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The 2025 Women's Tour Down Under (officially Santos Women's Tour Down Under 2025 for sponsorship reasons) was the 8th edition of the Women's Tour Down Under, which is the part of the 2025 UCI Women's World Tour. It began on 17th of January in Brighton and finished on 19th of January in Stirling.
The women's marathon was one of the road events at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London. It took place on 6 August 2017 on the streets of London, and consisted of four laps of a roughly 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) course which passed several of London's landmarks.
The 2017 London Marathon was the 37th running of the annual marathon race in London, England, which took place on Sunday, 23 April. Mary Jepkosgei Keitany won the women's race, setting a new women-only marathon world record with a time of 2:17:01, while Daniel Wanjiru came first in the men's race in 2:05:48.
Also new for summer 2021 was the Spine Sprint events. Starting at Edale, the races finish at Hebden Bridge, a distance of 46 miles (74 km). The time limit is 18 hours. A winter event was added for 2022. From summer 2025 the event was renamed the Spine Sprint South following the introduction of the Spine Sprint North.
On 23 March 2018, London Marathon Limited, the organisers of the event announced that the Queen would formally start the race by "step[ping] onto a special podium in front of the Round Tower in the grounds of Windsor Castle to push the start button at 10:00 a.m." [6] The formality marked the anniversary of the 1908 Olympic Marathon, which was started at the same venue by the then Princess Mary ...
The IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was first held in 1992. It comprised three races: the men's race, the women's race and the junior men's race. Furthermore, a team competition was held in each category, with the winners being decided by combining the performances of a country's top three finishers.
The first championship in 1876 was known as the 'National' and was declared void because all 32 runners went off course. The women's event was first held in 1927. [1] The senior event winners are shown in the table. Up to 1994, the women's event was run separately at a different location from the men's race. [3] [4] [5]
Unlike the World Championships for the sport, the European Cross Country Championships consists of six races in age categories, with separate senior, under-23, and junior races for both men and women. There are individual and national team medals awarded in each race.