Riga Marathon

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Riga Marathon
Rimi Riga Marathon transparent logo.png
Date18 - 19 May 2024
Location Flag of Latvia.svg Riga, Latvia
Event type Road
Distance Marathon, Half marathon, 10k, 5k, Mile
Primary sponsor Rimi Baltic
Established1991(33 years ago) (1991)
Course recordsMarathon:
Men's: 2:08:51 (2019)
Flag of Ethiopia.svg Andualem Shiferaw
Women's: 2:26:18 (2019)
Flag of Ethiopia.svg Birke Debele
Half Marathon:
Men's: 1:00:30 (2022)
Flag of Ethiopia.svg Sikiyas Misganaw
Women's: 1:09:12 (2022)
Flag of Kenya.svg Beatrice Mutai
Official site Riga Marathon
Participants1,887 marathon finishers (2019) [1]
38,398 (all races) (2019) [2]
Map of Rimi Riga Marathon 2023 42,195km course with elevation changes. Map of 42km Rimi Riga Marathon 2023 World Athletics Certified Road Race.png
Map of Rimi Riga Marathon 2023 42,195km course with elevation changes.

The Riga Marathon (also known as the Rimi Riga Marathon) is an annual road marathon held in Riga, Latvia, since 1991. A flat, single-lap marathon course in the Baltics' largest city. The marathon course has been measured and certified by AIMS, the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races and is categorized as a Gold Label Road Race by World Athletics. All courses are traffic-free. Rimi Riga Marathon is one of the fastest-growing marathons in Northern Europe. In 2019, there were 25 659 participants over five different distances from 82 countries. [2]

Contents

The marathon starts and finishes near Riga Castle, and runs through Old Riga as well as across the Daugava River. In the marathon weekend it is also possible to run 42,195 kilometer distance, 21,095 kilometer half marathon, 10 kilometer, 5 kilometer and mile course distances.

History

For the first time, Latvian athletes competed in the marathon distance at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, but the first marathon competition in Latvia took place 15 years later in Liepāja. The popularity of marathon running continued to grow in the 1970s, reaching its heyday in the late 1980s. The Folk Song Marathon (1988 – 1990) gathered several thousand runners during the revival, of which 250 - 300 finished at a distance of 42 km.

The start of Riga Marathon history

The first start shot of the Riga Marathon was fired at the Freedom Monument on 27 July 1991, shortly after the time of the barricades, when the capital city was shaken by OMON shots. Then this marathon was called the Riga International Marathon. The participants of this marathon were provided with both grand cash prizes (1000 German Marks for the first place winners), a pennant, and the then exotic fruit - banana - at the finish line.

The track was measured according to the international standards of the time, using a 50 m-long measuring tape and pegs. 735 participants took part in the first Riga Marathon, a third of which were local runners, around 30 representatives of Western countries, and the rest from the USSR.

However, in the next few years after the successful start, the number of participants in the Riga Marathon rapidly decreased. Runners from the Eastern Bloc were deterred from participating by the new visa regime, while Westerners might find the trip to Latvia too risky. Serious difficulties were caused by hyperinflation and repeated changes in the national currency. In 1993, it was possible to pay for participation in the marathon in three currencies - locals could pay both in Latvian rubles and newly issued lats, and foreigners - in Deutsche Marks.

The organizers lacked the sponsors and funds to be included in the AIMS international marathon calendar (at the time it would cost $1,000 per year) to attract western marathon tourists. During this time, local runners also became fewer and fewer, and the running culture and, consequently, the interest of sponsors gradually decreased, reaching the lowest point in 1999, when only 53 Latvian runners finished the 42 km distance.

Certified course and new organizers

In 2007, the track was officially certified and recognized for the first time according to the standards of the International Marathon Association (Association of International Marathons and Distance Races, AIMS).

To increase the number of participants, the Riga Marathon was moved to the spring, attracting school youth to the 5 km distance, however, there were still relatively few runners in the marathon distance and the results could not surpass the performance of the first year.

In 2007, the Riga Marathon got its second wind. After 16 years of work, the original organizer of the marathon, Jānis Karavačiks, entrusted the organization to Aigars Nords, who was full of ambition to turn Riga into a running megalopolis with an ambitious city marathon.

The Riga City Council has entrusted the organization of the marathon to NECom or Nords Event Communications, the new organizers already achieved ambitious growth of the event in the first year. With the help of the new title sponsor Nordea and the slogan "This time for real!" the track was officially certified for the first time following the standards of the International Marathon Association (AIMS). The marathon was included in the international calendar, the usual marathon and 5 km satellite distances were supplemented by a new half-marathon, and the Kenyan Johnston Changwoni broke the Riga Marathon record set in 1991.

Under the auspices of the new organizers, the marathon became one of the fastest-growing and most prestigious running festivals in Northern Europe - from 1300 participants in 2007 to Gold Label gold status and more than 38 thousand participants from 82 countries of the world in 2019.

Global pandemic

The start of the first Riga International Marathon, on 27 July 1991, at 6:00 p.m., at the Freedom Monument International Riga Marathon 1991 start.jpg
The start of the first Riga International Marathon, on 27 July 1991, at 6:00 p.m., at the Freedom Monument

The long-term partner of the marathon, Rimi, took on the title sponsor duties in 2019, providing support to the Virtual Running Club established during the Covid-19 pandemic, which kept the audience of the event active during the pandemic.

In 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers canceled the in-person competition the day before the marathon weekend and moved the marathon to a virtual mode. [3] [4] [5] [lower-alpha 1]

Similarly, the 2021 edition of the race was postponed from the weekend of 16 May to the weekend of 29 August due to the pandemic. [8] [9]

World Capital of Road Running in 2023

But the organizers reached a new peak after the end of the coronavirus pandemic, winning the right to hold the first World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga (World Athletics Road Running Championships Riga 23) on 30 September - 1 October 2023.

2023 Rimi Riga Marathon was a track rehearsal for the World Championships, allowing recreational runners to try out the World Championship courses.

By hosting the inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships, Riga is to become a symbolic World Capital of Road Running in 2023.

Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics

The World Athletics Road Running Championships and the Rimi Riga Marathon, the two biggest running events in the Baltics, had a combined economic impact of 11,803,000 euros on Latvia in 2023, according to a study that examined their effects on the country's economy.

For the first time since the epidemic, the two major running competitions, the Rimi Riga Marathon and the World Athletics Road Running Championships, brought together a record-breaking 38,660 participants from more than 100 nations in the capital of Latvia.

Course

The start and finish line of the marathon is set on the 11 November Embankment  [ lv ] next to Riga Castle. [10] The marathon course crosses over the Daugava river via the Vanšu, Stone, and Island Bridges, and also includes a section that runs through the cobblestoned streets of Old Riga. [11]

All of the courses are single-lap courses and are fairly flat and mostly features the center of the city.

The 33rd edition of Riga Marathon was a rehearsal for the first World Athletics Road Running Championships, which took place in Riga in 30 September – 1 October. In which the marathon course will be laid out over two laps of the official World Athletics Road Running Championships half marathon course. The same courses have been confirmed for the 34th edition of Riga Marathon in 2024.

Winners

Key:    Course record (in bold)

Marathon

Ed.YearMen's winnerNationalityTime [lower-alpha 2] Women's winnerNationalityTime [lower-alpha 2]
11991 Vladimir Kalenkovich Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 2:28:27 Alla Doudayeva Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 2:43:53
21992 Gusman Abdulin Flag of Kazakhstan (1992).svg  Kazakhstan 2:21:29 Olga Youdenkova Flag of Belarus (1918, 1991-1995).svg  Belarus 2:47:28
31993 Aleksandrs Prokopčuks Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:26:41 Svetlana Șepelev-Tcaci Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova 2:55:07
41994 Normunds Ivzāns Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:43:09 Laila Ceika Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 3:19:56
51995 Ziedonis Zaļkalns Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:32:44 Galina Bernat Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 3:02:11
61996 Aleksandrs Prokopčuks Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:31:46 Inita Drēziņa Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 3:30:42
71997 Normunds Fedotovskis Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:33:05 Kaja Mulla Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 3:12:26
81998 Ziedonis Zaļkalns Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:33:41 Laila Ceika Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 3:27:49
91999 Arūnas Balčunas Flag of Lithuania (1988-2004).svg  Lithuania 2:37:10 Laila Ceika Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 3:37:21
102000 Ziedonis Zaļkalns Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:30:59 Aušra Kavalauskiene Flag of Lithuania (1988-2004).svg  Lithuania 3:12:11
112001 Ziedonis Zaļkalns Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:27:25 Laila Ceika Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 3:11:45
122002 Arūnas Balčunas Flag of Lithuania (1988-2004).svg  Lithuania 2:31:25 Anita Liepiņa Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 3:12:16
132003 Arūnas Balčunas Flag of Lithuania (1988-2004).svg  Lithuania 2:28:07 Aušra Kavalauskiene Flag of Lithuania (1988-2004).svg  Lithuania 3:05:26
142004 Dmitrijs Sļesarenoks Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:27:09 Modesta Drungiliene Flag of Lithuania (1988-2004).svg  Lithuania 2:58:29
152005 Vjačeslavs Bambāns Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:45:58 Kaja Mulla Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 3:11:09
162006 Yuri Vinogradov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2:41:57 Laura Zariņa Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 3:04:31
172007 Johnstone Changwony Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 2:18:30 Ludmila Rodina Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2:50:07
182008 Sammy Rotich Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 2:16:42 Kaja Vals Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 3:13:54
192009 Oleg Gur Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 2:18:35 Katsiaryna Dziamidava Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 2:47:30
202010 Slimani Benazzouz Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 2:17:33 Maryna Damantsevich Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 2:38:16
212011 Julius Kuto Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 2:15:48 Desta Tadesse Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 2:37:14
222012 Titus Kurgat Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 2:16:53 Iraida Aleksandrova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 2:37:37
232013 Duncan Koech Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 2:15:34 Aberash Nesga Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 2:40:30
242014 Yu Chiba Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 2:13:44 Tigist Teshome Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 2:36:51
252015 Haile Tolossa Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 2:12:28 Meseret Eshetu Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 2:37:03
262016 Dominic Kangor Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 2:11:45 Shitaye Gemechu Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 2:38:40
272017 Joseph Munywoki Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 2:12:14 Bekelech Bedada Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 2:31:22
282018 Tsedat Ayana Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 2:11:00 Georgina Rono Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 2:28:22
292019 Andualem Shiferaw Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 2:08:51 Birke Debele Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 2:26:18
302020The marathon was held virtually due to the global pandemic. No comparisons with previous years have been made due to the results' dubious legitimacy. [3]
312021 Kristaps Bērziņš Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:38:36 Amanda Krūmiņa Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 3:07:17
322022 [12] Deribe Robi Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 2:12:07 Aberu Mekuria Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 2:30:53
332023 [13] Aleksandrs Rascevskis Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:25:42 Amanda Krūmiņa Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 2:49:59



Half marathon

YearMen's winnerNationalityTime [lower-alpha 2] Women's winnerNationalityTime [lower-alpha 2]
2006 Viktors Sļesarenoks Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:15:20 Anita Liepiņa Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:33:43
2007 Dainius Saucikovas Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 1:09:17 Ilona Marhele Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:22:21
2008 Pavel Loskutov Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 1:05:52 Helen Decker Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 1:20:00
2009 Joel Komen Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 1:06:49 Daniela Fetcere Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:23:05
2010 Valērijs Žolnerovičs Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:05:40 Irene Chepkirui Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 1:14:04
2011 Sergei Lukin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1:06:28 Lyubov Morgunova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1:15:01
2012 Valērijs Žolnerovičs Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:06:04 Jeļena Prokopčuka Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:10:27
2013 Jānis Girgensons Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:07:24 Jeļena Prokopčuka Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:14:39
2014 Ibrahim Mukunga Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 1:05:56 Jeļena Prokopčuka Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:14:52
2015 Jānis Girgensons Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:06:20 Jeļena Prokopčuka Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:13:24
2016 Ibrahim Mukunga Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 1:05:26 Jeļena Prokopčuka Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:16:06
2017 Robert Kimaru Magut Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 1:05:04 Inga Zālīte Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:23:45
2018 Aleksandr Matviychuk Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1:05:14 Milda Vilčinskaite Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 1:14:38
2019 Jānis Višķers Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:05:59 Beatie Deutsch Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 1:17:34
2020The marathon was held virtually due to the global pandemic. No comparisons with previous years have been made due to the results' dubious legitimacy. [3]
2021 Jānis Višķers Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:07:10 Kadi Kõiv Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 1:20:11
2022 [14] Sikiyas Misganaw Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 1:00:30 Beatrice Mutai Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 1:09:12
2023 [15] Dmitrijs Serjogins Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:05:02 Ilona Marhele Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1:20:56

By country

Note: Marathon and Half Marathon statistics only
Latvian folk music choir singing for the marathons participants at Freedom monument, 2022. The Latvian folk music choir performs for Riga marathon participants at the Freedom Monument.jpg
Latvian folk music choir singing for the marathons participants at Freedom monument, 2022.
CountryTotalMarathon
(men's)
Marathon
(women's)
Half Marathon
(men's)
Half Marathon
(women's)
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 39129810
Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 157142
Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 134810
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 83311
Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 62400
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 50411
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 51211
Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 11000
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 11000
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 11000
Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova 10100
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 10010
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 10001
Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 10001
Five time Riga Half Maraton winner Jelena Prokopcuka, running New York City Marathon, 2015. 2015 New York City Marathon 9961 (22533876200).jpg
Five time Riga Half Maraton winner Jeļena Prokopčuka, running New York City Marathon, 2015.

Multiple wins

Note: Marathon and Half Marathon statistics only
AthleteCountryWinsYearsDistance
Jeļena Prokopčuka Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 52012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016Half Marathon
Laila Ceika Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 41994, 1998, 1999, 2001Marathon
Ziedonis Zaļkalns Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 41995, 1998, 2000, 2001Marathon
Arūnas Balčunas Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 31999, 2000, 2003Marathon
Aleksandrs Prokopčuks Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 21993, 1996Marathon
Aušra Kavalauskiene Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 22000, 2003Marathon
Valērijs Žolnerovičs Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 22010, 2012Half Marathon
Jānis Girgensons Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 22013, 2015Half Marathon
Jānis Višķers Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 22019, 2021Half Marathon

Official marathon shirts and medals

The official shirts of the marathon have been created since the 2008 Riga marathon. Each year, one of Latvia's well-known artists is entrusted with creating a different design for the marathon's official running shirts and medals.

Artists who have created designs for Riga Marathon shirts - Andris Vītoliņš, Ieva Iltnere, Ritums Ivanovs, Elita Patmalniece, Ella Kruļanska, Krišs Salmanis, Ilmārs Blumbergs, Raimonds Staprāns, Anna Heinrihsone, Maija Kurševa, Gustavs Klucis (the 2018 shirt design used the artwork of G. Klucis, which was bought at an auction on 18 November 2017, specially for the Latvian centenary marathon shirt), [16] MARE&ROLS and Jānis Šneiders.

In 2019, the design of the marathon medals was created by Artūrs Analts, the recipient of the main award "Best Design" at the London Design Biennale. The design of the 30th anniversary medals of the marathon was created by the Japanese artist Junichi Kawanishi, who is also the author of the Tokyo Olympic Games medals. [17]

The designs of the 2022 Riga Marathon shirts and medals were created by the head of the painting department of the Art Academy of Latvia, associate professor Kristiāns Brekte. [18] In 2023 all finishers received medals designed by Latvia’s most famous graphic artist, Paulis Liepa.

For the 34th edition of the Riga Marathon the artist crafting both the marathon’s medals and the official running shirt is the globally recognized talent, Latvian artist Germans Ermičs.

Historical titles

During the valuable history of the Riga Marathon, it has been supported by many different Latvian-based and international companies. Until 2006, the name of the marathon was the International Riga Marathon, when the organizational leadership changed, the word "International" was removed from the name.

Organizers

Since 2007, the Riga Marathon has been organized by the agency "Nords Event Communications" ("NECom") in cooperation with the Riga City Council.

In addition to the Rimi Riga Marathon, the same organizing team was in charge of the inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga on October 1.

Notes

  1. It had initially been postponed to 2020.10.11 before being cancelled, with registrants also having the option of transferring their entry to another runner or to 2021. [6] [7]
  2. 1 2 3 4 h:m:s

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