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1. Marathon de Paris with 38.690 finishers first in Europe. ©Victah Sailer
RUNNING EUROPE – The Largest Marathon Races in Europe in 2013 – Dr. Roland Döhrn in the magazine “Laufmarkt” (updated on Dec. 31, 2013)
On December 13, 2013, we published Dr. Roland Döhrn’s statistical report, "The largest marathon races in Europe in 2013” in both English and German. This report received great resonance around the world among the specialists – even “Track and Field – The Bible” linked to our article, making it the most read article on the GRR website.
That also lead to a few corrections that have been integrated into the newest statistics—this also means a few changes in rankings, as some races fell back while other events with larger numbers of participants moved forward.
For the third year, Dr. Roland Döhrn has presented an overview of the largest marathon races in Europe – an overview that presents the developments in individual countries in clear numbers (finishers).
It is surprising to see that the Paris Marathon moved up – quietly and almost unnoticed – to the top in Europe, ahead of the Berlin Marathon and the long-time leader, the London Marathon.
With Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt, there are still three German races among the top ten listed events.
Paris had 38,690 finishers, a respectable lead ahead of Berlin with 36,474 and London with 34,312 finishers. Hamburg moved to 7th place with 11,450 finishers ahead of Amsterdam with 11,307 and Frankfurt with 11,011 finishers.
Four other German races are among the top fifty races: the Munich Marathon, Cologne Marathon, Düsseldorf Marathon and the Rennsteig Race.
Three countries each have seven races that ranked among the largest marathon races: France, Great Britain and Germany. Italy had 6 races, while Poland and Spain each had five races, Holland two races.
Switzerland—and all of the following countries—all have one race among the top 50: Sweden, Ireland, Denmark, Austria, Finland, Hungary, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, and the Czech Republic.
It is interesting to observe how some events fluctuated from one year to the next, both positively and negatively: Porto (POR) had a 64.9% increase in finsihers vis-à-vis the prior year, up to 2,755; Krakow (POL) increased by 46.7% up to 4,419; Chester (GBR) increased by 42.4 % up to 2,951, Seville (ESP) increased by 36.6 % up to 5,939 and the Athens Classic Marathon (GRE) increased by 31.2 % up to 8,490 finishers.
Some races, on the other hand, experienced drops in participation, for instance the Jungfrau Marathon (SUI), which went down by 39.5 % to 3,820 participants, partly due to their recent anniversary event.
Horst Milde
Europe's Biggest Marathons
A new issue addressed on this site is a compilation of data on the biggest Marathon races in Europe. For this purpose, I set up a new data base, collecting information on the number of finishers at approximately 300 marathon events in Europe, which accounted in total for about 500.000 finishers in 2011. It is not the aim to list all marathon races, which would be extremely ambitious. But by covering the most important races in most countries, the data allow to draw a representative picture of development in Europe. The estimate is that more than 90% of all marathon participants in Europe a covered by the data base.
The subsequent tables show a ranking of the races according to size in 2011 and 2012, and a table providing the results for 2013. The latter table also contains information on the change in particpation.
Dr. Roland Döhrn
"Laufmarkt" – a service for organizers of running events
The Largest Marathon Races in Europe in 2013
1 Marathon de Paris FRA 38690 32980 17,3
2 Berlin Marathon GER 36474 34377 6,1
3 London Marathon GBR 34312 36699 -6,5
4 Stockholm Marathon SWE 15653 14676 6,7
5 Maratona de Barcelona ESP 14778 16013 -7,7
6 Dublin Marathon IRL 12346 12201 1,2
7 Marathon Hamburg GER 11450 10319 11,0
8 Amsterdam Marathon NED 11307 10144 11,5
9 Frankfurt Marathon GER 11011 11948 -7,8
10 Maratona di Roma ITA 10665 12677 -15,9
11 Madrid Marathon ESP 10462 9959 5,1
12 Maratonde Valencia ESP 9653 7779 24,1
13 Firenze Marathon ITA 9291 7772 19,5
14 Copenhagen Marathon DEN 9177 9506 -3,5
15 Brighton Marathon GBR 9110 8910 2,2
16 Warszawa Marathon POL 8509 6706 26,9
17 Athens Classic Marathon GRE 8490 6472 31,2
18 Marathon Rotterdam NED 8377 7841 6,8
19 Edinburgh Marathon GBR 8200 8084 1,4
20 Marathon du Medoc FRA 7905 7395 6,9
21 Marathon des Alpes FRA 6918 6687 3,5
22 Vienna City Marathon AUT 6868 5892 16,6
23 München Marathon GER 6469 6084 6,3
24 Maraton Ciudad de Sevilla ESP 5939 4349 36,6
25 Prag Marathon CZE 5769 5624 2,6
26 Poznan Marathon POL 5679 5426 4,7
27 Venice Marathon ITA 5326 5934 -10,2
28 Köln Marathon GER 5132 4807 6,8
29 Manchester Marathon GBR 5017
30 Marathon La Rochelle FRA 4913 5124 -4,1
31 Cracovia Marathon POL 4419 3013 46,7
32 Helsinki City Marathon FIN 4370 4261 2,6
33 Orlen Warszawa MarathonPOL 3947
34 Jungfrau Marathon SUI 3820 6317 -39,5
35 Milano City Maratona ITA 3514 3976 -11,6
36 Wroclaw Marathon POL 3500 3900 -10,3
37 Marathon de Toulouse FRA 3485 2653 31,4
38 Turin Marathon ITA 3450 3320 3,9
39 Budapest Marathon HUN 3137 3585 -12,5
40 Düsseldorf Marathon GER 2968 3037 -2,3
41 Chester Marathon GBR 2951 2072 42,4
42 Marathon de Nantes FRA 2887 2537 13,8
43 GutsMuths Rennsteiglauf GER 2872 3415 -15,9
44 Maraton San Sebastian ESP 2863 2622 9,2
45 Eurasia Marathon TUR 2800 2348 19,3
46 Mont Saint Michel FRA 2782 3564 -21,9
47 Maratona do Porto POR 2755 1671 64,9
48 Loch Ness Marathon GBR 2701 2552 5,8
49 Belfast Citymarathon GBR 2542 2882 -11,8
50 Treviso Marathon ITA 2540 2050 23,9
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Europe's Biggest Marathons '13
Preliminary results
Europe 2013 engl final.pdf [ 36,3 KB ]
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Europe's Biggest Marathons '12
Final result
Europe 2012 engl final.pdf [ 35,4 KB ]
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Europe's Biggest Marathons '11
Updated!
Europe 2011 engl 1101.pdf [ 31,7 KB ]
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