Tallinn Marathon | |
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Date | September |
Location | Tallinn, Estonia |
Event type | Road |
Distance | Marathon, half marathon, 10K run, 10K Nordic walking |
Established | 2010 2000 (event) | (marathon)
Course records | Men's: 2:09:22 (2017) Ronald Kirui Women's: 2:32:16 (2019) Pamela Rotich |
Official site | Tallinn Marathon |
Participants | 749 finishers (2021) [1] 2,158 (2019) |
The Tallinn Marathon is an annual road marathon, held in Tallinn, Estonia. It is held in September and is the biggest annual marathon in Estonia. Both the marathon and the half marathon held the day before are categorized as Bronze Label Road Races by World Athletics. [2]
The first regularly-held marathon was held in 2010. [3] Prior to this, the marathon was first held in 1989 with about 100 runners, and a half marathon and a 10 km race had been held regularly since 2000. [3] [4]
In 2015, Estonian Marti Medar set a world record for completing a marathon while dribbling a basketball, finishing in 3:04:15. [5] In 2017, Medar set a world record for completing a marathon while dribbling two basketballs at the same time, doing so in 3:54:16, and then set it again in 2021 with a time of 3:36:36. [5] [1]
The 2020 in-person edition of the race was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, with all registrants given the option of running the race virtually, transferring their entry to 2021, or obtaining a refund. [6] [7]
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Course map of full marathon in 2019 [8] | |
Course map of full marathon in 2021 [9] |
Key: Course record (in bold)
Year | Men's winner | Nationality | Time [lower-alpha 1] | Women's winner | Nationality | Time [lower-alpha 1] | Rf. |
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2010 | Bernard Rotich | Kenya | 2:18:16 | Ruth Kutol | Kenya | 2:36:02 | [11] [12] |
2011 | Julius Muriuki | Kenya | 2:12:56 | Almaz Alemu | Ethiopia | 2:34:14 | [13] [14] |
2012 | John Kirui | Kenya | 2:15:21 | Evelin Talts | Estonia | 2:45:02 | [15] |
2013 | Dadi Tesfaye | Ethiopia | 2:15:01 | Irene Chepkirui | Kenya | 2:34:40 | [16] [17] |
2014 | Dadi Tesfaye | Ethiopia | 2:17:29 | Evelin Talts | Estonia | 2:56:26 | [18] [17] |
2015 | Kiprop Tonui | Kenya | 2:18:04 | Kaisa Kukk | Estonia | 2:52:40 | [19] |
2016 | Bernard Chumba | Kenya | 2:20:52 | Esther Karimi | Kenya | 2:49:20 | [20] |
2017 | Kiprotich Kirui | Kenya | 2:09:22 | Olga Andrejeva | Estonia | 2:51:06 | [21] |
2018 | Roman Fosti | Estonia | 2:24:07 | Daisy Langat | Kenya | 2:33:50 | [22] |
2019 | Josphat Leting | Kenya | 2:12:42 | Pamela Rotich | Kenya | 2:32:16 | [23] |
2020 | cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic | [6] | |||||
2021 | Ibrahim Mukunga | Kenya | 2:30:43 | Kaisa Kukk | Estonia | 2:44:46 | [24] |
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