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The Midnight Sun Marathon is a road marathon in Tromsø, northern Norway, held on a Saturday in June around the summer solstice, when the sun does not set. It is organised by the Midnight Sun Marathon Foundation and is a member of AIMS, with all courses measured and certified. The marathon starts and finishes in the city centre and crosses the Tromsø Bridge twice; the bridge rises from 6 to 43 metres above sea level. Shorter races are offered alongside it, including a half marathon, a 10 km and a children's race, for five distances in all. The finish closes at 2:00am, the marathon has a time limit of 5 hours 30 minutes and the half marathon 3 hours 30 minutes, and runners must be at least 18 for the marathon. The first Midnight Sun Marathon took place in July 1990. In 2025 the race set a participation record with almost 9,000 runners from 88 nations across all distances.
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June in Tromsø is cool: average highs are about 13°C and lows about 6°C, with rain on roughly ten days of the month. The race runs into the evening and night under continuous daylight.
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The idea came from Tromsø's athletics community: the city needed a large event in summer, when little else was happening. A foundation of local companies, the municipality and the club TUIL Friidrett was set up in 1989, and the first Midnight Sun Marathon was held in July 1990. Participation grew from about 2,000 in the first year to almost 5,000 after five years.
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