Leipzig Marathon

The Leipzig Marathon is an annual marathon held in Leipzig, Germany. It has been held since 1977 and has been held in April since 2000. The organizers and hosts are the Leipzig Marathon e. V. and the Stadtsportbund Leipzig e. V. The program also includes a half marathon, a 10K run, a half marathon for inline skaters, a wheelchair half marathon and a school relay.

Since 2007, the start and finish has been at the Sportforum in the Zentrum-Nordwest locality, near the Arena Leipzig and the Red Bull Arena. The route first leads past the New Town Hall and then passes Augustusplatz with the Gewandhaus, the Opera House and the City-Hochhaus. Then it goes past the Grassi Museum, the Old Trade Fair Leipzig and the Monument to the Battle of the Nations into the Probstheida locality. There the line turns west, passes the Bruno-Plache-Stadion and reaches the Südvorstadt via Zwickauer and Richard-Lehmann-Strasse along Media City Leipzig. The route then crosses the Leipzig Riverside Forest and continues to Schleußig and over the White Elster river to the Kleinzschocher locality, where it turns north and returns to the Sportforum via Plagwitz and Jahnallee.

The length of the route is that of a half marathon. For the length of a marathon, it is necessary to run two laps.

The event began as an East German competition and it hosted the German Democratic Republic's national championship on four occasions (1985, 1986, 1987, and 1990).^[1]

In 2020, the Leipzig Marathon was cancelled for the first time in its history due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, for the same reason, it was only held as a purely virtual competition, in which the participants completed the distance on a route of their own choosing. The Leipzig Marathon planned for April 10, 2022 also had to be canceled.^[2]

Key:   Course record

List of winners

• Leipzig Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2011-04-18). Retrieved on 2011-04-22.

• Official website
• Race profile at Marathon info