Europe’s Biggest Marathons – By Dr. Roland Döhrn in Laufmarkt

Since 2012 I publish more or less regularly information on Marathon races in Europe on this site. The tables and figures are taken from a data base, in which I collect information on the number of finishers and some additional information at more than 300 marathon events in Europe, which accounted in total for about 600 000 finishers in 2014.

It is not the aim to list all marathon races, which would be extremely ambitious. But since the most important races in most countries are covered, the data base is estimated to cover about 90% of all marathon finishers in Europe. Thus, it allows to draw a representative picture of development in Europe. 

In 2012 and 2013 reports on Marathons in Europe ahve been published in booklets bein offered at a price of 16 € each. To be honest, the time spend to write these booklets was not proportionate to the income generated by the sales. Therefore I decided to produce no booklet and to publish some additional informations on this website instead.

Dr. Roland Döhrn

Source: LAUFMARKT

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Biggest Marathons in Europe 2015

Rank Event Country      Finisher 2015 Finisher 2014 Change %
1 Marathon de Paris FRA                  40248 39125 2,9
2 Virgin London Marathon GBR         37599 35026 7,3
3 Berlin-Marathon GER                    36817 29021 26,9
4 Maratona de Barcelona ESP           15385 14225 8,2
5 Stockholm Marathon SWE             14815 16067 -7,8
6 Marathon Hamburg GER                14755 12851 14,8
7 Maraton Pastora de Valencia ESP    14100 11348 24,3
8 Dublin Marathon IRE                     12938 12224 5,8
9 Amsterdam Marathon NLD             12359 12212 1,2
10 Marathon Rotterdam NLD             11882 10658 11,5
11 Athens Classic Marathon GRC       11882 10500 13,2
12 Madrid Marathon ESP                   11729 11054 6,1
13 Maratona di Roma ITA                  11487 14875 -22,8
14 Frankfurt Marathon GER               11180 11099 0,7
15 Brighton Marathon GBR                  9266 8744 6,0
16 Copenhagen Marathon DEN            9219 9624 -4,2
17 Maraton Ciudad de Sevilla ESP         8587 7996 7,4
18 Firenze Marathon ITA                      8275 8689 -4,8
19 Greater Manchester Marathon GBR   7849 5911 32,8
20 Marathon du Medoc FRA                  7553 9618 -21,5
21 Orlen Warszawa Marathon POL         7361 5816 26,6
22 Edinburgh Marathon GBR                 7185 8620 -16,6
23 Venice Marathon ITA                        6641 4867 36,4
24 Marathon des Alpes Maritim FRA       6606 6803 -2,9
25 Warszawa Marathon POL                  6511 6679 -2,5
26 Poznan Marathon POL                      6252 6326 -1,2
27 Marathon La Rochelle FRA                6027 4864 23,9
28 Vienna City Marathon AUT                5970 6301 -5,3
29 München Marathon GER                   5904 6222 -5,1
30 Prag Marathon CZE                          5871 6063 -3,2
31 Marathon Bordeaux Metropole FRA    5660
32 Budapest Marathon HUN                   5604 4348 28,9
33 Moscow City Marathon RUS               5554 4033 37,7
34 Wroclaw Marathon POL                     4757 3842 23,8
35 Cracovia Marathon POL                     4574 5358 -14,6
36 Köln Marathon GER                           4573 3953 15,7
37 Maratona do Porto POR                      4405 4041 9,0
38 Milano City Maratona ITA                   4022 3556 13,1
39 Yorkshire Marathon GBR                    3846 3685 4,4
40 Rock'n Roll Lisboa Marathon POR       3828 2865 33,6
41 Jungfrau Marathon CH                       3782 3724 1,6
42 Marathon de Mont Saint Michel FRA    3541 2878 23,0
43 Helsinki City Marathon FIN                 3540 3865 -8,4
44 White Nights St. Peterburg RUS          3050 2182 39,8
45 Maratone di Reggio Emilia ITA             3010 2919 3,1
46 Marathon de Nantes FRA                     3010 3185 -5,5
47 Maraton de San Sebastian ESP            2968 2918 1,7
48 Eurasia Marathon Istanbul TUR            2784 3876 -28,2
49 Maraton Ciudad de Malaga ESP            2778 2514 10,5
50 GutsMuths Rennsteiglauf GER              2704 3031 -10,8
2015, Dec 31st

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