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The 2024 World Athletics Label Road Races are road running competitions scheduled for 2024 that have met the standard for World Athletics to include the race in its Label Road Races program. [1] Like the Diamond League for track and field, the list represents the highest level international road racing circuit.
The half marathon is held on a largely out-and-back course that runs near the coastline in a northeasterly direction before following it back southwest. [22] There is a short out-and-back leg between the 7 and 10 km (4 and 6 mi) marks where the course dips south to run on the peninsula where the Málaga Lighthouse sits. [22]
Standing records prior to the 2024 European Athletics Championships World record Jacob Kiplimo (UGA) 57:31 [2]: Lisbon, Portugal: 21 November 2021 European record Julien Wanders (SUI)
In 2008, the Competitor Group took over Elite Racing, the company that had been organizing the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon. The following year, 2009, an internal audit revealed that the charity in whose name the race had been run, Elite Racing Foundation for Children, Education & Medical Research, had been improperly commingling funds with the for-profit Elite Racing.
eDreams Mitja Marató de Barcelona by Brooks or Barcelona Half Marathon is an annual half marathon arranged in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Organised by RPM Sports and ASO , it is held in February and in 2023 attracted 21,477 runners, with 33% of the registered participants coming from abroad representing 101 nationalities. [ 1 ]
The 2017 edition of the race was reduced due to heat and humidity, as the marathon distance only was cancelled. The half marathon and 10km races started an hour earlier. [6] On September 22, 2019, a runner (Patrick Neely) unfortunately died after collapsing near the end of the half-marathon finish line.
From 1963 to 1978 the tournament was called the Trofeo Semana del Sol (Sun Week Trophy) of 1979–1992 was called Ciudad de Marbella Trophy, in 1993 and 1994 changed the name FORTA Trophy, Antena 3 Marbella Trophy called in 1995, turning to call Ciudad de Marbella Trophy in the last edition of 1997.
The 2024 event was the biggest in the event's 21 year history, with 29,000 participants registered across Saturday's junior races (1500 participants) and Sunday's half marathon (27,500 participants).