elaine Dennehy | Munster Technological University – Cork Campus |
| Diego Albuquerque | Dublin City University | Maria Stack | Cork University Hospital |
| Mary Power | ESB Group | Sophie Schneider | Trinity College Dublin |
| Marie Callanan | Medtronic Mervue | Dave Murray | eir |
| Aileen Hartnett | Trinity College Dublin | Peter Muller | Dublin City Council |
Top 5 Coordinators
| Coordinator Name | Organisation |
| Anita O Mahony | Galway-Mayo IT |
| Deirdre Kelly | Dublin City Council |
| Deirdre Mullen-McGuinness | Trinity College Dublin |
| Jennifer Egan & Anna Goss | Jacobs Engineering |
| Sayed Ahmad Saeed | DBFL Consulting Engineers |
Evaluation Survey Prize Draw
| Winner Name | Organisation |
| Conor Murray | Nikon Precision |
| Kelly-Leigh Butler | TU Dublin |
| Kenny Dosu | Medtronic Mervue |
| Ransell Dsouza | University College Cork |
| Jackie Cosgrove | Galway University Hospitals |
| Derval O Rourke | Laois County Council |