Sunday April 13th, 2025
Pyongyang, North Korea
Distance: Marathon
Offical Race Web Site
This race can be run either as a full marathon or as a half marathon. There is also a 10km race and a 5km race.
Hundreds of local runners take part as well as some elite foreign runners. Anyone taking part in this tour who wants to watch the marathon instead of take part in it is more than welcome to do so. There will be local football matches taking place in Kim Il Sung stadium after the start of the race, you can be there for this too!
As well as the Pyongyang Marathon, we will show you the highlights of Pyongyang city, including a visit to the famous Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum and captured spy ship USS Pueblo.
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
| Male | 2:11:19 | RI KANG BOM | 26 | DPR Korea |
| 2nd Male | 2:11:27 | DABI TADESSE YAE | 30 | Ethiopia |
| 3rd Male | 2:13:22 | HAN IL RYONG | 27 | DPR Korea |
| 4th Male | 2:15:51 | RI YONG NAM | 29 | DPR Korea |
| Female | 2:26:58 | RI KWANG OK | 33 | DPR Korea |
| 2nd Female | 2:27:12 | JO UN OK | 26 | DPR Korea |
| 3rd Female | 2:28:35 | KIM JI HYANG | 27 | DPR Korea |
| 4th Female | 2:29:49 | JONG RAN | 33 | DPR Korea |
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
For 2019 the race is a return course with the route being run through the city centre. Runners will go past many of the iconic buildings, monuments, and streets of Pyongyang, before heading out into the countryside, just outside the urban centre, before running back again.
This route — which is both IAAF bronze label and AIMS certified — gives runners the chance to see more of the capital than in previous years, and also allows more interaction with people along the course, as it takes in more parts of the city than ever before.
All four amateur races — the 5km, 10km, half marathon, and full marathon — will start and finish inside Kim Il Sung Stadium (including a final lap of the stadium track). This means thateveryoneparticipating will get the chance to finish in front of a 50,000-strong capacity crowd of local Koreans who will be in attendance at the stadium.
After the race has finished, the top three in the 10 km, half and full marathon amateur categories(men’s full; men’s half; men’s 10km; women’s full; women’s half; women’s 10km) take their place on the stadium’s podium for the award ceremony.
