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The adidas Stockholm Marathon is a city marathon held on a Saturday in late May or early June, starting on Lidingövägen outside the clock tower of Stockholm Olympic Stadium and finishing inside the stadium, which was used for the 1912 Olympic Games. The athletics clubs Hässelby SK and Spårvägens FK organise it, and it has been run since 1979; the 2026 race was the 47th edition. Runners start in waves from about midday. The route leaves Östermalm and runs through Vasastan, along the Kungsholmen waterfront past Stockholm City Hall, and into Gamla Stan beside the Royal Palace. It then passes through Djurgården and Södermalm before returning to the stadium. The course is 42,195 metres, measured under Swedish Athletics Federation and World Athletics rules. The maximum time is six and a half hours under the police permit, and checkpoint cut-off times apply along the way. Entry is open to runners aged 18 or older in the year of the race. The course records are 2:10:10, set by Nigussie Sahlesilassie of Ethiopia in 2019, and 2:28:24, set by Grete Waitz of Norway in 1988. In 2026 nearly 25,000 runners were registered and just over 20,000 started.
Typical climate for the race month — an estimate, not a forecast or a race-day record
Late May in Stockholm is mild: highs average about 16°C and lows about 7°C, based on the May climate normals.
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The first Stockholm Marathon was held on 4 August 1979, with 2,155 runners registered, 69 of them women. Jukka Toivola of Finland won the men's race in 2:17:35, and Heide Brenner of West Germany won the women's race in 2:47:06.
The marathon finishes inside Stockholm Olympic Stadium, the venue for the 1912 Olympic Games. The organisers describe the stadium as the home of 83 officially recognized world records in athletics.
In 2026 Kenya's Edwin Kiptoo won the men's race in 2:10:46, 36 seconds outside the course record of 2:10:10 set by Nigussie Sahlesilassie in 2019. Kiptoo made his decisive move after 30 kilometres and won by more than a minute.
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