Moscow Marathon | |
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Date | Third Sunday of September |
Location | Moscow, Russia |
Event type | Road |
Distance | Marathon |
Established | 2013 |
Course records | Men's: 2:11:34 (2024) Bennar Youness Women's: 2:28:02 (2020) Sardana Trofimova |
Official site | Moscow Marathon |
Participants | 9,350 (2020) 10,555 (2019) |
The Moscow Marathon is a running and sporting event held annually in Moscow, Russia. The official marathon distance of 42.195 kilometers (26 miles 385 yards) is set up as a citywide road race where professional athletes and amateur runners jointly participate. First initiated in 2013, as a successor of Moscow International Peace Marathon (est. 1980), the event traditionally takes place on the last weekend in September. [1]
Moscow Marathon certified by World Athletics. [2] It is a member of AIMS. [3]
The race was canceled in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [4] [5] [6]
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Marathon course | |
Moscow Marathon course map 2016 | |
Moscow Marathon course map 2016 (10 km) | |
Course IAAF certificate 42 km | |
Course IAAF certificate 10 km |
The marathon is run over a largely flat course around the Moskva, and spans 42.195 km (26.219 mi), but with partially high elevation up to 100 m.
Key: Course record (in bold)
Year | Male Winner | Country | Time | Female Winner | Country | Time | Rf. |
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2013 | Oleksandr Matviichuk | Ukraine | 2:19:36 | Irina Smolnikova | Kazakhstan | 2:44:54 | [7] [8] |
2014 | Salomon Barngetuny | Kenya | 2:17:20 | Irina Smolnikova | Kazakhstan | 2:40:22 | |
2015 | Lazarus Kiptoo | Kenya | 2:19:36 | Nina Podnebesnova | Russia | 2:33:10 | |
2016 | Artem Alekseev | Russia | 2:13:40 | Tatyana Aryasova | Russia | 2:32:34 | [9] |
2017 | Artem Alekseev | Russia | 2:14:15 | Sardana Trofimova | Russia | 2:30:29 | |
2018 | Stepan Kiselev | Russia | 2:15:22 | Sardana Trofimova | Russia | 2:28:31 | |
2019 | Iskander Yadgarov | Russia | 2:18:02 | Marina Kovaleva | Russia | 2:29:26 | |
2020 | Yuriy Chechun | Russia | 2:16:07 | Sardana Trofimova | Russia | 2:28:02 | |
2021 | canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic | [4] | |||||
2022 | Iskander Yadgarov | Russia | 2:14:37 | Marina Kovaleva | Russia | 2:29:08 | |
2023 | Dmitry Nedelin | Russia | 2:14:01 | Luiza Dmitrieva | Russia | 2:30:15 | [10] |
2024 | Bennar Youness | Morocco | 2:11:34 | Morozova Alexandra | Russia | 2:30:35 | [11] |
Date | Distance | Enrolled | Finishers | Male | Female |
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20.09.2020 [12] | 42,195 км | 9782 | 9370 | 7793 | 1577 |
10 км | 12088 | 11896 | 6214 | 5682 | |
22.09.2019 [13] | 42.195 km | 10818 | 10555 | 8716 | 1839 |
10 km | 12860 | 12699 | 6421 | 6278 | |
23.09.2018 [14] | 42.195 km | 9181 | 8761 | 7259 | 1502 |
10 km | 12996 | 12696 | 6290 | 6406 | |
24.09.2017 | 42.195 km | - | 7680 | 6479 | 1201 |
10 km | - | 12972 | 6586 | 6386 | |
25.09.2016 | 42.195 km | - | 7813 | 6603 | 1210 |
10 km | - | 10944 | 5341 | 5603 | |
20.09.2015 [15] | 42.195 km | - | 5566 | 4675 | 891 |
10 km | - | 8105 | 4119 | 3986 | |
21.09.2014 [16] | 42.195 km | 4260 | 4031 | 3500 | 531 |
10 km | 5302 | 5267 | 2977 | 2290 | |
15.09.2013 [17] | 42.195 km | - | 2366 | 2084 | 282 |
10 km | - | 2412 | 1494 | 918 |
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