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The Doha Marathon by Ooredoo is a January road race along the Corniche in Doha, Qatar, presented by the telecommunications company Ooredoo. The first edition, on 26 January 2013, was a half marathon with just over 300 runners, and a marathon was added in 2014. The race is held on a Friday morning in mid-January, with a half marathon, a 10 km, a 5 km, a family run and, from 2027, a 42 km relay for teams of three or four runners. The 15th edition on 15 January 2027 has a redesigned full-marathon course that starts at Hotel Park in West Bay and follows the Corniche past the Amiri Diwan, the Old Doha Port and Souq Waqif, and the organisers say it has no loops. A new Arab category is added to the full marathon. Reigning Olympic champion Tamirat Tola set the men's course record of 2:05:40 in 2026, and Meseret Belete's 2:20:46 from 2023 is the women's record. More than 20,000 runners from 160 nationalities took part in 2026, and the race holds World Athletics Label status.
Typical climate for the race month — an estimate, not a forecast or a race-day record
January is the cool season in Doha: the average high is about 23°C and the low about 15°C, with relative humidity around 75% and very little rain, about 11 mm over the month.
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The inaugural race was held on 26 January 2013 as a half marathon. More than 300 runners took part in it, starting at the Museum of Islamic Art and running along the Corniche and back. It was won by Ethiopia's Gadissa Chaniada and Britain's Rebecca Botwright.
On 16 January 2026 Tamirat Tola, the reigning Olympic marathon champion, won in a course-record 2:05:40, leading an Ethiopian sweep of the top five places. Asefa Boki was second in 2:05:55 and Boki Diriba third in 2:06:26. It was Tola's first win since the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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