Porto Alegre Marathon

Course & Elevation

The Maratona Internacional de Porto Alegre is the main road race of the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, held over a weekend around the turn of May and June, with the marathon on the Sunday morning. The Clube dos Corredores de Porto Alegre (CORPA) organises it and has done so since the first edition on 23 April 1983. A half marathon, 10 km and 5 km run on the Saturday, together with a children's race. The marathon course was redesigned in 2026 and the organisers present it as the flattest in Brazil, with only 14 m of cumulative climb, and they say the 2027 edition keeps the same route. The 42.195 km is laid out to favour long straights through the Centro Histórico and along the Orla do Guaíba, avoiding the undulations of the Zona Sul, and the 2026 route also ran through the Mercado Público. In 2026 the marathon started at 06:00 on Avenida Diário de Notícias. Race kits and the expo are at the BarraShoppingSul events centre in the days before. About 30,000 runners registered across all distances in 2026, and the organisers expect the same number for 2027. Daniel Kiprono Sang of Kenya won the 2026 men's race in 2:10:21, and Gelane Senbet of Ethiopia won the women's race in 2:31:16, and both times were new race records.