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News

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Barcelona’s best face

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AIMS news

Looking ahead Trending in the land of smiles

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Amazing Thailand Marathon Bangkok, Thailand Unforgettable running memories in Bangkok

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Where the sun shines

Logicom Cyprus Marathon, Cyprus Breathtaking scenery at the birthplace of Aphrodite

Your chance to be a world leader

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Neujahrsmarathon Zürich, Switzerland Run in the first seconds of 2022 Techcombank Ho Chi Minh City International Marathon, Vietnam Iconic courses showing the best of Vietnam to the world

PATRON

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The very heart of the city Warsaw Half Marathon, Poland Get to know the extraordinary Polish capital

Opinion

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Races in the time of covid

Lives remembered

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Gloria Ratti 1931–2021

Regulars

Features A race apart

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Calendar

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World leading times

Marathons of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad

Tokyo finally gets its Marathon fix Paralympic Marathons, 5 September 2021

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Friendly and challenging

Zurich Marató de Barcelona, Spain Enjoy a great personal adventure in ‘one of the most beautiful cities on the planet’

Official listings for AIMS events

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The top times for men and women at Marathon,

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Half Marathon and 10km

Running into history

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Marathon moments: The debutante 14 April 2002, London Marathon: Paula Radcliffe’s debut marathon laid out a winning path

Race contact details AIMS member races with full contact details

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AIMS news

Renna Nelis joins AIMS board

executives Pr esi d e n t

Paco Borao (Valencia)

“Sport is my job, hobby and passion,” says Renna Nelis, who has been co-opted to the Board of Directors of AIMS. Since 2006 Renna has been a member of the Sport Event Team NPO which organises the biggest mass sports events in Estonia including the Tallin Marathon.

Vi ce- Pr esi d e n ts

Martha Morales (Tangamanga) Dave Cundy (Great Wall) se cr e ta ry

The Sport Event Team received a special award from European Athletics in 2018 for their contribution to the development of mass sports in Estonia. The team also organised the most recent 22nd AIMS World Congress held in Tallinn in September 2018.

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Renna represented Estonia as a torchbearer at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. She has run 17 marathons and just one month before the AIMS Congress in Tallin she completed an Ironman event.

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Rick Nealis bows out Rick Nealis has served as the Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) race director since 1993. Under his leadership MCM established itself as one of the best-organised marathons in the world. The 2021 race will be his last as race director.

2002 and our nation at war for the last 20 years have made ‘Love of Country’ and ‘Corps’ a central theme for our runners. With a starting line adjacent to Arlington Cemetery, our runners and Marines remember the sacrifices our nation’s military make every day. On 31 October 2021 we will remember those 13 service members who were killed by a terrorist attack on 26 August in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Nealis served in the United States Marine Corps from 1975 through to 1995. A runner himself, his marathon best is 3:09:50 from the 1983 Marine Corps Marathon.

In 1996 he served as the Olympic Torch Deputy Caravan Coordinator for the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta and five years later was a member of the security team for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.

On the 30th Anniversary of the MCM in 2005 the Military Officers Association of America presented an Ovation (in their Today’s Officer magazine) to Nealis for his accomplishments in promoting the organizational skills of the United States Marines.

His induction into the Hall of Champions for Running USA in 2009 was followed a year later by Road Race Management naming him as their Race Director of the Year.

Rick Nealis with Boston and NYC marathon multiple winner Bill Rodgers

During his time as race director Nealis developed the Marine Corps Marathon from a 26.2 mile race to a weekend long event packed with activities for runners and fitness enthusiasts of all ages and abilities. The MCM now boasts an economic impact of nearly $40 million and serves as a platform for charity partners to raise more than $10 million for local and national causes.

Nealis recalls: Over 500,000 runners have crossed the Marine Corps Marathon finish line during my 29 years of service.

Runners such as Oprah Winfrey, Vice President Al Gore, Comedian Drew Carey and even my wife JoAnn Webb, are among those who can proudly proclaim they are “The Few, The Proud, The Finishers.”

Every runner is special to the Marines at “The People’s Marathon.”

The Marines know what it means to have a vision, to construct a plan and to execute with precision and success Terrorist attacks at the Pentagon in 2001, random sniper killings in

During these past years I had mentors who could provide guidance and this created lasting partnerships. Olympic gold medal winner Bill Mills showed me how charity partners could embrace our event. Over the years the involvement of law enforcement and first responders in the MCM planning process has become paramount.

Ensuring a safe and secure venue is priority #1.

Fernando Jamarne (Santiago) Rachid Ben Meziane (Marrakech) Renna Nelis (Tallinn) Tetsuya Okamura (Nagoya) co n su lta n ts

Frank J Baillie (Media) Horst Milde (AIMS Marathoneum, Berlin) International Measurement Administrators a m e r i cas:

Bernie Conway asi a & o cea n i a :

Dave Cundy e u ro Pe & a fr i ca :

Hugh Jones (Englishspeaking) Jean Francois Delasalle (French and Spanishspeaking) i n t e r n at i o n a l i n st i t u t e fo r race m e d i ci n e ( i i rm )

Chris Troyanos George Chiampas a i m s H Q ( at H e n s )

It was through the MCM that in October 2001 the Marine Corps led our nation back to normalcy.

By hosting the 26th Marine Corps Marathon so closely after 9/11, MCM runners made a statement in reclaiming our sport. As they ran past the point of attack at the Pentagon and through the streets of our national capital runners showed their resilience to the world.

In this, my final year as Race Director, we battle another enemy: Covid attacks our freedom to run in mass participation events. I am confident that, with safety protocols, the Marine Corps Marathon organization will once again lead our nation back to normalcy. On 31 October I look forward to greeting even more MCM marathon participants on the finish line.

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Distance marker from the original 42195m acquired by AIMS In an episode of the BBC series Antiques Roadshow, aired from Enfield in London back in March, a 113-year old cast iron fingerpost sign was brought for valuation.

It was the “18 miles” sign from the 1908 London Olympic Marathon run from Windsor Castle to White City Stadium in west London.

The sign had been spotted at a “car boot sale” in the north-west of England by Graham Webster, a running enthusiast and collector of Olympic memorabilia. It had not even been fully on view as Webster had to get the stallholder to retrieve it from goods piled on the ground.

During the broadcast programme Webster expressed the feeling that the sign belonged in a museum.

Subsequently AIMS approached

him to see if he would be willing to sell and the sign was acquired for the AIMS Museum in Berlin where it will go on display.

The sign was in fact placed 8.2 miles into the course, at 18 miles to go and bears the ‘5-diamond’ emblem of Polytechnic Harriers, the club given the task of organising the race. Such signs were used for the entire length of the course but the only one previously known to be still in existence was the “25 miles” [to go] sign at Eton Bridge.

Contemporaneous pictures show some of the signs fixed to tall wooden poles. The 18 miles sign was one of these and the pole was attached to a bridge over the River Colne at the location. This bridge was replaced during World War II. What makes the length of this particular race, signposted in both

miles and ‘kilos’, so important was that it eventually became fixed as the Marathon standard of 26 miles 385 yards or 42.195 kilometres.

Before then marathons had usually been approximately 25 miles (40km) but could vary considerably in length. Why this race became so significant was due to the dramatic finale which played out on the track inside the stadium.

The Italian Dorando Pietri, who had led the race from 24 miles, collapsed repeatedly and was ‘assisted’ to his feet by race referee Jack Andrew before a last dash to the finish line. He got there 32 seconds before the American, Johnny Hayes, but

the Americans protested and Hayes was awarded the victory.

Public sympathy was with Pietro and Queen Alexandra, who had witnessed Pietri’s desperate last-lap struggle, awarded him a special commemorative cup.

The race stoked a marathon frenzy and ‘re-runs’ attracted huge betting interest. Pietri and Hayes met up in many different locations in the following years, both indoors and outside, where the only constant was the distance they had to run.

In 1924 the world governing body, the IAAF, formalised the Marathon distance as that run from Windsor to White City in the 1908 Olympic Marathon..

Mitsugi Ogata appointed President of JAAF At the Japan Association of Athletics Federations 68th Board of Directors meeting, held online on 21 June Director Mitsugi Ogata was elected as President.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of AIMS from 2014–2018, taking special responsibility for Asia. AIMS President Paco Borao wrote a letter passing on the Association’s congratulations.

AiMs Family, Members and Race officials:

Please diary this important Congress – programme details to be published shortly 23rd World congress Osaka, Japan 23–25 February 2023

Mr Ogata served as Managing Director of the Japanese Federation from June 2011 to June 2021 and during that time had been in charge of practical matters, maintaining close contact with all Japanese AIMS member races. As the eighth president of the Federation, he said, “I will be in a strong position to lead the Japanese track and field world [but] first of all, a steady rebuilding.”

Mitsugi Ogata is a former decathlete (Japanese champion in 1981 & 1982). He was Japan’s Head Coach at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin and Team Leader at those held in Moscow in 2013. He chairs the Japanese Olympic Committee’s High Performance Committee.

At a press conference held after the board of directors meeting

President Ogata said: “Due to new coronavirus infections we first have to make a steady recovery. We need to review our business. We want to see the pinch as a time when we can change things and make it into an opportunity.” He added: “I want to support the success of athletes and foster a longing for top athletes and sports, which will lead to the spread of wellness athletics.”

The next edition of Distance Running will be published in January 2022. The advertising and editorial deadlines will be on 2 December.

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AIMS news As Distance Running deadlines loomed mass races were coming out of hibernation.

The starting gates open…

In many European countries the second weekend in September seemed to be the moment race organisers had been waiting for.

Races with mass fields were held in Vienna, Hamburg, Munster, Brighton, Stockholm, Tallinn, Vilnius and Athens, among other places.

Athens marks a passing, and builds towards the big event In Athens the Half Marathon had been postponed from its usual race date in March, first to May and then to September. There were significant anti-covid precautions put in place as what happens as a result of the half marathon determines what can be done for Athens Marathon The Authentic to take place nine weeks later on 14 November.

The Athens Half Marathon was dedicated to Mikis Theodorakis who had died on 2 September 2021, aged 96, and lay in state in Athens for three days. Theodorakis was Greece’s most renowned composer best known for the sound track of the 1964 film Zorba the Greek.

He was a resistance fighter during World War II, a leading opponent of the Greek “Colonels” regime from 1967–74, and was elected as a Member of Parliament several times.

The race offered a way of expressing public feeling, as many have done in different situations of adversity or loss, or of celebration.

The Covid precautions enforced as part of the race hygiene plan agreed between the organisers and the public authorities, particularly the processional starting procedures, lent themselves to generating an atmosphere of solidarity and tribute.

From 06.30–07.00 runners arrived from all Metro stations surrounding the start area, in front of the Monument of the Unknown Soldier in Syntagma Square, following specific instructions aimed at making use of all the stations in the approach to the starting area, with additional walking distance, to prevent overcrowding.

Runners were allocated to starting blocks while keeping the social distancing rule of 1.5–2m. The starting blocks were set up on a 100m-long, 12m-wide section of Amalia Avenue.

This allowed each block to observe the runners’ “safe positioning” plan while they waited for the start and set off in rows of 5–6 – about 50 participants at a time.

The race was started by the President of SEGAS Sofia Sakorafa and Mikis Theodorakis’ grandson, Angelos Papagelidis-Theodoraki. From now on the Athens Half Marathon will be dedicated to the memory of the great Greek composer.

It all passed off smoothly and gives a platform on which to build with confidence towards Athens Marathon The Authentic on 14 November without fear of a late cancellation as happened in 2020.

Vienna quickstep The Vienna City Marathon became the first major marathon held anywhere in the world with a top elite field since the start of the Corona pandemic. There were 26,000 entries from 126 nations for the various events, 6,000 of them in the marathon.

But it ended with the runner who crossed the line first being disqualified.

Ethiopia’s Derara Hurisa wore shoes which did not comply with the rules. It was the first time that such a disqualification has been made in a major marathon.

Kenya’s Leonard Langat became the winner with a time of 2:09:25, while debutante Vibian Chepkirui (Kenya) won the women’s race in 2:24:29.

Less than 45 minutes after breaking the finishing tape in 2:09:22 Hurisa looked completely distraught. He had just learnt that he was disqualified because the soles of his shoes were one centimetre thicker than allowed. The soles of road running shoes have to be no thicker than 4cm but Hurisa’s had a sole thickness of 5cm. He is said to have chosen the shoes for the race because he had used them in training and thought they were within the rules.

Derara Hurisa just before the finish line.

Photo: VCM/Jenia Symonds

Organisers explained that every runner or their manager had to fill in a form in which they have to name the model of the shoe they were going to wear. On Hurisa’s form a shoe was named that is within the rules but on race day he wore a different pair. “We stressed the rules about the shoes in the technical meeting. We had no other choice than to disqualify the athlete” said Hannes Langer, one of the elite race coordinators of the Vienna City Marathon. “It is the first time something like this has happened. I am sure that from now on there will be [additional] checks to avoid it happening again.”

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New members Bucharest International Half Marathon & 10K ROU The women’s Olympic Marathon champion from Beijing 2008, Constantina Dita, is one of Romania’s most successful athletes and is the founder and president of the annual Bucharest International Half Marathon & 10K. Constantina competed eight times at the World Half Marathon Championships (for which she was named Ambassador in 2020 at Gdynia) and earned seven medals in the process, including a double victory (individual and team) in Edmonton in 2005. She is still the national record holder for the marathon and half marathon. Constantina won the 2004 Chicago Marathon and finished second

in 2005. She also made it on to the podium three times at the London Marathon. She still runs and hopes to one day complete the full set of six Marathon Majors by running the Boston and Tokyo Marathons.

Built on the inspiration of Constantina Dita, Bucharest International Half Marathon & 10K is the most beautiful road running race in Romania, featuring a very fast course, and showcasing the most important landmarks in the nation’s capital. Aiming to be a world class running event and an IAAF Gold Label race, Bucharest International Half Marathon & 10K also promotes Romania’s touristic beauty.

Great Victory Run 10km EGY The Great Victory Run was founded

by Ahmed Elnady, the winner of the ‘Luxor Run’ (22.3km) at the 2012 Egyptian Marathon. He was following his dream to establish an internationally-certified 10km race in Egypt. The venue was chosen as El Sharouk (“The Sunrise”), a new settlement to the north-east of Cairo itself, established as part of the overall plan for the future development of Greater Cairo. It is a city of modern buildings and broad tree-lined boulevards which Elnady saw lent themselves well to use for staging road races.

Run Half Marathon, planned for December 2021 and the Great Egyptian River Nile Marathon in February 2022.

Both may become AIMS members in the near future.

“May the spirit of Victory rise from the hearts of true champions in the land of wonders and our great Pharoahs. We welcome you to Egypt – a land of happiness, peace and victory.”

Apart from “Egypt’s Best 10K” Elnady and his team have also had courses certified for other events to be held including the Great Freedom

Kyiv Nova Poshta Half Marathon UKR The Ukrainian capital Kiev lies on the Dnieper River and is among the 10 largest cities in Europe. The city centre has an abundance of historical sights, restaurants cafes and hotels.

Maxim Krivenko, director of Newrun the organisation promoting a series of races in Ukraine, says: “Mass marathon running in Ukraine began to develop from 2015 and now it is a trend throughout the country. The Kyiv Nova Poshta Half Marathon joins four other AIMS member races in the Newrun calendar of 13 events in the larger cities spread throughout Ukraine.

Compliance with quality and safety standards is a priority for us - but we strive for more.

In Kiev we want our race to be an example of the development of running in Ukraine.

Kiev is a hilly city but we find a compromise between the ‘colour’ of the route and minimising the ups and downs along the course. The marathon village is in the city centre for the convenience of visiting runners – access by metro makes it easy.

We invite you to take part in our launch and support the development of marathon running in Ukraine. We hope that every competitor will be a little happier after receiving the finisher’s medal at our race. Welcome!

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Looking ahead | 5 December 2021 Amazing Thailand Marathon Bangkok, Thailand Unforgettable running memories in Bangkok

Trending in the land of smiles Welcome runners, AIMS’s family, and friends. We are excited to once again be back in Bangkok for The 2021 Amazing Thailand Marathon Bangkok, presented by Toyota.

The Amazing Thailand Marathon Bangkok (ATMBKK) is the largest and most trendy road running race in Thailand and attracts more than 30,000 runners and over 20,000 spectators across the whole weekend. The race has established itself as the major running event on Thailand’s sporting calendar. On race day thousands of runners from around the Asia region will run past Bangkok’s iconic landmarks such as the Victory Monument, Wat Benchamabophit Marble Temple, Ratchadamnoen Street (Thailand’s Champs-Elysees), Rama 8 Bridge and the Golden Mountain Temple. The start from the Rajamangala National Stadium also provides marathon runners with an unforgettable memory.

ATMBKK is owned and operated by the Tourism Authority of Thailand and the Thailand Tri-League and adheres to world-class organisational standards. ATMBKK has been granted a

World Athletics Road Race Label. Participants get to rub shoulders with some of the world’s best runners on race day and to experience the warm hospitality from the Land of Smiles.

The Amazing Thailand Marathon Bangkok will feature three different competitive categories: Marathon (42.195km), Half Marathon (21.1km), and 10km. Casual and leisure runners will also have a dedicated category in the 5km Family Fun Run where the family gets to run together and inspire the little ones perhaps one day to run a marathon. With four different race categories to register for, there is something for everyone.

2021 marks the 4th anniversary of the Amazing Thailand Marathon Bangkok and we are set to stage an unforgettable Marathon with Thai cultural food for runners at the finish line, an expo featuring 70 outlets of sporting goods, a charity fun run and a variety of merchandise goods and entertainment activities for everyone.

The finish line will be in one of the most popular tourist destinations in Bangkok, Democracy Monument on Rachadamnoen Road, next to the world-famous night market street Khao San Road.

Save the date and join the race: Start: 02:00, 5 December 2021, Rajamangala Stadium, Huamark, Bangkok Finish: Democracy Monument, Rachadamnoen Road Cut-Off Time: 7 Hours (42.195km) / 4 Hours (21.1km) ■ www.amazingthailandmarathon2021. com

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Looking ahead | 5 December 2021 Logicom Cyprus Marathon, Cyprus

Where the sun shines Breathtaking scenery at the birthplace of Aphrodite The city of Paphos lies on the southwest coast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus where the sun shines the whole year round.

With its own international airport Paphos Region is a destination combining history, hospitality, fun, relaxation and adventure. It is a beautiful city to visit for all reasons during all seasons but especially during the Logicom Cyprus Marathon in March.

The Marathon has been held since 1999 in the ancient and historic capital of Cyprus and has grown bigger and better over the years. It hosts 3600 runners from some 65 countries. This multi-cultural event combines picturesque scenery, a pleasant Mediterranean climate along with a choice of hospitality packages in the best hotels. The organisation is among the best in the world.

The 23rd edition (deferred from March 2021) takes place on Sunday, 5 December. Four different distances are offered: Marathon, Half-Marathon, 10km and a 5km Family Fun Run. The Marathon course starts from ‘Petra tou Romiou’ – the Birthplace of Aphrodite, our goddess of love and beauty – and finishes at the Paphos Medieval Castle at the harbour.

There is breath-taking scenery from start to finish. The course follows a flat coastal route alongside the Mediterranean Sea passing traditional Cypriot villages, farmland, olive

groves and orchards full of orange blossom.

Coaches to the start and a baggage service are provided to all runners.

There are drink stations every 3km, toilets, First Aiders, Police in attendance and cheering spectators along most of the course. Apart from the Marathon all races start and finish at the Paphos Medieval Castle which dates back to the Byzantine period of the 13th century. This area by the fishing harbour is transformed into the atmospheric ‘event village’, with baggage collection, post-race rehydration and massages.

Enjoy a free beer, music, mingle with family and friends and then watch the awards ceremony.

Those interested in local history will find the UNESCO World Heritage site by the Paphos Harbour a compelling visit. The remains of villas, palaces, theatres, fortresses and tombs make the site of exceptional architectural and historic value. The mosaics on display record Paphos in Hellenistic and Roman times (312BC to 330AD).

Trophies are awarded to the first three overall in each race and for the top three men and women in each of the 10 age group categories for the Marathon, Half-Marathon and 10km.

All participants receive their official technical t-shirt, race number with electronic timing chip and other goodies. Marathon finishers receive a unique and race-specific medal to commemorate their achievement.

The Logicom Cyprus Marathon features a number of parallel events; the Marathon Expo on 3-4 December and the Cyprus 5km Wine Run through beautiful Kathikas village on Tuesday 7 December.

The race is dedicated to the Marathon Legend Stelios Kyriakides, the Cypriot who won the 1946 Boston Marathon in order to help seven million hungry Greeks. The official charity is the ‘Karaiskakio Foundation’, dedicated to organising a volunteer Bone Marrow Register.

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Looking ahead | 1 January 2022 Neujahrsmarathon Zürich, Switzerland

Your chance to be a world leader

Run in the first moments of 2022

The Neujahrsmarathon Zurich is a unique event that makes it possible to fulfil your resolutions before the New Year really gets going.

It offers the chance to set a personal best on New Year’s Eve and to start the New Year running under the night sky lit by fireworks.

Start the New Year with an unforgettable sporting highlight. For the next edition, as well as the title race, there will also be a half marathon, a quarter marathon, a team run (two to four team members) and a 750m kids’ run.

In the children’s race, thanks to our sponsors, all runners from 3–14 years of age start free of charge. had come and 151 marathoners stood at the start line. Since then the Neujahrsmarathon Zurich has grown progressively and regularly attracts over 1000 runners from more than 50 different countries.

The race starts on the very first second of the year, making the Neujahrsmarathon Zurich the first AIMS running event of the year and hence the performances of the winners automatically qualify as first official world leading times for the year.

Anyone who does not want to run is welcome at any time as a helper, sponsor, spectator or party guest in our festival restaurant. Thanks to our “Action 1 + 1” commitment runners who bring a helper start the Neujahrsmarathon Zurich for free.

With its unique start time, the Neujahrsmarathon Zurich attracts ambitious runners who, once in a lifetime, want to set a world leading time or at least a national leading time. On the other hand, when the bells strike midnight and the fireworks show begins, there are also many people at the start line who just want to begin the New Year doing what they love.

On 1 January all runners start together at midnight in the middle of the sports hall in Schlieren, Switzerland. The race is a loop course beside the river Limmat amounting to exactly 10.54875km – which means that four loops equal a marathon. The runners run through the sports hall after each lap to be cheered on by family, friends and spectators. The race is

subject to a time limit of five hours, which may be extended in case of bad conditions such as snow and ice.

The Neujahrsmarathon Zurich was born 18 years ago in 2003: five running enthusiasts decided to make the idea of a marathon at the turn of the year a reality. On 1 January 2005 the time

We cancelled last year’s Neujahrsmarathon Zurich with a heavy heart, but are all the more pleased to start this year’s preparations for the 17th edition of the race with an enlarged organizational committee. If the COVID-19 situation persists and the race has to be cancelled registrations that have already been made will automatically be carried over to the next event without any deduction of costs.

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Looking ahead | 12 December 2021 Techcombank Ho Chi Minh City International Marathon, Vietnam

Friendly and challenging Iconic courses showing the best of Vietnam to the world Ho Chi Minh City is one of the most vibrant and dynamic cities in the world.

Steeped in history, it has a lot to offer foodies, shopping lovers, and business people alike.

Yet despite all the attractions before 2017 there wasn’t a major marathon to showcase all that Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has to offer.

Sunrise Events Vietnam (SEV), founded in 2015, was responsible for bringing the IRONMAN 70.3 race to the country. With the growth of the triathlon SEV noticed an increasing desire among the Vietnamese to focus on healthy activities and friendly yet challenging competition.

SEV’s vision was to bring the best of the world to Vietnam, and the best of Vietnam to the world. They did so by featuring world class athletes in their events, and delivering the 2019 IRONMAN 70.3 Asia-Pacific Championship in Danang. In HCMC, the country’s largest metropolis, SEV launched the first Techcombank Ho Chi Minh City International Marathon in 2017, with three more hugely successful editions since then.

The organisers have designed iconic courses running through six city districts. The four courses to choose from: 5km, 10km, 21.1km and the Marathon, attract an enthusiastic range of local and international runners.

On race weekend Saturday features the Kids Runs. On Sunday, starting from 04.00, participants gather in front of the Saigon Zoo & Botanical Gardens in a welcome escape from the sweltering daytime temperatures. Anticipation and excitement are high as competitors embrace the chance to run safely through the city, for a few hours owning those streets normally dominated by millions of motorbikes.

Landmarks dotting the course include Independence Palace, Saigon Central Post Office, Notre Dame Cathedral, Saigon Opera House, and the intriguing maze of the city’s Chinatown, with its aroma of turmeric and cumin. The Thu Thiem bridge offers sprawling views of both sides of the Saigon River.

The Marathon has grown to be one of HCMC’s annual highlights. It has quickly become the biggest competitive running event in the country, with 13,000 participants over all distances offered Despite the setbacks and restrictions of the global COVID-19 pandemic the 4th Edition of the Techcombank Ho Chi Minh City International Marathon took place successfully and

safely on 11 April 2021. Thanks to the crucial support of the HCMC government, the Department of Tourism, the event’s partners, suppliers and volunteers, and the year-round efforts of SEV’s industrious team, the 4th edition provided a palpable sense of relief and joy to the city’s residents.

At the fourth edition of the race SEV’s General Manager Onslo Carrington noted that: “at certain times in the history of an event or a city circumstances can shape both to take on a much larger meaning. Life is a marathon, and sometimes the road is smooth. Other times it is full of holes, with wild dogs chasing you and thousands of motorbikes and cars to dodge.

As Vietnam has shown the world if you can keep putting one foot in front of the other then eventually you will have run, walked or crawled towards a greater sense of purpose. One that encapsulates all of us.”

The future for competitive running in Vietnam, much like its 3260km of coastline, is bright, beautiful and full of promise.

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Looking ahead | 7 November 2021 Zurich Marató de Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona’s best face Enjoy a great personal adventure in ‘one of the most beautiful cities on the planet’ On 7 November Barcelona will once again show its best face to the world with a cosmopolitan marathon whose route passes the most emblematic places in the city.

Barcelona is open, hospitable, inclusive, multicultural and friendly to visitors. Its world-famous cuisine, pleasant year-round climate and wide range of cultural events make it the ideal city to visit and return to time and time again.

After a year of global change and transformation the Zurich Marató Barcelona is born again, stronger than ever, to offer participants a magical experience with Barcelona’s urban landscape as a backdrop. The Marató is special, and that is down to the city that hosts it; a city with an open cosmopolitan spirit. Its Mediterranean character and Modernist past has left a singular, instantly identifiable architecture and a cuisine that is admired the world over.

The Zurich Marató Barcelona is a massivelyattended race with runners from all over the world. Runners come ready for a great personal adventure and to enjoy one of the most beautiful cities on the planet. It’s a weekend to be shared with the family thanks to the large number of parallel events. There is the Expo Sports, a “runners’ fair” where participants collect their race number (bib), T-shirt (in 100% recycled polyester used by Asics, the technical sponsor) and runners’ bag. There is the Kids Race on the day before the Marathon.

The festive Breakfast Run follows the last few kilometres of the 1992 Olympic Marathon route and gives participants the unique opportunity of entering the ‘Lluís Companys’ Olympic Stadium.

Then there is the Pasta Party, a convivial meal enjoyed by the participants the day before the race.

In recent times the capital of Catalonia has won hearts the world over. Thanks to its many tourist attractions, and the well-ordered “Eixample” quarter (dating from the mid-19th century), the city was able to transform itself and become the focus of world attention when it hosted the 1992 Olympic Games.

The Marató is a blend of sport, leisure and popular festivities: there are 40 entertainment points along the route. The course has been improved to make it faster and of almost 20,000 runners who took part in the last edition many recorded personal best times.

Avenida María Cristina, with the Palace of Montjuïc and the Magic Fountain (Fuente Mágica) in all their splendour, is the ideal place to start and finish the race. The route passes the main tourist attractions of the city: the Camp Nou (home to FC Barcelona); the stretch along

Passeig de Gràcia with Casa Batlló looking down on the runners; the imposing Sagrada Familia; the Arc de Triomf. Then there is the monument to Christopher Columbus on the waterfront and the Torres Venecianes as the last architectural highlight on the route. All these will help to keep runners motivated right through to the finish.

The spotlight is always on the runners. Theirs is a unique journey that starts the moment they register for the race and ends when they cross the finish line to collect their coveted finisher’s medal. From the biggest to the smallest, from the locally-born to those from the other side of the world, from the tenacious wheelchair competitor to the gutsy winner: every one of you, together with the hundreds of volunteers, entertainment teams, medical services, physios and citizens in general, make the Zurich Marató Barcelona a magical experience.

This year, if you run you will have already won.

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Looking ahead | 27 March 2022 Warsaw Half Marathon, Poland

The very heart of the city Get to know the extraordinary Polish capital Warsaw is one of the most rapidly developing European cities with huge potential and great energy. It is a metropolis whose hallmarks – besides its rich history and extraordinary monuments – are its openminded inhabitants, the Vistula River and exceptional cuisine.

The historic buildings blend harmoniously with modern architecture and skyscrapers. Not to forget the countless theatres, restaurants and clubs scattered throughout Warsaw, of interest to locals and visitors alike. Warsaw is a very important cultural and entertainment centre, so it is not without reason that the capital of Poland attracts around 25 million foreign tourists every year. It is also a great place for runners.

The Warsaw Half Marathon is one of the largest races in this part of Europe. Every year the event attracts thousands of competitors from all over the world. 15 editions have already been held, completed by a total of 100,000 participants.

For eight years the event has regularly achieved 5-digit numbers of attendees.

The race route leads through the very heart of the city, which is rich in both tourist and historical interest. During the run you will pass places such as the Old Town, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, the Presidential Palace, Krasiński Park, the Vistula River and the Multimedia Fountain Park.

The Warsaw Half Marathon is not only a sporting event, but also a great social celebration where charities get the opportunity to help those in need even more effectively. The #BiegamDobrze campaign has been part of the event since 2016. Thanks to this charity initiative, cancer patients as well as children and young people have been able to receive valuable help. Runners have already raised over one million Euros to support the work of NGOs. This is the largest charity event of its kind in Poland.

The Half Marathon, held on the last weekend of March, has become a permanent fixture on the sporting and touristic calendar of events.

There are many good reasons why you should come to Warsaw to run in the 16th edition of the Half Marathon. It is an excellent opportunity for physical activity and getting to know the extraordinary capital of Poland – Warsaw – one of the fastest growing cities in Europe.

So do not hesitate – sign up today.

■ www.warsawhalfmarathon.com

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Olympic Marathons 7–8 August 2021, Japan

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Marathons of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad

Long after Tokyo won the right to stage the 2020 Olympic Games attention belatedly focused on its suitability as venue for staging endurance events – in particular the Marathons and the Walks. The scenes of distress that had followed the finish of the 2019 World Championships Marathon in Doha, particularly of the women’s race, led to a reconsideration.

Tokyo was likely to present equally difficult conditions of heat and humidity as Doha but Sapporo, 800km further north, looked like a more distance runner-friendly location.

Meteorological statistics suggested that Sapporo could be six degrees cooler than Tokyo at the beginning of August so the Marathons and walks were separated from the rest of the athletics events and passed over to Sapporo against the protestations of the Governor of Tokyo.

In the end conditions in Sapporo, although probably less severe than they would have been in Tokyo, were not as benign as predicted. It was hot (over 30C) and humid for both men’s and women’s races, held on consecutive days.

To a large extent this shaped the nature of the competition: big lead groups held together far into the race because of the slow pace at which the first half of each race was run.

Lintao Zhang/Getty

Doing it by halves

Women’s Olympic Marathon, 7 August 2021 Peres Jepchirchir won the Women’s Olympic Marathon for Kenya in hot and humid conditions as temperatures rose above 30C in the final stages of the race. She beat her compatriot, race favourite and world record holder Brigid Kosgei, by pushing on ahead of her rival just after 40km and opening up a gap which grew to 80m by the finish line. Molly Seidel, an

Peres Jepchirchir (KEN), Brigid Kosgei (KEN) and Molly Seidel (USA) after finishing the Women’s Marathon Final Photo: Clive Brunskill/Getty

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unheralded American running only her third Marathon, came in third a further 50m behind.

The day before the women’s race officials saw that temperatures after 09.00 were projected to rise to over 31C. With remarkable speed a decision was made to pull back the start time from 07.00 to 06.00 and communicated to the runners before they slept.

continued sedately, with 5km splits of 17:31 and 17:40, to reach halfway in 1:15:14. Up to this point the pace had been set by the race favourites which, as well as World Half Marathon Champion Jepchirchir and Kosgei, included world record holder for the half marathon Ruth Chepngetich and Lonah Salpeter, running for Israel, who had recorded the second-fastest time of 2020 behind Jepchirchir.

88 competitors lined up at the start with the temperature already at 25C - and set to rise to 30C by the finish. It was a cautious start as the race favourites clustered at the front and passed through the first 5km in 18.02. The processional pace was maintained through 10km as a huge group of 47 tightly-packed runners passed through in 36:16 (18:14 5km split). The race

Seidel had remained in the pack and not yet made her presence felt but as she explained in a post-race interview: “We didn’t go out super-fast and I kept it very controlled at the beginning.

After halfway, rather than follow, I wanted to make moves and be aggressive.” Despite the slowish pace the lead group had been reduced to 11 with Seidel now prominent among them,

Women 1 Peres JEPCHIRCHIR

KEN 2:27:20

2 Brigid KOSGEI

KEN 2:27:36

3 Molly SEIDEL

USA 2:27:46

4 Roza DEREJE

ETH

2:28:38

5 Volha MAZURONAK

BLR

2:29:06

leading through 25km in 1:28:51 (5km split of 17.24). By 30km, reached with a 5km split of 17:13, Jepchirchir had taken up the pace and led eight others - but not including Chepngetich who now trailed by five seconds and was soon to drop out.

Seidel continued to push and by 35km, after the fastest 5km split of the race (16:54), only Salpeter and Eunice Chumba, running for Bahrain, were still with the eventual medallists.

They tailed off before 40km, and Seidel herself now lagged the Kenyan pair by six seconds, after a 5km split of 17:01.

Neither of the two Kenyans looked comfortable in the closing stages and Jepchirchir confirmed after the race that “It was so hot; it was not easy.” Even so, it was she who managed to open up a gap on Kosgei and propel herself to the finish line with the realisation: “wow, I’m going to make it, I’m going to win”.

Despite the steadily rising temperatures throughout the race the slow start helped the first eight finishers to record a faster second half, with Jepchirchir’s being almost three minutes faster.

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Above: Centre stage: Eliud Kipchoge effortlessly controls the huge early lead pack Left: Kipchoge crosses the finish line Clive Brunskill/Getty

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Following the leader

Men’s Olympic Marathon, 8 August 2021 Eliud Kipchoge retained the Olympic Marathon title he first won five years ago in Rio de Janeiro and became only the third person to do so, following Abebe Bikila (1960, 1964) and Waldemar Cierpinski (1976, 1980). But he made it look simple, with an injection of pace between 30-40km that left the rest of the field scattered in his wake.

Conditions appeared slightly less unfavourable than for the women on the previous morning but the early pace was just as cautious and the eventual retirement rate, at 30 of the 106 starters, was higher.

Opening 5km sections were timed at 15:17 and 15:36 as around 50 runners formed a loose-knit pack with no clear leader to dictate the pace.

Kipchoge occasionally did a stint at the front but shared the lead with several others who just seemed to want the experience – either of leading an Olympic Marathon or, perhaps, of running alongside Kipchoge. Fist bumps were seen to be exchanged.

Halfway was reached in 1:05:13, after further 5km splits of 15:10 and, from 15-20km, 15:44.

Despite this being the slowest 5km section of the race the field had thinned out but still numbered in excess of 20 runners. Kipchoge was content to stay within the group but was winding up the pressure as the 5km splits got faster: 15:37 for 20-25km and 15:07 for 25-30km. The lead group now numbered just 10 and Kipchoge was ready to make his play.

He did so at 31km with a sudden change of pace that put distance between himself and everyone else. His teammate Lawrence Cherono led the scramble to keep up which resulted in him heading the group of four that were rapidly losing distance on the leader.

Kipchoge forged ahead, now in his own private race to the line. His split from 30-35km was 14:28, which put him 27 seconds ahead of the chasing group comprising Cherono, Ayad Lamdassem from Spain, Bashir Abdi (BEL) and Abdi Nageeye (NED).

This group lost a lot more ground to Kipchoge in the 35-40km segment but this was incidental as their attention was focussed on which two of the four would make it onto the podium.

Lamdassem dropped back while Cherono drove for the line but it was Nageeye who proved strongest in the long finishing straight as he cajoled his training partner Abdi to follow him as they kicked past Cherono in the final 100m.

But the day belonged to Kipchoge who, 80 seconds clear of Nageeye, won by the widest margin since Frank Shorter’s 1972 victory.

Men 1 Eliud KIPCHOGE

KEN 2:08:38

2 Abdi NAGEEYE

NED 2:09:58

3 Bashir ABDI

BEL

4 Lawrence CHERONO

KEN 2:10:02

5 Ayad LAMDASSEM

ESP

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Paralympics Marathons 5 September 2021, Japan

Tokyo finally gets its Marathon fix Unlike the Olympic Marathons, which had been hived off to the city of Sapporo 800km to the north in the hope of less hostile weather conditions, the Paralympic Marathons were hosted alongside most other sports – in Tokyo.

Tadashi Horikoshi (JPN) after winning the bronze medal during the men’s Marathon – T12

One month later in the year was deemed sufficient to anticipate that Tokyo’s dependably steamy summer heat would have waned enough to present Paralympic endurance performers with reasonable running conditions.

The weather broke the night before the races and wheelchair athletes and runners were greeted with sodden conditions on race morning. Although the wheelchairs must have flicked up spray directly into the racers’ faces it appeared to be the camera crew who were tested more. Runners – and it seemed Japanese runners in particular – mostly thrived in the conditions.

Results T54: Push-rim wheelchairs MEN 1 Marcel HUG

SUI

1:24:02

2 Yong ZHANG

CHN 1:24:22

3 Daniel ROMANCHUK

USA 1:29:05

WOMEN 1 Madison DE ROZARIO

AUS 1:38:11

2 Manuela SCHAER

SUI

3 Nikita den BOER

NED 1:38:16

1:18:12

T12: Sight impairment MEN 1 El Amin CHENTOUF

MAR 2:21:43

2 Jaryd CLIFFORD

AUS 2:26:09

3 Tadashi HORIKOSHI

JPN

2:28:01

1 Misato MICHISHITA

JPN

3:00:50

2 Elena PAUTOVA

RPC

3:04:16

3 Louzanne COETZEE

RSA

3:11:13

WOMEN

Having missed out on any marathon medals in the Olympics a month before the host nation could hardly have hoped for a better finish on the final day of the Paralympics as the Japanese men took bronze in two classes and world-record holder Misato Michishita upgraded her silver from Rio 2016 to take the gold medal in the women’s T12 (sight-impaired) marathon.

“I felt the power of the people cheering, supporting us. The Paralympic Games were held in Tokyo, in our home country. Their cheering pushed us a lot,” Michishita said. “While running, I heard the voices of my coaches and people that I know, who gave us a big energy.

So I was very excited to run here.”

First off were the men’s wheelchair racers, followed 10 minutes later by the women. Marcel Hug was the race favourite among the men, having earlier won gold medals in his class at 800m, 1500m and 5000m.

He readily took the lead but China’s Yong Zhang stuck to him doggedly as they built up a lead of two minutes over a chasing group of four in the first half of the race. It looked as if there would be a sprint finish to decide all three medals but, although Zhang was effectively saving himself by slipstreaming Hug, the Swiss powered away

T46: Upper limb disability MEN 1 Chaoyan LI

CHN 2:25:50

2 Alex D PIRES DA SILVA

BRA 2:27:00

3 Tsutomu NAGATA

JPN

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Paralympic symbol is seen illuminated in front of the Rainbow Bridge at Odaiba Marine Park ahead of the Paralympic Games. Photo: Lintao Zhang/Getty

Chaoyan Li (CHN) crosses the finish line to win the gold medal during the men’s Marathon

Paralympics Marathons 5 September 2021, Japan

Misato Michish (JPN) crosses the finish line to win the gold medal during the women’s Marathon - T12 All photos except where otherwise noted: Alex Davidson/Getty

up a slope to the 40km point and swept around a corner to give himself a decisive break. Hug increased his lead to win by about 150m. Behind him Daniel Romanchuk (USA) used exactly the same tactic to escape from the chasing group and take the bronze medal.

In the women’s race the American Susannah Scaroni raced into the lead and by 25km had built a 90-second advantage over the chasing pack. But her solo effort took its toll. Her lead dwindled until she was caught and by 40km was trailing by a minute. For three of the five who passed her it was all left to play for in the final kilometre. Australia’s Madison de Rozario entered the stadium with a small lead as Switzerland’s Manuela Schaer closed the gap and looked poised to pounce in the home straight. But de Rozario held her off as the pair crossed the finish line less than a second apart.

“That was the longest 500m I’ve ever pushed through,” said de Rozario. “To come into the

stadium with a bit of a gap was nice… that finish line couldn’t come quick enough.”

Li Chaoyan was defending the title he won in Rio 2016 in the T-46 (limb disability) category but ‘defensive’ was hardly the word for the surge he put in at halfway. Tsutomu Nagata went with him while Alex Pires De Silva let them go.

Li soon dropped Nagata, going on to set a new Paralympic record of 2:25:50, while Da Silva’s strong finish took him past Nagata for the silver medal.

In the men’s T12 (visually impaired) race Morocco’s El Amin Chentouf raced away to hold a 2 minutes 30 seconds advantage by halfway.

He continued in splendid isolation to finish 4:26 ahead of Australia’s world record holder Jaryd Clifford. Japan’s Tadashi Horikoshi gauged his effort finely after the chasing pack broke up.

Initially holding back, he later regained ground to put himself into the bronze medal position

Silver medalist Manuela Schaer (SUI), gold medalist Madison de Rozario (AUS) and bronze medalist Nikita den Boer (NED) pose after the women’s Marathon – T54.

El Amin Chentouf (MAR)crosses the finish line to win the gold medal during the men’s Marathon – T12

after 35km.

Then the grand finale came as Michishita took to the stage. In her short-stride pattering style she played a waiting game until the Russian Elena Pautova seemed to be edging ahead. As if this was the signal she needed Michishita raised her pace and from 30km built up a winning margin of nearly three and a half minutes.

“And with that, the Tokyo Paralympics were over,” wrote Brett Larner of Japan Running News. “Despite the rain, the early start, the serious state of the pandemic, and organizers’ efforts to discourage people from spectating on the course, crowds lined the route everywhere we went. And we didn’t even go to any of the most popular spots where you could see runners three times without having to move.

Few cheered out loud, most just clapping – an acknowledgement of at least one of the government’s requests for how to act during the pandemic.

“The MGC Race Olympic trials (held in 2019) and the promise it had for the kind of crowds that would turn out seem like a distant memory now. But the crowds were still some of the biggest in Paralympic history, if not the biggest.

Can you imagine what they would have been like if the Olympic marathons had been in Tokyo? And without the pandemic?”

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Calendar AIMS member events for the forthcoming 12 months October 2021 – October 2022 For the latest dates visit aims-worldrunning.org/calendar.html

Please note: Due to the coronavirus pandemic many race events across the world have been cancelled, postponed or rescheduled, and further changes are likely to occur after Distance Running has gone to press. Please consult the AIMS calendar online and/or the races’ own websites for up-to-date information.

Luka Marathon 10 Banja BIH M

October 2021

P 2

Postponed

USA M

Helsinki City Running Day

2

Tartu City Marathon

P

PKO Wroclaw Night Half Marathon

EST M,H,R

44

Eindhoven 10 Marathon NED M

50

10 RUS H,R

3

ASICS Austrian Women’s Run

3

Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon

AUT R

GBR M

3 3

49

3

Generali Cologne Marathon

P

LSR Colombo Marathon

GER M,H

München Marathon 10 Generali GER M,H,R

58

10 SRB M

Palma Marathon 10 Zafiro ESP M,H,R

3

Kyiv Nova Poshta Half Marathon UKR H,R 58

Boston Marathon 11 B.A.A. See obituary on page 47

Baxters Loch Ness Marathon & Festival of Running GBR M 52 Silesia Marathon 55

Wizz Air Skopje Marathon

3

Tainan Half Marathon

P

Taipei Freeway Marathon

TPE H,R

55 16

Telesia Half Marathon

3

Trento Half Marathon

3

10K Valencia Ibercaja

P

Egypt’s Best 10km Great Victory Run

9

36th SPAR Budapest Marathon Festival HUN M 51

9

ASICS Stockholm Marathon

ESP R

15

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16 KOR H P

SWE M

58

53

Supersports Laguna Phuket Marathon

Amsterdam Marathon 17 TCS NED M

55

Mitja Marató de 17 eDreams Barcelona

Int’l Marathon 17 Chisinau MDA M,H,R

56 56

16

Cracovia Royal Half 17 7th Marathon

17 CHN M,H,R

55

Hengshui Lake Int’l Marathon

P

50

Maraton Int’l de Juarez Postponed until October 2022

Lisbon Marathon | Luso Half 17 EDP Marathon POR M,H

51

GRE H,R

Marathon P Tokyo Postponed until March 2022 Varmex 17 Maraton MEX M,H,R Marathon 23 Changsha CHN M,H,R

55

tbc Samsung Amman Int’l Marathon

53

JOR M,H,R

tbc Shriram Properties Bengaluru

Marathon

51

IND M,H,R

tbc XXI Gatorade CCS Rock

58

VEN R

tbc Marathon Int’l de Casablanca

55

MAR M

55

58

P Postponed until October 2022 Air Marathon P Eva Postponed until October 2022 Chartered Hong Kong 24 Standard Marathon 51

HKG M

24 Medio Maratón de la Mujer P EDP de Madrid

Volkswagen Ljubljana Marathon SLO M 56

Postponed until October 2022

Maratón Valencia Trinidad 24 Medio Alfonso EDP

53

KOR M

tbc Donga-A Ilbo Gyeongju

Marathon

49

UKR M,H,R

ESP H

– Lucerne 31 SwissCityMarathon SUI M 56

tbc Chuncheon Int’l Marathon

53

KOR M

tbc VPBank Hanoi Marathon

58

VIE M,H,R

tbc Kanazawa Marathon

53

JPN M

tbc Standard Chartered Nairobi

Marathon

53

KEN M,H

tbc Rio de Janeiro City Marathon

49

BRA M

tbc Semi Marathon Int’l de Sfax

58

TUN H

tbc UWI SPEC Int’l Half Marathon

58

TRI H

tbc Yerevan Marathon and Half

Marathon

49

ARM M,H,R

26+27

24 Venicemarathon ITA M 53 Erbil Marathon 29 IRQ M,H,R 51 Jerusalem Marathon, Half & 10k 29 ISR M,H,R 51

November 2021

30–31Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Marathon

Scenic Marathon 17 Chanthaburi THA M,H,R 58

POL H

56

49

Postponed until June 2022

Postponed

Sparkasse Marathon 10 3AUTCountry M,H 49

49

Gyeonggi Int’l Half Marathon

Cape Town Marathon 17 Sanlam RSA M

3

ITA H

56

Semi Marathon Int’l de la Ville de Béjaia ALG H 49

ESP H

Postponed until March 2022 ITA H

USA M

52

PKO Poznan Marathon P 21st Postponed PKO Poznan Half Marathon 17 13th POL H 55 Int’l Thessaloniki Night Half 17 Marathon

KBC Dublin Marathon

10 BUL M,H,R

3

MKD M,H,R

56

Wizz Air Sofia Marathon

Victoria Marathon 10 Royal CAN M

50

23–24 Wizz Air Kyiv City Marathon

Prague Marathon 10 Volkswagen CZE M 50

Kosice Peace Marathon

3

54

50

Postponed

POL M,H,R

49

49

P

3

55

Novi Sad Marathon

Sarmang Dehradun Marathon

3

10

51

Postponed

SVK M

56

Nike Melbourne Marathon Festival AUS M

Brussels Airport Marathon & Half Marathon BEL M,H

55

Kazan Half Marathon

10 NED M,H,R

Bila Tserkva Marathon UKR M

58

Leiden Marathon

Postponed

Electric Marathon de 17 Schneider Paris FRA M

of America Chicago 10 Bank Marathon

Beneva Quebec City Marathon

FIN M,H,R

22

ROU M,H

Cartago 30 Maraton CRC M Circle Marathon 30 Polar GRN M,H Aguascalientes 31 Maratón MEX M,H,R Auckland Marathon 31 ASB NZL M,H,R Marathon 31 Chengdu CHN M,H,R Frankfurt Marathon P Mainova Postponed Corps Marathon P Marine Postponed Moon Lake Marathon 31 Sun TPE M,R

56 50 51 55

P

Al Mouj Muscat Marathon

P

RUNBANGLA Half Marathon

6

3-Sjøersløpet (The 3 Lakes Race) NOR H 55

Postponed until February 2022 Postponed

6–7 Wizz Air Cluj-Napoca Marathon 56

ROU M,H,R

7

Sfax Marathon Olive Trees

7

Porto Marathon EDP

58

TUN M,H

55

POR M

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Zurich Maratón de Sevilla is the eleventh fastest marathon of all time around the world.

The marathon record is 2h’04’46’’, and was beaten in 2020

Close your eyes for a moment. Enjoy your passion for running and for marathons in the Andalusian sun in February. Live some magical days in Seville, with all its history, the unique atmosphere of its streets, its delicious cuisine. Visit the Giralda, the Torre del Oro, the Maestranza and, of course, the Plaza de España... Have the opportunity to live 42 kilometers that run through the center of the city with lots of cheering people that Êt¤ ß³Ï ëß ­ ʳ Ê ê­ Ä ¦ ­ ĩ

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Montepio Meia Maratona de Cascais

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Lviv Nova Poshta Marathon UKR H,R

IRL M,H

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See race preview on page 21 ESP M

POR H

tbc Bangsaen42 Chonburi Marathon THA M

tbc TCS World 10K Bengaluru IND R

tbc Airtel Delhi Half Marathon

Zurich Marató de Barcelona 56

IND H

tbc Goa River Marathon IND M,H,R

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7 TUR M 24 TCS New York City Marathon 7 USA M 58 21st 100km Pharaonic Race 12 EGY U 50 The Big Five Marathon 13 RSA M,H 56 Marathon The Authentic 14 Athens GRE M 51 Beirut International Marathon 14 LIB M,H 53 Great Ethiopian Run 10km 14 ETH R 50 10k Garda Trentino 14 ITA H,R 51 Medio Maratón de 14 Movistar Madrid 56

Marathon City of Art 14 Ravenna ITA M,H 53 Gulf Bank 642 Marathon 20 KUW M,H,R 53 Great Hakka Marathon 20 CHN M,H,R 50 Marathon P Kobe Postponed until November 2022 Blu Larnaka Int’l 21 Radisson Marathon

hidratado por Electrolit MEX M

tbc Hangzhou Marathon CHN M MAR H

tbc Longbien Marathon VIE M,H,R

tbc Mount Fuji Marathon JPN M

tbc Nafplio Marathon GRE M,H

tbc 21km Nuevo León

Marathon & Half 21 Marabana CUB M,H 50 Marathon, Half Marathon 21 Verona & 10K

MEX H

Marathon

JPN M

tbc Panama Int’l Marathon

Taipei City Wan Jin Shi 21 New Marathon TPE M,R

PAN M

Marathon

MAS M,H

tbc Phukethon THA M,H,R

tbc JTBC Seoul Marathon KOR M

Lisbon Half Marathon 21 EDP POR H Marathon Alexander the 21 Int’l Great GRE M,R

Desert Marathon 26 Eilat ISR M,H,R Temple Marathon 27 Bagan MYA M,H,R

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

CHN M

tbc Taichung Int’l Marathon TPE M,R

Marathon & 10km

HKG H,R

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Marathon & 1/2

USA M,H

CYP M,H,R

27–28 Adani Ahmedabad Marathon IND M,H,R

51

4–5 Borobudur Marathon

50 51

Donostia - San 28 Maratón Sebastián ESP M

Monumental Primer 28 Maratón Santiago de América DOM M,H,R

Vigot La Rochelle Int’l 28 Serge Marathon

50 56

Ayla Red Sea Half Marathon JOR H,R

INA M,H,R

5 5 5

53 51 55 53 55 53 58 53 50 50 51

5 5 5 5

5

Marathon COMAR Tunis Carthage TUN M,H,R

5

50 58

Valencia Trinidad Alfonso EDP Marathon ESP M 26+27

MEX M

tbc ADNOC Abu Dhabi Marathon UAE M,R

49

tbc Bangsaen21 Half Marathon

50

tbc Cave Shepherd & Co Run

THA M,H,R THA H,R

Barbados Marathon Weekend

BAR M,H,R

Marathon

IND M,H,R

Walkers Cayman Islands Marathon

Marathon Championships

HKG H

See race preview on page 15 CYP M,H,R

Discoveries Half Marathon POR H

Fukuoka Int’l Open Marathon Championship Galaxy Entertainment Macao Int’l Marathon Reggae Marathon, Half & 10K JAM M,H,R

MEX M THA M

tbc São Silvestre de Luanda 10km ANG R

HKG H,R

49 50 55 53 28 53

38

ESP H

58 56

tbc Rio Half Marathon

56

tbc RUNBANGLA Half Marathon

7 8 9 9

Siberian Ice Half Marathon RUS H Course not measurable to AIMS standards

PolarNight Halfmarathon NOR H,R

MG Vadodara Int’l Marathon IND M,H

10K Valencia Ibercaja ESP R

BRA H BAN H,R CHN M

49 51 51 55 58 49 51

6 6 6

56 44 51 56

49 49 30

Maratona di San Valentino ITA M,H

AU Bank Jaipur Marathon IND M,H,R

Kagawa Marugame Int’l Half Marathon JPN H

53 51 53

Mainichi Marathon 6 Beppu-Oita JPN M 53 Great Egyptian River Nile 11 Marathon 50

EGY M,H,R

11–12 Al Mouj Muscat Marathon

13 22

55

February 2022

OMA M,H,R

Neujahrsmarathon Zürich See race preview on page 17 SUI M,H,R

MEX M,H,R

tbc Xiamen Marathon

January 2022

1

55

MAR M,H

tbc UNICEF Run for Every Child Half

Marathon & 10km

Logicom Cyprus Marathon

Aramco Houston Half Marathon and We Are Houston 5K 58

USA M,H,R

tbc Merida Marathon

tbc Mizuno Hong Kong Half-

51

22

50

15–16 Chevron Houston Marathon,

55

tbc Shriram Properties Bengaluru

Amazing Thailand Marathon Bangkok

14 EGY M,H

49

Marathon Women’s Marathon 12 Nara 30 Osaka JPN M 53 JPN M 53 Nicosia Marathon tbc Bangsaen10 12 Quantum CYP M,H 50 THA R 56 The St. Croix Int’l Marathon tbc Buriram Marathon 12 ISV M,H,R 58 THA M,H,R 56 Zengwen Reservoir Marathon tbc Gammon China Coast Marathon 12 TPE M,H,R 50 & Half HKG M,H 51 Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k 14 ATA U,M 50 tbc Chombeung Marathon THA M,H,R 56 São Silvestre de Lisboa 18 Lidl POR R 55 tbc Marathon Int’l de Fes MAR M,H,R 55 10km Errachidia 19 Tafilalet MAR R 55 tbc Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon Steel Kolkata 25k 19 Tata HKG M 51 IND R 51 tbc Kaohsiung Int’l Marathon Maratona di Pisa 19 Cetilar TPE M 50 ITA M,H 53 tbc Khon Kaen Int’l Marathon Marathon 19 Taipei THA M 58 TPE M,H,R 50 tbc Marathon & Semi Int’l de Race Marathon P Carthage Marrakech Postponed until February 2022

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51

BAN M,H,R

Bahamas, Half & of Galilee Tiberias Marathon 16 Marathon 10 Sea Relay ISR M 51 BAH M,H 49 Midnight Marathon 11 Bengaluru Kinmen Marathon IND M,H,R 51 16 TPE M,H,R 30 Ho Chi Minh City 12 Techcombank Int’l Marathon Maui Oceanfront Marathon 16 USA M,H,R 38 See race preview on page 19 VIE M,H,R 58 Funchal Marathon 23 POR M,H Maratón Málaga 34 12 Zurich ESP M 56 Mitja Marato Int’l Vila de Santa 23 Pola 12 Maratón Powerade Monterrey

tbc Bangkok Midnight Marathon

53

Sheikh Mujib 10 Bangabandhu Dhaka Marathon 29th Egyptian Marathon

tbc Nong Khai ASEAN Marathon

HON M

CAY M

5

CRC M,H

Maratón del Atlántico

See race preview on page 13 THA M,H,R

5

San José Costa Rica Half & Marathon

tbc Gran Maratón Pacifico Mazatlán

MAC M,H

50

58

5

Angkor Wat Int’l Half Marathon CAM H,R 49

JPN M

50

55

December 2021

3

Curaçao Marathon 28 KLM CUR M,H,R 50 Firenze Marathon 28 ITA M 51 Oevert Marathon Antwerp 28 Linker BEL H,R 49 French Riviera Marathon Nice28 Cannes FRA M

tbc Wuxi Marathon

51

55

50

tbc Humana Rock ’n’ Roll Las Vegas

CHN M,H,R

55

55

tbc UNICEF Run for Every Child Half

CHI M,H Course not measurable to AIMS standards

27–28 OPAP Limassol Marathon GSO

FRA M,H

tbc Shanghai Int’l Marathon

tbc Volcano Marathon

22

51

tbc Penang Bridge International

53

ITA M,H,R

51

tbc Osaka/Lake Biwa Mainichi

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

50

51

tbc Semi Marathon Int’l de Laayoune

planned date

CYP M,H,R

56

tbc Maratón Guadalajara Megacable

NKolay Istanbul Marathon

ESP H

51

Giulietta & Romeo Half Marathon ITA H

13

Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon TPE M,H,R

20 JPN M Maratón de Sevilla 20 Zurich ESP M Kitakyushu Marathon

55 51 50 53 36

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27 TUN M,H,R Marathon 27 Kilimanjaro TAN M City Half Marathon 27 Napoli ITA H Biwa Mainichi 27 Osaka/Lake Marathon Carthage Race Marathon

JPN M

27

Seychelles Eco-Friendly Marathon SEY M

Marathon 27 Split CRO M,H,R tbc Ehime Marathon JPN M

tbc Gulf Bank 642 Marathon KUW M,H,R

tbc Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon JPN M

CUB M,H,R

58

POR H

nutrido por Granvita

tbc Hawassa Half Marathon ETH H,R

tbc RUNBANGLA Int’l 10K BAN R

53 56

Marathon

JPN M

tbc Kyoto Marathon JPN M

tbc Tata Mumbai Marathon IND M

tbc Navi Mumbai Half Marathon IND H,R

ISR M,H,R

50

58 53

Kolkata Full Marathon

IND M,H,R

tbc OPAP Limassol Marathon GSO CYP M,H,R

New Delhi Marathon

IND M,H

tbc Novi Sad Half Marathon SRB H

10km

Marathon

USA H,R

tbc Saipan Marathon MNP M,H,R

tbc Seoul Marathon

51

tbc The Ras al Khaimah Half

Marathon

tbc Sahara Marathon ALG M Course not measurable to AIMS standards

tbc KIX Senshu Int’l Marathon JPN M

tbc Tel Aviv Samsung Marathon ISR M,H,R

tbc Thai Sikh Run THA H,R

58 49 53 51 58

March 2022 Marathon 6 Tokyo JPN M Half Marathon 6 Tainan TPE H,R Marathon & Half 10 Antarctica ATA M,H Freeway Marathon 13 Taipei TPE M,H,R Cyprus Marathon 13 Logicom See race preview on page 15

KOR M

Marathon

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

CYP M,H,R

49 51

FLK M

Marathon

tbc Tokushima Marathon JPN M

49 50 50

MAS M,H,R

tbc B.A.A. Boston Marathon USA M

tbc CSOB Bratislava Marathon

51 50

SVK M,H,R

tbc CAF Caracas Maratón

3 3 3

Daegu Int’l Marathon KOR M

HAJ Hannover Marathon GER M,H,R

56 58 55 53

VEN M

MEX M,H,R

50

10

Int’l Marathon Alexander the Great

UKR M,H

Marathon 10 Rhodes GRE M,R Women Run Taipei 10 Taishin TPE H,R Marathon 10 Zürich SUI M International Half 17 Bucharest Marathon and 10K ROU H,R

Marathon 17 Nagano 13 JPN M JPN M 53 Sihanoukville Int’l Half Danang Int’l Marathon 17 Marathon 20 Manulife VIE M,H,R 58 CAM H,R New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi 20 Marathon Oceans Marathon 23 Two RSA U TPE M,R 50 Sur Intl Marathon Dead Sea Ultra Marathon 24 Big 25 LG USA M,H JOR U,H,R 53 Marathon Istanbul Half Marathon 24 Enschede 27 NKolay NED M TUR H 58 Nagoya Women’s Marathon

planned date

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POL M

tbc Gifu Half Marathon JPN H

Marathon, 10km & 5km

KOR M,R

tbc Macao International 10K

tbc North Pole Marathon

URU M,H

NPO M Course not measurable to AIMS standards

tbc Padova Marathon ITA H,R

tbc Polar Circle Marathon GRN M,H

tbc NN Marathon Rotterdam NED M

tbc São Paulo Int’l Marathon BRA M,R

tbc Vienna City Marathon AUT M,H,R

38

tbc ORLEN Warsaw Marathon

58

May 2022

51

1

POL M,R

Maratón Internacional de Mendoza ARG M,H,R

50 38 56 53

1 2 8

Toronto Marathon CAN H,R

CHI M

13–15 Salzburg Marathon AUT M,H,R

56 58 55

Unicef

SUI M,H,R

City Running Day 14 Helsinki FIN M,H,R Marathon 15 Copenhagen DEN M Marathon 15 Kazan RUS M,H,R

56 56 49 49

55

29 BHU M,H

56

55 53

iWelt Marathon Wuerzburg

58

THA H,R

Thunder Dragon Marathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

KAZ H,R PAR H

tbc Athens Half Marathon GRE H,R

tbc PKO Bialystok Halfmarathon

53

POL H

49 53 55 51 55

tbc OMV Petrom Bucharest Half

Marathon

53

56

ROU H,R

tbc Dalian Int’l Marathon CHN M

49

56

tbc Diacore Gaborone Marathon

58

tbc Göteborgsvarvet Half Marathon

55

tbc Hawassa Half Marathon

53

tbc Leiden Marathon

BOT M,H,R

NED M,H,R

50

tbc Marathon Life Lima42k

51

tbc EDP Lisbon Half Marathon

55

tbc Generali Milano Marathon

49

tbc Moscow Half Marathon

49

tbc Tata Mumbai Marathon

55

tbc Odesa Nova Poshta Half

PER M,H,R POR H ITA M

RUS H,R IND M

Marathon

tbc Volkswagen Prague Marathon CZE M

49

tbc Rimi Riga Marathon

49

tbc RUNBANGLA Half Marathon

LAT M,H

BAN H,R

tbc StraLugano

June 2022

49

5 5

KLM Aruba Marathon ARU M,H,R

Brisbane Marathon Festival

56

55 55 51 56 51

50 53 49

AUS M,H,R

49 49

11–12 Supersports Laguna Phuket Marathon

58

THA M

50

55

56

SUI H,R

49

44

50

58

UKR H,R

56

49 56

SWE H

ETH H,R

Milton Keynes Marathon & Half GBR M,H,R 51 Maratón de Santiago

53

58

56

14–15 Harmony Genève Marathon for 49

Weekend

CAN M,R

tbc Pardubice Wine Half Marathon CZE H

49

29 GER M 51 Scotiabank Calgary Marathon 29 CAN M 49 Chanthaburi Scenic Half 29 Marathon

58

tbc Movistar Medio Maratón de

Madrid

56

28–29 Tamarack Ottawa Race

53

tbc Gunsan Saemangeum Int’l

53

51

22 AUT R

ASICS Austrian Women’s Run

tbc Int’l Asunción Half Marathon

ROU M,H,R

tbc Maratón de Montevideo

38

50

RWA M,H

tbc Cracovia Marathon

58

53

55

tbc Almaty Half Marathon

ESP H

9–10 37th Telekom Vivicittá Spring HUN H,R

53

tbc Wizz Air Cluj-Napoca Marathon

MAC R

14th PKO Poznan Half Marathon POL H 55 Half Marathon

50

tbc Maratón “Las Batallas de

Celaya”

51

April 2022

Nova Poshta Liberty 10 Kharkiv Marathon

50

tbc Borneo Marathon

tbc Tashkent International Half

GRE M,R

53

tbc Generali Berlin Half Marathon GER H

tbc Standard Chartered Stanley

UZB H,R

53

UAE H

56

tbc Rock ’n’ Roll DC Marathon & Half

tbc Ohme-Hochi 30km Road Race & JPN R

NOR M,H,R

tbc Ageas Federal Life Insurance

53 51

TUN H,R

Marathon 15 Pushkin RUS M,H,R Great Wall Marathon 21 The CHN M Half Marathon 21 Moonlight ITA H Hearts Marathon 21 Three SLO M,H,R International Peace 22 Kigali Marathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

tbc Fjordkraft Bergen City Marathon

tbc Ageas Federal Life Insurance

53

Int’l Marathon

tbc Kochi Ryoma Marathon

CHN M,H,R

53

55

KAZ M,H,R

49

tbc Jerusalem Marathon, Half & 10k

55

CRO H,R

tbc Almaty Marathon

tbc Chongqing International

50

53

Dubrovnik (Dubrovnik Half Marathon)

tbc Tunisia Women’s Run Int’l Half

tbc Zurich Marató de Barcelona See race preview on page 21 ESP M

tbc Techcombank Ho Chi Minh City See race feature on page 19 VIE M,H,R

58

UAE R

53

40

30–1 Du Motion-Runners’ Days

55

tbc Abu Dhabi “Yes I Can” 10km Int’l

tbc 21K Guadalajara Electrolit MEX H

POL H

56

tbc Montepio Meia Maratona de

Cascais

Warsaw Half Marathon 27 16th See race preview on page 23

50

Marathon Hamburg 24 Haspa GER M

12

Phnom Penh Int’l Half Marathon CAM H,R 49

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Continued from page 39 Airways Tórshavn 12 Atlantic Marathon FRO M,H,R

FIJ M,H,R

50

tbc Westlink M7 Blacktown Running

Festival

50

AUS M

49

August 2022

18 RSA M,H 56 6–7 Swissalpine / Swiss Irontrail Midnight Sun Marathon 18 NOR M,H SUI U 56 44 The Khmer Empire Marathon 7 Suzuki Midnight Sun Run 23 ISL H,R CAM M,H,R 49 51 McDonald’s Townsville Running hamburg halbmarathon 7 Festival 26 hella GER H 51 AUS M,H,R 49 Tangamanga Int’l 26 BMW La Ruta de las Iglesias Marathon 27 ECU R 50 MEX M 55 Stavanger Marathon tbc Almaty Half Marathon 27 NOR M,H,R 55 KAZ H,R 53 The Big Five Marathon

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

tbc PKO Bialystok Halfmarathon POL H

tbc RAHAL Mémorial Casablanca MAR R

tbc Comrades Marathon RSA U

tbc Cork City Marathon IRL M

tbc Crete Marathon GRE M,R

tbc Hvar Half Marathon

CRO H Course not measurable to AIMS standards

tbc Kaunas Marathon LTU M,H,R

tbc Lanzhou Int’l Marathon CHN M,H,R

tbc Madagascar Marathon & Half MAD M,H Course not measurable to AIMS standards

tbc Quito Últimas Noticias 15k ECU R

tbc Rio de Janeiro City Marathon BRA M

tbc Adelaide Marathon Festival

55 55 56 51 51 50 53 50 53 50 49

tbc RunFun Travel Rottnest Running

Festival

AUS M,H,R

49

tbc Lake Saroma 100km Ultra

Marathon

JPN U

tbc Spitsbergen Marathon NOR M,H,R

tbc ASICS Stockholm Marathon SWE M

tbc JCP Swansea Half Marathon GBR H

Race 10k

55

Marathon

tbc Waterford Viking Marathon IRL M,H,R

POL H

44

Gornergrat Zermatt Marathon SUI U,M,H

2–3 Gold Coast Marathon AUS M

53

COL H

RUS U,R Course not measurable to AIMS standards

tbc 10km Int’l de Dakhla MAR R

tbc Helsinki Marathon FIN M,R

tbc Helsinki Half Marathon FIN H,R

tbc Hokkaido Marathon JPN M

tbc Airtel Hyderabad Marathon IND M,H,R

tbc Kuching Marathon MAS M,H,R

tbc Abbott Longford Marathon IRL M

55 50 56 55 50 50

Int’l Half Marathon

IND H

10k

FIN M,H,R

53

tbc Photak Marathon tbc Rimi Riga Marathon tbc Rio Half Marathon BRA H SUI H,R

51

AUS M,H,R

51

7–11 Ladakh Marathon & Ultra IND M,H,R,U

37th Wizz Air Budapest Half 11 Marathon 56 49

50 56

HUN H

tbc Halfmarathon Altötting GER H,R

53 50

tbc Port of Antwerp Night Marathon BEL M

tbc Astana Marathon KAZ M,R

tbc Athens Half Marathon GRE H,R

tbc Maybank Bali Marathon INA M,H,R

tbc Bangsaen10 THA R

49

Marathon GBR M

tbc BMW Berlin-Marathon GER M

51 51 56

Marathon

tbc Buenos Aires Int’l Marathon ARG M

tbc Copenhagen Half Marathon DEN H

tbc Dam tot Damloop NED R

tbc Dhiraagu Maldives Road Race MDV R SWE H

Guadalajara

MEX H

tbc Incheon Int’l Half Marathon

51

tbc Jungfrau-Marathon

KOR H SUI M Course not measurable to AIMS standards

tbc River Kwai Int’l Half Marathon

51 50

THA H

tbc Lanzhou Int’l Marathon CHN M,H,R

tbc Maratón León Guiar MEX M,H,R

56 58

tbc EDP Lisbon Half Marathon POR H

51 50

ESP M,H

tbc Maratón Medellín

49

COL M,H,R

tbc Moscow Marathon RUS M,R

tbc BMW Oslo Maraton

51

NOR M,H,R

50

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Half Marathon 11 Krabi THA H,R 58 Volksbank-Münster-Marathon 11 GER M 51 Pushkin Marathon 15 RUS M,H,R 00 Greifenseelauf Uster 17 SUI H,R 56 Andersen Marathon 25 H.C. DEN M 50 ING Route du Vin 25 LUX H 53

tbc Petra Desert Marathon JOR M,H

tbc Pila Int’l Half Marathon POL H

55 53 56

55 53 56 58 50 55 55 56 55 55 50

UKR H,R

tbc Porto Half Marathon POR H

ISL M,H

tbc Satara Hill Half Marathon IND H,R

LTU M,H

RUS M,H,R

tbc 44th Warsaw Marathon POL M,R

tbc 40th Wroclaw Maraton

Brussels Airport Marathon & Half Marathon BEL M,H

50 50 50 53 49 53 56 55 55

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2 SVK M 56 Great Victory Run 7 EGY R 50 Royal Victoria Marathon 9 CAN M 49 Half Marathon 9 Kazan RUS H,R 56 Samsung Amman Int’l Marathon 14 JOR M,H,R 53 Int’l Thessaloniki Night Half 15 Marathon GRE H,R

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Int’l de Juarez 16 Maraton MEX M,H 55 Eva Air Marathon 23 TPE M,H,R 50 Volkswagen Ljubljana Marathon 23 SLO M 56 EDP Medio Maratón de la Mujer 23 de Madrid ESP H

56

Marathon Int’l de Sfax 23 Semi TUN H 58 KBC Dublin Marathon 30 IRL M 51 Mainova Frankfurt Marathon 30 GER M 51 Sun Moon Lake Marathon 30 TPE M,R 50 – Lucerne 30 SwissCityMarathon SUI M 56 tbc Chanthaburi Scenic Marathon

55

tbc Lausanne Marathon

THA M,H,R SUI M

50

tbc LSR Colombo Marathon

53

tbc Sarmang Dehradun Marathon

55

tbc Donga-A Ilbo Gyeongju

SRI M

IND M,H,R

Marathon

KOR M

58 56 56 51 53

58

tbc 3 Country Sparkasse Marathon

55

tbc Maratón Aguascalientes

AUT M,H

MEX M,H,R

tbc Islandsbanki Reykjavik

Marathon

AUT M,H,R

tbc Rimi Vilnius Marathon

56

tbc Poltava Nova Poshta Half

Marathon

56

Kosice Peace Marathon

tbc Pardubice Wine Half Marathon CZE H

ITA H

tbc Vienna City Marathon

2

tbc Marathon & Semi Int’l de

Marrakech

GEO H,R

tbc Maratonina Città di Udine

October 2022

49

MAR M,H

TbilisiHalfMarathon

49

tbc 20km & 10km Int’l de Marrakech

56

EST M,H,R

56

tbc HeidelbergCement

POL M

53

MAR R

CRO M,R

tbc Tallinna Maraton, Half & 10k

56

tbc EDP Rock ’n’ Roll Madrid

Maratón & 1/2

SWE H

tbc Ston Wall Marathon

tbc Galaxy Vladivostok Marathon

tbc OMV Petrom Bucharest Half ROU H,R

RUS M,H,R

tbc Stockholm Half Marathon

53

tbc Deep RiverRock Belfast City

53

September 2022 55

KAZ M,H,R

tbc Medio Maratón Atlas de

tbc SPB Half Marathon. The

Northern Capital

tbc Almaty Marathon

tbc Siberian Int’l Marathon

49

tbc Göteborgsvarvet Half Marathon

tbc Dadi Prakashmani Mount Abu

tbc Sunshine Coast Marathon

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

tbc Golden Ring Ultra Trail 100

TAN M,H,R

tbc StraLugano

56

Victoria Falls Marathon 3 Econet ZIM M 58 Airlie Beach Marathon Festival 17 AUS M,H,R 49 Australian Outback Marathon 30 AUS M 49 tbc media maratón de Bogotá

tbc CRDB Bank Marathon

LAT M,H

July 2022

2

GER H

THA M

tbc PKO Wroclaw Night Half

Marathon

tbc Generali Berlin Half Marathon

RUS H,R

56

tbc Yarche Tomsk International RUS M,H

PAR M,H,R

49

tbc Paavo Nurmi Marathon, Half and

53

tbc Telesia City Trophy Int’l Road ITA R

AUS M,H,R

tbc Maratón Int’l Asunción

Int’l WACHAUmarathon 25 24th AUT M,H

51 51

tbc TCS Amsterdam Marathon NED M

tbc ASB Auckland Marathon NZL M,H,R

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Marathon moments 10th IAAF World Half Marathon in Bristol, 2001 Michael Steele/Allsport/Getty

The debutante

In the 2003 London Marathon Paula Radcliffe reached her pinnacle of performance in breaking the world record for the women’s Marathon by such a margin that it remained unbeaten for 16 years. But it was the previous year’s race which had set her on the path to Marathon greatness.

Radcliffe had been a presence in international competition for almost a decade, after winning the Junior (under-20) category at the 1993 World Cross Country Championships. On a snowbound course in Boston she defeated Wang Junxia, who became 10,000m world record holder later that year, and Gete Wami – the 2001: Women’s 10,000m final at the 8th IAAF World Athletic Championships in Edmonton, Canada.

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Ethiopian runner whose fast finishes were to thwart Radcliffe in many top-flight contests on both track and country in the coming years.

In her first senior cross-country race, at the start of 1993, Radcliffe finished second to Olympic 10000m champion Derartu Tulu. She found that her first experience against Tulu played out repeatedly as she would contest the race strongly, often front-running, whether over country or on the track – but was usually frustrated by faster-finishing runners who would take top honours with a quick sprint finish.

The usual pattern of runners’ career progression at the time was ‘going up the distances’

from the middle to the longer track races and cross country to road races before tackling the Marathon. Before women had been officially permitted to run longer distances this had been a progression that the men had followed over the decades: Emil Zatopek, Ron Hill, Carlos Lopes and Steve Jones had all taken this journey.

The same trajectory was followed by Grete Waitz in the build-up towards the marathon becoming accepted as an Olympic distance for women.

Even before this happened Waitz had tested herself in the 1978 New York City Marathon. as a deliberate experiment in extending her athletic career. It worked, and she lowered the ‘world best time’ with her annual outings in New York from 2:32 to 2:27 to 2:25 before winning the 1983 World Championship Marathon in 1983.

Radclliffe wasn’t anywhere near the end of her career in the late 1990s but did face something of an impasse in competition as she finished 2nd, 2nd and 3rd in the World Cross Country between the years 1997–1999. In 2000 she decided to run the World Half Marathon Championships and promptly took her first world title.

She retained it the following year, finishing well clear of the opposition.

With a move to road running came a move up in distance, and Radcliffe no longer needed to worry about the last-lap kick of her former rivals, as she was routinely able to outpace them well before the finish line was reached. After achieving immediate global success at the Half Marathon it was inevitable that sooner or later she would be ready to test herself in a Marathon – and almost as inevitable that that Marathon would be London.

The 2002 London Marathon women’s race was billed as a battle between the defending cham-

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Marathon moments Leading Gete Wami at the World Cross in Ostende, 2001 Michael Steele /Allsport/Getty

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pion Deratu Tulu and Radcliffe, the ‘newcomer’ to the Marathon – although the pair had been competing against each other in cross country and on the track on and off for eight years.

Soon after the start a lead group of five, headed

by Radcliffe, opened up a gap but the chasing group got back together again after a couple of kilometres. It seemed as if Radcliffe was tempering her urge to push on ahead and instead content to keep company with the group.

She continued to lead alongside Tulu but in the 15th kilometre started to edge ahead and by 10 miles (16.1km) she had an eight-second advantage. Running without others around her seemed to act as a release as she steadily increased her lead to pass through halfway 50 seconds clear, in 1:11:04.

In a post-race interview Radcliffe said: “I felt as though I was running relaxed. The crowd was brilliant around the Cutty Sark and even better at Tower Bridge. By that stage [at halfway] I had a minute lead, so I thought I might as well push on.”

And push on she did, running the following three kilometres at 3:09 pace. Having abruptly disposed of the competition she was now eyeing the clock, and the World record set by Catherine Ndereba in Chicago six months before, of 2:18:47.

Radcliffe scaled back slightly, as if recalibrating her own internal clock, and settled into a fast but steady rhythm which carried her through the second half of the race in 1:07:52 – over three minutes faster than her first half.

New world record of 2:17:18 on October 13, 2002 in Chicago.

Jonathan Daniel/Getty

Her time of 2:18:56 was the fastest-ever recorded in a women-only race and would retrospectively become a world record when IAAF (now World Athletics) recognised a category distinction between women-only and mixed races (which allowed women to be paced by men). By the criteria of the time Radcliffe’s performance was second to Ndereba’s record: “I

London 2003 Michael Steele/Getty

wanted to set the world record,” she said, “but I’d given everything and couldn’t have gone any faster.” Not on that day perhaps, but with a more even distribution of effort it seemed highly likely that she would do so in some future race.

Six months later in Chicago, in a head-to-head with Ndereba, the two shadowed each other for much of the race, half hidden by surrounding male runners, before Radcliffe forced the pace in the latter stages to win by over two minutes and improve Ndereba’s world record time by 89 seconds to 2:17:18.

She didn’t stop there. 364 days after her debut marathon she competed again in London, this time full-on from the start: “[In] the first mile nobody seemed to want to go with us and we weren’t running that fast so I just relaxed and followed the two guys.” (these were male pacemakers who had been inserted into the race to help squeeze out the fastest possible time from Radcliffe). She ran under five minutes for the third (albeit downhill) mile and was away on her own, increasing her advantage relentlessly.

By Tower Bridge (20km) she was ahead by a minute, and those immediately behind her were over-stretching themselves as Radcliffe’s most serious rival, Ndereba, was even further adrift.

“I was just trying to stay relaxed until halfway and then just keep it going,” she said “but it was really, really tough for the last five miles (8km)”.

Despite the effort required – or perhaps because of it – Radcliffe in fact increased her pace slightly. Her time of 2:15:25 won her the race by a margin of four minutes and broke her own world record by just under two minutes.

It was a bravado performance – but presaged by her ground-breaking run of the year before, one that launched her on a second phase of her running career in which she attracted worldwide and lasting renown.

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Opinion Joyciline Jepkosgei wins the Generali Berlin Half Marathon on 22 August with a spectacular course record of 1:05:16 Photo: Petko Beier

Races in the time of covid Consulting a race calendar over the past 18 months has been a cause for increasing bewilderment, argues Hugh Jones.

Many races in the first half of last year were postponed to the second half but, as the covid pandemic ground on and a second round of postponements started, races remained thin on the ground and hard to find in anything other than virtual form.

Some did go ahead but had to be radically changed to get permission at a time when there was no vaccine available to defend against the rampant infection feared by the sanitary authorities. Race organisers drew up anti-Covid precautions and comprehensive hygiene plans to minimise the risk of infections but City administrations were busy implementing their own ‘social distancing’ measures and saw anything which gathered people together as threatening.

In a survey of races in Germany reasons behind cancellations were given as a rigid cap on the number of participants, the need to extend the start phase into smaller waves or starting blocks; the responsibility organisers had to accept for preventing spectators gathering at the start and finish area (or anywhere along the course) and the need to deploy many more race officials to manage the changed starting protocols.

In the United Kingdom race organisers faced a similar official attitude and called upon Government to review restrictions on races in line with consistent evidence of the low risk of transmission of COVID-19 at outdoor participatory sporting events.

With the vaccination programmes started from January 2021 a new hiatus set in. Races continued to be restricted to small fields until such time as a significant majority of the population

had been vaccinated. In the United Kingdom the Government deemed this achieved by 19 July – much-hyped as ‘Freedom Day’ – when many restrictions were lifted, including rules on social distancing.

Race organisers were quick to take advantage – ending months of stonewalling by local government agencies which up until then had been unwilling to shoulder responsibility for public events within their areas.

On 1 August a Half Marathon was held in London with 10,950 finishers. It seemed as if the gates had opened and runners could run in races again.

Other countries took what could be called a middle path, consulting and negotiating with the civic authorities to develop ‘hygiene concepts’ that would minimise the risk of infections.

Among these were the Midnight Sun Marathon in Norway and the Midnight Sun Run in Iceland.

Midnight Sun Marathon, Norway. 19 June 2021 Race director Nils Heatta explains “We went ahead with a limit on the number of runners to conform to the Covid-19 infection plan we adopted. We had 2310 entered for the race as the maximum, but only 1685 started.

Travel restrictions during the Covid-19 meant that we could not count on foreign runners in 2021 which inevitably meant it would be a small marathon field. Most of the locals and Norwegians run the shorter distances.

Due to the global pandemic Covid-19, the government in Norway introduced strict rules for sport events. We adopted the National Institute

of Public Health’s infection control requirements.

We followed the national guidelines to prevent infection and to ensure a safe event for all our participants and volunteers.

The event was divided into 11 “groups” with 200 per “group”. That meant we had to change the start times for the races to be able to have time enough for three distances. The Marathon start was changed from late evening to 09:00 in the morning. The Half-marathon started at 14.30 and the 10km at 19:00 in the evening.

Participants in the different groups had to be kept separate and not mixed with others. As we had a limit of 400 for the Marathon, we held two Marathon “races”. The Half marathon, with 800 runners, was divided into four “races”.

The start was organised in groups of 25 runners per start with one minute between each start.

After the last 25 runners started in the first group, we had a 10 minutes pause before we could start a new race with 200 runners.

We had to finish one distance before the next could be started. This of course took a lot of time. Runners participating did not have to be vaccinated but they had to sign a Health declaration.

Participants were very disciplined and followed our advice not to arrive too early to the start area and not to stay in the finish area after finishing the race. We created a fenced-in area that runners could only enter with a start number that showed their start time.

Runners were only required to wear masks when they picked up their start number.

All side events were cancelled. There was no prize ceremony; the winners picked up their prizes individually.

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Generali Berlin Half Marathon Photo: Tilo Wiedensohler/camera4 Below: Midnight Sun Marathon Photo: Zoltan Tot/ZT-Photography

Midnight Sun Run, Iceland, 24 June 2021

In Germany there seemed to be more variable responses from local authorities to the prospect of re-starting mass races.

We followed every rule from the authorities and had meetings with Ministry of Health, the Department of Civil Protection and Emergency management as well as City authorities before finalising how we would conduct the event.

The Generali Berlin Half Marathon, 22 August 2021

We protected participants with social distancing and infection control rules, which staff enforced as well as controlling the flow of runners and preventing them from congregating at the finish line. All staff wore masks but there was no requirement for participants to do so.

We had a small ceremony right after the first three men and women in each distance had finished – this year it was very low key.

Other countries looked ready to restart mass events because, even though the proportion of the population vaccinated was low, the incidence of covid cases was minimal. The fragility of this balance was dramatically highlighted when Australia’s Gold Coast Marathon, scheduled for 4 July, was cancelled only a few days before due to a few cases of covid emerging in Sydney – in response to which a 3-day state-wide lockdown was imposed.

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Postponed from its usual April slot into August, the Generali Berlin Half Marathon was Germany’s first major international road race since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

“There was very good cooperation with the city so that we could hold the race,” said Jürgen Lock, managing director of organizer SCC Events. Participants had to be either vaccinated, have antibodies or to provide a negative test result to participate. Spectators were advised to keep the minimum distance and to wear face masks. “This had earlier worked very well at our 10km race, the City Night,” said Lock.

A total of 15,096 athletes from 130 countries started the 40th edition of the race. 14,508 of them were half marathon runners, making this the biggest race in the world held in 2021 up until then.

Other races seem set to follow this example, having previously held smaller races on an

experimental basis such as in Vienna and Lucerne.

To date ‘Covid’ races have been those staged with special hygiene regulations including social distancing. There will be many more such races held but some race organisers, where the vaccination rate is high, are beginning to see their way through to a post-covid future.

Backing this vision, national tourism authorities in many places are seeking out races as a way of regenerating their market through ‘wellbeing’ events. Or anti-Covid races, you could say.

Lives remembered

Gloria Ratti 1931–2021

Boston Athletic Association has announced the loss of Gloria Ratti, a trailblazer, leader, and loving matriarch of the New England running community.

Gloria passed away peacefully on 24 July 2021, aged 90, surrounded by her family.

A South Boston native, Gloria (Graceffa) was involved in the BAA Boston Marathon over five decades in a variety of roles, eventually as Secretary of the B.A.A. Board of Governors.

Gloria Ratti with Bobbi Gibb and Joann Flaminio in 2016

Patriots’ Day was when Gloria shined brightest.

From sunup to sundown, she was everywhere: escorting dignitaries around the start in Hopkinton; leading the Grand Marshal towards the finish in Boston; teaching politicians how to properly place the olive wreath upon a champion’s head (“If it falls off, you’re in big trouble!”); and sharing bits of race history with newly crowned winners. Everyone felt personally connected to the Boston Marathon through Gloria.

“Gloria was the First Lady of our sport, no matter where she went,” said Guy Morse, former B.A.A. Executive Director, Boston Marathon Race Director, and a long-time colleague of hers. “Gloria cared for everyone and represented the human side of running. She strived to make the Boston Marathon a personal experience for so many and was also the moral authority that helped propel the entire organization forward.”

She began volunteering at the Boston Marathon finish line in the 1960s. It was Gloria who first instructed finish line officials to record the names and times of all finishers not just the top 100 as had been the norm. Ever since then, the marathon has kept track of all who’ve crossed the famed Boylston Street finish line.

In the 1970s Gloria stepped in to provide assistance and recognition as the women’s running movement was beginning to take shape. Her sense of loyalty to the race, running community and women runners was evident. She devised an innovative system to keep track of the women’s leaders and better showcase their talents.

Stationing officials all along the course, Gloria trained each to accurately identify and record athletes as they passed by.

Long before tracking technology became the norm Gloria established a system that would uphold the integrity and authenticity of her city’s race. It soon expanded to include the MA Governor Charlie Baker, Worknesh Degefa, and Gloria Ratti in 2019

Boston Marathon matriarch who brought running community together

by Jack Fleming for the Boston Athletic Association wheelchair division, giving the press access to race information that helped bring their stories to life.

Gloria was elected to the B.A.A. Board of Governors in 1987. In 1993 she joined the B.A.A. as a full-time employee. She fought to ensure equal prize money – beginning in 1986 when the race shifted from amateur to professional.

“The real force of her nature was commitment to excellence,” said B.A.A. President and C.E.O. Tom Grilk. “The core value that drove her was that things should be done as well as possible.”

Recognizing Gloria’s sense of history, Guy Morse got her to serve as B.A.A. archivist and historian approaching the centennial Boston Marathon in 1996, aiming to tell the event’s history through artifacts, memorabilia and its many champions. Gloria made everyone feel like the Boston Marathon was their marathon, instilling a sense of pride and ownership of the event that brought the community even closer together.

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“Gloria had terrific stamina especially during race week,” said Joann Flaminio, the first female president of the B.A.A. and a close confidant of Gloria. “She was the first to arrive and last to leave. She spread the good word of the B.A.A. and the Boston Marathon everywhere she went.”

One of Gloria’s cherished passions was spreading the organization’s heritage to others.

The “Gloria Tour” was a B.A.A. rite of passage for countless colleagues. Walking through the archives, Gloria shared stories dating back to the 1890s in vivid detail.

In 2021 Gloria was named by Runner’s World magazine as “The Women’s Running Trailblazer You’ve Never Heard Of”.

World leading times These lists give the current standings in the world of road racing, and are believed accurate at 27 September 2021. For a deeper listing and the most up-to-date times consult the AIMS World Leading Times page online at https://aims-worldrunning.org/statistics.html

Marathon World record: Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) 2:01:39, Berlin 16 SEP 2018

Men TIME

ATHLETE

NATION RANK VENUE

2:02:57 Titus EKIRU KEN 2:03:55 Reuben KIPYEGO KEN 2:04:17 Barnabas KIPTUM KEN 2:04:29 Seifu TURA ETH 2:04:30 Eliud KIPCHOGE KEN 2:04:31 Leul GEBRESILASE ETH 2:04:55 Gabriel Gerald GEAY TAN 2:04:56 Kengo SUZUKI JPN 2:05:01 Nicholas KIRWA KEN 2:05:19 Joel Kemboi KIMURER KEN 2:05:45 Guye ADOLA ETH 2:05:47 Eric KIPTANUI KEN 2:05:57 Abdi Fufa NIGASSA ETH 2:06:14 Bethwel YEGON KEN 2:06:18 Othmane EL GOUMRI MAR 2:06:26 Hidekazu HIJIKATA JPN 2:06:28 Yohanes GHEBREGERGIS ERI 2:06:32 Kebede WAMI ETH 2:06:35 Kyohei HOSOYA JPN 2:06:40 Jonathan KORIR KEN 2:06:40 Besha Yersie ESKEZIA ETH 2:06:41 Solomon Kirwa YEGO KEN 2:06:44 Elisha KIPCHIRCHIR KEN 2:06:43 Abdi KEBEBE ETH 2:06:47 Hiroto INOUE JPN 2:06:47 Limenih GETACHEW ETH 2:06:47 Kenensia BEKELE ETH 2:06:51 Yusuke OGURA JPN

1 2 3 4 1 5 6 1 7 8 1 1 2 2 3 2 4 5 3 2 9 6 10 7 4 8 3 5

DATE

Milano Milano Milano Milano Enschede Milano Milano Otsu Milano Milano Berlin Siena Siena Berlin Siena Otsu Siena Siena Otsu Enschede Milano Siena Milano Siena Otsu Siena Berlin Otsu

16 MAY 16 MAY 16 MAY 16 MAY 18 APR 16 MAY 16 MAY 28 FEB 16 MAY 16 MAY 26 SEP 11 APR 11 APR 26 SEP 11 APR 28 FEB 11 APR 11 APR 28 FEB 18 APR 16 MAY 11 APR 16 MAY 11 APR 28 FEB 11 APR 26 SEP 28 FEB

TIME

ATHLETE

2:06:52 Abel KIRUI 2:06:53 Abraham TSEGAY 2:06:59 Shumi DECHASA 2:07:11 Ghirmay GHEBRESLASSIE 2:07:12 Shuho DAIROKUNO 2:07:18 Simon KARIUKI 2:07:20 Masato KIKUCHI 2:07:23 Lucas Kimeli ROTICH 2:07:26 Kento KIKUTANI 2:07:27 Yuki KAWAUCHI 2:07:36 Kazuki MURAMOTO 2:07:40 Masaru AOKI 2:07:41 Tsubasa ICHIYAMA 2:07:41 Bethwel KIPKEMBOI 2:07:42 Masaki SAKUDA 2:07:42 Kennedy CHEBOROR 2:07:44 Maru TEFERI 2:07:50 Girme AMARE 2:07:51 Edwin KOSGEI 2:07:54 Atsumi ASHIWA 2:07:54 Godadaw BELACHEW 2:07:58 Fikire WORKNEH 2:08:00 Yuta SHIMODA 2:08:05 Ryu TAKAKU 2:08:07 Goitom KIFLE 2:08:10 Ichitaka YAMASHITA 2:08:11 Kenya SONOTA 2:08:12 Kenta UCHIDA

NATION RANK VENUE

KEN ETH BRN ERI JPN KEN JPN ETH JPN JPN JPN JPN JPN KEN JPN KEN ISR ISR KEN JPN ISR ETH JPN JPN ERI JPN JPN JPN

11 9 1 10 6 7 8 11 9 10 11 12 13 12 14 2 1 2 13 15 3 3 16 17 3 18 19 20

Milano Siena Geneva Siena Otsu Otsu Otsu Siena Otsu Otsu Otsu Otsu Otsu Siena Otsu Geneva Tiberias Tiberias Siena Otsu Tiberias Geneva Otsu Otsu Enschede Otsu Otsu Otsu

World record (mixed competition): Brigid Kosgei (KEN), 2:14:04, Chicago, 13 OCT 2019 World record (women-only race): Mary Keitany (KEN), 2:17:01, London, 23 APR 2017

Women DATE

16 MAY 11 APR 02 MAY 11 APR 28 FEB 28 FEB 28 FEB 11 APR 28 FEB 28 FEB 28 FEB 28 FEB 28 FEB 11 APR 28 FEB 02 MAY 14 MAR 14 MAR 11 APR 28 FEB 14 MAR 02 MAY 28 FEB 28 FEB 18 APR 28 FEB 28 FEB 28 FEB

TIME

ATHLETE

2:19:35 2:20:08 2:20:09 2:20:14 2:21:11 2:21:23 2:21:46 2:21:51 2:22:37 2:22:39 2:22:46 2:22:50 2:23:05 2:23:10 2:23:23 2:23:30 2:23:38 2:23:45 2:23:52 2:24:15 2:24:19 2:24:20 2:24:23 2:24:24 2:24:29 2:24:32 2:24:32 2:24:33

Hiwot GEBREKIDAN ETH Angela TANUI KEN Gotytom GEBRESLASE ETH Purity RIONORIPO KEN Mao ICHIYAMA JPN Hiwot GEBREKIDAN ETH Guteni SHONE ETH Mizuki MATSUDA JPN Lonah Chemtai SALPETER ISR Valary AIYABEI KEN Purity CHANGWONI KEN Rachael MUTGAA KEN Helen TOLA ETH Eunice CHUMBA BRN Gebiyanesh GEDAMU ETH Honami MAEDA JPN Betelhem MOGES ETH Risper CHEBET KEN Haven Hailu DESSE ETH Betty LEMPUS KEN Maureen CHEPKEMOI KEN Antonina KWAMBAI KEN Tigist MEMUYE ETH Lucy KARIMI KEN Vibian CHEPKIRUI KEN Sayaka SATO JPN Delvine Relin MERINGOR KEN Edith CHELIMO KEN

NATION RANK VENUE

1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 2 2 3 3 3 2 4 5 4 4 1 5 2 3 1 2 6 4

Milano Siena Berlin Prague Osaka Berlin Prague Nagoya Tiberias Prague Siena Milano Berlin Milano Siena Osaka Milano Milano Siena Prague Geneva Siena Geneva Geneva Vienna Nagoya Siena Berlin

DATE

16 MAY 11 APR 26 SEP 30 MAY 31 JAN 26 SEP 30 MAY 14 MAR 14 MAR 30 MAY 11 APR 16 MAY 26 SEP 16 MAY 11 APR 31 JAN 16 MAY 16 MAY 11 APR 30 MAY 02 MAY 11 APR 02 MAY 02 MAY 12 SEP 14 MAR 11 APR 26 SEP

TIME

ATHLETE

2:24:41 2:24:50 2:24:52 2:24:53 2:24:53 2:24:57 2:24:58 2:25:09 2:25:21 2:25:25 2:25:28 2:25:31 2:25:38 2:25:59 2:26:08 2:26:12 2:26:14 2:26:15 2:26:20 2:26:21 2:26:26 2:26:30 2:26:31 2:26:33 2:26:42 2:26:42 2:26:49 2:26:51

Yukari ABE Yenenesh TILAHUN Mao UESUGI Sintayehu LEWETEGN Shure DEMISE Helen Tola BEKELE Fancy CHEMUTAI Rahma TUSA Kuftu TAHIR Bethelhem MOGES Gerda STEYN Meseret DINKE Gelete BURKA Katherina STEINRUCK Aleksandra LISOWSKA Tigist ABAYECHEW Fabienne SCHLUMPF Ayumi HAGIWARA Mulu GADISE Letebrhan GEBRESLASEA Natsumi MATSUSHITA Mirai WAKU Fabienne SCHLUMPF Gladys Jepkurui BIWOTT Mirai WAKU Sara MOREIRA Hanae TANAKA Yomogi AKASAKA

NATION RANK VENUE

JPN ETH JPN ETH ETH ETH KEN ETH ETH ETH RSA ETH ETH GER POL ETH SUI JPN ETH ETH JPN JPN SUI KEN JPN POR JPN JPN

3 6 4 7 5 1 6 7 8 1 9 2 3 1 1 5 2 5 1 2 3 4 4 10 6 2 5 6

Osaka Milano Osaka Milano Berlin Belp Berlin Siena Siena Izmir Siena Vienna Vienna Enschede Debno Prague Belp Osaka Hamburg Izmir Nagoya Nagoya Vienna Siena Osaka Enschede Nagoya Nagoya

DATE

31 JAN 16 MAY 31 JAN 16 MAY 26 SEP 03 APR 26 SEP 11 APR 11 APR 11 APR 11 APR 12 SEP 12 SEP 18 APR 18 APR 30 MAY 03 APR 31 JAN 12 SEP 11 APR 14 MAR 14 MAR 12 SEP 11 APR 31 JAN 18 APR 14 MAR 14 MAR

Half Marathon World record: Kibiwott Kandie (KEN) 57:32, Valencia 06 DEC 2020

Men TIME

ATHLETE

NATION RANK VENUE

58:44 58:57 59:10 59:12 59:19 59:20 59:25 59:34 59:35 59:35 59:38 59:40 59:42 59:44

Abel KIPCHUMBA KEN Felix KOIPKOECH KEN Amdework WALALEGNE ETH Kennth RENJU KEN Victor KIPCHIRCHIR KEN Alexander MUTISO KEN Daniel MATEIKO KEN Amos Kurgat Kibiwot KEN KIPKOECH KEN Kibiwott KANDIE KEN Geoffrey KAMWOROR KEN Josphat TANUI KEN Moses KIBET KEN Hillary KIPKOECH KEN

1 1 1 2 1 2 3 3 1 1 2 2 1 2

DATE

Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Berlin 22 AUG Copenhagen 19 SEP Copenhagen 19 SEP Padova 26 SEP Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Copenhagen 19 SEP Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Siena 28 FEB Istanbul 04 APR Istanbul 04 APR Berlin 22 AUG Paris 05 SEP Paris 05 SEP

TIME

59:46 59:46 59:47 59:48 59:54 59:59 1:00:00 1:00:02 1:00:07 1:00:07 1:00:07 1:00:08 1:00:12 1:00:16

ATHLETE

NATION RANK VENUE

Roncer KIPKORIR KEN Abe TILAHUN ETH David NGURE KEN Amdework WALELEGN ETH Philemon KIPLIMO KEN Leonard BARSOSTON KEN Raymond MAGUT KEN Stephen KISSA UGA Alex KIBET KEN Eyob FANIEL ITA Zerei KBROM NOR Phenus KIPLETING KEN Patrick Mathenge WAMBUI JPN Raymond MAGUT KEN

3 4 2 4 3 5 4 6 2 3 5 5 1 4

World record (mixed race): Abebel Yeshaneh (ETH) 1:04:31, Ras Al Khaimah 21 FEB 2020 World record (pending ratification): Ruth Chepngetich (KEN) 1:04:02, Istanbul 04 APR 2021 World record (women-only race): Peres Jepchirchir (KEN) 1:05:16, Gdynia 17 OCT 2020

Women DATE

Istanbul 04 APR Copenhagen 19 SEP Padova 26 SEP Istanbul 04 APR Berlin 22 AUG Istanbul 04 APR Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Istanbul 04 APR Siena 28 FEB Siena 28 FEB Copenhagen 19 SEP Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Yamaguchi 14 FEB Berlin 22 AUG

TIME

ATHLETE

1:04:02 1:04:40 1:04:51 1:05:08 1:05:09 1:05:16 1:05:21 1:05:41 1:05:46 1:06:07 1:06:25 1:06:01 1:06:47 1:06:52

Ruth CHEPNGETICH Yelamzerf YEHUALAW Hellen OBIRI Tsehay GEMECHU Joan Chelimo MELLY Joyciline JEPKOSGEI Nancy METO Hawi FEYSA Betty Wilson LEMPUS Vivian KIPLAGAT Judith JEPTUM Brigid KOSGEI Hiwot GEBREKIDAN Brenda JEPLETING

NATION RANK VENUE

KEN ETH KEN ETH KEN KEN KEN ETH KEN KEN KEN KEN ETH KEN

1 2 3 1 4 1 2 2 1 3 1 5 6 1

DATE

Istanbul 04 APR Istanbul 04 APR Istanbul 04 APR Copenhagen 19 SEP Istanbul 04 APR Berlin 22 AUG Berlin 22 AUG Copenhagen 19 SEP Paris 05 SEP Copenhagen 19 SEP Lugano 29 AUG Istanbul 04 APR Istanbul 04 APR Herzogenaurach 12 SEP

TIME

1:06:54 1:07:09 1:07:31 1:07:32 1:07:33 1:07:33 1:07:42 1:07:45 1:07:48 1:08:04 1:08:05 1:08:15 1:08:15 1:08:27

ATHLETE

Bekelech GUDETA Lonah Chemtai SALPETER Alia Saeed MOHAMMED Valary Aiyabei Melat KEJETA Brillian KIPKOECH Hellen OBIRI Stella RUTTO Elish MCCOLGAN Alemaddis EYAYU Nigsti Haftu Besu SADO Beyenu DEGEFA Fabienne SCHLUMPF

10km Men

TIME

ATHLETE

26:43 26:56 27:09 27:22 27:24 27:27

Rhonex KIPRUTO Tadese WORKU Kennedy KIMUTAI Nicholas KIMELI Bayelign TESHAGER Collins KOROS

World record: Rhonex Kipruto (KEN) 26:24, Valencia 12 JAN 2020 NATION RANK VENUE

KEN ETH KEN KEN ETH KEN

1 2 3 4 5 6

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30:01 30:17 30:33 30:50 30:50 30:52 31:09 31:22 31:28 31:33 31:38

Agnes TIROP Sheila CHEPKIRUI Eva CHERONO Mary WACERA Nancy JELAGAT Elish MCCOLGAN Betty CHEPKEMOI Dorcas KIMELI Tadu TESHOME Sara HALL Miriam DATTKE

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TIME

ATHLETE

27:40 27:50 27:50 27:59 28:00

Weldon LANGAT Daniel EBENYO Mogos TUEMAY Hailemaryam KIROS Samuel FITWI

NATION RANK VENUE

KEN KEN ETH ETH GER

7 1 8 1 2

DATE

Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Berlin 07 MAR Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Chemnitz 15 MAY Berlin 07 MAR

World record: Joyciline Jepkosgei (KEN) 29:43; Prague, 09 SEP 2017 World Record (women-only race, pending ratification); Agnes Tirop (KEN) 30:01, Herzogenaurach, 12 SEP 2021

Women TIME

DATE

Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Herzogenaurach 12 SEP

NATION RANK VENUE

KEN KEN KEN KEN KEN GBR KEN KEN ETH USA GER

1 2 1 1 3 1 4 5 1 1 1

DATE

Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Lens (FRA) 04 JUL Middlesbrough 31 MAY Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Manchester 26 SEP Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Cape Town 04 SEP New York 12 JUN Berlin 07 MAR

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31:39 31:41 31:44 31:47 31:49 31:49 31:50 31:52 31:53 31:55 31:59

Violah CHEPTOO HALL Meraf BAHTA Mekdes WOLDU Addisie MISLENEW Emily DURGIN Lisa WEIGHTMAN Nell ROJAS Sharon LOKEDI Annie FRISBIE Katharina STEINRUCK

NATION RANK VENUE

KEN USA SWE ERI ETH USA AUS USA KEN USA GER

2 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 3 1

DATE

New York 12 JUN Atlanta 04 JUL Manchester 26 SEP Angers 24 APR Lens (FRA) 04 JUL Atlanta 04 JUL Brighton (AUS) 28 FEB Charleston 25 SEP Charleston 25 SEP Charleston 25 SEP Dresden 21 MAR

Agnes Jebet Tirop (R) of Kenya wins the ADIZERO: Road to Records Women’s 10km in 30:01 at adidas HQ on September 12, 2021 in Herzogenaurach, Germany.

She broke the women-only world record by 29 seconds.

Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images for adidas

NATION RANK VENUE

ETH ISR UAE KEN GER KEN KEN KEN GBR ETH ETH ETH ETH SUI

7 1 8 3 9 1 1 1 2 2 4 2 4 1

DATE

Istanbul 04 APR Siena 28 FEB Istanbul 04 APR Berlin 22 AUG Istanbul 04 APR Gqeberha, RSA 01 MAY Newcastle 12 SEP Trabzon 21 FEB Newcastle 12 SEP Gqeberha, RSA 01 MAY Berlin 22 AUG Herzogenaurach 12 SEP Copenhagen 19 SEP Dresden 21 MAR

Race contact details Race Directors: Send updated race contact details to update@aims-worldrunning.org * Associate member

ALGERIA Semi Marathon Int’l de la Ville de Béjaia Oct Haddad Fatsah E: f.haddad@ semimarathonbejaia.com W: www.semimarathondebejaia.com fb: m.facebook.com/ semimarathondebejaia Sahara Marathon FeB James E. B. Carney E: saharamarathon@aol.com W: www.saharamarathon.org fb: facebook.com/saharamarathonorg Course not measurable to AIMS standards

ANGOLA São Silvestre de Luanda 10km Dec Carlos Rosa de Souza E: crabreluz@gmail.com W: www.saosilvestreangola.co.ao fb: facebook.com/saosilvestreangola

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Brisbane Marathon Festival Jun Jason Crowther E: info@atlasmultisports.com.au W: www.brisbanemarathon.com.au fb: facebook.com/brisbanemarathon gold coast Marathon JuL Cameron Hart E: info@goldcoastmarathon. com.au W: www.goldcoastmarathon.com.au fb: facebook.com/gcmarathon nike Melbourne Marathon Festival Oct

ANTARCTICA Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k Richard Donovan E: rd@npmarathon.com W: www.icemarathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/ AntarcticIceMarathon

Australian Outback Marathon JuL Michael Walton E: sales@australianoutbackmarathon. com W: www.australianoutbackmarathon. com fb: www.facebook.com/ outbackmarathon

Dec

Antarctica Marathon & Half MAr Thom Gilligan E: info@marathontours.com W: www.antarcticamarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ AntarcticaMarathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

ARGENTINA Buenos Aires Int’l Marathon Sep Luis Vinker E: info@maratondebuenosaires. com W: www.maratondebuenosaires.com fb: facebook.com/ maratonbuenosaires Maratón Internacional de Mendoza MAy

Enrique Eiras E: e@maratondemendoza.com W: www.maratondemendoza.com fb: facebook.com/ MaratondeMendoza/

ARMENIA yerevan Marathon and Half Marathon Oct Anahit Adamyan E: anahit.adamyan@ armeniamarathon.org W: www.armeniamarathon.org fb: facebook.com/Yerevanmarathon/

Marcus Gale E: enquiries@ melbournemarathon.com.au W: www.melbournemarathon.com.au fb: facebook.com/ melbournemarathonfestival runFun travel rottnest running Jun Festival Raymond Lampard E: wamc@wamc.org.au W: www.wamc.org.au fb: bit.ly/2pbsPuK Sunshine coast Marathon Aug Jason Crowther E: jason@atlasmultisports.com.au W: www.sunshinecoastmarathon. com.au fb: facebook.com/ SunshineCoastMarathon McDonald’s townsville running Aug Festival Joel Savage E: info@townsvillerunningfestival. com W: www.townsvillerunningfestival. com fb: facebook.com/townsvillerunningfest Westlink M7 Blacktown running JuL Festival Tanya Bigeni E: events.team@blacktown. nsw.gov.au W: www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/ runningfestival fb: facebook.com/ BlacktownCityCouncil

AUSTRIA ARUBA KLM Aruba Marathon Jun Kees van Muiswinkel E: info@arubainternationalmarathon. com W: www.arubainternationalmarathon. com fb: facebook.com/MarathonAruba

3 country Sparkasse Marathon Günter Ernst E: info@sparkasse-3laender-marathon.at W: www.sparkasse-3-laendermarathon.at fb: facebook.com/ Sparkasse3LaenderMarathon

Oct

Adelaide Marathon Festival Aug Jeremy Zieseniss E: events@sarrc.asn.au W: www.adelaidemarathon.com.au fb: facebook.com/ SARoadRunnersClub

ASIcS Austrian Women’s run Oct Ilse Dippmann, Andreas Schnabl E: office@oesterreichischerfrauenlauf.at W: www.austrianwomensrun.com/en fb: www.facebook.com/ OesterreichischerFrauenlauf/

Airlie Beach Marathon Festival JuL Tim McQuoid-Mason E: president@ whitsundayrunningclub.com.au W: www.runairlie.com.au fb: facebook.com/runairlie

Salzburg Marathon MAy Johannes Langer E: office@salzburg-marathon.at W: www.salzburg-marathon.at fb: www.facebook.com/salzburg. marathon

AUSTRALIA

Vienna city Marathon Sep Wolfgang Konrad E: office@vienna-marathon.com W: www.vienna-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/vienna.city. marathon Int’l WAcHAumarathon Sep Michael Buchleitner E: office@wachaumarathon.com W: www.wachaumarathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/ wachaumarathon

BAHAMAS Marathon Bahamas, Half & relayJAn Pamela Richardson E: info@marathonbahamas.com W: www.marathonbahamas.com fb: www.facebook.com/marathon242

BANGLADESH Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Dhaka JAn Marathon Sabik Rahman E: sabikrahman@ networld-bd.com W: www.dhakamarathon.com.bd *runBAngLA Int’l 10K Jon Michael Boka E: jon@run-bangla.com W: www.Run-Bangla.com fb: facebook.com/ RunBanglaInternational

MAr

Dhaka Half Marathon FeB Afnan Ahmad E: dhakahalfmarathon@gmail.com W: www.dhakahalfmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/DhakaHalf/ runBAngLA Half Marathon Jon Michael Boka E: jon@run-bangla.com W: www.Run-Bangla.com fb: facebook.com/ RunBanglaInternational

nOV

BOTSWANA Diacore gaborone Marathon MAy Danny Blumberg E: info@ diacoregaboronemarathon.com W: www.diacoregaboronemarathon. com fb: facebook.com/ Diacoregaboronemarathon

BRAZIL rio de Janeiro city Marathon Joao Traven E: maratonadorio@ maratonadorio.com.br W: www.maratonadorio.com.br fb: www.facebook.com/ maratonadoriodejaneiro rio Half Marathon Thadeus Gilberto Kassabian E: tgk@yescom.com.br W: www.riohalfmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/meiadorio/

Oct

Aug

São paulo Int’l Marathon Apr Thadeus Gilberto Kassabian E: tgk@yescom.com.br W: www.saopaulomarathonbrazil.com fb: facebook.com/ maratonadesaopaulo/

BULGARIA Wizz Air Sofia Marathon Daniel Hristov Dukov E: ddukov@abv.bg W: www.marathonsofia.com

Oct

BARBADOS

BELGIUM Sep

Brussels Airport Marathon & Half Oct Marathon Thomas Huyberechts E: info@golazo.com W: www.brusselsairportmarathon.be/ en/ fb: facebook.com/brusselsmarathon Linker Oevert Marathon AntwerpnOV Kid Van Thienen E: kvth@telenet.be W: www.linkeroevertmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/ZPKj2k

BHUTAN thunder Dragon Marathon MAy Mike Gratton E: mike@209events.com W: www.thunderdragonmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ thunderdragonmarathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Angkor Wat Int’l Half Marathon Dec Sem Phalla E: direct@cambodia-events.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.cambodia-events.org fb: facebook.com/ angkorwathalfmarathon the Khmer empire Marathon Aug Sem Phalla E: direct@cambodia-events.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.cambodia-events.org fb: facebook.com/ khmerempiremarathon phnom penh Int’l Half Marathon Jun Sem Phalla E: direct@cambodia-events.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.cambodia-events.org fb: facebook.com/ cambodiaamazingevents/ Sihanoukville Int’l Half MarathonApr Sem Phalla E: direct@cambodia-events.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.cambodia-events.org fb: facebook.com/ sihanoukvillemarathon

CANADA Scotiabank calgary Marathon Jon Bird E: racedirector@ calgarymarathon.com W: www.calgarymarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyk7c

tamarack Ottawa race Weekend Ian Fraser E: questions@runottawa.ca W: www.runottawa.ca fb: www.facebook.com/ OttawaMarathon

MAy

Beneva Quebec city Marathon Patrice Gagnon E: info@jecoursqc.com W: jecoursqc.com fb: facebook.com/jecoursqc

Oct

toronto Marathon Jay Glassman E: info@torontomarathon.com W: www.torontomarathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/ torontomarathon

MAy

Scotiabank toronto Waterfront Marathon & Half Marathon & 5k Oct Alan Brookes E: info@canadarunningseries.com W: www.torontowaterfrontmarathon. com fb: facebook.com/TOwaterfront42k/ royal Victoria Marathon Oct Cathy Noel E: info@runvictoriamarathon.com W: www.runvictoriamarathon.com fb: facebook.com/Victoria.Marathon/

CAYMAN ISLANDS Walkers cayman Islands Marathon Dec

Rhonda Kelly E: info@caymanislandsmarathon. com W: www.caymanislandsmarathon. com fb: facebook.com/CaymanMarathon

CHILE

CAMBODIA

cave Shepherd & co run Barbados Dec Marathon Weekend Zary Evelyn E: runbarbados@gmail.com W: www.runbarbados.org fb: facebook.com/ RunBarbadosSeries/

port of Antwerp night Marathon Thomas Huyberechts E: info@golazo.com W: www.antwerpmarathon.be fb: www.facebook.com/ antwerpmarathon

BOSNIA Banja Luka Marathon Oct Vladimir Selec E: banjalukamaraton@gmail.com W: www.banjalukamarathon.com fb: facebook.com/BLMARATHON

Sep

Maratón de Santiago Fernando Jamarne E: fjamarne@alessandri.cl W: www.maratondesantiago.com fb: www.facebook.com/ maratondesantiago

MAy

Volcano Marathon nOV Richard Donovan E: npmarathon@gmail.com W: www.volcanomarathon.com fb: facebook.com/thevolcanomarathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

CHINA changsha Marathon Ren Longxiang E: lijiazhuo9@vip.qq.com W: www.marathonchangsha.com

Oct

chengdu Marathon Oct Liu Yue E: liuyue98@wanda.cn W: chengdu-marathon.mararun.com/ chongqing Int’l Marathon Guo Liya E: 569065820@qq.com W: www.cqmarathon.com Dalian Int’l Marathon Sun Xinsheng E: kouzhengjie@sina.com W: www.dlmls.org

MAr

MAy

the great Wall Marathon Sep Dave Cundy E: gwm_booking@263.net.cn W: www.great-wall-marathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/ greatwallmarathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

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Great Hakka Marathon Nov Dave Cundy E: great-hakka-marathon@263.net W: www.great-hakka-marathon.com Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Hangzhou Marathon Nov Long Jiang E: marathon@hzim.org W: www.hzim.org fb: facebook.com/hangzhou. marathon Hengshui Lake Int’l Marathon Oct Ping Rongfeng E: hsmarathon@163.com W: www.hengshuilakemarathon.com Lanzhou Int’l Marathon Wang Zhengxuan E: Lzmarathon@sina.cn W: www.lzmarathon.com

Jun

Shanghai Int’l Marathon Nov Jenny Zhou E: general@shmarathon.com W: www.shang-ma.com Wuxi Marathon Tianwen Hu E: tianwen@ihuipao.com W: www.wuximarathon.com

Mar

Xiamen Marathon Jan Ruan Dunliang E: xmmarathon@xmim. org,ealin_zhuo@126.com W: www.xmim.org/homes/static/ home.html?locale=en fb: facebook.com/xiamenmarathon

Chinese Taipei *Eva Air Marathon Sunny Chen E: wayne@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw Kaohsiung Int’l Marathon Huang Yu E: khmskhms@kcg.gov.tw W: www.khm.com.tw fb: facebook.com/khmarathon/ Kinmen Marathon Sunny Chen E: wayne@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw

Oct

Jan

Taichung Int’l Marathon Nov Chen Ching Lung E: fuludun@gmail.com W: lohasnet.tw/Floraexpo20190224

Taipei Marathon Sunny Chen E: wayne@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw Taipei Freeway Marathon Sunny Chen E: wayne@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw

50

Ston Wall Marathon Sep Zeljko Konosic E: stonwallmarathon@gmail.com W: www.ston-wall-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/StonWallMarathon

Taishin Women Run Taipei Sunny Chen E: wayne@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw

Marabana Marathon & Half Nov Carlos R. Gattorno Correa E: gattorno.marabana@gmail.com W: www.maratondelahabana.com fb: bit.ly/2z4m0Fu

Oct

Dec

Apr

Taiwan’s Rice Heaven Tianzhong Marathon Nov Cheng Tsung-Cheng E: study.ses@gmail.com W: www.tianzhongmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/520marathon New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon Nov Ching-Cheng Wang E: tpe@mf.worldathletics.org W: www.wanjinshi-marathon.com.tw fb: on.fb.me/1bWyj3d Zengwen Reservoir Marathon Wang, Ching-Cheng E: tpe@mf.worldathletics.org W: www.athletics.org.tw fb: bit.ly/2rRvU6G

Dec

Colombia

Maratón Medellín Sep Gustavo Orozco Posada E: direccion@ maratonmedellin.com W: www.maratonmedellin.co fb: facebook.com/maratonmedellin

Costa Rica Maraton Cartago Rodolfo Villalobos E: rvillalobos@ grupopublicitariocr.net W: www.grupopublicitariocr.net fb: bit.ly/2UL3AyJ

Oct

Croatia Du Motion-Runners’ Days Dubrovnik (Dubrovnik Half Marathon) Apr Alen Bošković E: alen.boskovic@du-motion.com W: www.du-motion.com/en/home/ fb: facebook.com/dumotion Jun

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Oct

Split Marathon Kristijan Sindik E: info@splitmarathon.com W: www.splitmarathon.com fb: web.facebook.com/ splithalfmarathon/

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Varadero Marathon and Half Marathon Mar Juan Pedro Pineda de la Losa E: info@varadero-marathon.com W: varadero-marathon.com

Curaçao KLM Curaçao Marathon Nov Kees van Muiswinkel E: kees@curacaomarathon.com W: www.curacaomarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ klmcuracaomarathon Logicom Cyprus Marathon Stavros Kakourides E: run@cyprusmarathon.com W: www.cyprusmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ CyprusMarathonOfficial

Dec

Radisson Blu Larnaka Int’l Marathon Nov Costas Daltas E: info@larnakamarathon.com W: larnakamarathon.com fb: bit.ly/2N9jBeH OPAP Limassol Marathon GSO Nov Spyros Spyrou E: info@limassolmarathon.com W: www.limassolmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/limassolmarathon/ Quantum Nicosia Marathon Dec Costas Patinios, Evangelos Papapostolou E: info@nicosiamarathon.com W: www.nicosiamarathon.com fb: facebook.com/nicosiamarathon

Czech Republic

San José Costa Rica Half & Marathon Dec Guillermo Sáenz E: marathoncostarica@gmail.com W: www.marathoncostarica.com fb: bit.ly/3fXnp2Q

Hvar Half Marathon Boris Reinic E: info@hvarmarathon.com W: www.hvarmarathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/ HvarHalfMarathon

Cuba

Cyprus

media maratón de Bogotá Jul Martha Santos E: msantos@ correcaminoscolombia.com W: www.mediamaratonbogota.com fb: facebook.com/ mediamaratonbogota/

Jan

Sun Moon Lake Marathon Oct Jerry Chen E: sunmoonlake.marathon@ gmail.com W: www.sunmoonlakemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ sunmoonlakemarathon/

Tainan Half Marathon Wang Ching-Cheng E: tpe@mf.worldathletics.org fb: facebook.com/ tainanhalfmarathon/

Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon Feb Sunny Chen E: wayne@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw fb: facebook.com/ scbmarathon?fref=ts

Sep

Pardubice Wine Half Marathon Sep Oldřich Bujnoch E: oldrichbujnoch@seznam.cz W: www. pardubickyvinarskypulmaraton.cz fb: on.fb.me/1HWsAYy Volkswagen Prague Marathon Carlo Capalbo E: info@runczech.com W: www.runczech.com fb: facebook.com/runczech

Oct

Denmark H.C. Andersen Marathon Erik J. Mogensen E: info@hcamarathon.dk W: hcamarathon.dk/-1 fb: facebook.com/hcamarathon

Sep

Quito Últimas Noticias 15k Jun Pablo Gonzalez Peña E: pabloarturogonzalez@ gmail.com W: www.quitoultimasnoticias15k.ec fb: facebook.com/UN15K La Ruta de las Iglesias Aug Samia Solah, Nina Solah E: samia@tventasec.com, nsolah@tventasec.com W: www.rutadelasiglesias.com fb: www.facebook.com/rutaiglesias

Egypt 29th Egyptian Marathon Gasser Riad E: Info@egyptianmarathon.net W: www.egyptianmarathon.com fb: bit.ly/2zZkuod *Great Egyptian River Nile Marathon Ahmed S Elnady E: bestegyrunners@gmail.com W: http://egypt42k.com Great Victory Run Ahmed El-Nady E: egyrunners@gmail.com W: http://egypt10k.com fb: bit.ly/3haHDXt

Jan

Feb

Sep

Helsinki City Running Day Harri Hänninen E: maraton@sul.fi W: www.helsinkicityrunningday.fi fb: facebook.com/helsinkicityrun

Oct

Helsinki Half Marathon Aug Tapani Virtanen E: info@helsinkihalfmarathon.fi W: www.helsinkihalfmarathon.fi fb: facebook.com/helsinkihalfmarathon Helsinki Marathon Aug Tapani Virtanen E: info@helsinkimarathon.fi W: www.helsinkimarathon.fi fb: facebook.com/helsinkimarathon/ Paavo Nurmi Marathon, Half and 10k Aug Kari Ahonen E: info@paavonurmisports.fi W: www.paavonurmimarathon.fi fb: on.fb.me/1SlsUaQ

France Oct

100km Pharaonic Race Nov Gasser Riad E: info@egyptianmarathon.net W: www.egyptianmarathon.net fb: bit.ly/2zZkuod

Estonia Tallinna Maraton, Half & 10k Sep Mati Lilliallik E: info@tallinnmarathon.ee W: www.tallinnamaraton.ee fb: facebook.com/TallinnaMaraton/ Tartu City Marathon Indrek Kelk E: kristina@tartumaraton.ee W: www.tartumaraton.ee fb: facebook.com/tartumaraton

Fiji Island Chill Suva Marathon Jul Brian Hennessy E: president@suvamarathon.org W: www.suvamarathon.org fb: facebook.com/suvamarathon/

Finland

Ecuador

Oct

Ethiopia Great Ethiopian Run 10km Nov Dagmawit Amare E: dagmawit@ethiopianrun.org W: www.ethiopianrun.org fb: www.facebook.com/ GreatEthiopianRun Hawassa Half Marathon May Ermias Ayele E: ermias@ethiopianrun.org W: www.ethiopianrun.org fb: facebook.com/GreatEthiopianRun

Falkland Islands

Copenhagen Marathon May Dorte Vibjerg E: sparta@sparta.dk W: www.copenhagenmarathon.dk fb: facebook.com/cphmarathon Copenhagen Half Marathon Dorte Vibjerg E: sparta@sparta.dk W: cphhalf.dk fb: facebook.com/cphhalf

Dominican Republic Maratón Monumental Primer Santiago de América Nov Emilio Martínez E: maratonmonumental@gmail.com W: www.maratonsantiago.com.do fb: facebook.com/maratonsantiagord

Standard Chartered Stanley Marathon Mar Sarfraz Rao E: bank.info@sc.com W: www.standardchartered.com/fk/ events/marathon

Faroe Islands Atlantic Airways Tórshavn Marathon Sep Katrin Thorsvig Hansen E: bragdid@bragdid.fo W: www.torshavnmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/torshavnmaraton/

French Riviera Marathon Nice-Cannes Nov Hugues Lelievre E: communication@azur-sport.org W: www.frenchrivieramarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWymMt Schneider Electric Marathon de Oct Paris Edouard Cassignol E: parismarathon@aso.fr W: www. schneiderelectricparismarathon.com fb: facebook.com/parismarathon Serge Vigot La Rochelle Int’l Marathon Nov Mauny Nicolas E: info@marathondelarochelle.com W: marathondelarochelle.com fb: facebook.com/marathonLR

Georgia HeidelbergCement TbilisiHalfMarathon Peter Gottwald E: info@tbilisimarathon.ge W: www.tbilisimarathon.ge fb: facebook.com/Tbilisimarathon

Sep

Germany Halfmarathon Altötting Guenther Vogl E: halbmarathon@gmx.de W: www.halbmarathon.de fb: bit.ly/2DtxBhf

Sep

Generali Berlin Half Marathon Apr Mark Milde W: www.generali-berlinerhalbmarathon.de fb: facebook.com/berlinerhalbmarathon BMW Berlin-Marathon Sep Mark Milde W: www.bmw-berlin-marathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/berlinmarathon Generali Cologne Marathon Oct Markus Frisch E: info@koeln-marathon.de W: koeln-marathon.de/en/ fb: www.facebook.com/koelnmarathon

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Mainova Frankfurt Marathon Oct Jo Schindler E: mail@frankfurt-marathon.com W: www.frankfurt-marathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/ffmmarathon Haspa Marathon Hamburg Apr Frank Thaleiser E: service@marathonhamburg.de W: www.haspa-marathon-hamburg.de fb: facebook.com/ haspamarathonhamburg hella hamburg halbmarathon Jun Karsten Schölermann E: info@hamburghalbmarathon.de W: www.hamburg-halbmarathon.de fb: facebook.com/ events/477005246176233/ HAJ Hannover Marathon Stefanie Eichel E: kontakt@marathonhannover.de W: www.marathon-hannover.de fb: www.facebook.com/ MarathonHannover

Apr

generali München Marathon Oct Gernot Weigl E: run@generalimuenchenmarathon.de W: www.generalimuenchenmarathon. de fb: facebook.com/ generalimuenchenmarathon Volksbank-Münster-Marathon Michael Brinkmann E: info@volksbankmuenster-marathon.de W: www.volksbank-muenstermarathon.de fb: on.fb.me/1bWylIv

Sep

Athens Marathon the Authentic nOV Evangelos Papapostolou E: info@athensauthenticmarathon.gr W: www.athensauthenticmarathon.gr fb: www.facebook.com/ athensclassicmarathon Athens Half Marathon Evangelos Papapostolou E: info@athinahalfmarathon.gr W: www.athinahalfmarathon.gr fb: bit.ly/2bvGYfV crete Marathon Giorgos Alogdianakis E: headquarters@ crete-marathon.gr W: crete-marathon.gr fb: facebook.com/cretemarathon/ nafplio Marathon Evangelos Papapostolou E: info@nafpliomarathon.gr W: www.nafpliomarathon.gr fb: facebook.com/ NafplioMarathonGR/ rhodes Marathon Nikolaos Polias E: info@rhodesmarathon.gr W: www.rhodesmarathon.gr fb: facebook.com/roads2rhodes Int’l thessaloniki night Half Marathon Drosos Christopoulos E: info@thesshalfmarathon.org W: www.thesshalfmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/1bWynjE

Sep

Jun

MAy

Apr

Deep riverrock Belfast city Marathon Sep Claire O’Neill E: info@belfastcitymarathon.org W: www.belfastcitymarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWynjv Baxters Loch ness Marathon & Festival of running Oct Malcolm Sutherland E: info@lochnessmarathon.com W: www.lochnessmarathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/ lochnessmarathon Milton Keynes Marathon & Half MAy Andrew Hully E: run@miltonkeynesmarathon. co.uk W: www.mkmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ MiltonKeynesMarathon Jcp Swansea Half Marathon Jun David Martin-Jewell E: david@frontrunnerevents.co.uk W: swanseahalfmarathon.co.uk fb: facebook.com/SwanseaHalf

GREECE Int’l Marathon Alexander the great Sep

Drosos Christopoulos E: info@atgm.gr, info@ alexanderthegreatmarathon.org W: atgm.gr/?lang=en fb: on.fb.me/1bWylYY

Oct

Suzuki Midnight Sun run Hrefna Hlín Sveinbjörnsdóttir E: marathon@marathon.is W: midnightrun.is fb: facebook.com/midnightrunis

Apr

Jun

Sep

Hrefna Hlin Sveinbjornsdottir E: marathon@marathon.is W: www.rmi.is/en/ fb: facebook.com/ Reykjavikurmarathon

Maratón del Atlántico Dec Sergio Erick Guevara Pinto E: Sergio.guevara@yandex.com W: maratondelatlantico.run fb: facebook.com/ MaratonDelAtlantico

HONG KONG, CHINA gammon china coast Marathon & JAn Half David Smith E: chinacoast@avohk.org W: www.avohk.org Standard chartered Hong Kong Oct Marathon William Ko E: inquiry@hkaaa.com W: www.hkmarathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/hkmarathon Mizuno Hong Kong Half-Marathon Dec championships Alan Wong Kim Lun E: inquiry@hkaaa.com W: www.hkaaa.com fb: facebook.com/ilovehkaaa Dec

INDIA Adani Ahmedabad Marathon Styam Trivedi E: Satyam.trivedi@adani.com W: www.ahmedabadmarathon.com tcS World 10K Bengaluru Hugh Jones E: tcsworld10k@procam.in W: tcsworld10k.procam.in fb: facebook.com/tcsw10k

nOV

MAy

Bengaluru Midnight Marathon Dec Gul Mohamed Akbar E: rungulrun@gmail.com W: midnightmarathon.in fb: facebook.com/midnightmarathon.in Shriram properties Bengaluru Marathon Nagaraj Adiga E: contact@nebsports.in W: www.bengalurumarathon.in fb: facebook.com/ marathonbengaluru/ *Sarmang Dehradun Marathon Anil Mohan E: marathon@sarmang.com W: sarmangdehradunmarathon. sarmang.com fb: facebook.com/ sarmangDehradunMarathon

Airtel Hyderabad Marathon Aug Prashant Morparia E: info@marathonhyderabad.com W: www.airtelhyderabadmarathon. com Au Bank Jaipur Marathon FeB Mukesh Mishra E: jaipurmarathon@gmail.com W: www.marathonjaipur.com fb: facebook.com/jaipurmarathon/ tata Steel Kolkata 25k Hugh Jones E: tsk25@procam.in, aimssec@aol.com W: tsk25.procamrunning.in fb: facebook.com/TSKolkata25

Islandsbanki reykjavik Marathon

polar circle Marathon Oct Lars Fyhr E: marathon@albatrosadventure.com W: www.polar-circle-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/ polarcirclemarathon/

unIceF run for every child Half Marathon & 10km Lando Cheung E: lando.cheung@unicef.org.hk W: run.unicef.org.hk fb: facebook.com/unicef. runforeverychild/

telekom Vivicittá Spring Half Marathon Árpád Kocsis E: registration@ budapestmarathon.com W: springhalfmarathon. runinbudapest.com fb: facebook.com/runinbudapest/

Oct

HONDURAS

GREAT BRITAIN

SpAr Budapest Marathon Festival Árpád Kocsis E: registration@ budapestmarathon.com W: marathon.runinbudapest.com fb: facebook.com/runinbudapest/

ICELAND

GREENLAND

iWelt Marathon Wuerzburg MAy Guenter Herrmann E: g.herrmann@wuerzburgmarathon.de W: www.wuerzburg-marathon.de fb: www.facebook.com/Wuerzburg.

Marathon

HUNGARY Wizz Air Budapest Half Marathon Sep Árpád Kocsis E: registration@ budapestmarathon.com W: halfmarathon.runinbudapest.com fb: facebook.com/runinbudapest/

Oct

Dec

Ageas Federal Life Insurance MAr Kolkata Full Marathon Nagraj Adiga E: contact@nebsports.in W: www.kolkatafullmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ kolkatafullmarathon/ Ladakh Marathon & ultra Sep Chewang Motup Goba E: info@ladakhmarathon.com W: www.ladakhmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ladakhmarathon Dadi prakashmani Mount Abu Int’l Aug Half Marathon Mukesh Mishra E: jaipurmarathon@gmail.com W: www.abumarathon.com

KBc Dublin Marathon Jim Aughney E: office@dublinmarathon.ie W: kbcdublinmarathon.ie fb: www.facebook.com/ dublinmarathon

Oct

Abbott Longford Marathon Aug Ciaran McGovern E: info@longfordmarathon.com W: longfordmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/longfordmarathon Waterford Viking Marathon Jun Joe Cawley E: info@waterfordvikingmarathon. com W: www.waterfordvikingmarathon. com fb: on.fb.me/1HWuFDI World Marathon challenge nOV Richard Donovan E: rd@worldmarathonchallenge.com W: www.worldmarathonchallenge.com

ISRAEL

tata Mumbai Marathon MAy Hugh Jones E: tatamumbaimarathon@ procam.in, arati@procam.in W: tatamumbaimarathon.procam.in fb: facebook.com/ TataMumMarathon/

eilat Desert Marathon Ofer Padan E: info@marathonisrael.co.il W: www.desertrun.co.il fb: facebook.com/desertrun.co.il/

navi Mumbai Half Marathon FeB Siddarth Gupta E: sid@sportsunited.in W: www.navimumbaihalfmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ Navimumbaimarathon

Jerusalem Marathon, Half & 10k Oct Simon Avraham E: JEM@target-market.co.il W: www.jerusalem-marathon.com fb: on.fb.me/WCyXOj

Ageas Federal Life Insurance new MAr Delhi Marathon Nagaraj Adiga E: contact@nebsports.in W: www.newdelhimarathon.com fb: facebook.com/newdelhimarathon/

tel Aviv Samsung Marathon FeB Ofer Shytrit “Kapaim” E: marathon@kapaim.co.il W: www.tlvmarathon.co.il fb: facebook.com/TelAvivMarathon

Satara Hill Half Marathon Sep Pallavi Pisal E: contact@runsatara.com W: www.runsatara.com fb: facebook.com/SataraHillMarathon

Sea of galilee tiberias Marathon Dec Doron Amir E: dorona88@gmail.com W: www.tiberiasmarathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/ TiberiasMarathonIL

Mg Vadodara Int’l Marathon JAn Sameer Khera E: samkhera@gmail.com W: www.vadodaramarathon.com fb: facebook.com/VadodaraMarathon Oct

IRELAND cork city Marathon Jun Adrienne Rodgers E: info@corkcitymarathon.ie W: www.corkcitymarathon.ie fb: facebook.com/corkcitymarathon/

INDONESIA Maybank Bali Marathon Deniawan Rachmatialevi E: info@balimarathon.com W: www.balimarathon.com fb: facebook.com/BaliMarathon

Aug

Airtel Delhi Half Marathon nOV Hugh Jones E: adhm@procam.in, arati@procam.in W: airteldelhihalfmarathon.procam.in fb: www.facebook.com/ runadhm?fref=ts

Borobudur Marathon Dec Andreas Kansil E: andreas@pandarasports.com W: borobudurmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ BorobudurMarathon2021

goa river Marathon nOV Nitin Bandekar E: nbandekar@nrbgroup.biz W: www.goarivermarathon.com fb: facebook.com/goarivermarathon

erbil Marathon Abdulsattar Younus E: erbilmarathon@yahoo.com W: www.erbilmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/JifjR5

IRAQ Oct

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ITALY Firenze Marathon Giancarlo Romiti E: staff@firenzemarathon.it W: www.firenzemarathon.it fb: on.fb.me/1lpsOz8 10k garda trentino Sandro Poli E: polisandro@hotmail.com W: www.trentinoeventi.it

nOV

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giulietta & romeo Half Marathon FeB Cesare Monetti E: press@veronamarathon.it W: www.giuliettaeromeohalfmarathon.it fb: facebook.com/veronamarathon generali Milano Marathon MAy Andrea Trabuio E: info@milanomarathon.it W: www.generalimilanomarathon.it/en/ fb: facebook.com/MilanoMarathon

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Moonlight Half Marathon MAy Piero Rosa Salva E: info@venicemarathon.it W: www.moonlighthalfmarathon.it fb: on.fb.me/1zhSboz napoli city Half Marathon Luigi Varriale E: info@napolirunning.com W: www.napolirunning.com fb: facebook.com/napolirunning padova Marathon Leopoldo Destro E: info@padovamarathon.com W: www.padovamarathon.com fb: bit.ly/2h0vdjZ cetilar Maratona di pisa Sergio Costanzo E: info@1063ad.it W: www.maratonadipisa.com fb: facebook.com/PisaMarathon

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Dec

ravenna Marathon – city of Art nOV Stefano Righini E: info@maratonadiravenna.com W: www.maratonadiravenna.com fb: facebook.com/maratonaravenna/ telesia city trophy Int’l road race 10k Jun Viscusi Diego E: info@trofeotelesia.it W: www.trofeotelesia.it fb: www.facebook.com/trofeotelese telesia Half Marathon Oct Diego Viscusi E: info@telesiahalfmarathon.it W: www.telesiahalfmarathon.it fb: facebook.com/telesiahalfmarathon/ trento Half Marathon Ferruccio Demadonna E: info@trentorunningfestival.it W: www.trentorunningfestival.it fb: facebook.com/ trentorunningfestival Maratonina città di udine Paolo Bordon E: info@maratoninadiudine.it W: www.maratoninadiudine.it fb: facebook.com/ asdmaratoninaudinese

Oct

Sep

Maratona di San Valentino FeB Marcello Vettese E: info@maratonadisanvalentino.it W: www.maratonadisanvalentino.it fb: facebook.com/maratona. disanvalentino Venicemarathon Piero Rosa Salva E: info@venicemarathon.it W: www.venicemarathon.it fb: facebook.com/ ASDVenicemarathon?fref=ts

Oct

Verona Marathon, Half Marathon & 10K nOV W: veronamarathon.it fb: facebook.com/veronamarathon

JAMAICA reggae Marathon, Half & 10K Dec Alfred Francis E: racedirector@ reggaemarathon.com W: www.reggaemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ReggaeMarathon

JAPAN Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon Yoshihisa Deki E: deki-y@mainichi.co.jp W: www.betsudai.com Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon Rieko Kumagai E: jigyoubu@pearl.ocn.ne.jp W: www.lakebiwa-marathon.com ehime Marathon Shigenori Hamasaki E: info@ehimemarathon.jp W: ehimemarathon.jp

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Fukuoka Int’l Open Marathon championship Dec Takanori Saito E: s-marathon@asahi.com W: www.fukuoka-marathon.com/en/ gifu Half Marathon Apr Koji Kitano E: jtbc.sedesk@jtb.com W: www.gifu-marathon.jp/index.html fb: facebook.com/gifu.marathon Hokkaido Marathon Aug Natsuki Hasegawa E: hasegank@hokkaido-np.co.jp W: hokkaido-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/hokkaidomarathon Kagawa Marugame Int’l Half Marathon Kyoji Matsunaga E: marugame-half@ aroma.ocn.ne.jp W: www.km-half.com fb: bit.ly/2mrsm5x

FeB

Kanazawa Marathon Oct Yukiyoshi Yamano E: marathon@city.kanazawa.lg.jp W: www.kanazawa-marathon.jp fb: facebook.com/kanazawa. marathon.soshiki Kitakyushu Marathon Kenji Kitahashi E: toiawase@kitakyushumarathon.jp W: kitakyushu-marathon.jp fb: on.fb.me/VyPKjJ

FeB

Kobe Marathon nOV Tamio Yokoyama E: Kobemarathon2@ shirt.ocn.ne.jp W: www.kobe-marathon.net fb: facebook.com/Kobe.Marathon.

Office Kochi ryoma Marathon Masanao Ozaki E: ryomamarathon@ ken.kochi.lg.jp W: ryoma-marathon.jp

FeB

Kyoto Marathon JAn Masayoshi Sakoda E: isono@runners.co.jp W: www.kyoto-marathon.com/en/ fb: facebook.com/kyoto. marathon.2021/ Mount Fuji Marathon nOV R-bies Sports Foundation E: mtfuji42195@runners.co.jp W: mtfujimarathon.com fb: facebook.com/mtfujimarathon/ nagano Marathon Kouta Furuuchi E: info@naganomarathon.gr.jp W: www.naganomarathon.gr.jp fb: www.facebook.com/ naganomarathon

Apr

nagoya Women’s Marathon MAr Koji Kitano E: nagoyawm@gmt.jtb.jp W: womens-marathon.nagoya fb: facebook.com/nagoya.womens. marathon nara Marathon Dec Shogo Arai E: athletic@nara-marathon.jp W: www.nara-marathon.jp fb: facebook.com/naramarathon.jp Ohme-Hochi 30km road race & 10km Daijiro Asahara E: info@ohme-marathon.jp W: www.ohme-marathon.jp fb: facebook.com/ohme.marathon Osaka Women’s Marathon Junji Sawada E: j-sawada@ktv.co.jp W: www.osaka-marathon.jp fb: m.facebook.com/ osakawomensmarathon/

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petra Desert Marathon Sep Lars Fyhr E: marathon@albatrosadventure.com W: www.petra-desert-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/petramarathon

KAZAKHSTAN Almaty Marathon Sep Saltanat Kazybayeva E: saltanat@almaty-marathon.kz W: www.almaty-marathon.kz fb: facebook.com/almatymarathon Almaty Half Marathon Jun Saltanat Kazybayeva E: saltanat@almaty-marathon.kz W: www.almaty-marathon.kz/en/ Astana Marathon Gauhar Bramley-Fenton E: info@astana42k.com W: www.astana42k.com fb: bit.ly/2NWYlZx

Sep

KENYA

Osaka/Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon FeB Mr. Keiji Ashihara E: support@osaka-marathon.com W: www.osaka-marathon.com/ index_en.html fb: on.fb.me/IR9M2y

Standard chartered nairobi Marathon Dennis Sitieney E: Dennis.Sitieney@sc.com W: www.nairobimarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ StandardCharteredKE

Lake Saroma 100km ultra Marathon Jiro Hashimoto E: saroma@runners.co.jp W: saromanblue.jp/index.shtml fb: www.facebook.com/ saroma100km

chuncheon Int’l Marathon Oct Hyungsuk Kim E: marathon@chosun.com W: www.chuncheonmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ChosunMarathon

KIX Senshu Int’l Marathon Hideki Nagafuji E: jimukyoku@senshu-marathon.jp W: www.senshu-marathon.jp

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tokyo Marathon Oct Tad Hayano E: tm-entrydesk@or.knt.co.jp W: www.marathon.tokyo/en/ fb: www.facebook.com/tokyo42195.org toyama Marathon nOV Takakazu Ishii E: tm-info@toyamamarathon.com W: www.toyamamarathon.com/entry/ oversea.html fb: bit.ly/2qjEk6i

JORDAN Samsung Amman Int’l Marathon Oct Lina El Kurd E: l.kurd@runjordan.com W: www.runjordan.com fb: on.fb.me/1f9ilRz

Lg Dead Sea ultra Marathon Lina El Kurd E: l.kurd@runjordan.com W: www.runjordan.com fb: on.fb.me/1f9ilRz

Dec

Daegu Int’l Marathon Apr TaeKyu Kang E: ktk1203@gmail.com W: marathon.daegusports.or.kr fb: facebook.com/daegumarathon gunsan Saemangeum Int’l Marathon, 10km & 5km Kim Bockju E: kaaf5066@gmail.com W: www.smgmara.com gyeonggi Int’l Half Marathon We Jang Ryang E: artwjr@empas.com W: www.ggimarathon.com Donga-A Ilbo gyeongju Marathon Hyun Jin Park E: joong4n2@donga.com W: www.gyeongjumarathon.com Incheon Int’l Half Marathon Kim Bockju E: kaaf5066@gmail.com W: www.incheonmarathon.co.kr

LITHUANIA Kaunas Marathon Jun Regimantas Tarasevičius E: info@kaunasmarathon.lt W: www.kaunasmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/KaunoMaratonas rimi Vilnius Marathon Algirdas Purkėnas E: info@vilniausmaratonas.lt W: www.vilniusmarathon.lt fb: www.facebook.com/ vilniusmarathon

Sep

Ing route du Vin E: contact@urbantrail.lu W: www.ingrouteduvin.lu fb: bit.ly/2YYR4xV

Sep

MACAU, CHINA Macao International 10K Pun Weng Kun E: info@sport.gov.mo W: www.macao10k.com

Apr

galaxy entertainment Macao Int’l Dec Marathon Pun Weng Kun E: macaomarathon@sport.gov.mo W: www.macaumarathon.com

MADAGASCAR

Oct

Madagascar Marathon & Half Jun Thom Gilligan E: info@marathontours.com W: www.madagascarmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ MadagascarMarathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

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MALAYSIA Borneo Marathon Jun Datuk Dr Heng Aik Cheng E: info@borneomarathon.com W: www.borneomarathon.com fb: facebook.com/borneomarathon Kuching Marathon Liew Tang Chieh E: kchmarathon@gmail.com W: www.marathonkuching.com fb: on.fb.me/1OhT46J

Aug

penang Bridge International nOV Marathon Yeoh Soon Hin E: info@penangmarathon.gov.my W: www.penangmarathon.gov.my fb: facebook.com/ penangbridgemarathon

MALDIVES

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nOV

Apr

Seoul Marathon MAr Hyun Jin Park E: joong4n2@donga.com W: www.seoul-marathon.kr fb: facebook.com/dongamarathon JtBc Seoul Marathon E: marathon@jtbc.co.kr W: marathon.jtbc.com fb: facebook.com/ 2018JTBCSEOULMARATHON

LEBANON Beirut International Marathon Wissam Terro E: wissam.terro@ beirutmarathon.org W: www.beirutmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/beirutmarathon

LUXEMBOURG

KOREA Jun

tokushima Marathon MAr Kamon Iizumi E: hashiru_ahoo@circus.ocn.ne.jp W: www.tokushima-marathon.jp fb: facebook.com/tokushima. marathon

Ayla red Sea Half Marathon Lina El Kurd E: l.kurd@runjordan.com W: www.runjordan.com fb: on.fb.me/1f9ilRz

Oct

LATVIA rimi riga Marathon Aug Aigars Nords E: marathon@necom.lv W: rimirigamarathon.com fb: facebook.com/RimiRigaMarathon

gulf Bank 642 Marathon nOV Ahmed Almajed E: hi@wesuffix.com W: www.gulfbank642marathon.com fb: facebook.com/GB642/

Dhiraagu Maldives road race Mirshan Hassan E: mirshan@dhiraagu.com.mv W: www.dmrr.mv fb: facebook.com/dhiraagufans/

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MEXICO Maratón Aguascalientes Jose Luis Trujillo Alcala E: maratonaguascalientes@ hotmail.com W: www.maratonaguascalientes. com.mx fb: facebook.com/ maratonaguascalientes

Oct

Apr

Fernando Gabriel García Carrillo E: fgarcia@fecodi.com.mx W: www.maratoncelaya.com fb: facebook.com/MaratonCelaya gran Maratón pacifico Mazatlán Dec Karla Angelica Camacho Guzman E: paisajismo_karlac@ hotmail.com W: www.maraton.org fb: www.facebook.com/gran. maratonpacifico 21K guadalajara electrolit nutrido por granvita FeB Tomás Antonio Gallo Padilla E: tomasgallo@ comudeguadalajara. gob.mx, enriquegarcia@ deportesguadalajara.gob.mx W: www.medio.maratonguadalajara. org fb: facebook.com/MaratonGDL Medio Maratón Atlas de guadalajara Sep Saúl Figueroa E: medio.maraton@ atlascolomos.com.mx W: www.mediomaraton.atlas.com.mx fb: facebook.com/ AtlasMedioMaraton/ Maratón guadalajara Megacable hidratado por electrolit nOV Tomás Antonio Gallo Padilla E: tomasgallo@ comudeguadalajara. gob.mx, enriquegarcia@ deportesguadalajara.gob.mx W: www.maratonguadalajara.org fb: facebook.com/MaratonGDL Maraton Int’l de Juarez Oct Federico Mendoza E: fmendoza@maratondejuarez.com W: www.maratondejuarez.com fb: bit.ly/2JdBw6H Maratón León guiar Sep Lic. Roberto José Elías Orozco E: roberto.elias@ comudeleon.gob.mx W: www.maratonleon.mx fb: facebook.com/MaratonLeonMX/

Maratón powerade Monterrey Edilberto González Serna E: edilbertogonzalez. accnl@gmail.com W: www.maratonmonterrey.com fb: facebook.com/Maratonmty

Oct

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Maratón “Las Batallas de celaya”

Merida Marathon Pablo Suinaga Sainz E: psuinaga@asdeporte.com W: marathonmerida.com

Maraton Varmex Carlos Vargas Rosas E: carlosvargasrosas@ hotmail.com W: www.maratonvarmex.com fb: facebook.com/maratonvarmex

JAn

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21km nuevo León nOV Luciano Ramirez Gallardo E: atletismonuevoleon@gmail.com W: www.asociaciondeatletismonl.com fb: facebook.com/21knl BMW tangamanga Int’l Marathon Jun Jaime Eduardo Morales Reyes E: maratontangamanga@ gmail.com W: www.maratontangamanga.com fb: facebook.com/ maratontangamanga

chisinau Int’l Marathon Dmitri Voloshin E: event@sporter.md W: www.marathon.md fb: facebook.com/ chisinaumarathon/?fref=ts

Oct

MOROCCO Marathon Int’l de casablanca Oct Mohamed Jouahri E: contact@casaevents.ma W: www.casablanca-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/casamarathon/ rAHAL Mémorial casablanca Jun Abdelwahed Rahal E: info@2cras.com W: www.running.ma fb: facebook.com/marrakech10km 10km Int’l de Dakhla Sidi Ahmed Hormatoallah E: info@2cras.com W: www.rbmsports.com tafilalet 10km errachidia Lamhamdi Alaoui Moulay Chrif E: alaoui802003@hotmail.com W: www.rbmsports.com fb: facebook.com/Tafilalet10K Marathon Int’l de Fes Lakhdar Abdellah E: marathondefes@gmail.com W: www.marathonfes.ma Semi Marathon Int’l de Laayoune Abdellah Jeddad E: ajeddad@gmail.com W: www.running.ma Marathon & Semi Int’l de Marrakech Mohamed Knidiri E: marathonmarrakech@ gmail.com W: www.marathonmarrakech.ma fb: facebook.com/ marathon2marrakech 20km & 10km Int’l de Marrakech Rachid Ben Meziane E: info@2cras.com W: www.rbmsports.com fb: facebook.com/ marrakech10km/?fref=ts

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enschede Marathon Apr Sandra Melief E: sandra@enschedemarathon.nl W: www.enschedemarathon.nl fb: nl-nl.facebook.com/ EnschedeMarathon Leiden Marathon Oct Tjeerd Scheffer E: info@marathon.nl W: www.marathon.nl fb: facebook.com/Leidenmarathon nn Marathon rotterdam Apr Mario J Kadiks E: info@marathonrotterdam.nl W: www.nnmarathonrotterdam.org/ home fb: facebook.com/MarathonRdam

NEW ZEALAND ASB Auckland Marathon Oct Sam Ellis E: aucklandmarathon@ ironman.com W: www.aucklandmarathon.co.nz fb: facebook.com/aucklandmarathon

Wizz Air Skopje Marathon Oct Kire Sinadinovski E: kire@skopskimaraton.com.mk W: www.skopjemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/skopskimaraton

NORTH POLE nOV

north pole Marathon Apr Richard Donovan E: rd@npmarathon.com W: www.npmarathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/npmarathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Sep

NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS Saipan Marathon Edward Diaz E: ediaz@mymarianas.com W: mymarianas.com fb: bit.ly/2BWDSTk Sep

MAr

NORWAY Fjordkraft Bergen city Marathon Apr Janne Jensen E: post@bergencitymarathon.no W: www.bergencitymarathon.no fb: facebook.com/BergenCityMarathon/

MYANMAR

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NETHERLANDS

Dam tot Damloop Jan Willem Mijderwijk E: leonie.van.der.meer@ lechampion.nl W: www.damloop.nl fb: www.facebook.com/ damtotdamloop

Oct

NORTH MACEDONIA

Bagan temple Marathon nOV Rune Nortoft E: rn@albatros-adventure.com W: www.bagan-temple-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/ bagantemplemarathon

tcS Amsterdam Marathon Rene Wit E: info@tcsamsterdammarathon.nl W: www.tcsamsterdammarathon.nl fb: www.facebook.com/ TCSAmsterdamMarathon

Marathon eindhoven Edgar de Veer E: edgar.deveer@golazo.com W: www.marathoneindhoven.nl fb: facebook.com/marathon. eindhoven

Oct

Midnight Sun Marathon Nils I. Haetta E: info@msm.no W: www.msm.no fb: on.fb.me/18FhPtw BMW Oslo Maraton Cecilie L’Orsa E: cecilie@oslomaraton.no W: www.oslomaraton.no/en fb: facebook.com/oslomaraton polarnight Halfmarathon Nils I. Haetta E: info@msm.no W: www.msm.no fb: bit.ly/2UPOUhQ

Sep

3-Sjøersløpet (the 3 Lakes race) Johannes Økland E: lop@gti-friidrett.no W: www.3sjoers.no fb: facebook.com/3sjoers

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Spitsbergen Marathon Jun Merethe Stiberg E: post@spitsbergenmarathon.no W: www.spitsbergenmarathon.no Stavanger Marathon Aug Johannes Økland E: lop@gti-friidrett.no W: www.stavangermarathon.no fb: facebook.com/StavangerMarathon/

OMAN Al Mouj Muscat Marathon nOV Joe Rafferty E: info@muscatmarathon.om W: muscatmarathon.om fb: facebook.com/MuscatMarathon/

PANAMA panama Int’l Marathon nOV Rodrigo Espinosa E: rodriespinosa@gmail.com W: www. maratoninternacionaldepanama. com/en/ fb: on.fb.me/19tYlKX

PARAGUAY Maratón Int’l Asunción Aug Myrta Doldan Roman E: pmc.paraguay@gmail.com W: www.pmcpy.org fb: facebook.com/PyMarathonClub Int’l Asunción Half Marathon MAy Marcelo Ithurralde E: marcelo@runningtime.org W: www.pmcpy.org fb: facebook.com/PyMarathonClub

PERU Marathon Life Lima42k Sep Andreas Müller E: info@zmsports.org W: www.lima42k.com fb: facebook.com/maratonlima42k/

POLAND pKO Bialystok Halfmarathon Jun Grzegorz Kuczynski E: fundacja@bialystokbiega.pl W: www.bialystokpolmaraton.pl fb: facebook.com/bialystokpolmaraton/ cracovia Marathon Apr Krzysztof Kowal E: marathon@cracoviamaraton.pl W: www.cracoviamaraton.pl fb: facebook.com/CracoviaMaraton cracovia royal Half Marathon Oct Krzysztof Kowal E: marathon@cracoviamaraton.pl W: cracoviapolmaraton.pl fb: facebook.com/CracoviaMaraton pila Int’l Half Marathon Sep Henryk Paskal E: info@pila.halfmarathon.pl W: www.pila.halfmarathon.pl fb: www.facebook.com/polmaraton.pila pKO poznań Half Marathon Oct Łukasz Miadziołko E: info@halfmarathon.poznan.pl W: www.halfmarathon.poznan.pl fb: facebook.com/PoznanMaraton pKO poznań Marathon Lukasz Miadziolko E: info@marathon.poznan.pl W: www.marathon.poznan.pl fb: facebook.com/PoznanMaraton

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Silesia Marathon Bohdan Witwicki E: info@silesiaproactive.pl W: www.silesiamarathon.pl/en/ fb: on.fb.me/18FdJS0

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Oct

Warsaw Marathon Sep Marek Tronina E: info@warsawmarathon.com W: maratonwarszawski.com/en/ fb: facebook.com/WarsawMarathon OrLen Warsaw Marathon Apr Marcin Fudalej E: marcin.fudalej@ orlenmarathon.pl W: www.orlenmarathon.pl fb: facebook.com/ORLENMarathon Warsaw Half Marathon Sep Marek Tronina E: info@warsawmarathon.com W: www.warsawhalfmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/WarsawMarathon Wrocław Maraton Wojciech Gestwa E: biuro@wroclawmaraton.pl W: www.wroclawmaraton.pl fb: facebook.com/maraton. wroclawski

Sep

pKO Wroclaw night Oct Half Marathon Wojciech Gestwa E: wojciech.gestwa@mcs.wroc. pl, biuro@wroclawmaraton.pl W: pol.wroclawmaraton.pl fb: facebook.com/maraton.wroclawski

PORTUGAL Montepio Meia Maratona de nOV cascais Hugo Miguel Ramos Sousa E: geral@hmssports.pt W: www.meiamaratonadecascais.pt fb: facebook.com/ meiamaratonadecascais/ Discoveries Half Marathon Dec António Campos E: geral@xistarca.pt W: meiamaratonadosdescobrimentos. com fb: bit.ly/2oReipd Funchal Marathon JAn Policarpo Gouveia E: geral@atletismomadeira.pt W: www.madeiramarathon.com fb: facebook.com/funchalmarathon/ Lidl São Silvestre de Lisboa Dec Hugo Miguel Ramos Sousa E: info@saosilvestredelisboa.com W: www.saosilvestredelisboa.com fb: facebook.com/saosilvestredelisboa eDp Lisbon Half Marathon nOV Carlos Moya E: geral@maratonaportugal.com W: www.meiamaratonadelisboa.com fb: www.facebook.com/ MeiaMaratonaLisboa eDp Lisbon Marathon | Luso Half Oct Marathon Carlos Moya E: geral@maratonaportugal.com W: www.maratonaclubedeportugal.com fb: facebook.com/ MaratonaDeLisboa/ porto Half Marathon Sep Jorge Teixeira E: geral@runporto.com W: www.meiamaratonadoporto.com fb: facebook.com/ meiamaratonadoporto/ porto Marathon eDp Jorge Teixeira E: geral@runporto.com W: www.maratonadoporto.com fb: on.fb.me/19tXqKC

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REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA the Big Five Marathon nOV Rune Nortoft E: rn@albatros-adventure.com W: www.big-five-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/bigfivemarathon Sanlam cape town Marathon Oct Renee Jordaan E: raceoffice@ capetownmarathon.com W: www.capetownmarathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/CTMarathon comrades Marathon Rowyn James E: info@comrades.com W: www.comrades.com fb: facebook.com/ ComradesMarathon

Jun

ROMANIA raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Marathon Oct Paolo Ottone E: info@abrc.ro W: www.bucharest-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/ BucharestMarathon OMV petrom Bucharest Half Sep Marathon Paolo Ottone E: info@abrc.ro W: www.bucharest21km.com fb: facebook.com/Bucharest21km

Wizz Air cluj-napoca Marathon Horatiu Morar E: office@runnersclub.ro W: www.maraton-cluj.ro/en fb: bit.ly/2fUJuR1

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Kazan Marathon MAy Vadim Yangirov E: vadim@youngirov.ru W: www.kazanmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/kazanmarathon/

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Siberian Int’l Marathon Konstantin Podbelski E: tour@runsim.ru W: www.runsim.ru fb: on.fb.me/1lttnsK

Sep

yarche tomsk International Jun Marathon Alexander Gordievskikh E: info@tomskmarathon.ru W: tomskmarathon.ru fb: facebook.com/tomskmarathon galaxy Vladivostok Marathon Sep Olga Gaeva E: info@vladivostokmarathon.ru W: www.galaxymarathon.com fb: facebook.com/RunDnsRun/

RWANDA Kigali International peace Marathon Jean Pierre Ndacyayisenga E: coach2020a@gmail.com W: www.kigalimarathon.org fb: bit.ly/2llV4W3

MAy

novi Sad Half Marathon MAr Dimitrije Dolga E: marathon@sbb.rs W: www.marathon.org.rs fb: facebook.com/novisad.marathon novi Sad Marathon Oct Milan Dolga E: marathon@sbb.rs W: www.marathon.org.rs fb: facebook.com/novisad.marathon

Seychelles eco-Friendly FeB Marathon Giovanna Rousseau E: seymarathon@seychelles.net fb: facebook.com/ ecofriendlymarathon/

SINGAPORE

MAy

Standard chartered Singapore Dec Marathon Shaun Nik E: singaporeinfo@ironman.com W: www.singaporemarathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/MarathonSG

SLOVAKIA ČSOB Bratislava Marathon Jozef Pukalovič E: info@becool.sk W: www.bratislavamarathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/bratislava. marathon

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Košice peace Marathon Oct Branislav Koniar E: info@kosicemarathon.com W: www.kosicemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/kosicemarathon/

SLOVENIA Volkswagen Ljubljana Marathon Oct Gojko Zalokar E: info@timingljubljana.si W: www.vw-ljubljanskimaraton.si fb: facebook.com/ljmaraton three Hearts Marathon MAy Marko Pintaric E: info@maraton-radenci.si W: www.maraton-radenci.si fb: facebook.com/MaratonTrehSrc

SPAIN

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Oct

Moscow Marathon Sep Dmitry Tarasov E: tarasov@runc.run W: moscowmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/moscowmarathon Moscow Half Marathon Dmitry Tarasov E: tarasov@runc.run W: moscowhalf.org fb: facebook.com/runcomrun/

Sep

SEYCHELLES

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Kazan Half Marathon Vadim Yangirov E: vadim@youngirov.ru W: timerman.org

pushkin – St petersburg Dmitriy Pavlov E: info@pushkin-run.com W: pushkin-run.ru

MAy

SERBIA nOV

RUSSIA golden ring ultra trail 100 Michael Dolgy E: info@goldenultra.ru W: www.goldenultra.ru fb: facebook.com/ GoldenRingUltraTrail/

pushkin Marathon Dmitriy Pavlov E: info@pushkin-run.com W: pushkin-run.ru

Siberian Ice Half Marathon Konstantin Podbelski E: tour@runsim.ru W: www.runsim.ru fb: on.fb.me/1zzM9nj

two Oceans Marathon Apr Debra Barnes E: debra@twooceansmarathon. org.za W: www.twooceansmarathon.org.za fb: www.facebook.com/ TwoOceansMarathon

Bucharest International Half Marathon and 10K Alina Manea E: alina@runbi10k.ro W: runbi21km.ro

SpB Half Marathon. the northern Aug capital Dmitry Tarasov E: tarasov@runc.run W: spbhalf.org fb: facebook.com/runcomrun/

Apr

Zurich Marató de Barcelona nOV Cristian Llorens E: cllorens@ghcsports.com W: www.zurichmaratobarcelona.es fb: www.facebook.com/ ZURICHMARATODEBARCELONA eDreams Mitja Marató de Barcelona Cristian Llorens E: cllorens@ghcsports.com W: edreamsmitjabarcelona.com fb: facebook.com/ mitjamaratobarcelona

Oct

Valencia trinidad Alfonso eDp Dec Marathon Paco Borao E: gerencia@correcaminos.org W: www.valenciaciudaddelrunning.com fb: facebook.com/maratonvalencia 10K Valencia Ibercaja Alex Aparicio E: alex@10kvalencia.com W: www.10kvalencia.com fb: facebook.com/10KValencia/

Oct

SRI LANKA LSr colombo Marathon P.T. Weerasinghe E: colombomarathon@ LSR-srilanka.com, LSRtilak@sltnet.lk W: www.colombomarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ LSRColomboMarathon

StraLugano Richi Umberg E: richi@stralugano.ch W: www.stralugano.ch

Aug

SwisscityMarathon – Lucerne Oct Reto Schorno E: info@swisscitymarathon.ch W: www.swisscitymarathon.ch fb: facebook.com/SwissCityMarathon Swissalpine / Swiss Irontrail Aug Andrea Tuffli E: info@swissalpine.ch W: www.swissalpine.ch fb: facebook.com/swissalpinedavos Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Oct

gornergrat Zermatt Marathon Andrea Schneider E: info@zermattmarathon.ch W: www.zermattmarathon.ch fb: www.facebook.com/ zermattmarathon Zürich Marathon E: info@zuerichmarathon.ch W: www.zuerichmarathon.ch fb: facebook.com/zurichmarathon

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Apr

TANZANIA SWEDEN

Movistar Medio Maratón de Madrid nOV Alejandro Sánchez Perrote E: info@mediomaratonmadrid.es W: www.mediomaratonmadrid.es fb: facebook.com/ mediomaratonmadrid/ eDp rock ’n’ roll Madrid Maratón & 1/2 Pedro Rumbao E: drumbao@mapoma.es W: www.edprocknrollmadrid.com fb: facebook.com/RnRMadrid

Medio Maratón Valencia trinidad Oct Alfonso eDp Paco Borao E: gerencia@correcaminos.org W: www.valenciaciudaddelrunning. com/medio-maraton fb: www.facebook.com/ mediomaratonvalencia

Sep

eDp Medio Maratón de la Mujer de Madrid Oct Francisco Javier Gavela Rodríguez E: fjgavela@mpib.es W: www.edpmediomaratondelamujer.es fb: facebook.com/ MedioMaratonMujer/ Zurich Maratón Málaga Dec Pablo Gálvez Martín E: info@zurichmaratonmalaga.es W: www.maratonmalaga.com fb: facebook.com/maratondemalaga/ Zafiro palma Marathon Oct David Thompson Foronda E: info@zafiropalmamarathon.com W: www.zafiropalmamarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1RZOiR8 Maratón Donostia San Sebastián nOV Patxi Larrea Perurena E: gafatletismo@gmail.com (sport questions), maraton@ flygroupnet.com (registrations and general questions) W: www.zurichmaratondonostia.com fb: facebook.com/maratonsansebastian Mitja Marato Int’l Vila de Santa pola JAn Roque M. Alemañ Bonet E: atletismosantapola@gmail.com W: www.mitjasantapola.com fb: facebook.com/ MitjaMaratoSantaPola Zurich Maratón de Sevilla FeB Francisco Javier Gavela Rodríguez E: fjgavela@mpib.es W: www.zurichmaratonsevilla.es fb: facebook.com/MaratonDeSevilla

göteborgsvarvet Half Marathon Erik Bergkvist E: info@goteborgsvarvet.se W: www.goteborgsvarvet.se fb: www.facebook.com/ goteborgsvarvet

Sep

ASIcS Stockholm Marathon Oct David Fridell E: info@stockholmmarathon.se W: www.stockholmmarathon.se fb: www.facebook.com/ stockholmmarathon.se Stockholm Half Marathon Sep Ulf Saletti E: info@stockholmhalvmarathon.se W: www.stockholmhalvmarathon.se fb: facebook.com/ stockholmhalfmarathon

SWITZERLAND Harmony genève Marathon for MAy unicef Benjamin Chandelier E: info@genevemarathon.org W: www.harmonygenevemarathon. com/how-to-enter fb: facebook.com/GeneveMarathon greifenseelauf uster Markus Ryffel E: greifenseelauf@ markusryffels.ch W: www.greifenseelauf.ch fb: facebook.com/greifenseelauf

Sep

Jungfrau-Marathon Sep Patrick Wieser E: info@jungfrau-marathon.ch W: www.jungfrau-marathon.ch fb: facebook.com/JungfrauMarathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Lausanne Marathon Oct Josette Bruchez E: info@lausanne-marathon.com W: www.lausanne-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/LausanneMarathon neujahrsmarathon Zürich Jamie Vrijhof E: info@neujahrsmarathon.ch W: www.neujahrsmarathon.ch fb: www.facebook.com/ neujahrsmarathon

JAn

*crDB Bank Marathon Tully Esther Mwambapa E: tullyesther.mwambapa@ crdbbank.co.tz W: www.crdbbankmarathon.co.tz

Aug

Kilimanjaro Marathon FeB John Addison E: info@vicfallsmarathon.com W: www.kilimanjaromarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ kilimanjaromarathon/

THAILAND Bangkok Midnight Marathon Dec Boonperm Intanapasat E: pom@moveasia.co.th W: www.bangkokmidnightmarathon. com fb: facebook.com/ Bangkokmidnightmarathon/ Amazing thailand Marathon Bangkok Dec Kobkiat Sangwanich E: amazingthailandmarathon bangkok@gmail.com W: www.amazingthailandmarathon 2021.com fb: bit.ly/3mQdlNk Bangsaen21 Half Marathon Rut Jiroajvanichakorn E: info@Bangsaen21.com W: www.Bangsaen21.com/en fb: facebook.com/bangsaen21/

Dec

Bangsaen42 chonburi Marathon nOV Rut Jiroajvanichakorn E: info@BANGSAEN42.com W: www.bangsaen42.com fb: facebook.com/BANGSAEN42 Bangsaen10 Rut Jiroajvanichakorn E: rut@mice.co.th W: www.bangsaen10.com fb: facebook.com/Bangsaen10K Buriram Marathon Tanaisiri Chanvitayarom E: brrmarathon@gmail.com W: www.burirammarathon.com fb: facebook.com/bru.marathon/

JAn

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chanthaburi Scenic Half Marathon MAy Alongkorn Jiamanukulkit E: alongkorn@raceup.co.th W: www.scenicmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/scenicmarathon chanthaburi Scenic Marathon Alongkorn Jiamanukulkit E: alongkorn@raceup.co.th W: www.scenicmarathon.com

Oct

chombeung Marathon JAn Akom Chareonsuk E: Akom_ch@hotmail.com W: www.chombuengmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ chombuengmarathon Khon Kaen Int’l Marathon JAn Piansak Pakdee E: info@khonkaenmarathon.com W: www.khonkaenmarathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/ khonkaenmarathon Krabi Half Marathon Alongkorn Jiamanukulkit E: alongkorn@raceup.co.th W: www.krabimarathon.com

Sep

river Kwai Int’l Half Marathon Sep Mallika Polanan E: mpolanan@gmail.com W: amazingfield.net/event-detail-EN/ RIVER-KWAI-INTERNATIONALHALF-MARATHON-2020 Supersports Laguna phuket Marathon Oct Roman Floesser E: info1@phuketmarathon.com W: www.phuketmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/phuketmarathon nong Khai ASeAn Marathon Dec Veerathorn Earsakul E: mpolanan@gmail.com W: amazingfield.net/event-detail-EN/ NONGKHAI-ASEAN-MARATHON-2020 *photak Marathon Aug Kongkaew Wanthana E: photak2021@gmail.com W: www.photakmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/photakmarathon

thai Sikh run Mr. Jasvinder Sachdev E: mpolanan@gmail.com W: www.thaisikhrun.com

nOV

FeB

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO uWI Spec Int’l Half Marathon Grace Jackson E: specinfo@sta.uwi.edu W: sta.uwi.edu/spec/marathon fb: facebook.com/UWISPEC

Oct

TUNISIA carthage race Marathon Dec Naamen Bouhamed E: info@the-carthage-race.com W: www.carthage-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/ThecarthageRace Sfax Marathon Olive trees nOV Naamen Bouhamed E: contact@sports-med-events.com W: sfaxmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ MarathondesoliviersSfax

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Oct

Marathon cOMAr Dec tunis - carthage M. Lotfi Ben Haj Kacem E: dg@comar.tn, marathon@ comar.tn, marketing@comar.tn W: www.marathon.comar.tn fb: facebook.com/comarmarathon/ *tunisia Women’s run Int’l Half Naamen Bouhamed E: contact@sportsmed-events.com W: tunisiawomenrun.com/

Apr

fb: facebook.com/tunisiawomenrun

nKolay İstanbul Marathon I. Renay Onur E: renay.onur@spor.istanbul W: www.maraton.istanbul nKolay İstanbul Half Marathon I. Renay Onur E: renay.onur@spor.istanbul

nOV

MAr

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS Dec

Kyiv nova poshta Half Marathon Maxim Krivenko E: krivenko.maxim@gmail.com W: newrun.com.ua *Lviv nova poshta Marathon Drozd Olena Oleksandrivna E: volonteers@newrun.com.ua W: newrun.com.ua/en/

Oct

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the ras al Khaimah Half Marathon Andrea Trabuio E: andrea.trabuio@rcs.it W: therakhalfmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ therakhalfmarathon

FeB

Big Sur Int’l Marathon Doug Thurston E: info@bsim.org W: www.bigsurmarathon.org

fb: facebook.com/RocknRollDC

VIETNAM Manulife Danang Int’l Marathon MAr Bady Pham E: info@pulse.vn fb: facebook.com/ dananginternationalmarathon

fb: facebook.com/RnRVegas/

*VpBank Hanoi Marathon Nguyen Manh Hung E: vie@mf.iaaf.org W: hanoiheritagemarathon.com

URUGUAY Maratón de Montevideo Apr Marcos Melazzi E: secretariacau2016@gmail.com fb: facebook.com/ maratonmontevideo42km

tashkent International Half Marathon Mamadaliyev Ulugbek E: m-ulugbek@bk.ru W: uzmarathon.uz

MAr

cAF caracas Maratón Luis Enrique Berrizbeitia E: maratoncaf@caf.com W: maraton.caf.com fb: facebook.com/ MaratonCafCaracas

techcombank Ho chi Minh city Int’l Marathon Dec Duy Do Huynh Khanh E: duy@sunriseevents.com.vn W: marathonhcmc.com fb: bit.ly/2z9Rcjt Longbien Marathon nOV Pham Thanh Tung E: race@longbienmarathon.com W: www.longbienmarathon.com/en

Apr

econet Victoria Falls Marathon John Addison E: info@vicfallsmarathon.com W: www.vicfallsmarathon.com fb: www.facebook.com/ VictoriaFallsMarathon

Oct

fb: www.facebook.com/ TheBostonMarathon Oct

Carey Pinkowski E: office@chicagomarathon.com W: chicagomarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ChicagoMarathon/ Apr

Oct

chevron Houston Marathon, Aramco Houston Half Marathon and We Are Houston 5K Brant Kotch E: marathon@ houstonmarathon.com W: www.houstonmarathon.com

JAn

fb: facebook.com/houstonmarathon

Oct

Marine corps Marathon Rick Nealis E: mcmcustomerservice@usmcmccs.org

Oct

W: www.marinemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ MarineCorpsMarathon nOV

Maui Oceanfront Marathon Les Wright E: RunMaui@gmail.com

JAn

W: www.MauiOceanfrontMarathon.com fb: facebook.com/runmaui/ tcS new york city Marathon Ted Metellus E: nyrrevents@nyrr.org W: www.tcsnycmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/nycmarathon

nOV

Oct

ZIMBABWE

VENEZUELA

Monterey Bay Half Marathon nOV Doug Thurston E: doug@bsim.org W: www.montereybayhalfmarathon.org

Oct

Humana rock ’n’ roll Las Vegas nOV Marathon & 1/2 Nicole Keilman E: rnrvegas@runrocknroll.com W: runrocknroll.com/las-vegas

UZBEKISTAN

Apr

XXI gatorade ccS rock Sonia Rosales E: srosales@hipereventos.com W: www.hipereventos.com fb: on.fb.me/IRe3mA

Bank of America chicago Marathon

*Odesa nova poshta MAy Half Marathon Kryvenko Maksym Volodymyrovych E: krivenko.maxim@gmail.com W: newrun.com.ua/en/odesa2021. html

ADnOc Abu Dhabi Marathon Dec Andrea Trabuio E: andrea.trabuio@rcs.it W: www.adnocabudhabimarathon.com

B.A.A. Boston Marathon Dave McGillivray E: info@baa.org W: www.baa.org

UKRAINE

Wizz Air Kyiv city Marathon Dmytro Chernitskyi E: veremiienko@runukraine.org W: www.kyivmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/ kyivmarathon/?fref=ts

MAr

rock ’n’ roll Dc Marathon & Half MAr Marathon Kevin Buffalino E: rnrdc@competitorgroup.com W: www.runrocknroll.com/DC

fb: on.fb.me/IRalcA

W: virginislandspace.org/ stxmarathon2019.html

*Kharkiv nova poshta Liberty Marathon Masich Alina Viktorivna E: masich.alina@gmail.com W: newrun.com.ua/en/

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Abu Dhabi “yes I can” 10km Int’l Rachid Ben Meziane E: info@2cras.com W: www.running.ma

fb: on.fb.me/1f9jxV9

fb: on.fb.me/1OYHCP2

Bila tserkva Marathon Sergey Bocharov E: sergeebocharov@gmail.com W: www.bc-marathon.org.ua fb: on.fb.me/1oWXmp8

Sep

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

W: www.istanbulyarimaratonu.com

the St. croix Int’l Marathon Wallace Williams E: wallacewilliams@msn.com

poltava nova poshta Half Marathon Vradiy Maxim Anatolovich W: newrun.com.ua/en/

fb: facebook.com/ ADNOCADmarathon/

TURKEY

fb: facebook.com/krabimarathon

phukethon Boonperm Intanapasat E: pom@moveasia.co.th W: www.phukethon.com fb: facebook.com/Phukethon/

Semi Marathon Int’l de Sfax Mounir ben Belguith E: contact@smisfax.com W: www.smisfax.com

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