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The Haspa Marathon Hamburg is a spring marathon through the centre of Hamburg, held on a Sunday in late April. It started in 1986 as the hanse-Marathon, and the 2027 race will be the 41st edition. Runners start from two areas near the Messe, Karolinenstraße and Bei den Kirchhöfen, in two blocks at about 08:30 and 09:00, and both starts lead to a shared finish on Karolinenstraße. The route is a circuit that runs along the Reeperbahn, past the Fischmarkt and the Landungsbrücken, with the Elbphilharmonie, the Außenalster and the Jungfernstieg on the way. A blue line marks the route, as it has since the first race. The Haspa Half Marathon starts from the Alsterglacis at 14:00 on the same day, and a relay is also staged. The marathon closes six hours after the last runner crosses the start line, and runners must be at least 18 in the year of the race. The course records are 2:03:46 for men, set by Amos Kipruto in 2025, and 2:17:05 for women, set by Brillian Kipkoech in 2026. A record 20,000 marathon runners registered for the 40th edition in 2026.
Typical climate for the race month — an estimate, not a forecast or a race-day record
April in Hamburg is cool: average highs are about 14°C and lows about 4°C, with measurable rain on roughly 13 days of the month.
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The first Hamburg marathon was held on 25 May 1986 as the hanse-Marathon. It was first planned for 27 April but moved by a month because Bremen staged a marathon on the same day. At 9 am Emil Zátopek and Hamburg's mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi opened the race, and 8,290 runners from 40 nations took part, cheered on by more than 500,000 spectators.
In 2025 Amos Kipruto won in 2:03:46, the first time under 2:04:00 in the history of the race. A year later Brillian Kipkoech of Kenya won the women's race in 2:17:05, improving her personal best by almost seven minutes and beating Yalemzerf Yehualaw's four-year-old course record by 18 seconds.
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