The Nagoya Women's Marathon named Nagoya International Women's Marathon until the 2010 race, is an annual marathon race for female runners over the classic distance of 42 km and 195 metres, held in Nagoya, Japan in early March every year. It holds IAAF Gold Label road race status.

It began in 1980 as an annual 20-kilometre road race held in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan. After its first two years there, the venue changed to Nagoya for the third edition in 1982. It was converted to a marathon race for the 1984 edition, and a 10-kilometre race was also added to the race programme. The race acts as the Japanese women's marathon championships on three-year rotational basis. Performances at the race are typically taken into consideration when deciding the Japanese women's Olympic or World Championship teams. Nagoya has also twice hosted the women's Asian Marathon Championship race (1988 and 1994).

Strasimeno is the ultramarathon of Parco del Trasimeno. It is 58 km long with stat and finish line in Castiglione del Lago, the biggest municipality of the lake area. We also have the finish line in Borghetto (10 km), in Passignano (halfmarathon), in San Feliciano (34 km) and in Santarcangelo (marathon).

The Strasimeno, with its exceptional location, is a great occasion to put in contact sport lovers and not to the world of running. Many people, simply viewers, have decided to become protagonists of the race. The manifestation is increasing year by year the number the competitors enrolled and the audience's attention to the event. With the tentative to show a deeper sensibility for all people interested, not only professional runners, the Strasimeno event organizes not-competitive running and walking, with distances easily accessible to amateur walkers.

The manifestation is also a wonderful opportunity to spend a weekend in the unique scenery of the Lake, with its towns along the banks nestled among the Umbrian hills and the large pond of Trasimeno Lake Park. The beauty of the landscape enriches the sportive event and makes it unique, for a visit of natural and historical-artistic high value.

From the natural oasis of Polvese Island, to the beaches and the small ports of the picturesque towns, until the fortresses with their really ancient origins, you can enjoy an itinerary all around the lake, starting from the point of meeting of the race.

The Sahara Marathon is an international sport event to demonstrate solidarity with the Saharawi people. Its first edition is in 2001, from an idea of Jeb Carney.

It’s organized by the Secretary of State for Sport, Government of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic with the help of volunteers from all over the world.

The Sahara Marathon, which along with the standard-distance marathon also includes the shorter distances of 21km, 10km, 5km and the children’s race, is aimed at promoting sport activity among Saharawi young men and women and financing and developing humanitarian programs.

But also wants, through sport, raise awareness and sensitize the world about a 42-year-long conflict.
42 years of suffering for a population affected by a conflict that is burying their hopes, generation after generation, in the refugee camps of Tindouf (Algeria), far from their home.
42 years during which the international community has not been able to unlock the situation.

A race to prevent the Saharawi people from being forgotten.

The first edition of the Sahara Marathon was born as a simple marathon, to give visibility to the Saharawi cause and express solidarity with this people.

It was attended by less than a hundred people, amateur runners, who reached the camps in small groups organized by associations of solidarity that already knew the reality of the Saharawi.
Participants were housed in families, as it is now, but each group or individual differently covered the expenses for their staying: some paid directly, some through their own saharawi delegate, some through the saharawi protocol.

Among the participants there were almost no Saharawis.
There was no funding of any common project, sporting or not.
During the week no other activities in addition to running were planned.
Registration for the race was around € 80.
The organizers, foreigners and Saharawis, were volunteers.

It was amazing. A seed of something that could be great, but soon we realized two problems.

The first was that it wasn’t an economically sustainable model: participants didn’t fully cover the costs of their stay in the camps, which were not only the compensation of the hosting families. The same compensation, different for different groups, created inequalities.
The hospitality of the Sahrawi is huge, as well as the importance of having visitors and the realization of this sporting event, but it was unacceptable for us to go to a refugee camp taking more than what we were leaving.

The second problem was that we weren’t laying anything for the future when we were leaving. There wasn’t a vision, an idea to build something together, tied to sports, to be developed in the following years.

Enjoy a beautiful run through the city’s most scenic spots. Then, celebrate your victory with fellow chocolatiers at our post-race party. Stuff your face with decadent fondue, and pose for photos with Marsha and Mello—the energy is infectious!