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2026 EDITION 4

The father of the marathon

Michel Bréal honoured

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DISCOVER JAPAN THROUGH RUNNING.

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Sapporo Marathon October 4 2026 Sapporo s autumn, vibrant streets and local spirit

AICHI NAGOYA WOMEN'S MARATHON March 14 2027 World s largest women-only marathon, Nagoya cuisine and culture

TOKYO Minato City Half Marathon November 15 2026 From Hakone Ekiden heritage to Tokyo Tower

NARA Nara Marathon December 12 - 13 2026 Ancient temples, UNESCO heritage and timeless scenery

YAMANASHI Mt. Fuji International Marathon December 12 - 13 2026 A once-in-a-lifetime view of Mt. Fuji

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ISHIGAKI - ISLAND MARATHON January 17 2027 Tropical island, blue seas and local culture

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AIMS news Race management programme in India

Michel Bréal honoured

How Songkhla opened its marathon to the next generation 8 AIMS RunVibes webinar series update

Standing ovation for Horst Milde at AIMS Congress 12

New members Cracovia Marathon (POL); ActivePulse Chattogram International Marathon BAN); Pos Malaysia Run (MAS); Watlaharnrai Half Marathon (THA); China Airlines Marathon – The Starry Night Run (TPE); Terengganu Marathon (MAS); KD Amdavad Marathon (IND); Vizag Marathon (IND); Malta Marathon (MLT) 10

Plan and visit Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon Sun 10 January 2027 CHINESE TAIPEI Celebration of endurance Run with a charitable mission

Buriram Marathon Presented by Chang Mineral Sat 23 January 2027 THAILAND Your ultimate destination

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Creating an impact beyond the finish line

Cognizant New Delhi Marathon Sun 28 February 2027 INDIA Community meets the Capital A distinctly Delhi experience

Lumbini Peace Marathon Running Around Buddha’s Home 36 Mon 22 March 2027 NEPAL Running the life of Buddha Combine running and pilgrimage in Nepal

Countryside running on the border of Austria

KD Amdavad Marathon Sun 21 February 2027 INDIA Where every step carries a cause

Danang International Marathon Sun 21 March 2027 VIETNAM A weekend made for running

Along the coastline and across Da Nang’s bridges

Where the city becomes part of the experience

Johannesbad Thermen-Marathon Sun 31 January 2027 GERMANY Where the finish line meets the spa

20th anniversary edition

World-class running and extraordinary local

Bank of Cyprus Nicosia Marathon Sun 24 January 2027 CYPRUS An international feel

Tokyo Marathon Sun 7 March 2027 JAPAN The day we unite

Features The first step

Strength training for runners

Keeping the momentum going

When the nights start drawing in and a chill creeps into the air how do you keep pushing towards your running goals?

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Elevating the stride First ever race management programme in India

he landscape of distance running in India marked a major watershed moment as the nation hosted its premier Race Management Programme in Hyderabad. Held alongside the action-packed NMDC Hyderabad Marathon Race Weekend from August 29 to August 31, 2026, the three-day event brought together over 40 key race organizers, race directors, and athletic movement leaders from across the country, Thailand & Nepal. Co-hosted by Hyderabad Marathon and AIMS, the initiative provided unprecedented access to global best practices in endurance event organization. Event was supported by Hyderabad Runners, Ifinish, Oneglint & Park Hyatt. Delegates received hands-on exposure to the live infrastructure of the NMDC Hyderabad Marathon, blending direct operational field visits with strategic discourse. At the Hitex Exhibition Grounds, participants surveyed the NMDC Sports Expo to analyze race kit distribution workflows, runner interaction zones, and commercial stall engagements. Start line operations were evaluated at People’s Plaza, where attendees “Understanding the broader ecosystem of road running was the biggest highlight for us. Vivek Singh’s session on leveraging digital media, securing meaningful sponsorships, and embedding philanthropy as a core pillar provided crucial business insights. Paired with Ulf Saletti’s masterclass on how Stockholm coordinates seamlessly with police, city authorities, and tourism alongside AIMS and World Athletics standards, this program oﬀered a world-class perspective on scaling a race sustainably.” Deepan Francis, Chennai Runners & Fresh Works Chennai Marathon

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analyzed critical entry point management, VIP movement protocols, runner corral structuring, and flag-oﬀ logistics. The field visits concluded at Gachibowli Stadium, where focus shifted to finish point management, including medical deployments, recovery area logistics, refreshment nodes, elite runner handling, and post-race baggage systems.

“Hearing Rut speak about how Bangsaen, Thailand was transformed into one of the world’s finest running events from scratch in just twelve years was profoundly inspiring. It proved that with total focus on a seamless runner experience, any region can build a world-class marathon destination. The Hyderabad workshop was packed with actionable intelligence, global benchmarking, and immense practical value for race directors across India.” Dr.Vinay Tiwari , The Great Chhattisgarh Run Race Director & Run Club Founder

Beyond the technical track walks and operational analysis, fostering strong peer connections was central to the gathering. On Sunday, August 30, race organizers gathered for an exclusive networking dinner. The evening provided a relaxed atmosphere for directors and movement leaders from across India to exchange personal insights, discuss regional challenges, and build collaborative partnerships aimed at strengthening the country’s broader running ecosystem.

■ To read the full article on the AIMS website visit https://aims-worldrunning. org/articles/3167elevating-the-stride.html or scan the QR code.

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AIMS NEWS

Bréal honoured at launch of Global Marathon Day A

IMS has funded the full restoration of Michel Bréal’s grave and named him Founder Emeritus, launching September 15 as an annual global ‘Marathon Day.’ The restoration was jointly organised by AIMS, ARTMARATHON, and the Michel Bréal Society. The date marks the anniversary of the letter Bréal wrote to Pierre de Coubertin proposing what became the marathon for the 1896 revival of the ancient Olympic Games — and, in the years since, the world’s most widely run race distance. Bréal, a professor at the Collège de France and one of the leading classical philologists of his era, was not a runner or a sports oﬃcial. He sat at Coubertin’s right at the closing banquet of the Sorbonne Congress on June 23, 1894, where the modern Olympic Games were formally founded after nearly fifteen centuries of dormancy. On 15 September of that year, writing from a hotel room in Glion, Switzerland, he wrote to Coubertin: “If you go to Athens, you might try to see if a race cannot be organised from Marathon to the Pnyx. That would have an antique flavour… As for me, I request the honour of donating the ‘Marathon Cup.’” (Michel Bréal, letter to Pierre de Coubertin, 15 September 1894) Coubertin embraced the idea. The 1896 Athens programme listed a “running event called ‘Marathon,’” and Bréal personally commissioned and funded the winner’s silver trophy from a Paris jeweler. It was awarded to Spyridon Louis, a Greek substitute runner who became the first Greek Olympic champion. The trophy remained in the Louis family for over a century before selling at Christie’s in London on April 18, 2012, for £541,250, and was acquired by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to remain on public display in Greece.

Michel Bréal’s great-greatgranddaughter Henrietta Parsons with AIMS President Paco Borao

first time this title has been awarded. “AIMS honours the historical origins of the marathon and works to ensure that Michel Bréal’s legacy is permanently acknowledged. Therefore, it is our intention to celebrate a global ‘Marathon Day’ every year on September 15th,” said Paco Borao, President, AIMS. With this year’s ceremony, AIMS intends to establish 15 September as an annual global “Marathon Day” going forward. The

The restored tomb

Bréal died in 1915 and was buried at Montparnasse Cemetery. His grave had fallen into disrepair, prompting the Michel Bréal Society, formed to preserve his legacy, to seek support from the international athletics community in collaboration with ARTMARATHON.

programme included welcome remarks from Paco Borao; Prof. Heinz-Helmut Lüger, President of the Michel Bréal Society; and Stefan Delfs of the German Embassy. Henrietta Parsons, Bréal’s great-great-granddaughter, delivered a family tribute.

AIMS had previously contributed to routine maintenance of the grave in 2012; this year’s commitment is significantly larger in scope, funding a full restoration and new memorial stone rather than upkeep alone. In recognition of his singular role in creating the event, AIMS conferred on Bréal the honorary designation of “Founder Emeritus” — the

Keynote remarks followed from Alexander Kitroeﬀ, Professor Emeritus of History at Haverford College, on the marathon’s significance to modern Greece, and from Horst Milde, founder of the Berlin Marathon, on Bréal’s influence on that race. The ceremony was moderated by Benedikt Morandi, ARTMARATHON president, and Hans W.

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AIMS NEWS

“AIMS honours the historical origins of the marathon and works to ensure Michel Bréal’s legacy is permanently acknowledged, celebrated every year through a global ‘Marathon Day’ on September 15th.” — Paco Borao, President, AIMS Bréal’s 1894 letter to Coubertin

‘Father of the marathon’ recognised after 130 years ■ By Jon Michael Boka, RunBangla International September 15, 2026, turned out to be a strange but poetic match for the occasion: cloudless, sun-bleached, and unseasonably warm — the kind of afternoon that felt closer to Marathon or Athens than to a Paris cemetery in mid-September. Giessen, deputy chairman of the Michel Bréal Society, followed by a press conference and a viewing of the restored tomb. AIMS, which represents 470 of the world’s leading marathons and distance races across over 120 countries, has long championed recognition of the sport’s history. Michel Bréal’s contribution — inventing an event without ever competing in one — remains one of the most distinctive founding stories in modern sport.

Just before 2pm, a group of roughly twenty-five arrived at Montparnasse for a ceremony funded by AIMS: the formal restoration of Michel Bréal’s grave, his naming as the organisation’s first-ever Founder Emeritus, and the launch of an annual global “Marathon Day” in his honour. It was a small crowd for what it represented — leadership from three international organisations, a delegation from the scholarly society devoted to Bréal’s memory, and members of his own family, several generations removed. Every marathon run today, from the largest major to the smallest rural course, exists because a French linguist who never once laced up a running shoe put an idea in a letter, written from a Swiss hotel room, 132 years ago this September. Bréal was present at the Sorbonne in 1894 when Pierre de Coubertin’s Congress formally revived the Olympic Games — but it was a letter he wrote three months later, on holiday in Glion, that created the race entirely: “If you go to Athens, you might try to see if a race cannot be organised from Marathon to the Pnyx,” he wrote. “As for me, I request the honour

of donating the ‘Marathon Cup.’” Bréal never saw his race run. He stayed home in France; on race day, the International Olympic Committee’s president sent him a telegram with the result. For 130 years, that debt went largely unrepaid — Bréal’s name faded even as his invention grew into a global phenomenon run by tens of millions. AIMS has now funded the grave’s complete restoration and confirmed its intent to establish 15 September as an annual “Marathon Day” going forward. “On behalf of the millions of women and men marathoners all around the world,” AIMS President Paco Borao told the gathering, “thank you Michel, thank you Pierre, and thank you all involved, one way or another, in this marvellous way of life.” There’s a linguistic footnote embedded in Bréal’s own letter that wouldn’t surface fully until a family member pointed it out at the ceremony itself: in 490 B.C., the word “Marathon” literally meant nothing more than “fennel field.” By naming his proposed race after that place, Bréal — who had also invented the modern academic study of semantics — gave the word an entirely new meaning, one so complete that people now casually describe any gruelling ordeal, athletic or otherwise, as “a real marathon” without a second thought. Recognising him properly, it turns out, took a marathon of its own. This September, at last, someone crossed the finish line.

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AIMS NEWS CHILDREN’S SERIES

A thousand children, one start line: how Songkhla opened its marathon to the next generation At 6:30 on the Saturday morning of Songkhla Marathon weekend, Chalatat Road looked like a school assembly had wandered onto a race course. More than 1,000 pupils from Songkhla’s municipal schools, most of them with a parent holding one hand and a race number in the other, lined up at the same start gantry the marathon field would use the next day.

Thailand’s second year of the AIMS Kids Series added a new format — a free 1 km run for schoolchildren inside an existing AIMS member race. More than 1,000 turned up

The AIMS Kids Series Songkhla was Thailand’s first attempt at an integrated children’s event — one that borrows the infrastructure of an AIMS member race rather than building its own. The start line, the finish, the medical cover, the volunteers and the sound system all belonged to the Songkhla Marathon Organising Committee. What the Kids Series added was the simplest possible race: one kilometre, no timing, no age groups, and an AIMS shirt and medal for every child who crossed the line. “We wanted to see whether a member race could add a thousand children on race weekend without adding a thousand problems,” says Rut Jiroaj, AIMS Board Member for Thailand and ASEAN, who leads the series. “The answer was yes. The organising committee had everything already. Our

Fact box ■ AIMS Kids Series Songkhla — Saturday 22 August 2026, 6:30 am, Chalatat Road, Tinsulanonda Stadium, Songkhla. 1 km, noncompetitive, free entry. 1,000+ children with parents. ■ AIMS Kids Relay Thung Song — Sunday 23 August 2026, 6:30 am, Thung Song, Nakhon Si Thammarat. 1km relay (teams of five, two reserves, by age group), motherand-child run, race for children with special needs. 150 teams, 100 pairs, 30 children. ■ Partners: Songkhla Marathon Organising Committee, Songkhla City Municipality, Thung Song Municipality, TMPSA, We Run Thailand. Shirts and medals supported by AIMS. 8

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job was to bring the schools, the shirts and the medals.” The schools came because Songkhla City Municipality asked them to. Entry was free, and the municipality’s endorsement turned a running event into a school outing — teachers signed up whole classes, and parents came to run alongside. Volunteers from TMPSA, the Thai race organisers’ association, and the We Run Thailand community handled the corrals and the finish. The result was a start line with a diﬀerent sound to it: more laughter than nervous chatter, a few tears at the back, and a finish where the medal mattered more than the clock. The municipality has already committed to co-organise a larger edition in 2027. Songkhla was the second of two Thai events on the same weekend. The following morning, inland in Thung Song, the AIMS

Kids Relay ran its second edition — 150 teams of five in a 1 km relay by age group, 100 mother-and-child pairs and 30 children with special needs, close to 1,000 young runners in all. Where Thung Song is a standalone event that a town builds and owns, Songkhla shows the other route: a member race that opens its doors for one extra hour on Saturday. Between them, the two events reached around 2,000 children. AIMS funded shirts and medals for 1,000; local partners, encouraged by what they saw in 2025, covered the rest. “Every member race already has a start line and a finish line,” says Rut. “Songkhla proved that is most of what you need. The rest is a phone call to the municipality.”

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AIMS NEWS NEW MEMBERS

Cracovia Marathon POL Established in 2002, the Cracovia Marathon has become Poland’s largest spring marathon and one of the country’s most important road running events. Organised by the City of Kraków, the run combines high-quality organisation with the unique heritage of one of Europe’s most historic cities. The event is held under the banner ‘Through History’ – as the route passes through the UNESCO World Heritage-listed centre

China Airlines Marathon – The Starry Night Run TPE

Pos Malaysia Run MAS As Malaysia’s national post and parcel delivery provider, Pos Malaysia connects communities across the country and internationally. The Pos Malaysia Run is the flagship running event of Pos Malaysia, reflecting the

of Kraków, and the start and finish are located at the iconic Main Market Square. The event attracts thousands of runners from Poland and around the world, oﬀering an unforgettable marathon experience. www.cracoviamaraton.pl Next confirmed event: Sun 18 April 2027

ActivePulse Chattogram International Marathon BAN activepulsebd.com/product/ apcm2026/ Next confirmed event: Fri 16 October 2026

Watlaharnrai Half Marathon THA Watlahanrai Half Marathon, organised by Yimyokyai Co. Ltd., is a running event that invites runners to compete while participating in a grand merit-making opportunity. Its hallmark is the integration of Luang Pu Tim Isariko’s image onto the finishers’ medals and trophies. This allows runners to collect them as proud mementos and sacred, auspicious keepsakes. The event is organised under the grace and permission of Phra

organisation’s commitment to connecting people, communities and businesses beyond postal and logistics services. The run embodies this same spirit of connection through sport and healthy living. Now in its third consecutive year Pos Malaysia Run continues to attract local and international runners in celebration of fitness, community engagement and national unity. The event features the 21km Half Marathon, 10km Run and Fun Run and welcomes participants of all ages and abilities in promoting active lifestyles, meaningful connections and a shared passion for running.

Maha Suradech Suratecho, the 8th Abbot of Watlahanrai. It is also supported by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), aiming to elevate the Watlahanrai Half Marathon into a signature sports tourism event for Rayong Province held in early September each year.

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The 2026 China Airlines Marathon – The Starry Night Run will take place on October 31 in Taipei, Taiwan. Organized by China Airlines, Taiwan’s national airline, the event brings together the spirit of running, travel and exploration under the theme “Run the World with China Airlines.” The race

features a World Athletics/ AIMS measured Half Marathon, a 10K Fun Run and a 6K Family Starlight Run. Set along Taipei’s riverside at night, the event combines road running with music, lights and a festive atmosphere, creating a unique running experience inspired by China Airlines’ global journey and the beauty of a starry night. cimarathon.china-airlines.com Next confirmed event: Sat 31 October 2026

Terengganu Marathon MAS In 2026 Terengganu Marathon welcomed 33,499 runners, making it one of the largest running events in Malaysia. Held along the scenic coastline of Terengganu, the marathon oﬀers participants a unique opportunity to experience breathtaking beaches, rich Malay heritage, warm local hospitality and the state’s vibrant culture. The event brings together runners from Malaysia and around the world, promoting healthy lifestyles, sports tourism and community spirit. As a new AIMS member we are committed to delivering an internationally recognised race and showcasing the natural beauty and cultural charm of Terengganu to the global running community. www.terengganumarathon.com Next confirmed event: Fri 30 April 2027–Sat 1 May 2027

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KD Amdavad Marathon IND The KD Amdavad Marathon is an experience where every kilometre connects fitness with the spirit, heritage and humanity of Ahmedabad. The forthcoming edition will be held on 21 February 2027. Over the last four editions the event has established itself as one of India’s leading cause-driven marathons, bringing together runners, families and communities on a route that showcases the city’s iconic landmarks and rich cultural heritage. The defining message of the marathon is “Donate Organs, Save Lives.” The event harnesses the collective energy of the running community to raise awareness of organ donation and encourage people to consider the extraordinary gift of giving someone another chance at life.

Inclusivity is another defining feature of the event, with more than 30% women’s participation. The strong presence of women runners reflects the marathon’s commitment to creating an environment where everyone feels encouraged to participate, compete and celebrate their own journey. kdamdavadmarathon.com Next confirmed event: Sun 21 February 2027

Vizag Marathon IND Set along the picturesque coastline of the Bay of Bengal, the Sandhya Marines Vizag Marathon has rapidly established itself as a premier destination race in Eastern India. This annual event oﬀers an invigorating seaside course framed by rolling hills and pristine ocean views. Featuring categories ranging from a 5K and 10K to a Half Marathon (21.1 km) and a unique 20-Miler (32 km) endurance run, it caters to both casual runners and distance veterans.

The Malta Marathon was first held in 1986 with just 109 participants. The Malta Half Marathon was added from 1987. The Malta Marathon is by far the most popular athletic event in Malta with a record number of 6000 participants in 2026. The routes boast fantastic scenery with a mix of historical landmarks, countryside and urban areas. The last 5km of both courses pass along the yacht creeks of Malta’s famous Grand Harbour. Numerous live bands encourage the runners along the route.

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AIMS RunVibes webinar series updates

n July James Thie hosted the third AIMS RunVibes webinar, focused on women’s running and building sustainable, inclusive communities. We welcomed four panellists: Liliana Uljas (Tallinn Marathon and Tallinn Women’s Run), Fransçoise Nehme (Beirut Marathon Association), Tina Shaire, (Nigerian legal expert and ultra marathoner), and Saki Mitsuda (Nagoya Women’s Marathon). The panel discussed how grassroots communities had transformed women’s lives, imagined an ideal marathon for women by 2030, weighed whether running could genuinely change society, and considered how the sport could adapt to women rather than the reverse. Panellists shared stories of participants who became leaders themselves and covered topics like women-only races and safety. Each proposed one idea from their city worth copying worldwide. The webinar closed

with predictions for 2036 headlines, before James thanked the panel and previewed the next session on technology and data in running events. September’s RunVibes webinar brought together three leading voices in road running to explore how technology, AI, and analytics are reshaping the sport. Yu Kurosaki (Director and President, R-bies, Inc.), Shahrizan Saad (founder of Langkawi Runners and Race Director of the Langkawi International Half Marathon) and Alex Rose (Co-founder and COO of Let’s Do This) joined for a wide-ranging 60-minute discussion spanning four segments: AI’s

role in the runner experience, a fully digitalfirst event by 2035, data-driven operational eﬃciency, and where organisers should invest now. The panel also tackled harder questions around data ownership, digital inclusion, and race integrity. Yet for all the talk of technology, one message came through clearly: the human touch must never be lost. Road running remains, at its heart, about personal connection, and technology’s real value lies in freeing up time to deepen it. To catch up with any of the previous webinars head to Youtube and search AIMs Runvibes or scan the QR code. The next live webinar is on Wednesday 18 November at 2pm CET, where the focus is on all community elements of running and events. DISTANCE RUNNING | 2026 EDITION 4

AIMS NEWS MARATHONEUM

Standing ovation for Horst Milde at AIMS Congress Berlin Marathon founder leads tribute to president of Berlin Forum for Sports History

orst Milde — the coordinator of the AIMS Marathon Museum “Marathoneum” in Berlin paid tribute to Gerd Steins, President of the Berlin Forum for Sports History, who has been researching the history and development of running for decades. AIMS is the only sports organization that researches its own history in this way. Gerd Steins (a former teacher) has documented this in the MARATHONEUM Documents through decades of unpaid work—eight issues over ten years. MARATHONEUM Document No. 8 is available in print as a 12-page issue. “AIMS is celebrating two important anniversaries this year: the 130th anniversary of the Olympic Games in Athens and the 90th anniversary of the Olympic Torch Relay from Olympia, Greece, to Berlin in 1936. In 2026, World Athletics awarded the Forum for Sports History the ‘World Athletics Heritage Plaque’ in recognition of its contributions to researching the history of running and track and field. Our mission is to remember and thank the pioneers who came before us and developed this movement—the organizers, race directors, volunteers, and runners—who have already been forgotten; that is our job.

Horst Milde

“Starting in the summer of 2027, the Forum for Sports History will have a new digital home, which will then be ‘the place to go’ for anyone interested in running and track and field.” The assembly gave Horst Milde a standing ovation as he stepped down from the podium.

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Dejan Nikolic, Central Europe

Rachid Ben Meziane (Marrakech)

Inna Chernoblavskaya, Russia

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Fernando Jamarne (Santiago) Martha Morales (Tangamanga) Mike Nishi (Chicago) Tiago Teixiera (Porto) Akira Takeuchi (Osaka) Rajesh Vetcha (Hyderabad)

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Europe & Africa: Lucija Kolic,

Av Spyros Louis, Athens, Greece

Gary Friar (Communications)

Jean Francois Delasalle

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Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon CHINESE TAIPEI LOOKING AHEAD | 10 JANUARY 2027

he 2027 Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon has officially opened for registration, reinforcing its position as one of Taiwan’s leading international road races and a key event in Standard Chartered’s global running calendar. Taking place on 10 January 2027, the event returns under the theme “Together, we run further”, bringing runners together through sport, community engagement and charitable action.

Celebration of endurance Run with a charitable mission

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Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon CHINESE TAIPEI LOOKING AHEAD | 10 JANUARY 2027

This year’s edition introduces a 12 km race category, replacing the previous 11 km distance and expanding the race programme alongside the 3 km, half marathon and marathon events. As the opening race in Standard Chartered’s global series of running events across ten cities worldwide, the Taipei marathon continues to connect local and international runners while promoting inclusion, wellbeing and participation. The event’s international profile continues to grow following its designation as an Abbott World Marathon Majors (AbbottWMM) Age Group World Rankings qualifying race, strengthening its appeal among competitive runners seeking international recognition and qualification opportunities.

Participants can join the marathon’s popular Shakeout Run, a relaxed pre-race run organised on the day before the event for overseas and local runners. The activity offers runners an opportunity to adapt to local weather conditions, explore Taipei’s iconic streets and landmarks and connect with fellow participants from around the world. More than a warm-up session, the Shakeout Run has become an integral part of the race experience, showcasing the city’s hospitality and vibrant running culture. The marathon’s charitable mission remains at the heart of the event. Since 2013 funds raised more than TWD 140 million (3.8 million EUR) through race entries, public donations and fundraising initiatives have supported programmes focused on youth employability, women’s entrepreneurship and opportunities for people with visual impairments. Through these efforts, the marathon demonstrates how running can create meaningful impact far beyond the finish line. With its expanded race programme, global credentials, community-focused initiatives and long-standing commitment to social impact, the 2027 Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon is set to welcome runners from around the world in a celebration of endurance, inclusion and purpose. Registration is open until 30 October 2026. For more information about the event, race categories and registration details, visit the official website and follow the event’s official Facebook page. ■ scbmarathon.com facebook.com/scbmarathon?fref=ts DISTANCE RUNNING | 2026 EDITION 4

Buriram Marathon Presented by Chang Mineral THAILAND LOOKING AHEAD | 23 JANUARY 2027

Your ultimate A destination

s Buriram Marathon celebrates its 11th edition in 2027, it continues to redefine what a marathon experience can be. Buriram Marathon has become a destination where sport, culture, entertainment, and community come together to create unforgettable memories for every runner.

World-class running and extraordinary local spirit

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Buriram Marathon Presented by Chang Mineral THAILAND LOOKING AHEAD | 23 JANUARY 2027

Under the theme, “Your Ultimate Destination,” from the moment runners arrive in Buriram, they are welcomed by a city that proudly embraces the event as its biggest annual celebration. Over the past decade Buriram Marathon has established a strong reputation among runners across Asia by combining world-class race organisation with Thailand’s renowned hospitality. Every January, thousands of runners from around the world travel to Buriram to experience an event that is a celebration of sport, culture, and community. One of the race’s most unforgettable highlights is the incredible support from the people of Buriram. Throughout the entire course, local residents line the streets to cheer, sing, dance, and encourage every participant from start to finish. Their genuine warmth and endless energy create an emotional connection that has become one of the event’s defining characteristics. For many runners the encouragement from the local community is just as memorable as crossing the finish line itself. Buriram Marathon is organised in accordance with the World Athletics Label Road Race standards and features a 100% closed-road course, allowing runners to enjoy a safe, professionally managed race from start to finish. Every aspect of the event—from race operations and medical support to hydration stations and course management—is carefully planned to deliver an exceptional experience for both elite athletes and recreational runners. As Thailand’s largest night marathon, Buriram Marathon transforms the city into a

spectacular festival of lights, music, and celebration. Along the 42.195-kilometre course, runners are surrounded by dazzling lighting displays, live entertainment, energetic music, local music, and vibrant cheering zones. The atmosphere is so unique that many runners aﬀectionately describe it as “a music festival stretching 42.195 kilometres.” The celebration continues long after crossing the finish line. More than 100 local food vendors serve Buriram’s famous dishes and regional specialties with complimentary food available for every finisher. It is the perfect way to recover, celebrate, and experience the authentic flavours and warm hospitality of Buriram. Whether you are chasing a personal best, running your first marathon or searching for your next unforgettable race destination, Buriram Marathon oﬀers world-class racing and extraordinary local spirit. Races are measured by time, but the most memorable ones are measured by the moments you take home. Buriram Marathon 2027 is Your Ultimate Destination. ■ www.burirammarathon.com facebook.com/bru.marathon/ DISTANCE RUNNING | 2026 EDITION 4

Bank of Cyprus Nicosia Marathon CYPRUS LOOKING AHEAD | 24 JANUARY 2027

Where the city becomes part of the experience

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here’s something special about running a marathon in a city with so much history beneath your feet. At the Bank of Cyprus Nicosia Marathon, the city itself becomes part of the experience. As the capital’s oﬃcial marathon, the event welcomes more than 8000 runners from 50 countries, bringing together people of diﬀerent ages, backgrounds and abilities for a weekend of running in the heart of Nicosia. It is a race with an international feel, but one that remains closely connected to the character of the city. DISTANCE RUNNING | 2026 EDITION 4

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As the miles pass and the challenge becomes greater, the character of the city takes on a different significance. Nicosia is a city that has endured, evolved and continued to move forward. It is fitting backdrop for a marathon – a distance that asks every runner to keep going even when the road becomes difficult. The Bank of Cyprus Nicosia Marathon offers a Half Marathon, a 10km race, a 5km Road Race, a 5km Corporate Race and a 1km Kids’ Race. Whether you are chasing a personal best, taking on your first race, or looking for a shared experience with family and friends, there is a distance for everyone. The route takes runners through some of Nicosia’s most recognisable landmarks including the Liberty Monument, Famagusta Gate and the narrow, charming streets of the Old Town. Along the way ancient walls and historic buildings sit alongside the everyday life of a modern capital. It is this contrast that makes running here so distinctive. For a runner the experience changes as the kilometres pass. The excitement of the start gradually gives way to the familiar rhythm of finding your pace, settling into your breathing and focusing on the road ahead. There are moments when the surroundings catch your attention and remind you to look beyond the time.

That is what gives the Bank of Cyprus Nicosia Marathon its character. Thousands of runners arrive with diﬀerent goals, but for a few hours, they share the same streets and become part of the capital’s living story. For every runner it is a chance to experience Nicosia in a way that stays with you long after you cross the finish line. ■ www.nicosiamarathon.com https://www.facebook.com/ NicosiaMarathonCy

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Johannesbad Thermen-Marathon GERMANY LOOKING AHEAD | 31 JANUARY 2027

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Where the finish line meets the spa

here are marathons where the reward for reaching the finish line is a medal, a warm drink and the satisfaction of having survived 42.195 kilometres. At the Johannesbad Thermen-Marathon in Bad Füssing, the reward can be rather more restorative: the finish is at a thermal spa.

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That distinctive setting gives this winter race an identity of its own. For the runner, however, the experience begins long before the possibility of post-race relaxation. On race morning, Bad Füssing has the familiar atmosphere of marathon day: runners arriving with their race plans, checking watches, warming up and exchanging the quiet observations that belong to the hours before a long run.

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Yet there is a relaxed quality to the occasion, without the sense of overwhelming scale found at the world’s biggest city marathons. The start is at Johannesbad Thermen, with the marathon and half marathon beginning at 10:00. The race programme also includes a 10-kilometre event and races for younger participants, creating a broad running community around the main event. Once the field gets moving the character of the race becomes clear. The course leads away from the spa and into the countryside surrounding Bad Füssing, following predominantly asphalt roads through villages and open rural landscapes. Fields, meadows and wooded stretches provide a changing backdrop, while the relatively quiet roads allow runners to concentrate on the rhythm of their own running.

That is what makes the Thermen-Marathon particularly memorable. It combines the essential qualities of a road marathon – a measured course, the discipline of pacing and the shared experience of running – with the distinctive character of a spa town in winter. For runners travelling to Germany in search of a diﬀerent marathon experience, Bad Füssing oﬀers a simple proposition. Start among fellow runners, run through the Bavarian countryside, finish where you began – and let the thermal waters take care of what comes next. ■ www.thermen-marathon.de

For marathoners, the two-lap format adds another dimension. The opening circuit is an opportunity to find a sustainable pace and absorb the surroundings. On the second lap, familiar landmarks become markers of progress, and the psychological challenge of maintaining concentration begins to match the physical one. Then comes the return to Johannesbad. The finish is not merely a geographical endpoint but a return to where the day began. After the final kilometres, crossing the line brings the familiar mixture of relief, pride and fatigue – followed, unusually, by the prospect of thermal recovery.

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KD Amdavad Marathon INDIA LOOKING AHEAD | 21 FEBRUARY 2027

Where every step carries a cause Creating an impact beyond the finish line

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he KD Amdavad Marathon is an experience where every kilometre connects fitness with the spirit, heritage and humanity of Ahmedabad. The forthcoming edition will be held on 21 February 2027. Over the last four editions the event has established itself as one of India’s leading cause-driven marathons, bringing together runners, families and communities on a route that showcases the city’s iconic landmarks and rich cultural heritage. The defining message of the marathon is “Donate Organs, Save Lives.” As runners make their way through Ahmedabad, every step becomes a reminder that running can create an impact far beyond the finish line. The event harnesses the collective energy of the running community to raise awareness of organ donation and encourage people to consider the extraordinary gift of giving someone another chance at life. Dr Adit Desai, Managing Director, KD Hospital, emphasises the purpose behind the event: “KD Amdavad Marathon was created to use the power of running to raise awareness for organ donation and inspire people to make a life-saving diﬀerence. Every runner who participates becomes an ambassador for this cause. When we see the data 1,235 families have agreed to organ donation, while 89,839 people are still waiting for an organ transplant. Behind these numbers are individuals and families waiting with hope for a transplant that could change their lives. At KD Hospitals we have performed 271 transplants, and our journey towards saving more lives continues. Through the KD Amdavad Marathon, we

hope to amplify this message and inspire more people to come forward and give the gift of life.” For a participant the experience is equally about discovering Ahmedabad while running through its heritage. The course oﬀers runners a unique opportunity to experience the city’s character as they move through historic neighbourhoods and landmarks, cheered on by an enthusiastic community. It transforms a conventional road race into a celebration of the city itself. Dr Rahul Sharma, Race Director, says, “We endeavour to create an experience where runners feel the heritage, energy and soul of Ahmedabad with every kilometre.” Inclusivity is another defining feature of the event, with more than 30% women’s participation. The strong presence of women runners reflects the marathon’s commitment to creating an environment where everyone

feels encouraged to participate, compete and celebrate their own journey. Dr Erika Patel, Race Ambassador & She Races India Head, highlights this focus: “When women run, they inspire families and communities to embrace fitness. KD Amdavad Marathon provides a platform where women can run with confidence, purpose and pride.” From the excitement at the start line to the final surge towards the finish, the KD Amdavad Marathon brings together fitness, heritage and humanity. For runners it is a chance to challenge themselves, experience Ahmedabad diﬀerently and to run for a cause that can save lives. Every kilometre becomes more meaningful when the finish line represents not just personal achievement, but the possibility of giving someone else a new beginning. ■ kdamdavadmarathon.com DISTANCE RUNNING | 2026 EDITION 4

Cognizant New Delhi Marathon INDIA LOOKING AHEAD | 28 FEBRUARY 2027

A distinctly Delhi experience

Community meets the Capital

he Cognizant New Delhi Marathon 2027, the 12th edition of the event, is scheduled for 28 February 2027.

This iconic event brings together more than 30,000 runners, transforming the capital into a celebration of endurance, ambition, inclusion and community. With participants representing all 32 States and Union Territories, and over 31 countries, the event lives up to its positioning as The National Marathon. Recognition by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) as the National Marathon places the race firmly within India’s elite competitive athletics calendar.

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outcomes, alongside significant media and brand value. It shows how a marathon can create value far beyond the finish line. The race is recognised by the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) and by World Athletics, reinforcing its standing within the international running community. This convergence of elite athletes and recreational runners is one of the event’s defining strengths. The same start line brought together athletes chasing national qualification and first-time runners and families participating in the shorter distances. The Cognizant New Delhi Marathon takes runners through the heart of India’s capital, creating a unique intersection between sport, history and civic identity. The race environment connects the modern culture of running with the city’s monumental landmarks and broad avenues. For runners travelling from across India and overseas, the experience is about running through the capital of the country surrounded by the architecture and history that define New Delhi. The route has historically taken in iconic locations including Lodhi Garden, Khan Market, Humayun’s Tomb, India Gate and Kartavya Path, giving participants a distinctly Delhi experience. But the scale of the event was only one part of its story. An assessment of the recent edition points to a substantial 360° impact, spanning health, social and economic 30

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The participation numbers are significant, but the real impact lies in what they represent: running clubs travelling together, corporate teams embracing fitness, young runners discovering endurance sport, experienced athletes pursuing new goals and communities using running as a platform for connection. The participant findings bring this to life. Most participants reported real improvements across the board: better overall health, greater stamina and energy throughout the day, and a noticeable drop in stress levels. The social dimension was just as compelling. The event created considerable social impact, with participants reporting a stronger sense of community belonging and greater civic pride in Delhi. Many said they formed new connections through the event, and inclusivity for women and people with diverse abilities came through strongly in the findings. The Cognizant New Delhi Marathon is a statement about where Indian distance running is headed — more competitive, more inclusive, more national in reach and increasingly connected to the global running community. It’s a race that brings the nation together, one stride at a time. ■ www.newdelhimarathon.com www.facebook.com/newdelhimarathon/

Tokyo Marathon JAPAN LOOKING AHEAD | 7 MARCH 2027

The day we unite 20th anniversary edition

rganized by the Tokyo Marathon Foundation, the inaugural Tokyo Marathon was held on 18 February 2007. Guided by its central theme, “The Day We Unite.” the event has brought together runners, volunteers, and spectators for 19 editions. In 2011 the foundation launched its oﬃcial charity program, “Run with Heart,” enabling participants and donors to contribute meaningfully to diverse charitable causes.

Marking its 10th anniversary in 2016, the oﬃcial race logo was renewed to portray the shared energy of runners, volunteers and cheering crowds along the course—symbolizing the unifying spirit of the marathon. The following year, in 2017, the event introduced a new course finishing directly in front of Tokyo Station. Since this course change the Tokyo Marathon has produced numerous record-breaking times in both the men’s and women’s divisions.

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Tokyo Marathon JAPAN LOOKING AHEAD | 7 MARCH 2027 All pictures © Tokyo Marathon Foundation

In 2027 we look forward to celebrating our 20th anniversary. For this milestone, we have shone a light on individual dots in our Key Visual art. From single points of light to beams. From beams to fields of light. From these fields of light new points are born to become their own beams and form their own fields of light. Through running, people’s spirits and feelings unite the marathon and unite Tokyo, spreading out into the world. We’ve gone back to the basics and designed a new starting point for the 20th anniversary of the Tokyo Marathon. Opportunities are still available to join the celebration through related running events. The Friendship Run 2027 – a fun run of approximately 5km – welcomes runners from overseas to foster international interaction and strengthen global unity. The Family Run

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2027—a 1km fun run open to elementary school students running alongside a parent or guardian—oﬀers a wonderful chance for families to spend meaningful time together. Both events provide the perfect environment to experience the true joy of running while soaking up the Tokyo Marathon atmosphere. Global volunteer positions remain open for those who wish to support runners along the course. Please visit our oﬃcial website to discover how you can take part in this special milestone celebration: ■ www.marathon.tokyo/en/ facebook.com/tokyo42195.org

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Danang International Marathon VIETNAM LOOKING AHEAD | 21 MARCH 2027

A weekend made for running Along the coastline and across Da Nang’s bridges

ome to one of the most scenic coastal race courses in Southeast Asia, Danang International Marathon is more than a race that happens to take place in Da Nang. It is a race that moves with the whole city. From the moment runners arrive, they step into a race weekend where running brings them into the rhythm of the city. Now in its 14th edition, Danang International Marathon brings together a full weekend 34

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built around running, community and the energy of Da Nang. Through Our Local Spot, a special programme created for runners, Danang International Marathon connects its community with local businesses and experiences, bringing exclusive oﬀers to runners. A meal at a local restaurant. A massage or recovery session. A local motorbike tour. An evening cultural show. Together, these experiences turn a race trip into a racecation, with the race creating new ways for runners to experience the city around it.

Danang International Marathon VIETNAM LOOKING AHEAD | 21 MARCH 2027 New for 2027, the 5km Night Run takes runners along the coastline after dark, with lights, music and DJs giving the race a rhythm all its own. It is a chance to run with friends and experience a side of Da Nang that only comes alive after dark. For the next generation, the Kids Run oﬀers 1.5km and 500m distances for young runners and their families. Then come the main races: the 42.195km Marathon, 21.1km Half Marathon and 10km. The course follows the coastline before taking runners across Da Nang’s bridges, where the first light of day opens views across the Han River and the city below. There is the challenge of the distance, but also the occasional reason to look away from the watch and take in the view. Every kilometre comes with company. With aid stations, medical support and baggage services in place, runners can focus on the experience and the challenge ahead. Volunteers bring energy to the course. Local residents line the streets. Even visitors who happen to be passing by stop to clap and cheer runners they have never met. Their cheers fill the streets, pushing runners through the toughest kilometres and turning the final stretch into a celebration. Each year, Danang International Marathon welcomes runners from more than 78 countries and territories to Da Nang. On 21 March 2027, the 14th edition will bring this international running community together for a weekend where the city runs with them. Come for the kilometres. Stay for the city that welcomes you. Run It. Explore It. Love It. ■ www.rundanang.com facebook.com/ dananginternationalmarathon

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Lumbini Peace Marathon Running Around Buddha’s Home NEPAL LOOKING AHEAD | 22 MARCH 2027

Combine running and pilgrimage in Nepal

he Lumbini Peace Marathon offers runners from around the world a unique opportunity to experience a marathon unlike any other; a journey that combines sport, spirituality, culture and pilgrimage. It is a spiritual marathon, inviting participants to run through some of the most sacred sites associated with the life of Shakyamuni Buddha. Set in the birthplace of Buddha, Lumbini, this thematic marathon connects the spirit of running with a journey of peace and self-discovery. Participants will follow in the footsteps of Buddha, experiencing the historic and spiritual significance of Lumbini, Tilaurakot and Kapilvastu – places that are deeply connected to his life and teachings. Every kilometre becomes an opportunity for reflection, mindfulness and spiritual connection.

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Running the life of Buddha

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Lumbini Peace Marathon Running Around Buddha’s Home NEPAL LOOKING AHEAD | 22 MARCH 2027

For runners constantly searching for new destinations and meaningful experiences, the Lumbini Peace Marathon oﬀers something truly distinctive. It combines the excitement and endurance of long-distance running with the opportunity to discover Nepal’s rich Buddhist heritage. The route transforms the marathon into a pilgrimage on foot, allowing participants to experience the landscape, culture, history, and spirituality of one of the world’s most revered destinations. For hundreds of millions of Buddhists around the world, Lumbini is the holiest pilgrimage destination associated with the Buddha. Its importance to Buddhism can be compared with the significance of the Vatican and Jerusalem for Christianity, Mecca and Medina for Islam, and other sacred pilgrimage destinations for major faith traditions. Lumbini therefore holds a special place in the spiritual heritage of humanity. The Lumbini Peace Marathon seeks to bring people together through running while promoting the universal values taught by Buddha – peace, compassion, harmony, mindfulness and non-violence. It is an invitation to runners, pilgrims, and peace seekers from every corner of the world to come to Lumbini, discover its sacred heritage, and share a common message of peace. Participants are invited to run for Lumbini, run for the Buddhist Pancha Sheel and Run for World Peace. With every step, the marathon demonstrates how sport can transcend competition to unite people, cultures, and communities in the pursuit of peace. The Lumbini Peace Marathon is a journey of the body, mind, and spirit through the birthplace of Buddha towards a world of greater harmony. ■ www.lumbinipeacemarathon.com www.facebook.com/lumbinimarathon 38

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OPINION

o one is born a long-distance runner. It almost always starts without a plan – for fun, on a whim – and then, gradually, becomes something closer to devotion. Behind every finisher’s triumphant smile is an ordinary person who once struggled to complete a single mile and slowly, stubbornly, became the kind of person who finishes countless more. Those finish-line moments are paid for in advance: with breathlessness, aching joints, self-doubt, missed alarms and a hundred quiet temptations to quit. Most people start for reasons that have little to do with running itself – to reclaim their health, to manage stress, to lose weight, to recover from illness or simply to find out what they’re capable of. The early runs are always uncomfortable; every step seems to question the decision. But the body adapts faster than we expect. New capillaries thread through muscle. The heart strengthens. Bones and tendons thicken to meet the load. Resting heart rate drops, sleep deepens, blood pressure and blood sugar begin to settle. None of it is visible at first. Then, one day, it is undeniable. Running teaches that this is a mind game. Progress is rarely dramatic; it is slow, cumulative, and mostly invisible while it’s happening. At some point on every runner’s journey, motivation runs out before the body does. What takes its place – some call it discipline, I call it stubbornness – is the moment the mind finally catches up to the body and rewrites what a person believes they’re capable of. That shift doesn’t stay on the track. It shows up everywhere else in a runner’s life. There’s a familiar milestone in every distance runner’s story: a distance that once felt impossible suddenly becomes ordinary. Not because the course got easier, but because the runner did – a runner’s soul has been built, quietly, out of repetition.

The first step BY DR JOSEPH A ELIZ A BE T H

The health case for running is well established: improved cardiovascular fitness, lower blood pressure, better insulin sensitivity, stronger bones and muscles, better sleep, and – critically, as we age – preserved independence and functional capacity. But the psychological rewards may matter more. Running is often described as moving meditation: worries fade, problems shrink to manageable size, and clarity arrives uninvited. The rhythmic repetition of footfall stimulates serotonin, the brain chemical that regulates mood and sleep, alongside dopamine and endorphins that produce motivation and relief from pain. Over time, this rewires the brain toward better emotional regulation – not metaphorically, but structurally.

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Running also creates rare space to disconnect – from screens, from noise – and reconnect with one’s own thoughts, or with the people running beside you. It is never entirely solitary. Around the world, running communities keep expanding, pulling together people who would otherwise never share a room: doctors beside teachers, students beside CEOs, first-timers beside veterans. Age, profession, nationality, and language all become secondary to the single shared purpose of putting one foot in front of the other. Perhaps that’s why a finish line carries such outsized emotion – every runner there understands instinctively what it cost every other runner to arrive. Running remains one of the most democratic sports in the world. It asks for little: a safe route, a decent pair of shoes, and a personal decision to start. Coaching and gear can refine a runner’s technique, but nothing substitutes for showing up. And despite a persistent myth that endurance running belongs to elite athletes, most distance runners come to the sport for the opposite reason – to manage obesity, hypertension, diabetes, or depression, or simply to find something on the other side of a hard year. People discover running in their forties, fifties, seventies. With sensible medical guidance and gradual progression, most people carrying a chronic condition can safely take it up. The goal was never to win; it was to be a little better than yesterday.

Distance running proves that success isn’t found beyond the finish line – it’s built behind it, in the unseen mornings, the lonely sessions, the aching muscles and the stubborn belief that progress is still possible. Every finish line marks the start of another race: the race toward a stronger body, a steadier mind, and proof of what an ordinary person can do with extraordinary persistence. The next great distance runner may be training somewhere right now. More importantly, so is the next ordinary person who has simply decided to take the first step.

The global running movement reflects that same openness – from neighborhood park runs to the Abbott World Marathon Majors, from beach and mountain ultras to the One Global Mile organized under the AIMS umbrella. Runners today belong to an international community divided by event but united by experience, one that often introduces them to new geography, cultures and friendships that outlast the race itself. There is no secret formula to any of it. Walk before you run. Jog before you sprint. Run short before you run far. Respect recovery, fuel properly and listen to your body. Celebrate every milestone, however small – the first 5K deserves as much satisfaction as the marathon, because both represent the same victory over the same doubts.

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HEALTH & FITNESS

Strength training for runners L

ong-distance running is often associated with hundreds of miles and spending hours on the road.

While running volume is certainly an important part of preparing for a marathon, there is another form of training that should not be overlooked: strength training. It is not about becoming a bodybuilder or adding unnecessary muscle mass. Instead, it is about developing a stronger, more resilient body that can handle the repetitive demands of running eﬃciently. When incorporated correctly, strength training can improve running performance, reduce the risk of injury, and help runners maintain good form when fatigue sets in. Strength training can help to improve the way the muscles and nervous system produce and control force. Stronger muscles Regular strength training contributes to a more efficient running style. Picture: SCC EVENTS/Petko Beier

For elite runners, such as those competing at the BMW Berlin Marathon 2025, regular strength training is an integral part of their training routine. Picture: SCC EVENTS/Sebastian Wells

can contribute to a more eﬃcient stride, allowing runners to maintain their pace without wasting as much energy. If certain muscles are weak or if the body struggles to control movement under load, repeated stress can contribute to overuse problems. The more a runner trains, the more important it becomes to ensure that the body can tolerate the workload. The cardiovascular system may be capable of handling the training, while individual muscles, tendons, or joints may struggle to keep up. Exercises such as squats, split squats, deadlifts, calf raises, and hip-strengthening movements can protect areas that are important for running. A well-designed strength program can therefore complement running by helping the body become more capable of handling training loads. The lower leg plays an important role in running. The calves and Achilles tendon are involved in absorbing and returning energy with every stride. Because these structures experience substantial repetitive loading, developing their strength and capacity is important for runners. Calf raises, including both straight-knee and bent-knee variations, can be useful additions to a runner’s strength routine. Exercises that challenge the feet and lower legs can also help runners develop greater control and resilience. Two strength-training sessions per week can be an eﬀective starting point. They might include: squat or split-squat movement, hip-hinge movement such as a deadlift, calfstrengthening exercise, single-leg exercise, core exercise, optional upper-body exercise

BY DR . MED MARG R IT LOCK

Dr. med. Margrit Lock is Executive Board Member Medical of the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON and SCC EVENTS. As a board member, she is responsible for the orthopaedic and trauma surgery leadership in the care of international elite athletes at SCC EVENTS competitions as well as for the Marathon Team Berlin. The exact exercises, sets, repetitions, and loads should depend on the runner’s experience, goals, training phase, and overall workload. Long-distance running is an endurance sport, but endurance alone is not enough. A runner needs a body capable of repeatedly absorbing and producing force over thousands of strides. Strength training can help improve running economy, support running form, increase muscular capacity, improve performance on hills, and make the body more resilient to the demands of high-volume training. DISTANCE RUNNING | 2026 EDITION 4

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October 2026 – October 2027 AIMS member events for the forthcoming 12 months For the latest dates visit aims-worldrunning.org/calendar.html · Race names of founding members (1982) are shown in green

October 2026

Snow Leopard Run  Bishkek KGZ M,H,R

Int’l Marathon  Amman JOR M,H,R

 EST M,H,R

of America Chicago Marathon Toronto Waterfront Marathon Air Marathon  Bank  TCS  EVA USA M 61 CAN M,H,R 58 TPE M,H,R Marathon Eindhoven Marathon  ASML  Beijing  Mainova Frankfurt Marathon NED M,H,R 64 CHN M 58

Tartu City Marathon

– Kuala Lumpur Standard Chartered Marathon MAS M,H,R

Cologne Marathon  Generali GER M,H Colombo Marathon  LSR SRI M Dehradun Marathon  Sarmang IND M,H,R

63 59 65 60

Palma Marathon Mallorca  TUI ESP M,H,R

Delhi Half Marathon  Vedanta IND H

Int’l de Juárez  Maratón MEX M,H

Melbourne Marathon Festival  Nike AUS M 57

Int’l de Marrakech P 10km Cancelled

 GER M,H,R

Antwerp Marathon  TREK BEL M

Half Marathon  Kazan RUS H,R

 POR H

Hyundai Lisbon Half Marathon

Marathon München by Brooks

Life Dublin Marathon  Irish IRL M

GER M

 GER H

Marathon  Kanazawa JPN M

 IND M,H

hella hamburg half marathon

Kashmir Marathon

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China Airlines Marathon – The Starry Night Run

 SRB M

Air Sofia Marathon  Wizz BUL M,H,R

Marathon  TAWANG IND M,H,R

November 2026

LOTTO Poznań Marathon  25th POL M

Half Marathon  Tlajomulco MEX H

Marathon  Lausanne SUI M

Marathon  Hangzhou CHN M



 MEX M

 CAN M

Moh Half Marathon  Mae THA H,R

– Lucerne  SwissCityMarathon SUI M,H,R

Marathon  Silesia POL M,H,R

Sparkasse Marathon  3AUTCountry M,H

Marathon  Turkistan KAZ M,H,R

 TUR M

Air Skopje Marathon  Wizz MKD M,H,R

Chattogram  ActivePulse Int’l Marathon

 USA M

Half Marathon  XinWu TPE H,R

Seoul Marathon  JTBC KOR M

Hanoi International  Techcombank Marathon VIE M,H,R

 SVK M

Košice Peace Marathon

Queretaro Maraton

Indian Air Force Marathon  Sekhon (SIM) IND M,H,R

 VEN R

XXV Gatorade CCS Rock

– 41st SPAR Budapest Marathon HUN M

Marathon  Kathmandu NEP M,H,R

 POR M

EDP Lisbon Marathon

Marathon, Half and 10K  Zagreb CRO M,H,R

Novi Sad Marathon

Royal Victoria Marathon

BAN M,H,R

– NLB Ljubljana Marathon SLO M

– TCS Amsterdam Marathon NED M

60 66 60 64 64 58

Marathon  Gyeongju KOR M Thessaloniki Night  International Halfmarathon, 10K, 5K & 1 Mile GRE H,R

SPEC Int’l Half-Marathon & 5K  UWI TRI H,R 66

Maratón Valencia Trinidad  Medio Alfonso Zurich

64 62 60

– Yerevan Marathon and Half Marathon ARM M,H,R 57 Int’l Marathon  Taichung TPE M,H,R



Yellow River Estuary (Dongying) Marathon CHN M

58 58

Chiayi City Ponds International Marathon – Elite Race TPE M,H

ESP H

TPE H,R

GRN M,H,U

İstanbul Marathon TCS New York City Marathon

 KOR M

Key

Aguascalientes  Maratón MEX M,H,R

M Marathon H Half Marathon R Road Race U Ultradistance

1 AIMS One Global Mile member

Int’l de Casablanca  Marathon MAR M

 CHN M,H,R

IMPORTANT: At the time of publication, the above dates were believed correct, however, runners should confirm directly with race organisers prior to booking arrangements.

Changsha Marathon Chengdu Marathon

58 58

 Venicemarathon ITA M Chuncheon Int’l Marathon

Race names of Founding Members are shown in green

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CALENDAR & Thompson Runaway  Barfoot Auckland Marathon presented by ASICS

NZL M,H,R

 TPE M,R

Sun Moon Lake Marathon



Taiwan National Parks Marathon Yangmingshan TPE M,H,R

Rizvi Memorial Cancer  Saquib Awareness Half Marathon IND H,R

64 58

Running Series  Ring GER M,H

Marathon Sandakan  Elopura MAS M,H,R

Bay Heritage Marathon  Halong VIE M,H,R

Ethiopian Run 10km presented  Great by Bank of America ETH R

 ITA H,R

Powerade Milano Half Marathon

Int’l Marathon  Pune IND M,H,R Marathon - the Half  Reggae Marathon, 10K & 5K JAM H,R

60 62

San José CR 10K, Half & Marathon  30 CRC M,H,R 14 Marathon  Shanghai CHN M

Marathon  Shenzhen CHN M

planned date

Run Bangladesh Accounting Day Run  NS  CA TPE H,R 14 BAN H,R 57 “Olympic Day Run” Greece – – Lola Challenge Weekend  9th Halfmarathon PUR H,R 64



– Standard Chartered Hanoi Marathon Heritage Race VIE M,H,R 66

International Desert Marathon  Eilat ISR M,H,R 62

Trinidad Alfonso Marathon  Valencia ESP M 18

– Monterey Bay Half Marathon

 NEP M,H,R

 EGY H,R

USA H

– Samarkand Marathon UZB M,H,R



Taiwan’s Rice Heaven Tianzhong Marathon TPE M

Ice Ultra  Antarctic ATA M,H,R,U

58 57

Maratón la Capital del Deporte  Medio MEX H,R 63 MEX M

 THA M,H,R

Korat Marathon



63 66

Marathon City of Art  Ravenna ITA M,H

IRL M,H,U

 BAN M

Fire International Marathon

 BAN M,H,R

Jolshiri RunBangla Marathon 1

Nation Diabetes Day Half  RunRise Marathon BAN H,R

Int’l Marathon  Panama PAN M

 KUW M,H,R  TAN H,R

Stop GBV Half Marathon Zanzibar

 IND M,H,R

Adani Ahmedabad Marathon

Marathon THA M,H,R

 LIB M,H

 CUR M,H,R  POR H

Discoveries Half Marathon

65 60

66 63 59 64

 ITA M

Vedanta Pink City Half Marathon –  Jaipur IND H,R



Pos Malaysia Run Maratón Monumental Primer Santiago de América DOM M,H,R

Chonburi Marathon  Bangsaen42 THA M 66

Estra Firenze Marathon

 MAS M

 IND M,H,R

JBG Kolkata Marathon

Thailand Marathon Bangkok  Amazing - Oﬃcial Bangkok Capital City

KLM Curaçao Marathon

 POR M

– The Great World Race

Sharm El Sheikh Half Marathon

Beirut Marathon

French Riviera Marathon Nice-Cannes FRA M 59 EDP Porto Marathon

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Nepalgunj Marathon 1

Gulf Bank 642 Marathon

Marathon P Bangkok Postponed until January 2027

Marathon Skarch  Guadalajara hydrated by Electrolit

GRE H,R

60 63

BYD Singapore International Marathon presented by adidas SIN M,H,R

MAR H,R

 BAN M,H,R

 IND M,H,R

Bhatiary Int’l Marathon Freshworks Chennai Marathon



UNICEF Charity Run Half Marathon & 10km HKG H,R 60

Ice Half Marathon  Siberian RUS H,R

 EGY M,H

34th Egyptian Marathon

– Kaohsiung Fubon Marathon TPE M

– Khao Yai Marathon THA M,H,R

58 66

Yomiuri Marathon  Hofu JPN M

Bhopal Run  Run IND H,R

THA M

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

 NOR M,H,R

 THA M,H,R

 MEX M,H,R

 BAN R



Abu Dhabi Marathon  ADNOC UAE M,R

Brunei International Half  BMW Marathon BRU H,R

Dhaka Dash 30K

– Khon Kaen Int’l Marathon PolarNight Marathon Bangkok Marathon Marathon Mérida Banorte Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon See race preview on page  TPE M,H,R

 ESP R Pyramids Half Marathon  Marakez EGY H,R 59 Xiamen Marathon  C&D CHN M  Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k ATA U,M

Goa River Marathon  SKF IND M,H,R

Powerade Monterrey  Maratón MEX M

Fuji International Marathon  Mt. JPN M 62 Marathon Nakhon Phanom  Scenic THA M,H,R 66 Marathon  Nara JPN M Penang Bridge  Aspen-Klippa International Marathon 2025 Marathon  Photak THA M

Vigot La Rochelle Int’l Marathon  Serge Reservoir Marathon FRA M,H 59  Zengwen TPE M,H,R 7 Colores  Maratón COL M,H,R 58  Run For The Earth tbc Semi Marathon Geoparc M’Goun Azilal

Zürich  Neujahrsmarathon SUI M,H,R

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

COMAR Tunis - Carthage  Marathon TUN M,H,R 66

MAS M,H

January 2027

BAN H,R

10K Valencia Ibercaja by Kiprun

20 65 58

 IND M,H,R

 QAT M,H,R

JBG Durgapur Marathon Doha Marathon by Ooredoo

– Chevron Houston Marathon, Aramco Houston Half Marathon and We Are Houston 5K USA M,H,R 66 Chartered Hong Kong  Standard Marathon HKG M

 TPE M,H,R

 USA M,H,R

 IND M

 TPE M,H,R

 THA M,H,R

66 57

Kinmen Marathon Maui Oceanfront Marathon Tata Mumbai Marathon Tainan International Marathon Chombeung Marathon

Midnight Marathon  Bangkok THA H,R

 Bangsaen21 THA H,R

 BAN H,R



See race preview on page  THA M,H,R

 See race preview on page 

Dhaka Men’s Half Marathon

Marathon  Borobudur INA M,H,R

Marathon  Kobe JPN M

 CYP M,H,R

December 2026

Mai Marathon  Chiang THA M,H,R

Polar Race  Antarctic ATA M

Marathon  Guangzhou CHN M

 IND M,H,R

Marato Int’l Vila de Santa Pola  Mitja ESP H 65

Steel World 25K Kolkata  Tata IND R

 TPE M,H,R

Marathon  Twincity MAS M,H,R

 BAN R

Radisson Hotels Larnaka Marathon

Marathon & Half & 10km  Marabana CUB M,H,R 58 Trivandrum Marathon  Ust IND M,H,R Run Marathon  Verona ITA M,H,R Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge  Hong Half Marathon HKG H



– Maratona Monumental de Brasília BRA M,H,R

MAR H

– Run Barbados Marathon Weekend BAR M,H,R

Indore Marathon

Buriram Marathon Presented by Chang Mineral

CYP M,H

Red Sea Half Marathon  Ayla JOR H,R

 IND M,H,R

Cayman Islands Marathon Marathon  Walkers  Northern CAY M 58 BAN M,H,R

– Muscat Marathon

Int’l Marathon  Fukuoka JPN M

São Silvestre de Lisboa  Lidl POR R

– World Marathon Challenge

Silvestre de Luanda 10km  São ANG R

63 57

Bharat Midnight Marathon

Ho Chi Minh City Int’l  Techcombank Marathon VIE M,H,R

 TPE M,H,R

Hsinchu City Marathon

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66 58

Taipei Marathon

Marathon MAC M,H

Dhaka 25K OMA M,H,R USA M,H

tbc Galaxy Entertainment Macao Int’l

Bank of Cyprus Nicosia Marathon

Inspiring Bangladesh Half Marathon BAN H,R 57

Maldives Road Race  Dhiraagu MDV H,R

tbc Semi Marathon Int’l de Laayoune

64 66

 UAE H

 POR M,H

Ras al Khaimah Half Marathon Funchal Marathon

ONE GLOBAL MILE

One mile, one day, one world How the 2nd Annual AIMS One Global MileTM circled the earth on July 11, 2026

s the sun rose over the horizon of the first One Global MileTM city on July 11, 2026, something quietly remarkable was already in motion — a single mile, about to be run across continents, climates, and time zones, by runners who would never meet but would share the same finish line feeling before the day was done. Eleven cities across ten countries had registered for the 2nd Annual AIMS One Global Mile — from the foothills of the Himalayas to the edges of the Sahara, from the islands of the Indian Ocean to the river towns of the American Northeast. Each of them had made a commitment: same distance, same day, same spirit. When July 11th arrived, that commitment came to life on start lines across the globe. It began in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where the morning heat was already rising as runners gathered on the start line. From there, the sun continued its journey westward — to the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, where RunBangla International, the organization that created the One Global Mile series, has spent seven years building an international running movement; to the Himalayan foothills of Kohalpur and the high-altitude avenues of Kathmandu, where Nepal

sent not one but two cities to the start — a testament to how the model can scale within a country as naturally as it does across borders. From Nepal the sun moved on to the turquoiseedged island of Hulhulamé in the Maldives, where runners raced at just two meters above sea level, and then across the Indian Ocean and the breadth of a continent to Ifrane, Morocco, perched at 1,665 meters in the Atlas Mountains, where the air is thin, the mornings are cool, and the scenery is unlike anything else on the global race calendar. Then came the Americas — San José, Costa Rica, and finally Warren Street in Hudson, New York, where the whole idea was born, and where the day’s last miles were run as the sun completed its arc. That origin story is worth a moment. In 2025, Jon Boka — founder of RunBangla International and co-director to Jorge Pardo, creator of the Hudson Mile — had an idea as straightforward as the distance itself. On the day of the Hudson Mile, he asked his RBI partner Rajib Hossain and team in Dhaka to run a synchronized sister event. Two cities. Two countries. One mile. One day. The template was set. One Global Mile was born from that moment, and in 2026 it grew to span the earth. Perhaps the most unexpected story of July 11th came from

beyond the oﬃcial event cities entirely. Runners who had no local One Global Mile event — in Edinburgh, Scotland; in El Jadida, Morocco; and in cities across South America, Africa, and Asia — chose to run anyway. Alone, on their own streets, they submitted their times as virtual participants. Over a dozen solo runs arrived from around the world, unsolicited and deeply felt. One Global Mile had not yet reached those cities. But those cities had already reached One Global Mile. This is what a movement looks like in its early years — it outgrows its own infrastructure before the infrastructure is ready. One month before July 11th, One Global Mile was presented to nearly 200 race directors gathered at the AIMS Congress in Tromsø, Norway — one of the most concentrated gatherings of international race leadership in the world. The concept resonated. It is simple enough to grasp immediately and ambitious enough to matter: an annual one-mile community race, held simultaneously in cities around the world, open exclusively to AIMS member organizations. Any member can bring One Global Mile to their city. You own your event completely — your course, your entry fees, your race day. What you share is the date, the

distance, and the knowledge that on that same morning, runners on multiple continents are lining up to do exactly what you are doing. AIMS President Paco Borao captured it well in his congratulatory message after the event: “What began as the vision of one of our member organizations in Bangladesh has grown into a genuinely global movement.” AIMS serves as Honorary Series Title Sponsor of One Global Mile — a partnership that speaks to the organization’s core mission of fostering and promoting distance running throughout the world. The virtual runners from Edinburgh and El Jadida will not have to wait much longer. One Global Mile will be coming for those cities in 2027 — and for dozens more. The 3rd Annual AIMS One Global Mile — July 17, 2027 The date has been set. The goal is 30+ cities. If you are an AIMS member organization and you want your city on that map — your runners, your community, your race — the door is open. The sun will move west again on July 17th. The only question is whether your city will be one of the places it finds a start line. One Mile | One Day | One World

DISTANCE RUNNING | 2026 EDITION 4

CALENDAR Thermen-Marathon  Johannesbad See race preview on page  GER M,H,R

& Semi Int’l de Marrakech  Marathon MAR M,H 64 Half Marathon  Osaka JPN H

Women’s Marathon  Osaka JPN M

Sikh Run  Thai THA H,R

tbc Riyadh Marathon KSA M,H,R

February 2027 Meia Maratona de Cascais  Montepio POR H 33

Marathon  Kitakyushu JPN M

 IND M,H,R

IEM-UEM Kolkata Marathon

 JPN M

Kyoto Marathon

 ITA H

Napoli City Half Marathon

Maratón de Sevilla  Zurich ESP M di San Valentino  Maratona ITA M,H Aviv Bank Leumi Marathon  Tel ISR M,H,R – TUI Cyprus Marathon CYP M,H,R

Marathon  Ehime JPN M

 KOR M

 MLT M,H,R

JPN H

Marathon  Kilimanjaro TAN M,H Vadodara Int’l Marathon  MG IND M,H

62 65 60

International Marathon  Pokhara NEP M,H,R 64 Telecom Lake Hawassa Half  Ethio Marathon ETH H,R



Bodhgaya Marathon – Run For Global Peace 1 IND M,H,R 60

Run Half Marathon  Romeo&Giulietta ITA H 62 Mitja Marató de Barcelona by  Hyundai Brooks ESP H

 IND M,H,R

 JPN M

AU Jaipur Marathon KIX Senshu Int’l Marathon

 CRO M,H,R

Split Marathon

Amdavad Marathon  KD See race preview on page  IND M,H,R

CAF Caracas  Maratón VEN M Coast Marathon and Half  China Marathon HKG M,H



58 60 66 60

21K Guadalajara Electrolit nutrido por Granvita MEX H 63

Marathon  Sahara ALG M

 ISR M,H,R

 CHN M,H,R

 See race preview on page 

30km Road Race & 10km  Ohme-Hochi JPN R 62

Mainichi Marathon  Beppu-Oita JPN M

Marugame Int’l Half  Kagawa Marathon

Daegu Marathon Malta Marathon

 See race preview on page 

23 62 62 59 62 63

Cognizant New Delhi Marathon IND M,H

 JPN M

Osaka Marathon

tbc AIMS Atlas Mountain Edition 1 MAR C

tbc Gyeonggi Int’l Half Marathon KOR H

24 62 63 62

March 2027

Jerusalem Marathon, Half & 10k Chongqing Int’l Marathon

Puerto Vallarta  Maratón MEX M

 SUI M

 SVK M,H,R

 ROU M,H,R

 GRE M,R

 NED M

 GER M,H,R

Danang Int’l Marathon

Lisbon Half Marathon  EDP POR H

Int’l Lala  Maratón MEX M

VIE M,H,R

Marathon  Miri MAS M,H,R

Marathon  Seoul KOR M

Half Marathon  Swansea GBR H

MLT M,H

Marathon  Wuxi CHN M,H,R



Lumbini Peace Marathon Running Around Buddha’s Home

Marathon of Fez  Spiritual MAR H,R

 GRE M,R

 AUT M,H,R

 ITA H,R

 POL M

 POL H

 JPN M



Int’l Half Marathon  Sihanoukville CAM H,R 58 ATA M,H,U Course not measurable to AIMS standards 57

tbc Maratón Binacional Dos Laredos MEX M

tbc G.S.O. Limassol Int’l Marathon CYP M,H,R

tbc Macao International 10K MAC R

Marathon  Indore IND M,H,R

 CZE H

– XM Limassol Marathon

Marató de Barcelona  Zurich ESP M

Marathon Festival  Hobart AUS M,H,R

Women’s Marathon  Nagoya JPN M

Madrid Medio Maratón  Movistar ESP H 65

Marathon  Milano ITA M

CUB M,H,R

Generali Prague Half Marathon CYP M,H,R

Warsaw Half Marathon  21st POL H

 CRC M

Maraton Cartago 1



 GER H

 JOR U,H,R

Dead Sea Ultra Marathon

– Canberra Times Marathon Festival AUS M,H,R,U

– 42nd Telekom Vivicittá Spring Half Marathon HUN H,R

Wine Half Marathon  Pardubice CZE H – NN Marathon Rotterdam NED M

Bukidnon Int’l Marathon TUI Rhodes Marathon Vienna City Marathon Padova Marathon Cracovia Marathon 19th PKO Poznań Halfmarathon Nagano Marathon

Boston Marathon presented by Bank of America USA M 66

Bergen City Marathon  Fjordkraft NOR M,H,R 64 Gdynia Half Marathon  PKO POL H

 GER M



59 57

Haspa Marathon Hamburg Türkiye İş Bankası İstanbul Half Marathon TUR H

 LTU M,H,R

Kaunas Marathon



Zurich Rock ’n’ Roll Running Series Madrid ESP M,H

 USA M,H

 GRE H

 IND R

 COL M,R

 CHN M



Int’l Marathon Alexander the Great GRE M,R 59 Generali Berlin Half Marathon

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International Half  Dushanbe Marathon

AIMS – the home of world running™

– 40th Powerade Belgrade Marathon SRB M 65

 PHI M,H,R

Marathon  Runtalya TUR M,H,R

For the latest race dates please also consult the official online AIMS calendar at aims-worldrunning.org/calendar.html

Marathon  Colombo SRI M,R

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Almaty Half Marathon

 TPE H,R

 TPE M,H,R

Patras Half Marathon

TJK H

April 2027

Nanshan Taipei Freeway Marathon

ADAC Marathon Hannover

See race preview on page  NEP M,H,R

Marathon  Tokushima JPN M

Enschede Marathon

 KAZ H,R Chartered Stanley Marathon  Standard FLK M 59

LAO H,R

Tainan Half Marathon

Crete Marathon

tbc Int’l Marathon Varadero

Vientiane International Half  Marathon

ČSOB Bratislava Marathon

 GRE H,R Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon  New TPE M,R 44 Run  TSTPEWomen H,R  Malta’s La Valette Marathon

JPN M

Ochsner Sport Zürich Marathon

Wizz Air Cluj-Napoca Marathon

and Ultra-Marathon

tbc Antarctica Marathon®, Half-Marathon

Marathon  Saipan MNP M,H,R

Marathon  Tokyo See race preview on page 

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Big Sur Int’l Marathon Poseidon Athens Half Marathon TCS World 10K Bengaluru Maratón de Cali Dalian Int’l Marathon

Du Motion-Runners’ Days Dubrovnik (Dubrovnik Half Marathon) CRO H,R 49

Gaborone Marathon  Diacore BOT M,H,R

Half Marathon  Gifu JPN H

t’Għawdex  Il-Ġirja MLT H,R

– Terengganu Marathon MAS M,H,R

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Phoenix Energy Belfast City Marathon + Team Relay

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Sunday 2nd May 2027 DISTANCE RUNNING | 2026 EDITION 4

CALENDAR tbc Int’l Peace Half Marathon ANG H

– Kazan Marathon RUS M,H,R

 AUS M,H,R

Brooks Adelaide Marathon Festival



URU M,H

64 65 57

Phoenix Energy Belfast City Marathon GBR M 49

International Marathon  Prague CZE M Marathon  Toronto CAN H,R Keynes Marathon & Half  Milton GBR M,H,R – Helsinki City Run FIN M,H,R

– Leiden Marathon NED M,H,R

Run Lviv Halfmarathon  New UKR H,R Marathon  Copenhagen DEN M

ARG M,H,R

tbc Maratón de Montevideo

May 2027 Heritage Race 1  Kathmandu NEP R

tbc Maratón Internacional de Mendoza

tbc Nepalgunj 10 Night Run NEP R

tbc Pushkin Marathon RUS M,H,R

tbc Thabo Midnight Marathon THA M

 MAR R



 ARU M,H,R



15km de Moulay Abdellah

KLM Aruba Marathon

maratón de Bogotá  media COL H

65 66

tbc Hudson Mile 1 USA R

tbc Amazing Thailand Pattaya Marathon THA M,H,R

tbc White Nights Marathon RUS M

66 65

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

EST M,H,R

 MAS H,R

 GER M

 DEN H

 POR H

 ITA H

Kota Bharu Half Marathon

Porto Half Marathon

Coast Marathon Festival  Sunshine AUS M,H,R 57

Maratonina Città di Udine

 FRO M,H,R

Empire Marathon  Angkor CAM M,H,R

 MAS M,H,R

Loch Ness Marathon & Festival  Baxters of Running

Half Marathon  Taiping MAS H,R

Half Marathon Chanthaburi  Scenic THA H,R 66 – Score Marathon MAS M,H,R

Björn Borg Helsinki Half Marathon THA M

63 59 66

 POL H

 RSA U

 MAS M,H,R

63 60 58

PKO Wroclaw Night Half Marathon Comrades Marathon

Sarawak Energy Marathon

MDA M,H,R

Prakashmani Abu Half Marathon  Dadi IND H 51 Half Marathon 1  Maldives MDV H,R

– Chisinau Int’l Marathon

– Paavo Nurmi Marathon, Half and 10k FIN M,H,R 59

Reykjavik Marathon International Peace Marathon  Islandsbanki  Kigali ISL M,H 60 RWA M,H 65 Songkhla Marathon Penh Int’l Half Marathon 1  THA M,H,R  Phnom 66 CAM H,R 58 Running Festival  Rottnest AUS M,H,R

Stockholm Half Marathon  adidas SWE H 65

Sun Marathon  Midnight NOR M,H

Borg Helsinki Marathon  Björn FIN M,R

GBR M

 SUI H,R

Greifenseelauf Uster

tbc Turkish Airlines Active Pulse

International Half Marathon BAN H,R

tbc Almaty Marathon KAZ M,H,R

tbc Halfmarathon Altötting GER H,R

tbc Walls Great Half Antwerpen BEL H,R

tbc Bangsaen10 THA R

 ITA H

 IRL M,H,R

October 2027

Hyderabad Marathon  NMDC IND M,H,R

Indian Air Force Marathon  Sekhon (SIM)

Midnight Sun Run  Suzuki ISL H,R

Marathon  Stavanger NOR M,H,R

Int’l Asunción  Maratón PAR M,H,R

Marathon  Lanzhou CHN M,H,R

42k Marathon  Lima PER M,H,R

Marathon Wuerzburg  WVV GER M

Marathon  Salzburg AUT M,H,R

da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro  Maratona BRA M 57 Hillary Everest Marathon  Tenzing NEP M,H,R 64 – Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend CAN M,R

 SWE M

adidas Stockholm Marathon



58 65

Madagascar Marathon, Half, 50K & 10K

tbc ASICS Austrian Women’s Run AUT R

tbc Dhiraagu Fuvahmulah Run MDV H,R

tbc Gbarnga Marathon LBR M

Meknes

MAR H,R

INA M,H,R

July 2027 – Gornergrat Zermatt Marathon SUI U,M,H

– ASICS Gold Coast Marathon

tbc Barossa Marathon Festival AUS M,H,R

tbc Duo Highway Challenge

tbc Hokkaido Marathon

Khai Running Festival  Nong THA M,H,R,U

Marathon Festival  7AUSCairns M,H,R

– Swissalpine Flims

 USA R

SUI U Course not measurable to AIMS standards

AIMS One Global Mile – Series

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MAS M,H,R JPN M

tbc Semi Marathon International De

62 59 57 66

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Falls Marathon  Victoria ZIM M

IND M,H,R

64  3 Country Sparkasse Marathon AUT M,H 61 Saroma 100km Ultra Marathon  Lake Abbott Longford Marathon JPN U 62  IRL M 62  Royal Victoria Marathon CAN M 58 Tangamanga Int’l Marathon  BMW de la Ciudad de México Telcel MEX M 63  Maratón ActivePulse Chattogram MEX M 63  Marathon Int’l Marathon  Volcano CHI M,H 58 Mumbai Half Marathon BAN M,H,R 57  IND H,R 60 tbc Astana Half Marathon International Thessaloniki Night  Halfmarathon, 10K, 5K & 1 Mile KAZ H,R 49 tbc Maybank Marathon

AUS M

MAD M,H,U Course not measurable to AIMS standards 63

 AUT M,H

Jogja Marathon  Mandiri INA M,H,R Waterford Viking Marathon

27th Int’l WACHAUmarathon

Moonlight Half Marathon

 POL M,R

49th Warsaw Marathon

 INA H,R

Indonesia Women Half Marathon

SUI M

– Swedbank Tallinn Marathon, Relay Marathon, Half, 10K & 5K

WRRC Copenhagen 26

– Jungfrau-Marathon

Volksbank-Münster-Marathon

August 2027 Pole Marathon  North NPO M

Half Marathon  Watlaharnrai THA H,R

Andersen Marathon  H.C. DEN M

 CHI M

Hearts Marathon  Three SLO M,H,R

Maratón de Santiago

planned date

Int’l Marathon  Siberian RUS M,R

– Laguna Phuket Marathon

GRE R

City Marathon  Panama PAN M

Tórshavn Marathon

– Axios Running Festival

Wizz Air Budapest Half Marathon  42nd HUN H 60

Half Marathon  Moscow RUS H,R

Borneo Int’l Marathon

 ECU H,R

Quito 15K/21K Race

 FIN H,R

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Beach Marathon Festival  Airlie AUS M,H,R

September 2027

Great Wall Marathon  The CHN M

Analog Devices Cork City Marathon, Half Marathon and 10k IRL M,H,R 60

 HATYAi21 THA H

EST M

EVA Air Brisbane Marathon Festival AUS M,H,R 57

– Tallinn Women’s Run – Maijooks

India Marathon  Tigerhill IND M,H

June 2027

 SUI M,H,R

Generali Genève Marathon

tbc Kia Half Marathon & 10k by Puma PER H,R

65 61

tbc La Carrera del Pacífico - Cali 10K COL R

GRE H,R

 MAS H,R

 GBR M,H

Aguascalientes  Maratón MEX M,H,R

 ITA M



RUS H,R

tbc Surya Spiti Marathon IND U,M,H,R

Great Welsh Marathon Events

Venicemarathon China Airlines Marathon – The Starry Night Run TPE H,R

 GER M

 SUI M,H,R

tbc SPB Half Marathon. The Northern

Capital

Kuching Half Marathon

Mainova Frankfurt Marathon SwissCityMarathon – Lucerne

MARATHON

half MARATHON

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10km run

5km

wheelchair 2KM JUNIOR DASH

goldcoastmarathon.com.au

Marathon • Mizuno Half Marathon • COOP Mila 10k iTromsø Minimarathon 5k • Kids Marathon

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part from those rare days when it’s simply too hot to venture out, summer training feels easy. Days are long, mornings (and evenings) are light. You may need to manage a group of excited 8-year-olds from time to time but there’s still a sense of having more time in your day. Slotting training time into your schedule can be challenging but ultimately it feels doable. It could be that you chose summer as the perfect time to begin your training in earnest. If so, well done you! Forming good habits when barriers are minimal is a great idea. That said, how do you avoid falling oﬀ the training treadmill now that daylight hours are slowly slipping away? As winter approaches getting outdoors for your regular dose of Vitamin D takes more eﬀort – so let’s get strategic. Start by identifying your major challenges. Perhaps the cold keeps you from pulling

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on your trainers. Or maybe the thought of running in the wet is a real turn-oﬀ. It could be that your schedule is impractical. If you’ve been running oﬀ-road at 6 am (or 7 pm), you likely won’t want to risk the same routes in the dark. There’s also the chance that the pull of a great box set or a hot chocolate and a comfy blanket is just too strong on a winter’s night. You know yourself better than anyone. So once you’ve identified the main risks to maintaining your running schedule, address them head-on – before they become a problem. Is your running gear up to the challenge this winter? Let’s face it, no one wants to feel cold, wet and uncomfortable, and even the thought of being freezing or soggy can disrupt your training schedule. If not,

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Maybe the thought of running in the wet is a real turn-oﬀ

consider investing in a snug, lightweight running jacket or some waterproof gear. Just knowing you’re ready for what the weather can throw at you stacks the odds in your favour. When the forest paths and countryside routes you prefer are oﬀ-limits, you may need to switch up your routine to stay on track. Consider heading for the streets instead. There’s something undeniably magical about running by lamplight with the scent of winter in the air. But if heading out alone in the dark makes you want to hide under the duvet, find some company. Joining your local running club is a fun way to stay motivated, not to mention an opportunity to connect with those who share your passion. Setting up a buddy system with a friend or colleague works well too. When one of you is reluctant, the other will likely be able to encourage them to get out of the door. If evenings or mornings are just not practical at all in the winter, how about a lunchtime run to break up your day? And if nothing else works, there’s always the treadmill at your local gym. More time spent indoors often means we’re more susceptible to coughs and colds in the winter. Ensuring we eat enough fruit and vegetables, staying hydrated (even when we may not feel thirsty), and getting some daylight exposure every day can go a long way towards keeping us healthy. If you’re going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark, try asking your health professional about supplement options. In the colder months, your ability to make up excuses may grow wings. Understandably, some days you really won’t feel like running. That’s fine, as long as you put a strategy in place… and keep on running!

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Algeria Sahara Marathon

Australia MAR

James E. B. Carney E: mdurli@gmail.com W: www.saharamarathon.org ! facebook.com/saharamarathonorg " @SAHARATHON

Airlie Beach Marathon Festival

Angola APR

Carlos Rosa de Sousa E: crdseventos@gmail.com W: crdsmeiamaratonapazangola.com/crds/ ! bit.ly/33K8qX0

São Silvestre de Luanda 10km

DEC

Becca Pizzi E: info@runbuk.com W: www.icemarathon.com ! facebook.com/AntarcticIceMarathon # @icemarathon

Antarctic Polar Race

DEC

NOV

Oliver Wang E: info@runbuk.com W: www.iceultra.com

Jeﬀ Adams E: info@marathontours.com W: marathontours.com/en-us/events/antarcticamarathon ! facebook.com/AntarcticaMarathon # @marathontours Course not measurable to AIMS standards

SEP

Luis Vinker E: administracion@maratondebuenosaires.com W: www.maratondebuenosaires.com ! facebook.com/maratonbuenosaires " @bamaraton # @maratondebuenosaires

Maratón Internacional de Mendoza MAY Rodolfo Giordano E: rodygiordano@gmail.com W: www.maratondemendoza.com ! facebook.com/MaratondeMendoza/

OCT

Anahit Adamyan E: anahit.adamyan@armeniamarathon.org W: www.armeniamarathon.org ! facebook.com/Yerevanmarathon/ # @Yerevanmarathon

Aruba Kees van Muiswinkel E: info@arubainternationalmarathon.com W: www.klmarubamarathon.com ! facebook.com/MarathonAruba

Jason Crowther E: jason@myatlasevents.com.au W: cairnsmarathon.com.au ! facebook.com/CairnsMarathon # @cairnsmarathon Julie Tedde E: info@solemotive.com W: solemotive.com/pages/canberra-marathon ! bit.ly/2Qt8BNF # @solemotive JUL

Ryan McDonald E: info@goldcoastmarathon.com.au W: www.goldcoastmarathon.com.au ! facebook.com/gcmarathon " @GCMarathon

Hobart Marathon Festival

JUN

Int’l WACHAUmarathon

SEP

Michael Buchleitner E: oﬃce@wachaumarathon.com W: www.wachaumarathon.com ! www.facebook.com/wachaumarathon " @wachaumarathon # @wachaumarathon

*CA Bangladesh Accounting Day Run

APR

NOV

Md Maksodur Rahman FCA E: drc@icab.org.bd W: www.icab.org.bd

*Turkish Airlines Active Pulse International Half Marathon

SEP

RunRise Nation Diabetes Day Half Marathon

NOV

Bhatiary Int’l Marathon

JAN

Md Tanvir Hasan E: tanvirhasan00047@gmail.com W: www.activepulsebd.com

Abdur Rahman Khan Bappy E: info.runrisenation@gmail.com W: www.runrisenation.com Brig Gen Md Humayun Kabir E: bhatiaryinternationalmarathon@gmail.com W: www.facebook.com/ Bhatiaryinternationalhalfmarathon

ActivePulse Chattogram Int’l Marathon

OCT

Rottnest Running Festival

Md Azharul Islam E: sportsbanglahelp@gmail.com W: www.sports-bangla.com

3 Country Sparkasse Marathon

OCT

Günter Ernst E: info@sparkasse-3-laender-marathon.at W: www.sparkasse-3-laender-marathon.at ! facebook.com/Sparkasse3LaenderMarathon

ASICS Austrian Women’s Run

MAY

Ilse Dippmann, Andreas Schnabl E: oﬃce@oesterreichischer-frauenlauf.at W: www.oesterreichischer-frauenlauf.at/de ! facebook.com/OesterreichischerFrauenlauf

Sajnan Mohammed E: Nibirsajnan@gmail.com W: www.runbangladesh.com ! facebook.com/runbangladesh71

Dhaka Men’s Half Marathon

JAN

1 AIMS – One Global Mile™ Member City

Botswana APR

Danny Blumberg E: info@diacoregaboronemarathon.com W: www.diacoregaboronemarathon.com ! facebook.com/Diacoregaboronemarathon " @dgmthon

Maratona Monumental de Brasília NOV Elias Sousa E: maratonamonumental@gmail.com W: www.maratonamonumentalbsb.com.br ! facebook.com/ maratonamonumentaldebrasilia

Maratona da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Run For The Earth

DEC

*Fire International Marathon

NOV

*Inspiring Bangladesh Half Marathon

NOV

K M Yeasir Arafat Omi E: omiquazi@gmail.com W: www.theathletex.net ! facebook.com/theathletexbd Lieutenant Colonel Md Mahmudul Hasan, PSC W: www.fireservice.gov.bd Imran Fahad E: ibangladesh1971@gmail.com W: inspiringbangladesh.com ! facebook.com/ibangladesh1971 " @ibangladesh1971 # @ibangladesh1971

MAY

João Traven E: contato@maratonadorio.com.br W: www.maratonadorio.com.br ! facebook.com/maratonadoriooficial # @maratonadoriooficial

Brunei BMW Brunei International Half Marathon

DEC

Pengiran Danny Pengiran Tajuddin E: info@bruneimarathon.com W: www.bruneimarathon.com ! instagram.com/bruneimarathon # @bruneimarathon NOV

Rajib Hossain E: rajib.hossain2017@gmail.com W: www.Run-Bangla.com ! facebook.com/RunBanglaInternational " @run_bangla # @runbangla

1AIMS – One Global Mile™ Member City

Navin Kumar Sinha E: info@bhutanmarathon.com W: www.bhutanmarathon.com ! facebook.com/thimphumarathon # @thimphumarathon

Brazil

Md. Al-Amin E: triathlondreamers@gmail.com W: triathlondreamers.com ! facebook.com/triathlondreamers

Jolshiri RunBangla Marathon

Thimphu Marathon – Run for Global SEP Peace

Diacore Gaborone Marathon

DEC

Austria

SEP

Kid Van Thienen E: kvth@telenet.be W: www.linkeroevertmarathon.com ! on.fb.me/ZPKj2k

Bhutan

*Dhaka Dash 30K

Jason Crowther E: jason@myatlasevents.com.au W: www.sunshinecoastmarathon.com.au ! facebook.com/SunshineCoastMarathon # @sunshinecoastmarathon

OCT

Thomas Huyberechts E: info@golazo.com W: www.antwerpmarathon.com ! www.facebook.com/antwerpmarathon " @antwerp10miles

Walls Great Half Antwerpen

Marcus Gale E: enquiries@melbournemarathon.com.au W: www.melbournemarathon.com.au ! facebook.com/melbournemarathonfestival " @melb_marathon Raymond Lampard E: wamc@wamc.org.au W: www.wamc.org.au ! bit.ly/2pbsPuK # @westaustralianmarathonclub

Zary Evelyn E: zary.evelyn@primobarbados.com W: www.runbarbados.org ! facebook.com/RunBarbadosSeries/ " @RunFunBarbados

Belgium

JAN

JUN

DEC

Barbados

TREK Antwerp Marathon

Dhaka 25K

Jason Crowther E: jason@myatlasevents.com.au W: www.hobartmarathon.com.au

Northern Marathon Md Amanul Haque Aman E: aman_rpi@yahoo.com W: www.saidpurrunners.run ! bit.ly/3WGlPYv

Run Barbados Marathon Weekend DEC

Md Tanvir Hasan E: tanvirhasan00047@gmail.com W: activepulsebd.com/product/apcm2026/ ! facebook.com/ chattograminternationalmarathon

Sunshine Coast Marathon Festival AUG

Armenia

KLM Aruba Marathon

JUL

Nike Melbourne Marathon Festival OCT

Argentina

Yerevan Marathon and Half Marathon

7 Cairns Marathon Festival

APR

Dominik Konrad E: oﬃce@vienna-marathon.com W: www.vienna-marathon.com ! facebook.com/vienna.city.marathon # @vienna_city_marathon

Bangladesh

Jason Crowther E: jason@myatlasevents.com.au W: www.brisbanemarathon.com.au

ASICS Gold Coast Marathon

Antarctica Marathon®, Half-Marathon and Ultra-Marathon MAR

Buenos Aires Int’l Marathon

AUG

Jeremy Zieseniss E: events@sarrc.asn.au W: www.barossamarathon.com.au ! facebook.com/SARoadRunnersClub/ " @saroadrunners

Canberra Times Marathon Festival APR

Richard Donovan E: polarrunningadventures@gmail.com W: www.antarcticpolarrace.com ! facebook.com/AntarcticPolarRace # @antarcticpolarrace

Antarctic Ice Ultra

JUL

EVA Air Brisbane Marathon Festival JUN

Antarctica

MAY

Johannes Langer E: oﬃce@salzburg-marathon.at W: www.salzburg-marathon.at ! www.facebook.com/salzburg.marathon

Vienna City Marathon

Tim McQuoid-Mason E: president@whitsundayrunningclub.com.au W: www.runairlie.com.au ! facebook.com/runairlie

Barossa Marathon Festival

Bernardo António João E: ber.joao17@gmail.com W: f-aatletismo.com

Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k

MAY

Jeremy Zieseniss E: events@sarrc.asn.au W: www.adelaidemarathon.com.au ! facebook.com/SARoadRunnersClub " @saroadrunners

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Int’l Peace Half Marathon

Brooks Adelaide Marathon Festival

Salzburg Marathon

Bulgaria Wizz Air Sofia Marathon

OCT

Albena Tomova Ilieva E: tolisport@abv.bg W: sofiamarathon.bg/en/ ! facebook.com/SofiaMarathon

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Cambodia

China

Angkor Wat Int’l Half Marathon

DEC

Sem Phalla E: direct@cambodia-events.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.cambodia-events.org ! facebook.com/angkorwathalfmarathon # @marathon_in_cambodia

Angkor Empire Marathon

AUG

Sem Phalla E: direct@cambodia-events.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.cambodia-events.org ! facebook.com/angkorempiremarathon

Phnom Penh Int’l Half Marathon

Beijing Marathon

OCT

Chengdu Marathon

OCT

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

JUN

MAR

Dalian Int’l Marathon

APR

Sihanoukville Int’l Half Marathon

The Great Wall Marathon

1 AIMS – One Global Mile™ Member City

MAR

Sem Phalla E: direct@cambodia-events.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.cambodia-events.org ! facebook.com/sihanoukvillemarathon # @marathon_in_cambodia

MAY

Mike Vieira E: mike.vieira@runottawa.ca W: www.runottawa.ca ! www.facebook.com/OttawaMarathon " @ottawaracewknd # @ottawaracewknd

TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon OCT Alan Brookes E: info@canadarunningseries.com W: http://www.torontowaterfrontmarathon.com/ ! facebook.com/TOwaterfront42k/ " @alnbrookes OCT

Cathy Noel E: info@runvictoriamarathon.com W: www.runvictoriamarathon.com ! facebook.com/Victoria.Marathon/ # @runvictoriamarathon

Rhonda Kelly E: info@caymanislandsmarathon.com W: www.caymanislandsmarathon.com ! facebook.com/CaymanMarathon # @caymanmarathon

MAY

Fernando Jamarne E: fjamarne@alessandri.cl W: www.maratondesantiago.cl ! www.facebook.com/maratondesantiago " @maratonsantiago

Volcano Marathon Oliver Wang E: oliver@runbuk.com W: www.volcanomarathon.com ! facebook.com/thevolcanomarathon " @VolcanoRun Course not measurable to AIMS standards

DEC

Li Chunxian E: admin@guangzhou-marathon.com W: www.guangzhou-marathon.com NOV

JUN

NOV

Lanzhou Marathon

MAY

Ping Rongfeng E: hsmarathon@163.com W: www.hengshuilakemarathon.com

DEC

Shenzhen Marathon

DEC

Zhu Junwei E: general@shmarathon.com W: www.shang-ma.com Fang Lv E: 89794067@qq.com W: shenzhenmarathon.org.cn MAR

JAN

Hua Yun E: oc@xmim.org W: www.xmim.org/ ! facebook.com/xiamenmarathon/ " @XiamenMarathon OCT

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Sunny Chen E: wayne@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.taipeifreewaymarathon.com/index.php

Standard Chartered Taipei Charity Marathon JAN Sunny Chen E: wayne@sportsnet.org.tw W: scbmarathon.com ! facebook.com/scbmarathon APR

NOV

Cheng Tsung-Cheng E: study.ses@gmail.com W: www.tianzhongmarathon.com ! facebook.com/520marathon # @tianzhong_marathon NOV

Chengming Yu E: a0916357072@gmail.com W: www.ctrun.com.tw ! facebook.com/ChuanTungSport Sunny Chen E: wayne@sportsnet.org.tw W: evaairrun.com

MAR

Nanshan Taipei Freeway Marathon MAR

Taiwan’s Rice Heaven Tianzhong Marathon

XinWu Half Marathon

OCT

*Taiwan National Parks Marathon Yangmingshan NOV Sunny Chen E: wayne@sportsnet.org.tw

*Maratón 7 Colores

NOV

media maratón de Bogotá

JUL

Maratón de Cali

APR

Maratón Medellín

SEP

La Carrera del Pacífico - Cali 10K

AUG

Pablo Andrés Restrepo Moreno & Carlos Esteban Saldarriaga Morales E: estrategia@fundacion7colores.org W: fundacion7colores.org/en/ ! bit.ly/4rAPRuz Martha Santos E: msantos@correcaminoscolombia.com W: www.mediamaratonbogota.com ! facebook.com/mediamaratonbogota/ " @mediamaratonbog Luis Felipe Posso E: info@maratondecali.co W: maratondecali.co ! facebook.com/maratondecali # @maratondecali Claudia Perez Duran E: direccion@maratonmedellin.com W: www.maratonmedellin.com ! facebook.com/maratonmedellin " @maratonmedellin Luis Felipe Posso E: info@maratondecali.co W: lacarreradelpacifico.com ! facebook.com/lacarreradelpacifico # @lacarreradelpacifico

Costa Rica Maraton Cartago

APR

Rodolfo Villalobos E: rvillalobos@grupopublicitariocr.net W: www.grupopublicitariocr.net ! bit.ly/2UL3AyJ

1 AIMS – One Global Mile™ Member City DEC

Guillermo Saénz Solano E: marathoncostarica@gmail.com W: www.marathonsanjosecostarica.com ! bit.ly/3fXnp2Q " @MarathonCR

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

Split Marathon

FEB

Zagreb Marathon, Half and 10K

OCT

Kristijan Sindik E: splitmaraton@gmail.com W: www.splitmarathon.com ! facebook.com/splitmarathon Marko Jakopović E: info@zagreb-marathon.com W: www.zagreb-marathon.com ! facebook.com/zagreb.marathon

Cuba

Hung-Pin Chang E: tel4772575@hotmail.com W: lohasnet.tw/XinWuMarathon2026/ ! facebook.com/xinwuMarathon OCT

DEC

Colombia

30º San José CR 10K, Half & Marathon

Sunny Chen E: wayne@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw ! facebook.com/WomenRunTPE

Chinese Taipei

EVA Air Marathon

DEC

Ching-Cheng Wang E: tpe@mf.worldathletics.org W: www.wanjinshi-marathon.com.tw ! bit.ly/3Kn6Dt2

TS Women Run

Shaohua Yan E: tay.bu@qq.com W: www.gusto.cn

*Chiayi City Ponds International Marathon – Elite Race

JAN

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

New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon

Shanghai Marathon

MAR

Andy Lu E: angelayychen@gm.cute.edu.tw W: irunner.biji.co/twnmarathon2026 ! bit.ly/3Cu02wo

Taipei Marathon

Guo Detao E: lzmarathon@outlook.com W: www.lzmarathon.com

OCT

Wang Ching-Cheng E: tpe@mf.worldathletics.org W: www.tainanhalfmarathon.com ! facebook.com/tainanhalfmarathon/

Tainan International Marathon SEP

C&D Xiamen Marathon

Taichung Int’l Marathon

Tainan Half Marathon

Hengshui Lake Int’l Marathon

Yellow River Estuary (Dongying) Marathon

Chile

Sun Moon Lake Marathon

Chen Ching-Lung E: best0953392333@gmail.com W: lohasnet.tw/Taichung-marathon2023

Luning Li E: liluning@ihuipao.com W: www.wuximarathon.com

Walkers Cayman Islands Marathon DEC

Maratón de Santiago

MAY

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Wuxi Marathon

Cayman Islands

China Airlines Marathon – The Starry Night Run OCT Jason Tsai E: jason.tsai@h2u.ai W: cimarathon.china-airlines.com

Long Jiang E: marathon@hzim.org W: www.hzim.org ! facebook.com/hangzhou.marathon

Jay Glassman E: jay@torontomarathon.com W: www.torontomarathon.com ! www.facebook.com/torontomarathon " @torontomarathon

NOV

Sunny Chen E: wayne@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.nanshanrun.com/index.html

Jerry Chen E: sunmoonlake.marathon@gmail.com W: www.sunmoonlakemarathon.com ! facebook.com/sunmoonlakemarathon/

Hangzhou Marathon

MAY

JAN

Feng Guo E: info@great-wall-marathon.com.cn W: www.great-wall-marathon.com.cn ! www.facebook.com/greatwallmarathon " @globalmarathons

Guangzhou Marathon

Canada

Royal Victoria Marathon

Sun Xinsheng E: dlmlsmarathon@163.com W: www.dlmls.org

JAN

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

*NS Run

Chongqing Int’l Marathon

Zengwen Reservoir Marathon Wang, Ching-Cheng E: tpe@mf.worldathletics.org W: www.athletics.org.tw ! bit.ly/2rRvU6G

Hou, Tsun-Yao E: khmskhms@kcg.gov.tw W: khm.com.tw ! facebook.com/khmarathon/

Kinmen Marathon

Liu Yue E: liuyue98@wanda.cn W: http://chengdu-marathon.mararun.com/

DEC

Hung-Cheng Tsai E: Jason.tsai@h2u.ai W: hsinchucitymarathon.com ! facebook.com/runners105

Kaohsiung Fubon Marathon

Changsha Marathon

Guo Liya E: 569065820@qq.com W: www.cqmarathon.com

Toronto Marathon

OCT

Wang Dawei E: cuilu@beijing-marathon.com W: www.beijing-marathon.com " @BeijingMarathon

Sem Phalla E: direct@cambodia-events.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.cambodia-events.org ! facebook.com/cambodiaamazingevents/ # @marathon_in_cambodia

Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend

Hsinchu City Marathon

Marabana Marathon & Half & 10km

NOV

Int’l Marathon Varadero

MAR

Dr. H.C. Carlos R. Gattorno Correa E: gattorno.marabana@gmail.com W: www.maratondelahabana.com ! bit.ly/2z4m0Fu Alberto Juantorena Danger E: info@varadero-marathon.com W: varadero-marathon.com ! facebook.com/varaderohalf # @varaderomarathon.half

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Curaçao KLM Curaçao Marathon

Dominican Republic NOV

Kees van Muiswinkel E: info@curacaomarathon.com W: www.klmcuracaomarathon.com ! facebook.com/klmcuracaomarathon

FEB

Stavros Kakourides E: run@cyprusmarathon.com W: www.cyprusmarathon.com ! facebook.com/CyprusMarathonOﬃcial Constandinos Kivittis E: info@larnakamarathon.com W: www.larnakamarathon.com ! bit.ly/3P7QdVn " @LarnakaMarathon # @larnakainternationalmarathon

JAN

Constandinos Kivittis E: info@nicosiamarathon.com W: www.nicosiamarathon.com ! facebook.com/NicosiaMarathonCy # @nicosiamarathon

Oldřich Bujnoch E: oldrichbujnoch@seznam.cz W: www.pardubickyvinarskypulmaraton.cz ! on.fb.me/1HWsAYy

Generali Prague Half Marathon

APR

MAY

SEP

Erik J. Mogensen E: info@hcamarathon.dk W: www.hcamarathon.com ! facebook.com/hcamarathon

Copenhagen Marathon

Dorte Vibjerg E: wrrccopenhagen26@sparta.dk W: worldathletics.org/competitions/worldathletics-road-running-championships/ copenhagen26 ! facebook.com/wrrccopenhagen26 " @cphhalf # @cphhalf

OCT

Ethiopia Dagmawit Amare E: dagmawit@ethiopianrun.org W: www.ethiopianrun.org ! www.facebook.com/GreatEthiopianRun " @greatethrun

MAY

FEB

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

Faroe Islands Tórshavn Marathon

Ann Thomsen E: torshavnmarathon@bragdid.fo W: www.torshavnmarathon.com ! facebook.com/torshavnmaraton/

French Riviera Marathon Nice-Cannes

NOV

Serge Vigot La Rochelle Int’l Marathon

NOV

Hugues Lelievre E: communication@azur-sport.org W: www.marathon06.com ! on.fb.me/1bWymMt " @Marathon_06

ADAC Marathon Hannover

APR

Johannesbad Thermen-Marathon

JAN

Marathon München by Brooks

OCT

Volksbank-Münster-Marathon

SEP

Ring Running Series

NOV

WVV Marathon Wuerzburg

MAY

Stefanie Eichel E: kontakt@marathon-hannover.de W: www.marathon-hannover.de ! www.facebook.com/MarathonHannover " @Marathon_HAJ # @adac_marathon Jürgen Knaus E: marathon@johannesbad.com W: www.thermen-marathon.de

Laura Bauer E: info@marathonmuenchen.org W: www.marathonmuenchen.org ! facebook.com/marathonmuenchen

Björn Steinmetz E: info@ringrunningseries.com W: www.ringrunningseries.com ! facebook.com/ringrunningseries David Lux E: info@wuerzburg-marathon.de W: www.wuerzburg-marathon.de ! www.facebook.com/Wuerzburg.Marathon # @wuerzburgmarathon

Phoenix Energy Belfast City Marathon

Hunnewell Cement - TbilisiMarathon

SEP

Nika Jinjikhadze E: tbilisimarathon@cement.ge W: www.tbilisimarathon.ge ! facebook.com/Tbilisimarathon " @Tbilisimarathon

MAY

Garry Nugent E: info@belfastcitymarathon.org W: www.belfastcitymarathon.com ! facebook.com/MarathonBelfast " @marathonbcm

Baxters Loch Ness Marathon & Festival SEP of Running

Halfmarathon Altötting

SEP

Guenther Vogl E: halbmarathon@gmx.de W: www.halbmarathon.de ! bit.ly/2ZhtrWU

Generali Berlin Half Marathon

APR

BMW Berlin-Marathon

SEP

Generali Cologne Marathon

OCT

Mainova Frankfurt Marathon

OCT

Mark Milde W: www.generali-berliner-halbmarathon.de ! facebook.com/berlinerhalbmarathon # @berlinerhalbmarathon

Jo Schindler E: mail@frankfurt-marathon.com W: www.frankfurt-marathon.com ! www.facebook.com/ﬀmmarathon # @FrankfurtMarathon

Haspa Marathon Hamburg JUN

OCT

Steven Richter E: info@hamburg-halbmarathon.de W: www.hamburg-halbmarathon.com ! facebook.com/laufgesellschaft/ # @dielaufgesellschaft

Great Britain

Georgia

Markus Frisch E: info@koeln-marathon.de W: koeln-marathon.de/en/ ! www.facebook.com/koelnmarathon " @koelnmarathon

Falkland Islands SEP

France

Mark Milde W: www.bmw-berlin-marathon.com ! facebook.com/berlinmarathon # @berlinmarathon

Dagmawit Amare E: dagmawit@ethiopianrun.org W: www.ethiopianrun.org ! facebook.com/GreatEthiopianRun

hella hamburg half marathon

Michael Brinkmann E: info@volksbank-muenster-marathon.de W: www.volksbank-muenster-marathon.de ! on.fb.me/1bWylIv

Germany

Indrek Kelk E: tartumaraton@tartumaraton.ee W: www.tartumaraton.ee ! facebook.com/tartumaraton

Ethio Telecom Lake Hawassa Half Marathon

Dorte Vibjerg E: cphmarathon@sparta.dk W: www.copenhagenmarathon.dk ! facebook.com/cphmarathon " @cphmarathon

WRRC Copenhagen 26

MAY

Mati Lilliallik E: jooks@jooks.ee W: maijooks.ee

Great Ethiopian Run 10km presented by Bank of America NOV

Denmark

AUG

Kari Ahonen E: info@paavonurmisports.fi W: www.paavonurmimarathon.fi ! on.fb.me/1SlsUaQ # @paavonurmimarathonturku

Mauny Nicolas E: info@marathondelarochelle.com W: marathondelarochelle.com ! facebook.com/marathonLR

Mati Lilliallik E: info@tallinnmarathon.ee W: www.tallinnmarathon.ee ! facebook.com/tallinnmarathon

Tartu City Marathon

Carlo Capalbo E: info@runczech.com W: www.runczech.com ! facebook.com/runczech # @runczech

H.C. Andersen Marathon

NOV

Mohsen Abdel Maaboud E: info@egyptianmarathon.com W: www.egyptianmarathon.com ! facebook.com/egyptianmarathon1994 # @egyptianmarathon

Tallinn Women’s Run – Maijooks

Carlo Capalbo E: info@runczech.com W: www.runczech.com ! facebook.com/runczech/ # @runczech

Prague International Marathon

DEC

Swedbank Tallinn Marathon, Relay Marathon, Half, 10K & 5K SEP APR

AUG

Paavo Nurmi Marathon, Half and 10k JAN

Estonia

Czech Republic Pardubice Wine Half Marathon

Tapani Virtanen E: tapahtumat@runhigh.fi W: www.helsinkihalfmarathon.fi ! facebook.com/helsinkihalfmarathon " @helhalfmarathon Tapani Virtanen E: info@helsinkimarathon.fi W: www.helsinkimarathon.fi ! facebook.com/helsinkimarathon/

Ayman Hakky & Seif Fawzy E: ayman@thetrifactory.com, seif@thetrifactory.com W: www.pyramidshalfmarathon.com ! facebook.com/pyramidshalfmarathon " @pyramidshalfmarathon

Sharm El Sheikh Half Marathon

MAY

Samuli Vasala E: maraton@sul.fi W: www.helsinkicityrun.fi/en ! facebook.com/helsinkicityrun

Björn Borg Helsinki Marathon

Mohsen Abdel Maaboud E: info@egyptianmarathon.com W: www.egyptianmarathon.com ! facebook.com/egyptianmarathon1994 # @egyptianmarathon

Marakez Pyramids Half Marathon APR

Constandinos Kivittis E: info@limassolmarathon.com W: www.limassolmarathon.com ! facebook.com/limassolmarathon " @RunLimassol # @limassolmarathon

Bank of Cyprus Nicosia Marathon

JUN

Pablo Gonzalez Peña E: pabloarturogonzalez@gmail.com W: www.quito15krace.com ! facebook.com/quito15K # @carrera_un15k

Egypt

Christopher Theodorou E: gsolympia@cytanet.com.cy W: limassolmarathongso.com

XM Limassol Marathon

Ecuador

Egyptian Marathon MAR

Helsinki City Run

Björn Borg Helsinki Half Marathon JUN

Quito 15K/21K Race

Radisson Hotels Larnaka Marathon NOV

G.S.O. Limassol Int’l Marathon

Maratón Monumental Primer Santiago de América NOV Emilio Martínez E: maratonmonumental@gmail.com W: www.maratonsantiago.com.do ! facebook.com/maratonsantiagord " @maraton_stgo # @maratonsantiagord

Cyprus TUI Cyprus Marathon

Finland

Malcolm Sutherland E: info@lochnessmarathon.com W: www.lochnessmarathon.com ! www.facebook.com/lochnessmarathon # @lochnessmarathon

Milton Keynes Marathon & Half

MAY

Swansea Half Marathon

MAR

Great Welsh Marathon Events

OCT

Andrew Hully E: run@miltonkeynesmarathon.co.uk W: www.mkmarathon.com ! facebook.com/MiltonKeynesMarathon " @MK_Marathon David Martin-Jewell E: info@frontrunnerevents.co.uk W: swanseahalfmarathon.co.uk ! facebook.com/SwanseaHalf " @Swansea_HM David Martin-Jewell E: info@frontrunnerevents.co.uk W: www.greatwelshmarathon.co.uk ! facebook.com/GreatWelshMarathon " @WelshMarathon # @greatwelshmarathon

Greece

Int’l Marathon Alexander the Great APR

APR

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

Poseidon Athens Half Marathon

APR

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Frank Thaleiser E: service@marathonhamburg.de W: www.haspa-marathon-hamburg.de ! facebook.com/haspamarathonhamburg " @HaspaMarathonHH

Kostas Liapis E: organization@poseidon-athenshalfmarathon.com W: poseidon-athenshalfmarathon.com ! bit.ly/3GtNYcW

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Axios Running Festival

Crete Marathon

Suzuki Midnight Sun Run

APR

Manos Gryfakis E: chaniarunners@gmail.com W: crete-marathon.gr ! facebook.com/cretemarathon/ NOV

Patras Half Marathon

APR

Kyriaki Oudatzi E: olympicdaygr@gmail.com W: olympicdayrun.gr

Nikolaos Polias E: info@patrashalfmarathon.gr W: patrashalfmarathon.gr/en ! facebook.com/patrashalfmarathon APR

OCT

Jeﬀ Adams E: info@marathontours.com W: marathontours.com/en-us/events/polarcircle-marathon/

JAN

Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge Half Marathon JAN Mr. Wong, Kim Lun Joseph E: inquiry@hkaaa.com W: www.hzmb-halfmarathon.com

Hungary SEP

DEC

OCT

FEB

Telekom Vivicittá Spring Half Marathon APR

Vivek Singh E: vedantadelhihalfmarathon@ procam.in, arati@procam.in W: vedantadelhihalfmarathon.procam.in ! facebook.com/DelhiHM " @DelhiHM_

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FEB

OCT

DEC

FEB

Sourav Kashyap E: sourav.k.kashyap@gmail.com W: iemuemkolkatamarathon.org/

Ladakh Marathon & Ultra Chewang Motup Goba E: info@ladakhmarathon.com W: www.ladakhmarathon.com ! facebook.com/ladakhmarathon " @Ladakh_Marathon

OCT

JAN

AUG

FEB

TAWANG Marathon

OCT

Tigerhill India Marathon

JUL

Ust Trivandrum Marathon

NOV

MG Vadodara Int’l Marathon

FEB

Vizag Marathon

TBC

Vedanta Zinc City Half Marathon

SEP

Reeky Sharma E: tawangdso@gmail.com W: www.tawangmarathon.com

Nagaraj Adiga E: contact@nebsports.in W: www.trivandrummarathon.com Sameer Khera E: info@vadodaramarathon.com W: www.vadodaramarathon.com ! facebook.com/VadodaraMarathon # @vadodara_marathon Balakrishna Rai E: balakrishnarai@hotmail.com W: www.vizagmarathon.run Manoj Soni E: drmanoj@anybodycanrun.com W: vedantazchm.abcr.in/ " @vedentazchm # @udaipurhalfmarathon

Maybank Marathon

AUG

Borobudur Marathon

NOV

Indonesia Women Half Marathon

MAY

Mandiri Jogja Marathon

JUN

Reza Puspo; Co: Marti Karina E: martikarina@20fit.id W: www.indonesiawomenhalfmarathon.com Pandu Bagus Buntaran E: mandirimarathon@isport.co.id W: mandirimarathon.co.id # @mandiri_jogmar

Ireland

Vedanta Pink City Half Marathon – NOV Jaipur Roop Betala E: roopchand@volvie.com W: pinkcitymarathon.com ! facebook.com/HalfMarathonJaipur # @pinkcityhalfmarathon Rohan More E: oﬃce.pimt@gmail.com W: www.marathonpune.com " @punemarathon

AUG

Ankita Asthana E: suryaspitimarathon@gmail.com W: www.suryaspitimarathon.com

Andreas Kansil E: andreas@pandarasports.com W: borobudurmarathon.com ! facebook.com/BorobudurMarathon2023

Nagaraj Adiga E: contact@nebsports.in W: www.newdelhimarathon.com ! facebook.com/newdelhimarathon/

Pune Int’l Marathon

Surya Spiti Marathon

Bertha M. Gani E: info@maybankmarathon.com W: www.maybank.co.id/maybank-marathon " @maybankmarathon # @maybankmarathon

Vivek Singh E: tatamumbaimarathon@procam. in, arati@procam.in W: tatamumbaimarathon.procam.in ! facebook.com/TataMumMarathon " @procamrunning

Cognizant New Delhi Marathon

SEP

Sandeep Kate E: drsandeep@suryaprabha.com W: www.runsatara.com

Indonesia SEP

Nagaraj Adiga E: contact@nebsports.in W: www.mumbaihalfmarathon.com ! facebook.com/MumbaiHM/ JAN

PBG Satara Hill Half Marathon

Bikram Pandey Kaaji E: marathons@tigerhillindia.com

Vivek Singh E: tsw25k@procam.in W: tatasteelworld25k.procam.in ! facebook.com/tsw25k " @TSK25K

Mumbai Half Marathon

Anil Mohan E: marathon@sarmang.com W: sarmangdehradunmarathon.sarmang.com ! facebook.com/sarmangDehradunMarathon " @SarmangM

Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon

Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata

Tata Mumbai Marathon

Chandrasekar Murugesan E: rd@chennairunners.in W: www.thechennaimarathon.com

Sarmang Dehradun Marathon

Árpád Kocsis E: registration@runinbudapest.com W: marathon.runinbudapest.com ! facebook.com/budapestmaraton

SEP

Navin Kumar Sinha E: info@bodhgayamarathon.com W: www.bodhgayamarathon.com ! facebook.com/thebodhgayamarathon # @bodhgayamarathon

Freshworks Chennai Marathon

DEC

Mukesh Mishra E: jaipurmarathon@gmail.com W: www.marathonjaipur.com ! facebook.com/jaipurmarathon/ " @jaipurmarathon # @jaipurmarathon

IEM-UEM Kolkata Marathon

1 AIMS – One Global Mile™ Member City

Árpád Kocsis E: registration@runinbudapest.com W: halfmarathon.runinbudapest.com ! facebook.com/budapestfelmaraton # @run_in_budapest

Árpád Kocsis E: registration@runinbudapest.com W: springhalfmarathon.runinbudapest.com ! facebook.com/vivicittafutas

APR

Dr. Gul Mohamed Akbar E: rungulrun@gmail.com W: midnightmarathon.in ! facebook.com/midnightmarathon.in " @BMM_in

Bodhgaya Marathon – Run For Global Peace

AUG

Jahid Azad E: dirtourism-kashmir@jk.gov.in W: www.kashmirmarathon.jk.gov.in FEB

NOV

Rubina Akhtar Hasan Rizvi E: rkruby@gmail.com W: http://helpyourselffoundation.in ! facebook.com/RizviMarathon/

Finely L. Pariat E: finely365@gmail.com W: meghalayaathleticsassociation.com

Vijay Sohni E: vijaysohni@gmail.com W: www.indoremarathon.in ! facebook.com/RunIndoreRun/

Kashmir Marathon

Nagaraj Adiga E: contact@nebsports.in W: www.bengalurumarathon.in ! facebook.com/marathonbengaluru/ " @NammaMarathon

Bharat Midnight Marathon

Patricia Yu E: run@unicef.org.hk W: run.unicef.org.hk ! facebook.com/unicef.runforeverychild/

SPAR Budapest Marathon

NOV

Vivek Singh E: tcsworld10k@procam.in W: tcsworld10k.procam.in ! facebook.com/tcsw10k # @tcsw10k

Wipro Bengaluru Marathon JAN

Indore Marathon

Saquib Rizvi Memorial Cancer Awareness Half Marathon

Sohra International Half Marathon SEP

Rajesh Vetcha E: founder@hyderabadrunners.com W: nmdchyderabadmarathon.com " @Marathon_Hyd # @nmdchyderabadmarathon

AU Jaipur Marathon

Dave Cundy E: sportsline@adani.com W: www.ahmedabadmarathon.com ! facebook.com/AhmdMarathon " @AhmdMarathon # @AhmdMarathon

TCS World 10K Bengaluru JAN

Wong Kim Lun, Alan E: inquiry@hkaaa.com W: www.hkmarathon.com ! www.facebook.com/hkmarathon # @soyjoyhk

Wizz Air Budapest Half Marathon

BK Mruthyunjaya E: abumarathon@gmail.com W: www.abumarathon.com ! facebook.com/bkabumarathon

Rahul Sharma E: marathon@kdhospital.co.in W: kdamdavadmarathon.com

AVOHK Race Committee E: chinacoastmarathon@gmail.com W: www.avohk.org " @AVOHK

UNICEF Charity Run Half Marathon & 10km

NMDC Hyderabad Marathon DEC

*Sekhon Indian Air Force Marathon (SIM) OCT

KD Amdavad Marathon

Hong Kong, China

Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon

India

Adani Ahmedabad Marathon

DEC

Nitin Bandekar E: nbandekar@nrbgroup.biz W: www.skfgoarivermarathon.com ! facebook.com/goarivermarathon # @skfgoarivermarathon

Dadi Prakashmani Abu Half Marathon AUG OCT

NOV

Nishant Maheshwari E: sportiz.in@gmail.com W: www.jbgkolkatamarathon.com

SKF Goa River Marathon

Rahul Sharma E: info@sekhoniafmarathon.in W: sekhoniafmarathon.in

Greenland

China Coast Marathon and Half Marathon

Hrefna Hlin Sveinbjornsdottir E: info@marathon.is W: www.rmi.is/en/ ! facebook.com/Reykjavikurmarathon " @ReykjavikMarath

JAN

Nishant Maheshwari E: sportiz.in@gmail.com W: www.jbgdurgapurmarathon.com

JBG Kolkata Marathon

Shiv Shankar Kosgi E: runbhopalrun@gmail.com W: runbhopalrun.com

Drosos Christopoulos E: info@thesshalfmarathon.org W: www.thesshalfmarathon.org ! on.fb.me/1bWynjE

Polar Circle Marathon

JUN

Hrefna Hlín Sveinbjörnsdóttir E: info@marathon.is W: midnightrun.is ! facebook.com/midnightrunis

Run Bhopal Run

Nikolaos Polias E: info@rhodesmarathon.gr W: www.rhodesmarathon.gr ! facebook.com/roadstorhodes " @RoadsToRhodes

International Thessaloniki Night Halfmarathon, 10K, 5K & 1 Mile

JBG Durgapur Marathon

Islandsbanki Reykjavik Marathon AUG

9th “Olympic Day Run” Greece – Halfmarathon

TUI Rhodes Marathon

Iceland

MAY

Vasilis Syropoulos E: info@axiosrunningfestival.org W: www.axiosrunningfestival.org

Analog Devices Cork City Marathon, Half Marathon and 10k JUN Eamon Hayes E: eamon_hayes@corkcity.ie W: www.corkcitymarathon.ie ! facebook.com/corkcitymarathon/ " @thecorkmarathon

Irish Life Dublin Marathon DEC

Jim Aughney E: racedirector@dublinmarathon.ie W: irishlifedublinmarathon.ie ! www.facebook.com/dublinmarathon # @dublinmarathon

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Abbott Longford Marathon

AUG

Ciaran McGovern E: info@longfordmarathon.com W: longfordmarathon.com ! facebook.com/longfordmarathon

Waterford Viking Marathon

JUN

Joe Cawley E: info@waterfordvikingmarathon.com W: www.waterfordvikingmarathon.com ! on.fb.me/1HWuFDI " @WVMarathon

The Great World Race

NOV

Ofer Padan E: info@marathonisrael.co.il W: www.marathonisrael.co.il/en/event/eilatdesert-marathon/ ! facebook.com/desertrun.co.il/ Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Jerusalem Marathon, Half & 10k

MAR

Simon Avraham E: JEM@target-market.co.il W: www.jerusalem-marathon.com ! on.fb.me/WCyXOj

Tel Aviv Bank Leumi Marathon

FEB

Ofer Shytrit “Kapaim” E: marathon@kapaim.co.il W: www.tlvmarathon.co.il ! facebook.com/TelAvivMarathon " @tlvmarathon

NOV

FEB

APR

NOV

MAY

FEB

Carlo Capalbo E: info@napolirunning.com W: www.napolirunning.com ! facebook.com/napolirunning

Padova Marathon

APR

Francesca Facco E: info@padovamarathon.com W: www.padovamarathon.com ! facebook.com/padovamarathon/

Ravenna Marathon City of Art

Stefano Righini E: info@maratonadiravenna.com W: www.maratonadiravenna.com ! facebook.com/maratonaravenna/ " @MaratonaRavenna

DEC

NOV

FEB

DEC

APR

DEC

Masashi Egashira E: hofu.yomiuri42195@gmail.com W: hofu-yomiuri.jp/ AUG

Ryo Takano E: ryo.takano@doshinpress.jp W: hokkaido-marathon.com ! facebook.com/hokkaidomarathon " @HKDMarathon # @hokkaido_marathon

Kyoji Matsunaga E: marugame-half@aroma.ocn.ne.jp W: www.km-half.com ! bit.ly/2mrsm5x # @marugamehalf

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Nara Marathon

FEB

DEC

APR

MAR

DEC

Jun Hayashi E: athletic@nara-marathon.jp W: www.nara-marathon.jp ! facebook.com/naramarathon.jp # @naramarathon_oﬃcial FEB

JAN

Junji Sawada E: j-sawada@ktv.co.jp W: www.osaka-marathon.jp ! m.facebook.com/osakawomensmarathon/ # @osakawomensmarathon

Osaka Marathon

FEB

Katsumi Nishiuchi E: support@osaka-marathon.com W: www.osaka-marathon.com/2026/en/ ! facebook.com/osakamarathon.oﬃcial

Osaka Half Marathon

JAN

Naho Morita E: contact-owm@sankei.co.jp W: half.osaka-marathon.jp/index.html

Lake Saroma 100km Ultra Marathon

FEB

JUN

Jiro Hashimoto E: saroma@runners.co.jp W: saromanblue.jp/index.shtml ! www.facebook.com/saroma100km

KIX Senshu Int’l Marathon Yukako Isozumi E: jimukyoku@senshu-marathon.jp W: http://www.senshu-marathon.jp/

MAR

Yasu Oshima E: TM_Elite@tokyo42195.org W: www.marathon.tokyo/en/ ! www.facebook.com/tokyo42195.org # @tokyomarathonfoundation

Amman Int’l Marathon

OCT

Ayla Red Sea Half Marathon

DEC

Dead Sea Ultra Marathon

APR

Lina El Kurd E: l.kurd@runjordan.com W: www.runjordan.com ! on.fb.me/1f9ilRz " @RedSeaMarathon Lina El Kurd E: l.kurd@runjordan.com W: www.runjordan.com ! on.fb.me/1f9ilRz " @RunJoOﬃcial

Kazakhstan Almaty Marathon

SEP

Almaty Half Marathon

APR

Astana Half Marathon

JUN

Turkistan Marathon

OCT

Saltanat Kazybayeva E: info@almaty-marathon.kz W: almaty-marathon.kz/en/events ! facebook.com/almatymarathon # @almatymarathon Saltanat Kazybayeva E: info@almaty-marathon.kz W: almaty-marathon.kz/en/events ! facebook.com/almatymarathon # @almatymarathon Saltanat Kazybayeva E: info@almaty-marathon.kz W: almaty-marathon.kz/en/events ! facebook.com/almatymarathon # @almatymarathon

Tomoki Suzuki E: info@ohme-marathon.jp W: www.ohme-marathon.jp ! facebook.com/ohme.marathon

Osaka Women’s Marathon

Tokyo Marathon

Lina El Kurd E: l.kurd@runjordan.com W: www.runjordan.com ! on.fb.me/1f9ilRz

Kouta Furuuchi E: info@naganomarathon.gr.jp W: www.naganomarathon.gr.jp ! www.facebook.com/naganomarathon " @Nagano_Marathon

Ohme-Hochi 30km Road Race & 10km

Hiroaki Miyazaki E: jtbc.sedesk@jtb.com W: http://www.gifu-marathon.jp/index.html ! facebook.com/gifu.marathon

Kagawa Marugame Int’l Half Marathon

NOV

Hiroaki Miyazaki E: nagoyawm2027@gmt.jtb.jp W: womens-marathon.nagoya ! facebook.com/nagoya.womens.marathon # @nagoya_gowomen FEB

MAR

Jordan

Teruo Ito E: isono@runners.co.jp W: www.kyoto-marathon.com/en/ ! facebook.com/kyoto.marathon.2021/ " @kyotomarathon

Nagoya Women’s Marathon

Tetsuya Aoki E: info@fukuoka-international-marathon.jp W: www.fukuoka-international-marathon.jp

Hokkaido Marathon

FEB

Toshihiro Matsumoto E: kobe-marathon@pref.hyogo.lg.jp W: www.kobe-marathon.net ! facebook.com/Kobe.Marathon.Oﬃce " @kobemarathon

Nagano Marathon

Toshihide Ikemoto E: info@ehimemarathon.jp W: ehimemarathon.jp " @ehimemarathon # @ehimemarathon

Hofu Yomiuri Marathon

Kobe Marathon

Tokushima Marathon

Masazumi Gotouda E: hashiru_ahoo@circus.ocn.ne.jp W: www.tokushima-marathon.jp ! facebook.com/tokushima.marathon " @Hashiru_Ahoo

R-bies Sports Foundation E: mtfuji42195@runners.co.jp W: mtfujimarathon.com/ ! facebook.com/mtfujimarathon/ " @fuji42195

Shotaro Asano E: asano-s@mainichi.co.jp W: www.betsudai.com

Gifu Half Marathon

Piero Rosa Salva E: info@venicemarathon.it W: www.moonlighthalfmarathon.it ! facebook.com/MoonlightHalfMarathon/

Napoli City Half Marathon

Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon

OCT

Kazuhisa Takeuchi E: toiawase@kitakyushu-marathon.jp W: kitakyushu-marathon.jp ! on.fb.me/VyPKjJ " @miraiekakeru # @miraiekakeru

Mt. Fuji International Marathon

Alfred Francis E: racedirector@reggaemarathon.com W: www.reggaemarathon.com ! facebook.com/ReggaeMarathon " @ReggaeMarathon

Fukuoka Int’l Marathon

Andrea Trabuio, Luca Lamera E: luca@mgsport.it, andrea@mgsport.it W: followyourpassion.it/milano21/

Moonlight Half Marathon

NOV

Stefano Stanzial E: press@veronarunevents.it W: www.veronarunmarathon.it/?lang=en ! facebook.com/veronarunmarathon " @veronamarathon # @verona_run_marathon

Ehime Marathon

Luca Onofrio E: info@milanomarathon.it W: www.milanomarathon.it/en/ ! facebook.com/MilanoMarathon " @milanomarathon

Powerade Milano Half Marathon

Verona Run Marathon

Kitakyushu Marathon

Kyoto Marathon

Japan

Stefano Stanzial E: press@veronarunevents.it W: www.romeoegiuliettarunhalfmarathon.it ! bit.ly/3udqEOb # @romeogiulietta_runhalfmarathon

Milano Marathon

OCT

Piero Rosa Salva E: info@venicemarathon.it W: www.venicemarathon.it ! facebook.com/ASDVenicemarathon/ " @Venicemarathon

Reggae Marathon – the Half Marathon, 10K & 5K

Giancarlo Romiti E: staﬀ@firenzemarathon.it W: www.firenzemarathon.it ! on.fb.me/1lpsOz8 " @FirenzeMarathon

Romeo&Giulietta Run Half Marathon

FEB

Jamaica

Italy Estra Firenze Marathon

SEP

Marcello Vettese E: info@maratonadisanvalentino.it W: www.maratonadisanvalentino.it ! facebook.com/maratona.disanvalentino # @maratonadisanvalentino

Venicemarathon

Kanazawa Marathon Takashi Murayama E: marathon@city.kanazawa.lg.jp W: www.kanazawa-marathon.jp ! facebook.com/kanazawa.marathon. soshiki " @knzwmarathon

Paolo Bordon E: info@maratoninadiudine.it W: www.maratoninadiudine.it ! facebook.com/asdmaratoninaudinese " @MaratoninaUdine

Maratona di San Valentino

Israel

SEP

Gianni Valler E: info@trentorunningfestival.it W: www.trentorunningfestival.it ! facebook.com/trentorunningfestival " @TrentoRunning # @trento_runningfestival

Maratonina Città di Udine

David Kelly E: info@thegreatworldrace.com W: www.thegreatworldrace.com

Eilat International Desert Marathon

Trento Half Marathon

Saltanat Kazybayeva E: info@almaty-marathon.kz W: almaty-marathon.kz/en/events ! instagram.com/almatymarathon/ # @almatymarathon

Korea Chuncheon Int’l Marathon

OCT

Daegu Marathon

FEB

Gyeonggi Int’l Half Marathon

FEB

Gyeongju Marathon

OCT

Hyungsuk Kim E: marathon@chosun.com W: www.chuncheonmarathon.com ! facebook.com/ChosunMarathon " @chunma10 TaeKyu Kang E: daegumarathon@daegusports.or.kr W: daegu.go.kr/daegumarathon/ ! facebook.com/daegumarathon # @daegu_marathon We Jang Ryang E: swkim@kgnews.co.kr W: www.ggimarathon.com

FEB

Ahn Joongsan E: s9081@donga.com W: www.gyeongjumarathon.com # @gyeongju__marathon

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Seoul Marathon

MAR

Joong-San Ahn E: joong4n2@donga.com W: www.seoul-marathon.com ! facebook.com/marathonseoul # @seoul_marathon

JTBC Seoul Marathon

NOV

Vanpheng Southichak E: seneyakone@gmail.com W: www.efglaos.com ! facebook.com/vientianehalfmarathon

NOV

Ehrabi Nael E: ehrabi.nael@beirutmarathon.org W: www.beirutmarathon.org ! facebook.com/beirutmarathon # @beirutmarathon

MAY

Lithuania APR

SEP

Gediminas Pajėda E: info@vilniausmaratonas.lt W: www.vilniusmarathon.lt ! www.facebook.com/vilniusmarathon " @vilniusmarathon

SEP

JUL

MAR

DEC

NOV

Aqiff Affandi E: aqiff.affandi@pos.com.my W: www.racexasia.com/event/pos-malaysia-run2026-posm26 NOV

Timothy Cheng E: elopuramarathon@gmail.com W: www.elopuramarathon.com ! facebook.com/elopuramarathonsandakan

Score Marathon MAR

Patricia Tan E: patricia@score.my W: scoremarathon.com ! facebook.com/scoremarathon

FEB

Malta’s La Valette Marathon

MAR

Joseph Micallef E: info@maltamarathon.com W: www.maltamarathon.com

Maratón Aguascalientes

OCT

Jose Luis Trujillo Alcala E: maratonaguascalientes@hotmail.com W: maratonaguascalientes.com ! facebook.com/maratonaguascalientes NOV

AUG

David Alberto Prado Arredondo E: david.prado@comudeguadalajara.gob.mx W: www.medio.maratonguadalajara.org ! facebook.com/MaratonGDL

Medio Maratón Atlas de Guadalajara

SEP

Saúl Figueroa E: deportes1@atlascolomos.com.mx, deportes2@atlascolomos.com.mx W: www.mediomaraton.atlas.com.mx/ ! facebook.com/AtlasMedioMaraton/ " @atlasclubes

Guadalajara Marathon Skarch hydrated by Electrolit

Maratón Int’l de Juárez

Natalia Aransazú Flores García E: nflores@maratondejuarez.com W: www.maratondejuarez.com ! bit.ly/2JdBw6H

Queretaro Maraton

OCT

Abel Magaña Alvarez E: abelmagana@gmail.com W: www.queretaromaraton.com.mx " @QroMaraton JUN

Jaime Eduardo Morales Reyes E: maratontangamanga@gmail.com W: www.maratontangamanga.com ! facebook.com/maratontangamanga " @MaratonT OCT

Salvador de Jesús Alejandre Mendoza E: gestiondeproyectos.comude@gmail.com W: www.facebook.com/mmtlajomulco ! facebook.com/mmtlajomulco

Moldova Chisinau Int’l Marathon

SEP

Dmitri Voloshin E: event@sporter.md W: www.marathon.md ! facebook.com/chisinaumarathon

Morocco AIMS Atlas Mountain Edition

FEB

Martha Morales E: maratontangamanga@gmail.com

1 AIMS – One Global Mile™ Member City

NOV

David Prado Arredondo E: david.prado@comudeguadalajara.gob.mx W: www.maratonguadalajara.org ! facebook.com/MaratonGDL " @comudegdl JUN

APR

Humberto Munoz Vargas E: contacto@maratonpuertovallarta.com W: www.maratonpuertovallarta.com ! facebook.com/MaratonPV/?rdc=2&rdr

Tlajomulco Half Marathon

Luis Fernando Alonso Molina E: slp.deportesocial2427@gmail.com ! facebook.com/DeporteMpalSLP

DEC

Edilberto González Serna E: edilbertogonzalez.accnl@gmail.com W: www.maratonmonterrey.com ! facebook.com/Maratonmty " @Maratonmty

BMW Tangamanga Int’l Marathon

Mexico

AUG

Javier Carvallo Chinchilla E: maraton@cdmx.gob.mx W: maraton.cdmx.gob.mx ! facebook.com/MaratonCdMx " @MaratonCDMX # @maraton_cdmx

Maratón Puerto Vallarta

21K Guadalajara Electrolit nutrido FEB por Granvita

Jason Yeo Kok Seng E: sarawakenergymarathon@ sarawakenergy.com W: sarawakenergymarathon.com ! facebook.com/SarawakEnergy

Macau, China

Malta Marathon

Medio Maratón la Capital del Deporte

Aspen-Klippa Penang Bridge International Marathon 2025

Pos Malaysia Run

APR

Joseph Galea E: racedirector@rungozo.org W: www.rungozo.org ! facebook.com/rungozo

Matthew Pace E: contact@corsa.mt W: www.lavalettemarathon.com ! facebook.com/corsamalta

Yeo Hui Teck E: contact@marathonmiri.com W: www.marathonmiri.com ! facebook.com/mirimarathon

Sarawak Energy Marathon

E: Contact@routeduvin.lu W: www.routeduvin.lu/en ! facebook.com/routeduvin.lu

Pun Weng Kun E: info@sport.gov.mo W: www.macao10k.com

OCT

Chan Boon Teck E: boonteckchanwendel@yahoo.com.my

Elopura Marathon Sandakan

Luxembourg

Macao International 10K

Kuching Marathon

Il-Ġirja t’Għawdex

JAN

Andrés Herrera Figueroa E: contacto@vivedeporte.mx W: marathonmerida.dashport.run ! bit.ly/4nlyMC3

Maratón Powerade Monterrey

Malta

Kuala Lumpur Standard Chartered OCT Marathon

Miri Marathon

AUG

Hussain Shujau E: shujau@irunnersevents.com W: irunnersevents.com

SEP

Isaac Noé Piña Valdivia E: inscripcionesmaratonleon@ comudeleon.gob.mx W: www1.marcate.com.mx/#/event/ SPTMCAR1687564697/ ! facebook.com/MaratonLeonMX/

Maratón de la Ciudad de México Telcel

1 AIMS – One Global Mile™ Member City

Wong Hon Wai E: info@penangmarathon.gov.my W: www.penangmarathon.gov.my ! facebook.com/penangbridgemarathon " @PenangMarathon

Gytis Sumskas E: info@kaunasmarathon.lt W: www.kaunasmarathon.lt ! facebook.com/KaunoMaratonas # @kaunomaratonas

Route du Vin Remich

SEP

Kuching Half Marathon

James D. Cox E: admin@gbarngamarathonfoundation.com W: gbarngamarathonfoundation.com

MAY

Mirshan Hassan E: dfr@dhiraagu.com.mv W: www.dfr.mv

MAR

Pablo Garza E: alcaldesa@nld.gob.mx

Marathon Mérida Banorte

Maldives Half Marathon

Liew Tang Chieh E: kchmarathon@gmail.com W: www.marathonkuching.com ! on.fb.me/1OhT46J " @MarathonKuching

Liberia

Vilnius Marathon

Eugene Chan Wai Yong E: eugene@ecpixels.com W: www.ijmhighwayrun.com

Rainer Biemans E: dirigo@dirigo.com.my W: www.kl-marathon.com ! www.facebook.com/SCKLmarathon " @klscmarathon # @klscmarathon

Lebanon

Kaunas Marathon

AUG

Zat Asyraﬀ Takiyuddin E: pb@kbhalf.com W: kbhalf.com # @kbhalfmarathon

Vientiane International Half Marathon MAR

NOV

Mirshan Hassan E: dmrr@dhiraagu.com.mv W: www.dmrr.mv ! facebook.com/dhiraagufans/

MAR

María Luisa Marroquín E: marialuisa.marroquin@ucialsa.com.mx W: www.maratonlala.org ! on.fb.me/1f9fPdX " @MaratonLala

Maratón León

Dhiraagu Fuvahmulah Run

Kota Bharu Half Marathon

Laos

Gbarnga Marathon

MAY

Duo Highway Challenge

Arslan Maldybaev E: oﬃce@nomadsport.kg W: nomadsport.net/event/SLR2024 ! facebook.com/nomadsportkg

JAN

Mohd Bukhari Bin Ismail E: twincity@10senses.com.my W: twincitymarathon.com

Dhiraagu Maldives Road Race

Datuk Dr Heng Aik Cheng E: info@borneomarathon.com W: www.borneomarathon.com ! facebook.com/borneomarathon

OCT

Twincity Marathon

Maratón Int’l Lala

Maratón Binacional Dos Laredos

Maldives

Malaysia Borneo Int’l Marathon

Kyrgyzstan

Beirut Marathon

MAY

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Wissam Terro E: do@suﬃx.com W: www.gulfbank642marathon.com ! facebook.com/GB642/

APR

Mohd Wahyu Aﬀandy Bin Zainuddin E: ceo@terengganumarathon.com W: www.terengganumarathon.com

Jeﬀ Adams E: info@marathontours.com W: www.madagascarmarathon.com ! facebook.com/MadagascarMarathon

NOV

AUG

Wilson Lee E: info@spinsportswear.com W: www.taipinghalfmarathon.com

Terengganu Marathon

Madagascar Madagascar Marathon, Half, 50K & 10K

Kuwait

Bishkek Snow Leopard Run

Taiping Half Marathon DEC

Lei Si Leng E: macaomarathon@sport.gov.mo W: www.macaumarathon.com/en/

E: runable@joins.com W: marathon.jtbc.com ! facebook.com/2018JTBC SEOULMARATHON/ " @marathonjoins # @jtbc_seoul_marathon

Gulf Bank 642 Marathon

Galaxy Entertainment Macao Int’l Marathon

OCT

Semi Marathon Geoparc M’Goun Azilal

NOV

Abderrahman Es-sofi E: essofi70@gmail.com W: www.running.ma

Marathon Int’l de Casablanca

OCT

Kaoutar Bendoumou E: kaoutar@casablancamarathon.com W: www.casablanca-marathon.com ! facebook.com/casamarathon/ " @wecasablanca

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Spiritual Marathon of Fez

MAR

Abderrahim Bouramdane E: abderamdane@gmail.com W: marathonspiritueldefes.com

Semi Marathon Int’l de Laayoune

NOV

Abdellah Jeddad E: ajeddad@gmail.com W: www.running.ma

Marathon & Semi Int’l de Marrakech

JAN

OCT

Rachid Ben Meziane E: info@2cras.com W: www.rbmsports.com ! facebook.com/marrakech10km/?fref=ts

Semi Marathon International De Meknes

MAY

Abdel Majid Laamrani E: laamranimajid76@gmail.com W: www.smimeknes.com

15km de Moulay Abdellah

JUN

Adil Ghorbal E: contact@moulayabdellah.org W: www.moulayabdellah.org

MAY

Shikhar Pandey E: tenzing.hillary@everestmarathon.com W: www.everestmarathon.com ! facebook.com/everestmarathon/

Kathmandu Marathon

OCT

Bagmati Rai E: info@kathmandumarathon.com.np W: www.kathmandumarathon.com.np

*Kathmandu Heritage Race

1 AIMS – One Global Mile™ Member City Lumbini Peace Marathon Running Around Buddha’s Home MAR Bikram Pandey Kaaji E: Event.Manager@ LumbiniPeaceMarathon.com W: www.lumbinipeacemarathon.com ! facebook.com/lumbinimarathon

NOV

FEB

Dil Bahadur Gurung E: pokharamarathon2020@gmail.com W: www.pokharamarathon.org ! facebook.com/pokharamarathon.org

Tom Limmen E: info@lechampion.nl W: www.nndamloop.nl ! www.facebook.com/damtotdamloop " @damtotdamloop # @damtotdamloop

MAR

Edward Diaz E: ediaz@mymarianas.com W: mymarianas.com

Fjordkraft Bergen City Marathon

OCT

Rene Wit E: info@lechampion.nl W: www.tcsamsterdammarathon.nl ! www.facebook.com/ TCSAmsterdamMarathon " @tcsadammarathon # @tcsamsterdammarathon

NN Dam tot Damloop

AUG

Midnight Sun Marathon

SEP

APR

Janne Jensen E: post@bergencitymarathon.no W: www.bergencitymarathon.no ! facebook.com/BergenCityMarathon/ " @bergencmarathon # @bergencitymarathon JUN

Nils I. Haetta E: info@msm.no W: www.msm.no ! facebook.com/MidnightSunMarathonTromso " @MSM_TOS

PolarNight Marathon Nils I. Haetta E: info@msm.no W: www.msm.no ! bit.ly/2UPOUhQ

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JAN

Łukasz Wójcik E: biuro.zawodow@mcs.wroc.pl W: mcs.wroc.pl/kontakt-polmaraton ! facebook.com/nocnywroclawpolmaraton

Portugal Montepio Meia Maratona de Cascais

AUG

Marcelo Ithurralde E: pmc.paraguay@gmail.com W: www.maratondeasuncion.com.py ! bit.ly/4oRSZ3E " @pymarathonclub

Funchal Marathon

Lidl São Silvestre de Lisboa

Lima 42k Marathon

Carlos Moya E: geral@maratonaportugal.com W: www.maratonaclubedeportugal.com/ en/corrida-marco-2022/edp-lisbon-halfmarathon/ ! facebook.com/MeiaMaratonaLisboa " @MeiaMaratonaLX

MAR

EDP Lisbon Marathon APR

Liz Tiongson E: bukidnonmarathon@gmail.com W: www.facebook.com/bukidnonmarathon ! facebook.com/bukidnonmarathon

Poland APR

PKO Gdynia Half Marathon

APR

PKO Poznań Halfmarathon

APR

Michał Drelich E: zapisy@sportevolution.pl W: www.gdyniapolmaraton.pl ! facebook.com/gdyniapolmaraton Łukasz Miadziołko E: info@halfmarathon.poznan.pl W: www.halfmarathon.poznan.pl ! facebook.com/PoznanMaraton OCT

Lukasz Miadziolko E: info@marathon.poznan.pl W: www.marathon.poznan.pl ! facebook.com/PoznanMaraton

OCT

Carlos Moya E: geral@maratonaportugal.com W: www.maratonaclubedeportugal.com ! facebook.com/MaratonaDeLisboa/ # @maratonadelisboa

Hyundai Lisbon Half Marathon

Cracovia Marathon

Krzysztof Dragon E: dragon@silesiamarathon.pl W: www.silesiamarathon.pl/en/ ! facebook.com/SilesiaMarathon/

DEC

Hugo Miguel Ramos Sousa E: info@saosilvestredelisboa.com W: www.saosilvestredelisboa.com ! facebook.com/saosilvestredelisboa

EDP Lisbon Half Marathon MAY

Philippines

Silesia Marathon

JAN

Nélio Parreira E: geral@atletismomadeira.pt W: www.madeiramarathon.com ! facebook.com/funchalmarathon/

Alejandra Rodriguez Larrain E: alejandra@perurunners.com W: www.perurunners.com " @perurunners # @PeruRunners

LOTTO Poznań Marathon

NOV

António Campos E: geral@xistarca.pt W: meiamaratonadosdescobrimentos.com ! bit.ly/2oReipd

Kia Half Marathon & 10k by Puma AUG

Bukidnon Int’l Marathon

FEB

Hugo Miguel Ramos Sousa E: geral@hmssports.pt W: www.meiamaratonadecascais.pt ! facebook.com/meiamaratonadecascais/

Discoveries Half Marathon

Tomasz Marzec E: oﬃce@cracoviamaraton.pl W: www.cracoviamaraton.pl ! facebook.com/CracoviaMaraton

Norway

Netherlands TCS Amsterdam Marathon

Saipan Marathon

JUL

Alejandra Rodriguez Larrain E: alejandra@perurunners.com W: www.lima42k.com.pe ! facebook.com/maratonlima42k/ " @lima42k

Northern Mariana Islands MAY

Chandra Bahadur Gurung E: tsthakuri@gmail.com

Pokhara International Marathon

OCT

Oliver Wang E: info@runbuk.com W: www.npmarathon.com ! facebook.com/npmarathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

1 AIMS – One Global Mile™ Member City

NOV

Rodrigo Espinosa E: rodriespinosa@gmail.com W: www.maratoninternacionaldepanama.com/ en/ ! on.fb.me/19tYlKX

Peru

Kire Sinadinovski E: kire@skopskimaraton.com.mk W: www.skopjemarathon.com ! facebook.com/skopskimaraton " @skopjemarathon

APR

Marek Tronina E: info@maratonwarszawski.com W: polmaratonwarszawski.com/en/ ! facebook.com/WarsawMarathon

PKO Wroclaw Night Half Marathon JUN

Paraguay

Mitch Murcott E: aucklandmarathon@ironman.com W: aucklandmarathon.co.nz ! facebook.com/aucklandmarathon " @AKmarathonNZ # @aucklandmarathon

North Pole Marathon

JAN

Panama

Maratón Int’l Asunción

SEP

Warsaw Half Marathon

Jorge Urrutia E: Jorge@razzpao.com W: panamamarathon.com

Barfoot & Thompson Runaway Auckland Marathon presented by NOV ASICS

Warsaw Marathon Marek Tronina E: info@maratonwarszawski.com W: maratonwarszawski.com/en/ ! facebook.com/WarsawMarathon

Joe Raﬀerty E: info@muscatmarathon.om W: muscatmarathon.om ! facebook.com/MuscatMarathon/

*Panama City Marathon

North Pole

Chandra Bahadur Gurung E: tsthakuri@gmail.com W: www.nepalgunjmarathon.com # @nepalgunj_marathon

Nepalgunj 10 Night Run

APR

Wilbert Lek E: info@marathonrotterdam.nl W: www.nnmarathonrotterdam.nl ! facebook.com/MarathonRdam/ # @marathonrotterdam

Wizz Air Skopje Marathon

Muscat Marathon

Panama Int’l Marathon

North Macedonia MAY

Chandra Bahadur Gurung E: creativehandsnpj@gmail.com W: www.kathmandu25k.com

Nepalgunj Marathon

MAY

Tjeerd Scheﬀer E: info@marathon.nl W: www.marathon.nl ! facebook.com/Leidenmarathon " @leidenmarathon

NN Marathon Rotterdam

AUG

Oman APR

Sandra Melief E: sandra@enschedemarathon.nl W: www.enschedemarathon.nl ! nl-nl.facebook.com/EnschedeMarathon # @enschedemarathon

Leiden Marathon

Stavanger Marathon

Johannes Økland E: lop@gti-friidrett.no W: stavangermarathon.no/en/ ! facebook.com/StavangerMarathon/

New Zealand

Nepal Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon

OCT

Wilbert Lek E: info@marathoneindhoven.nl W: www.asmlmarathoneindhoven.nl ! facebook.com/marathon.eindhoven # @asmlmarathoneindhoven

Enschede Marathon

Mohamed Knidiri E: marathonmarrakech@gmail.com W: www.marathonmarrakech.ma ! facebook.com/marathon2marrakech

10km Int’l de Marrakech

ASML Marathon Eindhoven

OCT

Carlos Moya E: geral@maratonaportugal.com W: www.maratonaclubedeportugal.com ! facebook.com/MaratonaDeLisboa/ # @maratonadelisboa

Porto Half Marathon

SEP

Jorge Teixeira E: geral@runporto.com W: www.meiamaratonadoporto.com ! facebook.com/meiamaratonadoporto/ # @portohalfmarathon

EDP Porto Marathon

NOV

Tiago Teixeira E: geral@runporto.com W: www.maratonadoporto.com ! on.fb.me/19tXqKC # @portomarathon

Puerto Rico OCT

Lola Challenge Weekend Zenaida Gutiérrez E: lolachallengeweekend@gmail.com W: www.lolachallenge.com ! facebook.com/LolaChallenge

NOV

RACE CONTAC T DE TAILS Race Directors: Send updated race contact details to update@aims-worldrunning.org * Associate member · Race names of Founding members are shown in blue

Qatar Doha Marathon by Ooredoo

Saudi Arabia JAN

Wissam Terro E: do@suﬃx.com W: www.dohamarathonooredoo.com

Republic of South Africa Comrades Marathon

JUN

Alain Dalais E: info@comrades.com W: www.comrades.com ! facebook.com/ComradesMarathon " @ComradesRace # @comradesmarathon

APR

MAY

Vadim Yangirov E: vadim@youngirov.ru W: kazan.run ! facebook.com/kazanmarathon/ OCT

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

Moscow Marathon

SEP

MAY

Dmitry Tarasov E: tarasov@runc.run W: moscowhalf.runc.run

SPB Half Marathon. The Northern Capital

AUG

MAY

Pushkin – St Petersburg Marathon SEP Dmitriy Pavlov E: info@pushkin-run.com W: pushkin-run.ru # @pushkin_run

JAN

AUG

Konstantin Podbelskiy E: mail@runsim.ru W: runsim.ru

SEP

Olga Gaeva E: info@vladivostokmarathon.ru W: galaxymarathon.com

White Nights Marathon

JUL

Dmitry Tarasov E: tarasov@runc.run W: wnmarathon.runc.run

Rwanda Kigali International Peace Marathon Jean Pierre Ndacyayisenga E: JohnPeter2050@outlook.com W: www.kigalimarathon.org ! bit.ly/2llV4W3 " @KigaliMarathon

SEP

OCT

Slovenia OCT

Barbara Železnik E: info@ljubljanskimaraton.si W: www.ljubljanamarathon.si ! facebook.com/ljmaraton

Roque M. Alemañ Bonet E: atletismosantapola@gmail.com W: www.mitjasantapola.com ! facebook.com/MitjaMaratoSantaPola " @C_A_SantaPola FEB

Medio Maratón Valencia Trinidad Alfonso Zurich

OCT

Paco Borao E: info@correcaminos.org W: www.valenciaciudaddelrunning.com/ medio-maraton ! www.facebook.com/ mediomaratonvalencia " @MedioMaratonVLC

MAY

DEC

Paco Borao E: info@correcaminos.org W: www.valenciaciudaddelrunning.com ! facebook.com/maratonvalencia # @vcrunning Alex Aparicio E: alex@10kvalencia.com W: www.10kvalencia.com ! facebook.com/10KValencia/ " @10KValencia

Cristian Llorens Codinach E: cristian.llorens@rpmsports.es W: www.zurichmaratobarcelona.es ! www.facebook.com/ ZURICHMARATODEBARCELONA # @maratobarcelona

SEP

Jungfrau-Marathon

SEP

Lausanne Marathon

OCT

Neujahrsmarathon Zürich

JAN

StraLugano

SEP

SwissCityMarathon – Lucerne

OCT

Swissalpine Flims

JUL

Patrick Wieser E: info@jungfrau-marathon.ch W: www.jungfrau-marathon.ch ! facebook.com/JungfrauMarathon Josette Bruchez E: info@lausanne-marathon.com W: www.lausanne-marathon.com ! facebook.com/LausanneMarathon " @LsnMarathon Andreina Schwarz E: info@neujahrsmarathon.ch W: www.neujahrsmarathon.ch ! www.facebook.com/neujahrsmarathon # @neujahrsmarathon.ch Luca Ferretti E: info@stralugano.ch W: www.stralugano.ch ! facebook.com/stralugano/ # @stralugano

Andrea Tuﬄi E: info@swissalpine.ch W: www.swissalpine.ch ! facebook.com/swissalpine1986 # @swissalpine_1986

Gornergrat Zermatt Marathon

JUL

Ochsner Sport Zürich Marathon

APR

Vanessa Lorenz E: info@zermattmarathon.ch W: www.zermattmarathon.ch ! www.facebook.com/zermattmarathon # @gornergratzermattmarathon

LSR Colombo Marathon

OCT

Colombo Marathon MAR

Greifenseelauf Uster

Course not measurable to AIMS standards JAN

P.T. Weerasinghe E: colombomarathon@Lsrtravel.com W: www.colombomarathon.com ! facebook.com/LSRColomboMarathon

Spain

MAY

Benjamin Chandelier E: info@genevemarathon.org W: www.generaligenevemarathon.com ! facebook.com/GeneveMarathon " @GeneveMarathon

Reto Schorno E: info@swisscitymarathon.ch W: www.swisscitymarathon.ch ! facebook.com/SwissCityMarathon # @swisscitymarathon

Sri Lanka

Marko Pintaric E: info@maraton-radenci.si W: www.maraton-radenci.si ! facebook.com/MaratonTrehSrc # @maratontrehsrc

Cristian Llorens Codinach E: cristian.llorens@rpmsports.es W: mitjamarato.barcelona ! facebook.com/mitjamaratobarcelona " @mitjabarcelona # @mitjabarcelona

David Thompson Foronda E: info@palmamarathonmallorca.com W: www.palmademallorcamarathon.com/english ! on.fb.me/1RZOiR8 " @PalmaMarathon

10K Valencia Ibercaja by Kiprun

Hyundai Mitja Marató de Barcelona by Brooks FEB JUN

OCT

Valencia Trinidad Alfonso Marathon

Branislav Koniar E: info@kosicemarathon.com W: www.kosicemarathon.com ! facebook.com/kosicemarathon/ # @kosicemarathon

Zurich Marató de Barcelona

TUI Palma Marathon Mallorca

Francisco Javier Gavela Rodríguez E: fjgavela@slib.es W: en.zurichmaratonsevilla.es ! facebook.com/MaratonDeSevilla # @maratondesevilla APR

Switzerland Generali Genève Marathon

Markus Ryﬀel E: greifenseelauf@markusryﬀels.ch W: www.greifenseelauf.ch ! facebook.com/greifenseelauf # @greifenseelauf

Zurich Maratón de Sevilla

Jozef Pukalovič E: jozo@becool.sk W: www.bratislavamarathon.com/event/dmzensky-beh/

Three Hearts Marathon

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Galaxy Vladivostok Marathon

DEC

Jozef Pukalovič E: info@becool.sk W: www.bratislavamarathon.com ! www.facebook.com/bratislava.marathon # @bratislavamarathon

NLB Ljubljana Marathon

Konstantin Podbelskiy E: mail@runsim.ru W: runsim.ru

Siberian Int’l Marathon

ČSOB Bratislava Marathon

Pedro Rumbao E: drumbao@mapoma.es W: www.rocknrollmadridrun.com ! facebook.com/RnRMadrid " @RunRocknRoll

Mitja Marato Int’l Vila de Santa Pola JAN

Weisong Liang E: info@singaporeinternational marathon.com W: www.singaporeinternational marathon.com ! facebook.com/sgintlmarathon

Košice Peace Marathon

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

Siberian Ice Half Marathon

BYD Singapore International Marathon presented by adidas

dm Women’s Run

Dmitry Tarasov E: tarasov@runc.run W: spbhalf.runc.run

Pushkin Marathon

OCT

Milan Dolga E: Marathonns@gmail.com W: www.marathon.org.rs ! facebook.com/novisad.marathon

Slovakia

Dmitry Tarasov E: tarasov@runc.run W: moscowmarathon.runc.run

Moscow Half Marathon

APR

Singapore

Russia

Kazan Half Marathon

Serbia

Novi Sad Marathon

APR

Alejandro Sánchez Perrote E: info@mediomaratonmadrid.es W: www.mediomaratonmadrid.es ! facebook.com/mediomaratonmadrid/ # @mediomaratonmadrid

Zurich Rock ’n’ Roll Running Series APR Madrid

Darko Habuš E: oﬃce@bgdmarathon.org W: www.bgdmarathon.org ! www.facebook.com/Belgrade.Marathon

Horatiu Morar E: oﬃce@runnersclub.ro W: www.maraton-cluj.ro/en ! bit.ly/2fUJuR1

Kazan Marathon

JAN

Wissam Terro E: do@suﬃx.com W: riyadhmarathon.org " @RiyadhMarathon_ # @riyadhmarathon_

Powerade Belgrade Marathon

Romania Wizz Air Cluj-Napoca Marathon

Riyadh Marathon

Movistar Madrid Medio Maratón

Fabian Lips E: info@zuerichmarathon.ch W: www.zuerichmarathon.ch ! facebook.com/zurichmarathon # @zuerich_marathon

Tajikistan MAR

I P Wijerathna E: secretary@moys.gov.lk W: colombomarathon.lk

Dushanbe International Half Marathon

APR

Sino Ismoilov E: dfrdushanbe@gmail.com W: www.tjkathletics.tj/news.php?news_id=597

Sweden

Tanzania

adidas Stockholm Marathon

MAY

Christer Clefberg E: info@stockholmmarathon.se W: stockholmmarathon.se ! www.facebook.com/stockholmmarathon.se

adidas Stockholm Half Marathon Louise Fredriksson E: info@stockholmhalvmarathon.se W: stockholmhalfmarathon.se ! facebook.com/stockholmhalfmarathon

AUG

Kilimanjaro Marathon

FEB

John Addison E: info@kilimanjaromarathon.com W: www.kilimanjaromarathon.com ! facebook.com/kilimanjaromarathon/ " @WildFrontiers_

Stop GBV Half Marathon Zanzibar NOV Asma Ali Hassan Mwinyi E: info@asmamwinyifoundation.or.tz W: www.stopgbvmarathonzanzibar.com

DISTANCE RUNNING | 2026 EDITION 4

RACE CONTAC T DE TAILS Race Directors: Send updated race contact details to update@aims-worldrunning.org * Associate member · Race names of Founding members are shown in blue

Thailand Bangkok Marathon

Laguna Phuket Marathon NOV

E: njatbkk@gmail.com W: www.bkkmarathon.com ! facebook.com/Bkkmarathon

Bangkok Midnight Marathon

DEC

Boonperm Intanapasat E: pom@runrio.com W: www.facebook.com/ BKKmidnightmarathon/?locale=th_TH ! facebook.com/BKKmidnightmarathon/

Kobkiat Sangwanich E: kobkiat.spm@gmail.com W: amazingthailandmarathon2025.com ! facebook.com/ amazingthailandmarathonbkk DEC

SEP

JAN

JUN

Chiang Mai Marathon Sayun Somdulyawat E: bkk@chiangmaimarathon.com W: www.chiangmaimarathon.com

Chombeung Marathon

JAN

Akom Chareonsuk E: Akom_ch@hotmail.com W: www.chombuengmarathon.com ! facebook.com/chombuengmarathon

HATYAi21

Khao Yai Marathon

MAY

JAN

NOV

Alongkorn Jiamanukulkit E: alongkorn@raceup.co.th W: www.koratmarathon.com ! facebook.com/koratmarathoner

Scenic Half Marathon Krabi Alongkorn Jiamanukulkit E: alongkorn@raceup.co.th W: www.scenicmarathon.com ! facebook.com/scenickrabi

JAN

SEP

Phookpan Mayteechalermboon E: yimyokyai@gmail.com W: www.facebook.com/ Watlaharnraihalfmarathon ! facebook.com/Watlaharnraihalfmarathon

Nadra Dwarika-Baptiste E: specinfo@sta.uwi.edu W: sta.uwi.edu/spec/marathon ! facebook.com/UWISPEC

SEP

M. Lotfi Ben Haj Kacem E: dg@comar.tn, marathon@comar. tn, marketing@comar.tn W: www.marathon.comar.tn ! facebook.com/comarmarathon/

DISTANCE RUNNING | 2026 EDITION 4

NOV

Danang Int’l Marathon APR

Bank of America Chicago Marathon OCT Carey Pinkowski E: oﬃce@chicagomarathon.com W: chicagomarathon.com ! facebook.com/ChicagoMarathon/ " @ChiMarathon

JUL

Jon Michael Boka E: jon@oneglobalmile.com W: www.oneglobalmile.com

Brant Kotch E: marathon@houstonmarathon.com W: www.chevronhoustonmarathon.com ! facebook.com/houstonmarathon " @HoustonMarathon # @chevronhoustonmarathon

JUL

Maui Oceanfront Marathon

JAN

TCS New York City Marathon

NOV

Ted Metellus E: nyrrevents@nyrr.org W: www.tcsnycmarathon.org ! facebook.com/nycmarathon " @nycmarathon

MAR

Bady Pham E: info@pulse.vn W: www.rundanang.com ! facebook.com/ dananginternationalmarathon # @rundanang

Halong Bay Heritage Marathon

NOV

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Tri E: hanh.nth@dhavietnam.vn W: halongmarathon.com ! bit.ly/4aubkPu

Standard Chartered Hanoi Marathon NOV Heritage Race Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Tri E: hanh.nth@dhavietnam.vn W: hanoi-marathon.com ! facebook.com/ HanoiMarathonHeritageRace

Techcombank Hanoi International OCT Marathon Le Viet Phuong E: marathontcbhn@sunriseevents.com.vn W: marathonhn.com ! facebook.com/ TechcombankHaNoiMarathon # @hanoi_marathon

Techcombank Ho Chi Minh City Int’l DEC Marathon

Les Wright E: RunMaui@gmail.com W: www.MauiOceanfrontMarathon.com ! facebook.com/runmaui/ NOV

OCT

Sonia Rosales E: srosales@hipereventos.com W: www.hipereventos.com ! on.fb.me/IRe3mA # @hipereventos

Vietnam

1 AIMS – One Global Mile™ Member City APR

FEB

Alejandra Claros Borda E: maratoncaf@caf.com W: www.caf.com/es/especiales/maraton/ ! facebook.com/MaratonCafCaracas # @maratoncaf

Gatorade CCS Rock

Jorge Pardo E: race@hudson-mile.com W: www.hudson-mile.com

Cem Adabük E: info@tursetsports.com W: tursetsports.com/races/runtalya ! facebook.com/RuntalyaMarathon/ " @Runatolia Bilge Donuk E: bilge.donuk@spor.istanbul W: www.maraton.istanbul " @istanbulmaraton

APR

Jack Fleming E: media@baa.org W: www.baa.org ! facebook.com/BostonMarathon/ # @bostonmarathon

Hudson Mile

Türkiye

İstanbul Marathon

Maratón CAF Caracas

Dino Pick E: registration@bsim.org W: www.montereybayhalfmarathon.org ! on.fb.me/IRalcA # @bsimevents

AIMS One Global Mile – Series

NOV

Mirkhan Sagitov E: marathon@acdf.uz W: events.samarkandmarathon.uz/events # @samarkandmarathon

Venezuela

Chevron Houston Marathon, Aramco Houston Half Marathon and We Are JAN Houston 5K

Marathon COMAR Tunis - Carthage DEC

Runtalya Marathon

FEB

Jennifer Edwards E: foundation@bsim.org W: www.bigsurmarathon.org ! on.fb.me/1f9jxV9 # @bsimevents

Monterey Bay Half Marathon

MAY

Marcos Melazzi E: maraton.montevideo@imm.gub.uy W: montevideo.gub.uy/maraton-montevideo2024

Samarkand Marathon

Peter Connerton E: rakhalfmarathon@pace-events.org W: www.rakhalfmarathon.com ! facebook.com/therakhalfmarathon " @rakhalfmarathon

Boston Marathon presented by Bank of America

Tunisia

Piansak Pakdee E: info@khonkaenmarathon.com W: www.khonkaenmarathon.com ! www.facebook.com/khonkaenmarathon

Korat Marathon

MAY

UWI SPEC Int’l Half-Marathon & 5K OCT

Alongkorn Jiamanukulkit E: alongkorn@raceup.co.th W: www.khaoyaimarathon.info ! facebook.com/khaoyaimarathoner

Khon Kaen Int’l Marathon

AUG

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

United States of America

Trinidad & Tobago

Rut Jiroajvanichakorn E: rut@mice.co.th W: www.hatyai21.com ! facebook.com/HATYAi21K

Ras al Khaimah Half Marathon

Big Sur Int’l Marathon

Mr Rongroth Sachathep E: rsachathep@gmail.com,arun@ srithakral.com W: www.thaisikhrun.com ! facebook.com/thaisikhrun # @runthaisikh

Watlaharnrai Half Marathon DEC

DEC

Faith Wan E: ysun659@yahoo.com W: thabomarathon.com

Thai Sikh Run

Alongkorn Jiamanukulkit E: alongkorn@raceup.co.th W: www.scenicmarathon.com ! facebook.com/scenicmarathon

JUL

Plengsang Chaiakkarakul E: massevent2023@gmail.com W: www.songkhlamarathon.com ! bit.ly/4fJKLWP

Thabo Midnight Marathon

Chotchanok Chidchob E: adul@bricth.com W: www.burirammarathon.com ! facebook.com/bru.marathon/

Scenic Half Marathon Chanthaburi

JUL

DEC

Antonio Fusco E: info@adnocabudhabimarathon.com W: www.adnocabudhabimarathon.com ! facebook.com/ADNOCADmarathon/ " @ADNOCADmarathon # @adnocadmarathon

JAN

Becca Pizzi E: info@runbuk.com W: www.worldmarathonchallenge.com ! facebook.com/ theworldmarathonchallenge " @WorldMarathon77 # @worldmarathonchallenge777

Maratón de Montevideo

United Arab Emirates

Dr. Nichakamon Supanta E: Photak2021@gmail.com W: www.photak42.com ! facebook.com/photakmarathon

Songkhla Marathon

MAY

Oksana Syvets E: zamdir@newrun.com.ua W: newrun.com.ua/en/

ADNOC Abu Dhabi Marathon

Kobkiat Sangwanich E: kobkiat.spm@gmail.com W: www.pattayamarathon.com ! facebook.com/PattayaMarathonThailand

Photak Marathon NOV

Rut Jiroajvanichakorn E: rut@mice.co.th W: www.bangsaen10.com ! facebook.com/Bangsaen10K

Buriram Marathon Presented by Chang Mineral

Alongkorn Jiamanukulkit E: alongkorn@raceup.co.th W: www.scenicmarathon.com ! facebook.com/scenicnakhon

Amazing Thailand Pattaya Marathon

World Marathon Challenge APR

Ukraine New Run Lviv Halfmarathon

Yupaporn Sopa E: chientingchen2@gmail.com W: nongkhaimarathon.com

Rut Jiroajvanichakorn E: rut@mice.co.th W: www.bangsaen42.com ! facebook.com/BANGSAEN42

Bangsaen10

OCT

Plengsang Chaiakkarakul E: massevent2023@gmail.com W: race.thai.run/maemohhalfmarathon2024

Nong Khai Running Festival

Rut Jiroajvanichakorn E: rut@mice.co.th W: www.Bangsaen21.com/en ! facebook.com/bangsaen21/

Bangsaen42 Chonburi Marathon

Mae Moh Half Marathon

Türkiye İş Bankası İstanbul Half Marathon Bilge Donuk E: bilge.donuk@spor.istanbul W: www.istanbulyarimaratonu.com " @ibbsporistanbul

Scenic Marathon Nakhon Phanom DEC

Amazing Thailand Marathon Bangkok - Oﬃcial Bangkok Capital City Marathon NOV

Bangsaen21

JUN

Roman Floesser E: info1@phuketmarathon.com W: www.phuketmarathon.com ! facebook.com/phuketmarathon " @phuketmarathon

Le Viet E: marathontcbhcmc@sunriseevents.com.vn W: marathonhcmc.com ! bit.ly/2z9Rcjt # @hcmc_intl_marathon

Zimbabwe Victoria Falls Marathon

JUL

John Addison E: info@vicfallsmarathon.com W: www.vicfallsmarathon.com ! www.facebook.com/VictoriaFallsMarathon

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