Berlin Marathon 2025: 80,000 Participants In The Race

The Berlin marathon season is rolling out with full attention with the Berlin Marathon which is slated to be held on September 21.

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This will be the 51st edition of the Berlin Marathon which is the fastest of the World Marathon Majors.

Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe will headline the men’s race that also includes fellow East Africans Milkesa Mengesha, the defending champion, and Gabriel Geay, the current Tanzanian marathon record holder.

Two former runners-up, Mestawut Fikir of Ethiopia and Kenya’s Rosemary Wanjiru, feature in the women’s list. Wanjiru is returning to the course of her marathon debut.

The Berling Marathon 2025 is set to attract almost 80,000 participants from 160 nations across two days, including runners, wheelchair athletes, hand-cyclists, and skaters.

The event organisers, announced at a recent round table that 55,146 people will take part in the marathon alone. The average age of participants is also getting younger, now ranging from 28 to 38 years old for the largest age group of runners.

The gender split for runners is approximately 64% male, 35% female, and 0.1% non-binary.

The Berlin Marathon is held annually on the streets of Berlin, Germany on the last weekend of September. Held annually since 1974, the event includes multiple races over the marathon distance of 42.195 kilometres (26.219 mi), including elite level road running competitions for men and women, a race for the public, an inline skating race, a wheelchair race, and a handcycle race.

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Berlin Marathon 2025: Schedule

The Berlin Marathon, which draws nearly 80,000 participants, will begin at 9:15 a.m. (CEST) on Sunday, 21 September, with runners beginning in four different waves. The starting line is on Straße des 17. Juni, between the Brandenburg Gate and the “Kleiner Stern”.