Beijing Marathon

Beijing Marathon
Medal in 2014
DateAround October
LocationBeijing, China
Event typeRoad
DistanceMarathon
Primary sponsorCFLD
Established1981 (43 years ago) (1981)
Course recordsMen's: 2:07:06 (2019)
Kenya Mathew Kisorio
Women's: 2:19:39 (2003)
China Sun Yingjie
Official siteBeijing Marathon
Participants4,897 finishers (2009)[1]
The National Olympic Sports Center has previously served as the finish

The Beijing Marathon (Chinese: 北京马拉松) is an annual marathon race held around October in Beijing, People's Republic of China, since 1981. The race begins at Tiananmen Square and finishes in Celebration Square in Olympic Green.[a] The full marathon is the only distance offered.[3]

The marathon is categorized as a Gold Label Road Race by World Athletics.[4][c] The course is certified by AIMS.[5][d]

Beijing Marathon is the first international sport event ever to be held in China. The race is also the first marathon race to use lottery system to allocate entries and the first full marathon race only in China.[6]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2009.kondis was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Jiang, Yi (2007-10-21). Kinyanjui, Chen take top honours in Beijing – Beijing Marathon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-21.
  3. ^ "Beijing Hyundai Beijing Marathon 2016 Registration Notice". Committee of Beijing Marathon. 2016-07-20. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  4. ^ a b c "World Athletics Label Road Races Archive of Past Events | World Athletics". September 2, 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-09-02.
  5. ^ AIMS Race Directory Archived 2016-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. AIMS (2010). Retrieved on 2010-08-21.
  6. ^ "About Beijing Marathon-Beijing Marathon". new.beijing-marathon.com. Archived from the original on 2017-12-04. Retrieved 2017-12-04.


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