São Paulo Marathon

Course & Elevation

The São Paulo International Marathon (Maratona Internacional de São Paulo) is the city's traditional road marathon, organised by Yescom and run on a Sunday in early April, early autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. It has been held since 1995. The start and finish are on Avenida Pedro Álvares Cabral at Ibirapuera, beside the obelisk, and the half marathon, a 14K and a 7K run on the same day, with a 5K, the Corrida das Nações, on the Saturday at Campo de Marte. Runners start in waves from 5:45 a.m. The marathon leaves Ibirapuera along Avenida Rubem Berta and República do Líbano and onto Avenida Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek, crosses the Ponte Cidade Jardim at kilometre 12 and passes the Praça Panamericana, then loops through the University of São Paulo campus between roughly kilometres 24 and 33. It returns through the Zerbini and Jânio Quadros tunnels and back along Avenida Juscelino Kubitschek to Ibirapuera. Six cut-off lines are set along the course, the first at kilometre 6.7 and the last at the exit of USP gate 1 at 33.8 km, and the maximum duration is six hours. Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima's 2:11:19 from 2002 is the course record.