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The TCS Amsterdam Marathon is the Dutch capital's annual marathon, held on a Sunday in October and carrying a World Athletics Platinum Label. The race weekend also includes a half marathon, a 7.5K and short Mini Marathons for children. The marathon starts and finishes in the Olympic Stadium, the venue built for the 1928 Games. The route passes under the Rijksmuseum, past the Heineken Experience, out along the river Amstel and through the Vondelpark before returning to the stadium; the organisers describe the course as flat, fast and historic. The first edition was held on 3 May 1975, organised for the 700th anniversary of Amsterdam, and drew about 300 runners. By 2025 the race weekend had grown to some 60,000 runners from 140 countries across all distances. The race moved from spring to autumn in the early 1990s and has been a World Athletics Platinum Label event for many years. The current course records are 2:03:30 for men (Geoffrey Toroitich Kipchumba, 2025) and 2:16:12 for women (Buze Diriba, 2026). The marathon has a six-hour time limit and in 2026 started at 09:00, with the half marathon starting in the afternoon.
Typical climate for the race month — an estimate, not a forecast or a race-day record
October in Amsterdam is cool and damp: highs average about 15°C and lows about 8°C, with rain on roughly 12 days of the month. The 2026 race was run in wet conditions.
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Amsterdam's annual marathon began on 3 May 1975, organised for the city's 700th anniversary by athletics clubs including AV'23, Blauw Wit and Sagitta. Start and finish were in the Olympic Stadium, as they are today. Denmark's Jørgen Jensen won in 2:16:51 and Plonie Scheringa of the Netherlands was the first woman, in 3:13:38.
Geoffrey Toroitich Kipchumba set the men's course record of 2:03:30 in October 2025. On 18 October 2026 Buze Diriba ran 2:16:12 in wet conditions to break the women's record of 2:16:52 set by Yalemzerf Yehualaw in 2024. The same day Lemi Berhanu won the men's race in 2:03:33, three seconds outside the men's record.
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