Marathon des Géants
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2026 edition held Nov 1, 2026
Next edition expected
Usually October
2027 date not yet confirmed
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The Marathon des Géants is the marathon of the Harmonie Mutuelle Toulouse Métropole Run Experience, a single-loop 42.195 km race through Toulouse held on a Sunday in early November. Its predecessor, the Marathon International de Toulouse Métropole, was run each year from 2007 to 2019. After the cancelled editions of 2020 to 2023, the marathon returned on 10 November 2024 as the Run Experience, organised by the company Playground with the City of Toulouse. In 2026 it started at 08:00 on Boulevard d'Arcole and finished on Boulevard Lazare Carnot. The organisers describe a route through the city's emblematic places, including the Place du Capitole, the Canal du Midi, the Piste des Géants, the Cité de l'Espace, the Oncopole, the ENAC and the Île du Ramier, and the 2026 course passes inside the Stadium of Toulouse for the first time. A half marathon, a 10 km and a marathon relay run on the same day. The entry fee for the marathon in 2026 was €80. The whole event had 37,000 registrations in 2025, a record.
Typical climate for the race month — an estimate, not a forecast or a race-day record
Early November in Toulouse is cool: highs average about 13°C and lows about 6°C, with around 55 mm of rain over the month.
The Race
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The Grand Toulouse agglomeration decided in 2007 to create a marathon in Toulouse with the help of the city's road-running associations and the departmental athletics committee. The first edition was held on 28 October 2007, and Kenya's Benjamin Bitok won in 2:18:27 and Russia's Tatiana Mironova won the women's race in 2:39:53.
The marathon was cancelled in 2020 because of the pandemic, and Toulouse Métropole then decided, for financial reasons, to cancel the 2021, 2022 and 2023 editions. It came back on 10 November 2024 under the name Toulouse Métropole Run Experience, with more than 30,000 runners across the distances.
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