Welcome to the Paris Marathon
The Paris Marathon is developing into one of the World's premier marathons and after Paris 2003 the event moved into a new area with quality performances when the 1st four athletes went sub 2Hr 07.
The event has quite a tradition and was originally first run in July 1896, see below :
1896 : the first Paris marathon
On Sunday the 19th of July 1896, there was a big crowd at porte Maillot for the first French marathon, which brought together 191 participants. For this first French marathon, run over the 40 km separating Paris from Conflans, the organisers, the Petit Journal, decided to award a commemorative medal to all runners who finished the race in under 4 hours. Why 40 kilometres? Simply because this was the distance separating Marathon from Athens; the current distance of the competition (42,195 km) is simply that of the London Olympic marathon (1908).
After a 2h31’30’’ race, and cheered on by 2.000 spectators, the British man Len Hurst crossed the finishing line traced out on the Conflans bridge. After a brief moment in the arms of his coach Boon, he regained all his strength in order to receive the 200 francs from the Petit Journal… source Paris Marathon
View the race years :

Kenenisa Bekele sets course record on Debut
Kenenisa Bekele made his debut over the distance in style, when winning the Paris Marathon 2014 in a new course record of 2:05:04. The Ethiopian, who is still the 5000m and 10000m World Record holder, is considered the greatest distance athlete in history and had set the goal of breaking the course record of 2:05:12 … [Read More...]

Kenenisa Bekele ready for debut
Kenenisa Bekele, the only athlete ever who has achieved to be an Olympic Champion, World Cross Country Champion, World Indoor- and Outdoor Champion, will now make his marathon debut. He will be on the starting line of the Schneider Electric Paris Marathon coming Sunday. … [Read More...]
Duesseldorf

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Venice

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