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Close ✕Berlin Marathon
First run in 1974 as a small race through the Grunewald forest in West Berlin, with a few hundred entrants.
52.5, 13.4 · route · 1974 – present, annual
On the world
- A place in: The Great Marathons · 15 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections
- located in Berlin — The course has run through central Berlin since 1981 and through the Brandenburg Gate since 1990.
- comparable to Chicago Marathon — Both are flat, low-turn, city-centre courses with near-zero net drop, and between them they held the men's world record continuously from 1998 to 2026.
- member of Abbott World Marathon Majors — One of the five founding races of the series announced on 23 January 2006.
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