Vienna City Marathon

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Vienna City Marathon

Sep 12, 2021

4.0

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Where

Vienna, Austria

Start time

06:00

Distances

Marathon

Sub-events

26.2

Marathon

September 12, 2021

Distance: Marathon·Start time: 06:00

MarathonPoint to pointRun/Walk

Race Details

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Phone Number

43(0)6504219500

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Reviews

3.9

Based on 66 Reviews from other runners - tap or click to see all!

By: Ürün B.

Posted: May 11, 2022

Marvellous City, so-so organization

Vienna provides participants spectacular views from the city. Volunteers and audience were perfect and expo was satisfying to meet runners' demands. However, there are some points must be improved: There was no blue sign along the route to follow best/optimum line which was highly confusing. Block 4 is for those who target to finish 3:50 (5:25-5:30 min/km)- 4:30 marathon (6:20 min/km) was really irrelevant and also for those to finish 1:50-2 hours half marathon. Thus, it was really crowded and making zig-zags among slower runners was annoying. Additionally, start times of marathon and half should be separated to avoid such things.

4.0

By: Adrian Rodriguez

Posted: September 23, 2021

First massive marathon post pandemic

This was the first marathon with over 10.000 participants (in 42K; 21K and relay). The sanitation measurements were excellent, everybody has to get a negative antigen test 24 hours previous the start to get its bib number. The wide start has plenty of room. The race itself is flat, gorgeous scenery, with water and isotonic stations every 5km or so, they offered you bananas, but no gels, so you must carry yours! The weather was hot (20º-26ºC / 68ª-79ºF) but you get a big glass of non alcoholic wheat beer at the finish line. The medal pretty and golden star with a Swarovski crystal. Not that much crowd as a Major marathon, but there is enough support during the course.

4.0

By: Maria S.

Posted: February 20, 2019

No race number pick up on the day of the race

Unfortunately, I just found out that its not possible to pick up your race documents on the day itself. I was planning to travel to Vienna for one day to run the marathon. Unfortunately I will arrive too late to pick up my race documents. I contacted the organisation if they could help me, but they were very unfriendly and unwilling to help. Yes, they can bring the documents to my hotel for an extra charge of 40 euro! They simply forgot that I already payed 100 euro during my registration.

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British musician James Cottriall was found by Derek Murphy of marathoninvestigation.com to have cut corners in achieving his personal best of 2:56:46 at the 2021 Vienna City Marathon.

Canadian Running

Dec 17, 2021

No Covid cases at all related to Vienna City Marathon

The Vienna City Marathon staged on 12 September was the first major marathon worldwide with a strong international elite field and a mass race since the start of the Corona pandemic. In total 18,118 runners from 126 nations competed during the two day event. 6,000 of them were marathon runners. Organisers were now able to confirm that no Covid cases at all are related to the Vienna City Marathon.

Sep 28, 2021

Vibian Chepkirui: From sleeping on the floor in Doha to triumph in Vienna within three days

The 38th edition of the Vienna City Marathon delivered a great comeback for major international city marathon running during the pandemic. One of the stories of the day written in Austrias capital was that of Vibian Chepkirui, who won her debut marathon in 2:24:29.

Sep 13, 2021

Vienna marathon winner disqualified after shoe soles break rules

Ethiopia's Derara Hurisa won the 2021 Vienna City Marathon in 2:09:22 but was disqualified soon after when his shoes were found too thick in violation of the rules.

Reuters

Sep 13, 2021