Houston Marathon

Houston Marathon
Date	Third Sunday in January
Location	Houston, Texas, United States
Event type	Road
Distance	Marathon, Half marathon, 5K run
Primary sponsor	Chevron (marathon) Aramco (half marathon)
Established	1972 (52 years ago) (1972)
Course records	Marathon: Men: 2:06:39 (2024) Zouhair Talbi Women: 2:19:12 (2022) Keira D'Amato Half Marathon: Men: 59:22 (2012) Feyisa Lilesa Women: 1:05:03 (2022) Vicoty Chepngeno
Official site	Houston Marathon
Participants	~33,000 (all races) (2020)[1] 23,613 (2019)

The Houston Marathon is an annual marathon usually held every January in Houston, Texas, United States, since 1972. With thousands of runners and spectators, it is the largest single day sporting event in the city. It is run concurrently with a half marathon and a 5 km race. The 2007 race included the first-ever satellite running of the event, run simultaneously in Fallujah, Iraq.^[2]

The races bring crowds of nearly one half million to view the runners.^{[3][clarification needed]}