Record: 7305 individual finishers on the 28th Nike Budapest Half Marathon

Registration record was reached before the start of the 28th Nike Budapest Half Marathon. All together 12 850 runner registered, including 1330 relay teams.

The also record number 1600 international runners arrived from 65 different countries.

Due to the high number of participants there was an intermittent start, where runners started in 3 different groups after each other, and the last runner left the start zone 13 minutes after the first one.

28th Nike Budapest Half Marathon Results

Men
1. Henry Kemboi (Kenya), 1:05.51
2. Tamás Kovács (Hungary) 1:06.07
3. Adriann Lehmann (Switzerland) 1:06.09

Women
1. Krisztina Papp (Hungary) 1:12.31
2. Zsófia Erdélyi (Hungary) 1:14.01
3. Gladys Jepkurui Biwott (Kenya)1:15.03

And here is one feedback from runners from outside of Hungary:

„Big compliment for a fantastic half marathon!!

Great organisation and great atmosphere!

We join a half marathon in a european country every year and after six years Budapest is number 1 of the (half)-marathons so far!

Warm regards from the 5 orange skirts-girls from Amsterdam”