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New York City largest ever

New York City 2013

New York City largest ever – again; record 31 marathons worldwide had more than 10,000 finishers in 2013

After its 2012 cancellation due to Hurricane Sandy, the ING New York City Marathon returned to the #1 spot as the world’s largest marathon with 50,266 finishers, the first 26.2 race with more than 50,000 finishers ever.

For the first time in the same year, six marathons – New York City, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo and London – had more than 34,000 finishers, while 31 marathons worldwide had more than 10,000 finishers. Also, for the second time (also 2011), 16 marathons had more than 15,000 finishers. In addition, the U.S. represented 5 of the top 10 and 7 of the 15 largest marathons in the world.

Last year, there were also a record 7 U.S. marathons with more than 17,500 finishers. See 2013 rankings below.

2013
World’s Largest Marathons (finishers):
  1) ING New York City, NY 50,266  (largest all-time; first marathon >50,000 finishers)
  2) Bank of America Chicago, IL 38,879
  3) Paris, FRA 38,690
  4) BMW Berlin, GER 36,474
  5) Tokyo, JPN 34,832
  6) Virgin London, GBR 34,312
  7) Osaka, JPN 26,937
  8) Marine Corps, DC 23,380
  9) Honolulu, HI 22,064
10) Walt Disney World, FL 20,734
11) ASICS LA, CA 19,534
12) Naha, JPN 19,118
13) Kobe, JPN 17,816
14) Boston, MA 17,600
15) ASICS Stockholm, SWE 15,679
U.S. Largest Marathons (finishers):
  1) ING New York City, NY 50,266  (largest all-time; first marathon >50,000 finishers)
  2) Bank of America Chicago, IL 38,879
  3) Marine Corps, DC 23,380
  4) Honolulu, HI 22,064
  5) Walt Disney World, FL 20,734
  6) ASICS LA, CA 19,534
  7) Boston, MA 17,600
  8) GORE-TEX Philadelphia, PA 10,909
  9) Medtronic Twin Cities, MN 8,857
10) Portland, OR 6,956
11) Rock ‘n’ Roll San Diego, CA 6,542
12) Chevron Houston, TX 6,530
13) California International, CA 6,205
14) Wipro San Francisco, CA 5,827
15) St. George, UT 5,819

SOURCE: Running USA with Athlinks (2009-13) and Active.com (2005-08)

See the articles relating to the USA Marathon Events Report for the Year 2013:
Annual Marathon Report 2013
Number of U.S. marathons exceeds 1,100 – new record