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📅 Date: Sunday, 28 February 2027 📍 Start & Finish: Hove Lawns, Brighton seafront 📏 Distance: 13.1 miles / 21.1 km ⏰ Gun Time: 9:30am (wheelchair race: 9:28am) 🏅 Title Sponsor: ALTRA Running 👟 Terrain: Closed public roads and seafront promenade 🧡 Race Owner: The Sussex Beacon (HIV charity, Charity No. 298388) 🎽 Organiser: Laine8 … Read more
Quick Facts 📅 Date: Sunday, 4 April 2027 🏁 Start: Corso Sempione (Arco della Pace), Milan — 8:15 AM CET 🏆 Finish: Piazza del Duomo, Milan 📏 Distance: 42.195 km (Full Marathon) 🗺️ Course type: Point-to-point, flat (~70 m total elevation gain) ⏳ Time limit: 6h30′ — intermediate cutoffs at km 21.1 (3h15′) and km … Read more
📅 Date: Sunday 18 April 2027 📍 Start: Bridgewater Way, Old Trafford, Manchester 🏁 Finish: Oxford Road, University of Manchester 📏 Distance: 26.2 miles / 42.195 km 👟 Capacity: 52,000 runners — biggest edition ever ⛰️ Elevation Gain: ~54 metres total — UK’s flattest certified major marathon 🏆 2026 Men’s Champion: Yohan Lidove (GBR) — … Read more
📅 Race Day: Sunday, December 13, 2026 🗓️ Full Weekend: December 11–13, 2026 📍 Start / Finish: Dallas City Hall Plaza, 1500 Marilla St., Dallas, TX 75201 ⏱️ Start Time: 8:00 AM CT (Corral A) — B, C, D in 10-minute waves; Half Walk Corral E at 8:30 AM 📏 Distances: Marathon · Half Marathon … Read more
📅 Date: Saturday 23 January 2027 📍 Venue: Chang International Circuit, Buriram, Buriram Province, Thailand 🏅 World Athletics Label: Gold — Thailand’s only Gold Label marathon; one of seven in Asia 🌙 Race type: Night marathon — all distances start in the evening 📏 Distances: Marathon 42.195 km · Half Marathon 21.1 km · Mini … Read more
The TCS New York City Marathon has more entry routes than any other World Major. Six of them, officially. The problem for international runners is that three of those six are either US-based, heavily restricted or have just changed in ways that make them less useful than they look on paper. The 9+1 programme now … Read more
Photo: Joseph Two / Unsplash Most runners treat Chicago as a lottery problem. Enter in October, wait until results drop in December, and if it does not work out, try again next year. That framing misses the most important detail about this race: Chicago offers a guaranteed entry route for time qualifiers that bypasses the … Read more
Honor Robots at Malaysia Marathon 2026 — Quick Facts 📅 Race date: Sunday 30 August 2026 — Malaysia Marathon 2026, Kuala Lumpur 🤖 Honor D1: 10km category — Pavilion Kuala Lumpur start, midnight flag-off 🤖 Honor A1: 5km category — KLCC start, 7:30am flag-off 🏃 A1’s company on race day: Running alongside PM Datuk Seri … Read more
Photo: Niclas Dehmel / Unsplash Most runners treat the Generali Berlin Marathon as a lottery problem. Apply, wait, hope. If it does not work out, try again next year. That framing misses four other legitimate routes into the race into the race — including a charity entry system with the lowest fundraising minimums of any … Read more
Last updated: September 2026 | Race date: Sunday 29 August 2027 In 2025, its first year as a World Marathon Major, the TCS Sydney Marathon received 79,000 ballot applications. In 2026 that number jumped to 123,000. The field holds a record 44,000 marathon runners. The gap between demand and supply is growing every year — … Read more