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In 2008, the Competitor Group took over Elite Racing, the company that had been organizing the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon. The following year, 2009, an internal audit revealed that the charity in whose name the race had been run, Elite Racing Foundation for Children, Education & Medical Research, had been improperly commingling funds with the for-profit Elite Racing.
The competition was launched as the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 1992 and held annually until 2010. [1] It was renamed the IAAF World Road Running Championships in 2006 and reduced in distance to a 20K run, but reverted to the half marathon distance the following year and to the original competition name the year after that. The ...
The half marathon is held on a largely out-and-back course that runs near the coastline in a northeasterly direction before following it back southwest. [22] There is a short out-and-back leg between the 7 and 10 km (4 and 6 mi) marks where the course dips south to run on the peninsula where the Málaga Lighthouse [] sits. [22]
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A half marathon is a road running event of 21.0975 kilometres (13 miles 192.5 yards)—half the distance of a marathon. [1] It is common for a half marathon event to be held concurrently with a marathon or a 5K race, using almost the same course with a late start, an early finish, or shortcuts. [ 2 ]
The championships held races for the half marathon, 5K, and mile distances, and also included mass-participation events for the same. [ 4 ] This was the first time when any recreational runner who was ready for a challenge could register for any of the official mass races of the World Championships in Riga and earn a unique medal from the World ...
2000 - 2006, 2010, 2025: Location: Amager, Denmark to Malm ... and the world's largest half marathon ahead of Göteborgsvarvet (59,000) and the Great North Run ...
The 2024 Chicago Marathon was the 46th edition of the annual Chicago Marathon, held on October 13, 2024. The race is the fifth of six World Marathon Majors held in 2024, and is a platinum label race. [1] [2] The marathon had 120,000 applications in 2024. The number of finishers was 52,150, [3] breaking the 48,398 finisher record set in 2023 ...