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The races are split into three categories: marathons, half marathons and other. Within the "other" category are traditional road race distances, over which World Athletics world records can be set, along with some "Classical races", which span unusual distances. [ 1 ]
From the World Marathon Majors, the Tokyo Marathon was cancelled for amateur runners and was held only as an elite event on the scheduled date on 1 March. [1] The Boston Marathon, scheduled to be held on 20 April, was postponed to 14 September, while the London Marathon scheduled for 26 April was rescheduled to 4 October.
The Guadalajara Marathon [b] (also known as the Guadalajara International Marathon [c] or Maratón GDL [3]) is an annual road-based marathon hosted by Guadalajara, Mexico, since 1984. [3] [4] [1] [5] [a] The marathon is a World Athletics Elite Label Road Race and a member of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races. [2] [6]
The organizers of the Mexico City Marathon are investigating reports of “unsportsmanlike conduct” at August’s race following reports of cheating at the event.
This is not the Mexico City Marathon's first run-in with a high-profile cheating scandal. In 2017, nearly 6,000 runners were disqualified for cutting the course. More than 3,000 were disqualified ...
Runners at the 2018 edition of the race. Mexico City Mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera starting the 2013 race. Lithuanian Diana Lobačevskė, the 2016 women's winner.. The Mexico City Marathon (Spanish: Maratón Internacional de la Ciudad de México) is an annual road running event over the marathon distance 42.19 kilometres (26.22 mi) which is held on the streets of Mexico City in late August or ...
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 ...
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.