Bremen Marathon

Course & Elevation

The swb-Marathon Bremen is a road marathon through the centre of Bremen that starts and finishes on the Marktplatz in front of the Rathaus. It is usually held on the first Sunday of October, though the 2026 race took place on 13 September, three weeks earlier than usual, and the half marathon, a 10 km and a children's race run on the same day. The marathon starts at 9:30, and the route leads from the Rathaus around the inner city and along the Werdersee to the Botanical Garden, past the Universum to the Bürgerpark and the Überseestadt, and then along the Weser to the Weserstadion and back over the Osterdeich to the finish. Start and finish have been on the Marktplatz since 2010. An earlier Bremen-Marathon durch Stadt und Land ran from 1983 until 1992; the current event was revived in 2005 and its 21st edition in 2026 drew around 13,000 runners across all distances. The finish line closes at 15:30. The course records are 2:22:56 for men (Jarosław Cichocki, 2006) and 2:48:03 for women (Inga Ruhl, 2007).