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The Vienna City Marathon is Austria's biggest road running event, held on a Sunday in April, with a half marathon, a relay marathon, a 10K and a 5K on the same weekend. It was first run on 25 March 1984 as the Vienna Spring Marathon. The marathon starts on Wagramer Straße at the Reichsbrücke, beside the UNO-City, from 9:00 a.m. in several waves, and finishes on the Ringstraße in front of the Burgtheater. The route goes over the Reichsbrücke to the Praterstern and along the Prater Hauptallee, then through the city along the Danube Canal to the Ringstraße and the State Opera. It continues along the Linke Wienzeile to Schönbrunn Palace, around kilometre 16, and returns by the Mariahilfer Straße and behind the Rathaus. After the Friedensbrücke the course runs back along the canal into the Prater, past the Ernst Happel Stadium and the Lusthaus, and finishes along the Ringstraße. The maximum height difference along the course is 44 metres. The marathon is a World Athletics Elite Label event and an AIMS-certified course, with a cut-off at 3:30 p.m.
Typical climate for the race month — an estimate, not a forecast or a race-day record
April in Vienna is cool and changeable: average highs are around 17 °C and lows around 9 °C, with rain on about six days of the month.
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The first Vienna Spring Marathon was held on 25 March 1984. Antoni Niemczak of Poland won the men's race in 2:12:17, and 794 runners finished the distance, only 25 of them women. In 2011, the 20th edition, the finish returned to the Heldenplatz, where the first marathon in 1984 had also ended.
In 2026 the Ethiopian Tigist Gezahagn won in 2:20:06, a personal best and a new women's course record. She pulled clear of her compatriot Haftamnesh Tesfaye only a few hundred metres from the finish. The previous record was 2:20:59, and Tesfaye finished second in 2:20:18.
The Prater Hauptallee, which the marathon uses twice, also hosted Eliud Kipchoge's INEOS 1:59 Challenge on 12 October 2019. That event, not part of the Vienna City Marathon, started on the Reichsbrücke and then ran 4.4 laps of the avenue. Kipchoge clocked 1:59:40.2, but the run was not eligible as a world record because of its rotating pacemakers and mobile fuelling.
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