Hong Kong Half Marathon

Course & Elevation

The Hong Kong Half Marathon is the 21.0975 km race of the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, the city's largest annual participatory sporting event, organised by the Hong Kong, China Association of Athletics Affiliates. It is held on a Sunday in winter, in January in 2027, alongside the full marathon, a 10 km and a wheelchair race. The half marathon was introduced in 2000, when the event was split into a full marathon, a half marathon and a 10 km race; Standard Chartered Bank had become title sponsor in 1997. Both the marathon and the half marathon start on Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, and finish at Victoria Park on Hong Kong Island, while the 10 km starts on the Island Eastern Corridor. Nathan Road has been the start since 2001. For 2027 the organisers raised the half marathon quota by 4,000 to 29,000 places, behind only the 10 km, and added a start wave to keep the number of runners per wave down. The race had 120,000 applicants for places across the main races in the previous year.