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21K Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
This is a list of notable half marathon races . [nb 1] According to Running Times Magazine, There were approximately 870 half marathons in the United States in 2009. [1]
3M Half Marathon (Austin, Texas, USA)
21K Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Air Force Half Marathon (Dayton, Ohio, USA)
Adana Half Marathon (Adana, Turkey) America's Finest City Half Marathon (San Diego, California, USA) Invesco QQQ Half Marathon (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) [2] 
Airtel Delhi Half Marathon (ADHM, Delhi, India) [3] 
Bangsaen21 Half Marathon (Bang Saen, Thailand)
Barrathon (Barra, Scotland)
Bath Half Marathon (Bath, England)
Belgrade Half Marathon (Belgrade, Serbia)
Berlin Half Marathon (Berlin, Germany) Birmingham Half Marathon (Birmingham, England)
Bogotá Half Marathon, (Bogotá, Colombia) Brass Monkey Half Marathon (York, England) [4] Brighton Half Marathon (Brighton, England) [5] Bristol Half Marathon (Bristol, England)
Budapest Half Marathon (Budapest, Hungary) Edinburgh Marathon Festival Half Marathon (Edinburgh, Scotland) [7] Fleet Half Marathon (Fleet, Hampshire, England) [8] Four Villages Half Marathon (Helsby, England) [9] Freckleton Half Marathon (Freckleton, England) [10] 
Göteborgsvarvet (Gothenburg, Sweden) Great Eastern Run (Peterborough, England) Great North Run (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) Great North West Half Marathon (Blackpool, England) Great Scottish Run (Glasgow, Scotland) Great West Run (Exeter, England)
Greifenseelauf (Uster, Switzerland)
Guadalajara Half Marathon (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico) [11] Guwahati Half Marathon (Guwahati, India) Hastings Half Marathon (Hastings, England) Hamburg Half Marathon (Hamburg, Germany)
Helsinki City Run (Helsinki, Finland)
Hong Kong Marathon (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Kuldīga Half Marathon (Kuldīga, Latvia)
Kärnten läuft (Klagenfurt, Austria)
Lake Vyrnwy Half Marathon (Lake Vyrnwy, Wales)
Lisbon Half Marathon (Lisbon, Portugal) Liverpool Half Marathon (Liverpool, England) Madeline Island Half-Marathon (La Pointe, Wisconsin, USA) [12] Maidenhead Half Marathon (Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom)
Malaga Half Marathon (Málaga, Andalusia, Spain) [13] Marine Corps Historic Half (Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA) [14] 
Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale (Marseille, France) [15] Naples Half Marathon (Naples, Florida, USA) New York City Half Marathon (New York, USA)
RAK Half Marathon (Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates) Reading Half Marathon (Reading, England) Robin Hood Marathon (Nottingham, England) Rock ‘n’ Roll San Jose Half Marathon (San Jose, California, USA) Rock 'n' Roll Virginia Beach Half Marathon (Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA)
Rocky River Run (Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia)
Roma-Ostia (Rome, Italy)
Rotterdam Half Marathon (Rotterdam, Netherlands) Royal Parks Half Marathon (London, England) [16] Run to the Beat (London, England) San Diego Half Marathon (San Diego, California, USA) [17] Semi-Marathon de Paris (Paris, France) Sheffield Half Marathon (Sheffield, England) Silverstone Half Marathon (Northamptonshire, England) [18] SMH half marathon (Sydney, NSW, Australia) Stramilano (Milan, Italy) Stroud Half Marathon (Stroud, England) [19] Stuttgarter Zeitung-Lauf (Stuttgart, Germany) [20] 
Warsaw Half Marathon (Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland) [21] WhistleStop Half Marathon (Ashland, Wisconsin, USA) [22] Wilmslow Half Marathon (Wilmslow, England) [23] Windsor Half Marathon (Windsor, England) Wokingham Half Marathon (Wokingham, England)
The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of 42.195 km, usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There are also wheelchair divisions. More than 800 marathons are held throughout the world each year, with the vast majority of competitors being recreational athletes, as larger marathons can have tens of thousands of participants.
A half marathon is a road running event of 21.0975 kilometres —half the distance of a marathon. It is common for a half marathon event to be held concurrently with a marathon or a 5K race, using almost the same course with a late start, an early finish or shortcuts. If finisher medals are awarded, the medal or ribbon may differ from those for the full marathon. The half marathon is also known as a 21K, 21.1K, or 13.1 miles, although these values are rounded and not formally correct.
The Prague Marathon is an annual road marathon held in the city of Prague in the Czech Republic each May. It was founded in 1995 and has grown to become a significant event, being awarded IAAF Gold Label status. Prague's marathon course has been voted one of the most beautiful in the world.
Turkey trots are footraces, usually of the long-distance variety, held on or around Thanksgiving Day in the United States. The name is derived from the use of turkey as a common centerpiece of the Thanksgiving dinner. A few races in the United Kingdom during the Christmas period are described as turkey trots. In the United States, many courses used for these Thanksgiving events are run at a certified USA Track & Field road race distances between 5Ks and a half marathon; others are informal fun runs between 1.0 mile (1.6 km) and 5 km. The fun runs are often run as charity benefits and feature runners in costumes, particularly as turkeys. The Atlanta Marathon, which ran on Thanksgiving from 1981 to 2009, was the only full 26.2-mile (42.2 km) marathon to run on the holiday. It has been replaced by a shorter race, the Peachtree Road Race. The oldest documented turkey trot, a still-ongoing annual event in Buffalo, New York, dates to 1896.
Delhi Half Marathon, currently branded as the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon for sponsorship reasons, is an annual half marathon foot-race held in New Delhi, India. Established in 2005, it is both an elite runner and mass participation event. It is an AIMS-certified course and is listed as a Gold Label Road Race by the IAAF. The race has seen the best of the athletes competing since the course is considered one of the fastest half marathon route. The event sees about 40,000 participants through the race categories of half marathon, the 7 km Great Delhi Run, a 4.3 km run for senior citizens, and a 3.5 km wheelchair race
Jeļena Prokopčuka is a retired Latvian long-distance runner, best known for winning the New York City Marathon in 2005 and 2006.
The World Athletics Road Running Championships is a biennial international road running competition organised by World Athletics. The competition was launched as the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 1992 and held annually until 2010. It was renamed the IAAF World Road Running Championships in 2006 and reduced in distance to a 20K run, but reverted to the half marathon distance the following year and to the original competition name the year after that. The competition was renamed to its current title in 2020 after the governing body rebranded itself moving away from the long-standing International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) moniker and expanded to include additional races.
The Peachtree Road Race is an American 10-kilometer run held annually in Atlanta. After being held on Independence Day from 1970 to 2019, the race was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic after originally being set for Thanksgiving. It is the world's largest 10k race, a title it has held since the late 1970s. The race has become a citywide tradition in which over 70,000 amateur and professional runners try to register for one of the limited 60,000 spots. The event also includes a wheelchair race, which precedes the footrace. In recent years, the race also has a special division for soldiers stationed in the Middle East. The race attracts some of the world's elite 10K runners and has served as both the United States' men's and women's 10K championship.
Shalane Grace Flanagan is an American long-distance runner, Olympic medalist and New York City Marathon champion. She was the first American woman to win the New York City Marathon since 1977. She holds the NACAC area records in both the 10k and 15k road races.
Magdalena Lewy-Boulet, commonly known as either Magdalena or Magda Boulet, is an American runner from Oakland, California. Born in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland, Lewy-Boulet became a U.S. citizen on September 11, 2001.
The Atlanta Marathon is an annual marathon held in Atlanta, Georgia, except in 2021 where it was held in Hampton, Georgia on the premises of Atlanta Motor Speedway because of governmental restrictions. On the same day, a half marathon is also held, and some years also feature a 5K run.
EDP Lisbon Half Marathon is an annual international half marathon competition which is contested every March in Lisbon, Portugal. It carries IAAF Gold Label Road Race status. The men's course record of 57:31 was set by Jacob Kiplimo in 2021, which is the current world record for the half marathon distance. Kenyan runners have been very successful in the competition, accounting for over half of the total winners, with Tegla Loroupe taking the honours in the women's race on six separate occasions. The Lisbon Half Marathon is not to be confused with Luso Portugal Half Marathon, another prominent half marathon race which is also held in Lisbon in October.
The 2010 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held in Nanning, China on 16 October 2010. The competition took place on the city streets, beginning and ending at Wuxiang Square, with a total prize purse of US$245,000 at stake.
Sylvia Mosqueda is an American long distance runner notable for hard front running over an extended career at an elite level.
Anne Jepkemboi Kosgei is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in road running, including the marathon. She has won her first marathon races in San Sebastián and Trieste, and went on to win both the Belgrade Marathon and Venice Marathon in 2009. She set her personal best of 2:27:46 at the latter competition.
Lelisa Desisa Benti is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who specialises in road running competitions. Desisa gained his first international medal at the 2009 African Junior Athletics Championships, where he took the 10,000 metres gold medal.
Bizunesh Deba, also known as Buzunesh Deba, is a Bronx-based Ethiopian long-distance runner. Her personal best for the marathon is 2:19:59, set during the Boston Marathon in 2014, which she won, though in a recent interviews it was confirmed she was never paid the winner's prize money for her first place finish nor the prize money for setting the women's course record.
Stephen Mokoka is a South African long-distance runner who competes in races ranging from 3000 metres to the 50 km distance. He formerly held the 50 km world record. He is a four-time medalist at the Universiade and has represented South Africa internationally in road, cross country, and track events. He represented South Africa in the marathon at the 2012 London Olympics.
Joyce Chepkirui is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in road running events. She established herself as a half marathon runner, winning races in Granollers, Bogotá and Gothenburg. She set a best of 1:06:19 hours to win the 2014 Prague Half Marathon. She also competes in 10K road races and her personal best of 30:38 minutes makes her fifth fastest woman ever.
The world record in the half marathon has been officially recognized since 1 January 2004 by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the international governing body for the sport of athletics. A total of five men's world records and six women's world records have been officially ratified since that date. The IAAF officially recognized the fastest times before that date as a "world best" from 1 January 2003 onwards. Before that date, the IAAF did not recognize any road running world records, though the concept of a world record was recognized by other organizations, such as the Association of Road Racing Statisticians (ARRS).
