The 2024 Berlin Marathon was the 50th edition of the annual marathon race in Berlin, held on Sunday, September 29, 2024. A Platinum Label marathon, it was the fourth of six

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events scheduled for 2024. A total of 54,280 runners completed the marathon making it the largest marathon in the world at that time. This record was later surpassed at the 2024 New York City Marathon which had 55,646 finishers. Ethiopian runner Tigst Ketema won the women's race with a time of 2:16:42. Fellow Ethiopian runner

Milkesa Mengesha Tolosa Milkesa Mengesha (born 16 April 2000) is an Ethiopian track and field athlete. Career Mengesha won gold in the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race in Aarhus. In June 21 he shaved 27 seconds off his persona ...

won the men's race with a time of 2:03:17. Swiss wheelchair athletes

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and Catherine Debrunner won their races with finish times of 1:27:18 and 1:35:23, respectively. This was Hug's ninth and Debrunner's third win.

Competitors

Eliud Kipchoge Eliud Kipchoge (born 5 November 1984) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in the marathon and formerly specialized in the 5000 metres. Kipchoge is the Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon, 2016 and Athletics at th ...

set the world record at the time of 2:01:09 in winning the 2022 Berlin Marathon. Then, he won the following year at the 2023 Berlin Marathon, winning the event for the fifth time in a finishing time of 2:02:42. However, in 2024, for the first time in about a decade, neither Kipchoge nor his long-time Ethiopian competitor

Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele Beyecha (; ; born 13 June 1982) is an Ethiopian Long-distance running, long-distance runner. He was the world record holder in both the 5000 metres, 5,000-metre and 10000 metres, 10,000-metre from 2004 until 2020. He won the go ...

would be a part of the Berlin Marathon. Instead, top competitors going into the race included Tadese Takele of

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and Cybrian Kotut of

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. Near the end of the race,

pulled away from Cybrian Kotut with the finish line in sight to win by 5 seconds.

Tigst Assefa Tigst Assefa Tessema (; Oromo: Tigist Asaffaa Tasammaa; born 3 December 1996) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner and the former world record holder in the women's marathon. She has won three top-tier World Marathon Majors, two in Berlin and ...

won the 2023 Berlin Marathon setting the world record at the time of 2:11:53. Another top Ethiopian runner Tigist Ketema was the favorite going into the race with the fastest marathon time among race entrants. Ketema ran most of the race alone and finished the race near her personal best time in 2:16:42.

Results

Results for the top ten in the running races and top three in the wheelchair races are listed below.

References

External links

Official site
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Competitors

Results

References

See also

External links