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On 5 September 1982, the Edinburgh Festival Marathon was the first mass marathon event to be held in the city. [1] Starting in Holyrood Park and running through the Grassmarket and down Lothian Road, along Princes Street and down into Leith, along to Cramond and along the coast back through Silverknowes to Leith, up Easter Road and finishing in Meadowbank Stadium.
Meadows Marathon Date 1st Sunday in March Location Edinburgh, Scotland Event type Circuit Distance Marathon, Half marathon, 10K, 5K Established 2007 Official site www.meadowsmarathon.org.uk The Meadows Marathon is a non-profit annual charity marathon, half marathon, 10K and 5K. It is held annually on the first Sunday of March at The Meadows in Edinburgh. It is the largest event organised by ...
2016 European Athletics Championships – Women's half marathon; 2022 Liberia Marathon; 2024 European Athletics Championships – Men's half marathon;
World Athletics Label Road Races are races that World Athletics (until 2019: IAAF) designates as the "leading road races around the world." [1] The classification was first introduced for the 2008 running season, upon the suggestion of the IAAF Road Running Commission. [2]
In 2006 the first MoonWalk Scotland was held in Edinburgh - offering a picturesque route through the city and more distances including a back-to-back double marathon of 52.4 miles ("Over The Moon") and a 6.55 mile walk largely aimed at children (the "New Moon").
Following the debut of the women's marathon at the summer Olympics in 1984, Scottish Athletics added the 10,000 metres to their championships in 1985, and in 1989 they added a 3 x 800 metres relay. In 1990 the triple jump was trialled and became a championship event in 1991, then in 1992 the hammer was tried on the same basis and became a ...
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 event is organised by Run 4 Wales (R4W), a not-for-profit social enterprise and charitable trust set-up to promote, manage and deliver major sporting events including the 2016 World Half Marathon Championships (Cardiff), 2015 World Mountain Running Championships (North Wales) and 2018 Commonwealth Half Marathon Championships (Cardiff).