Event information

Vienna City Marathon

Apr 23, 2023

4.0

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Where

Vienna, Austria

Start time

06:00

Distances

Marathon

Sub-events

26.2

Marathon

April 23, 2023

Distance: Marathon·Start time: 06:00

MarathonPoint to pointRun/Walk

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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.

1.0

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Samwel Mailu was glued to the TV screen in Kenya when in October 2019 his idol Eliud Kipchoge broke the two hour marathon barrier in Vienna's Prater Park. The sensational achievement made worldwide headlines. It was exactly on the same stretch of road in the Prater, where Samwel Mailu broke away from his remaining rivals on Sunday during the 40th Vienna City Marathon. With around 10 kilometers left in the race the 30 year-old went on to break the nine year-old course record of the Vienna City Marathon with a time of 2:05:08 in warm conditions.

Apr 24, 2023

Vienna City Marathon with Over 30,000 Runners: Samwel Mailu smashes course record in Vienna jubilee race

Kenya's Samwel Mailu smashed the nine year-old course record of the Vienna City Marathon. When he stormed over the finish line at the Vienna Burgtheater in 2:05:08 Austria's President Alexander Van der Bellen held the finishing tape. Despite warm conditions during the second half of the race the 30 year-old was 33 seconds quicker than the former course record holder Getu Feleke of Ethiopia who had clocked 2:05:41 back in 2014.

Apr 23, 2023

Vienna City Marathon on Sunday: Yegon and Mailu looking for fast time, Moen targets sub 2:10 in Vienna

The jubilee edition of the Vienna City Marathon will most likely see an attack on the course record in the men's race. Kenyan favorites Bethwell Yegon and Samwel Mailu are expected to run a pace that will be in the region of the 2:05:41 mark.

Apr 21, 2023

Vienna City Marathon on Sunday: Women might target two time barriers in Vienna

The course record and the Austrian record could be under threat at Sunday's Vienna City Marathon and with them two major barriers that are ten minutes apart. While the current course best stands at 2:20:59 and an attack on that might lead to a first sub 2:20 winning time in the history of the Vienna City Marathon, no Austrian woman has ever run under 2:30.

Apr 20, 2023