Michael Perkins
Had not run a full marathon in over 40 years but I had a good training base having prepared for the race over 3 months. I was very conservative in my approach and negative split the race finishing in 2:42, by far my best time.
St Jude Memphis Marathon
Saturday December 6th, 2025
Memphis, Tennessee
Distance: Marathon · Half Marathon · 12K · 5K · Family Fun Run · Kids Race
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The St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend is more than just a race. It's an action-packed weekend of fun, food and entertainment! Start and finish lines two blocks apart and near a dozen Downtown hotels, lots of restaurants, and Beale Street, the Memphis entertainment district. Dynamic finish in AAA baseball stadium, with use of locker rooms and shower facilities. Wave start, twenty-four aid stations (located at the 1.5 mile mark then at every mile from miles 3 through 25) and clocks at every mile.
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displays approximate race location · Memphis TN 38118
St Jude Memphis Marathon, Race Date: 2024-12-07, Distance: Marathon
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
| Male | 2:34:18 | Carl Nelson | Kansas City | |
| 2nd Male | 2:40:06 | Titan Munday | Millington | |
| 3rd Male | 2:41:47 | Walt Johnson | Oxford | |
| 4th Male | 2:43:40 | Michael England | Cookeville | |
| Female | 2:54:45 | Johanna Wistokat | Memphis | |
| 2nd Female | 3:01:39 | Abby Hake | Jefferson City | |
| 3rd Female | 3:02:23 | Julianne Dickerson | Anchorage | |
| 4th Female | 3:02:54 | Sally Heil | Springfield |
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
The marathon follows a scenic Boston-qualifying course through the city of Memphis. Near mile 5, the course passes through the St. Jude campus, where patients, their families and other onlookers gather to cheer. Runners will also pass through Overton Park, Overton Square, scenic neighborhoods and several Memphis historic areas before finishing in front of a crowd in AutoZone Park.
The start and finish lines are two blocks apart, located near a dozen downtown hotels, plenty of restaurants and historic Beale Street. There are24 hydration stations. The first is located at the 1.5-mile mark, followed by one every mile from 3 through 25, all with fluids and portalets. Spirit stations are throughout the course, featuring Memphis music and other entertainment
Sunday December 7th, 2025
Valencia, Spain
Distance: Marathon · 10K
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The Trinidad Alfonso EDP Valencia Marathon is held annually in the historic city of Valencia which, with its entirely flat circuit and perfect November temperature, averaging between 12-17 degrees, represents the ideal setting for hosting such a long-distance sporting challenge. This, coupled with the most incomparable of settings, makes the Valencia Marathon, Valencia, one of the most important events in the national calendar.
In the 2015 edition, the race beat all time records with the best on Spanish soil in history, obtained by the athlete John Nzau Mwangangi with a 2:06:13 crono. In addition, as every year the race surpassed the registered participants in the test with a figure that rose above the 17,000 participants.
The Trinidad Alfonso EDP Valencia Marathon was awarded IAAF Road Race Gold Label in 2016, which proves that it is one of the best 42,195 meter races in the world. More than 19,000 runners gathered together at the start line of the marathon. The winners were Victor Kipchirchir in the male category with a time of 2:07:38 and Valary Jemeli Aiyabei, who did the best time in the history of Spain and crossed the finish line in 2:24:49 improving the time she had done in Barcelona in the same year.
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VALENCIA TRINIDAD ALFONSO, Race Date: 2024-12-01, Distance: Marathon
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
| Male | 2:02:05 | SAWE, SEBASTIAN | ken | |
| 2nd Male | 2:02:38 | GELETA, DERESA | ethi | |
| 3rd Male | 2:04:24 | MATEIKO, DANIEL | ken | |
| 4th Male | 2:04:38 | SIMBU, ALPHONCE | tza | |
| Female | 2:16:49 | ALEMU, MEGERTU | ethi | |
| 2nd Female | 2:18:26 | CHESANG, STELLA | uga | |
| 3rd Female | 2:18:35 | MESFIN, TIRUYE | ethi | |
| 4th Female | 2:20:32 | CHIRCHIR, EVALINE | KEN |
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
| M 40-49 | 2:04:39 | ABRAHAM, TADESSE | ||
| M 50-59 | 2:25:01 | FIGUEIREDO, DAVIDE | ||
| M 60-69 | 2:47:08 | VAZQUEZ SANCHEZ, JUAN | ||
| M 70+ | 3:36:26 | MEAZA RODRÍGUEZ, JOSÉ MANUEL | ||
| F 40-49 | 2:23:44 | Sara Hall | USA | |
| F 50-59 | 2:46:02 | CLEARY, BARBARA | ||
| F 60-69 | 2:42:39 | ROLDÁN BALSALOBRE, SILVIA | ||
| F 70+ | 3:42:43 | LYNCH, MARY |
Running alongside the Mediterranean coastline, a few meters from the sea, taking place in areas of the city where events such as the Formula 1 Grand Prix and the America`s Cup werehosted are only a few of the attractions awaiting the participants when they takepart in the Valencia Marathon.
The stunning Ciudad de la Artes y las Ciencias (City of Arts and Sciences) will serve as the nerve centre of this prestigious event that promises to be a sporting celebration. This architectural masterpiece will not only be both the starting and finishing points of the race but also, it willbe the site of the numerous parallel activities planned for the big day. Exceed your expectations as you pass over the shimmering blue pools of the Museo de las Ciencias (Science Museum) Príncipe Felipe and celebrate your triumphant return in this unforgettable set
The ValenciaMarathon was first run in 1981, is both a joyous event and one of the highpoints in the Spanish athletics calendar.
Three decades ago, the word Marathon hardly even figured in the Valencian’s vocabulary. Today, thanks to the efforts of various Valencian institutions together with SD Correcaminos (The Roadrunners, sporting association), these 42 kilometres have been adopted as a popular celebration of athletics where professionals and amateurs test to the limit their stamina and powers of personal endurance and perseverance.
What started out at the dawning of the 80’s as little more than a trickle of athletes dodging the local traffic, has now become a grand sporting happening. The Marathon has evolved into the leading event in the world of popular athletics and now forms an integral part in the Valencian social and sporting life.
For these reasons the Valencia Marathon has ceased being merely a challenging athletics meeting to being an all inclusive citizens’ celebration, taking in music and art too, and all this united in support of a group determined runners’ dreams of crossing that hallowed finishing line.
The Marathon sees the ringing in of some important new changes as part of our continuing commitment to furtherdeveloping the race. The event date has been moved to November (to take advantage of the more favourable climatic conditions) and both the starting and finishing lines have been relocated to the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias to ensure that the Valencia Marathon will be one of the most memorable appointmentsfor the participating athletes.
Shanghai International Marathon
Sunday November 30th, 2025
Shanghai, China
Distance: Marathon · Half Marathon · 10K · 5K
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Shanghai International Marathon has established itself as the marquee running event on China’s Marathon calendar. Every November, tens of thousand participants run passing the many historical places of this city such as Bund Bull, Customs House, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Grand Theater, Shanghai Exhibition center, Jing’an Temple, Nan Pu Bridge, Lu Pu Bridge, Long Hua Temple, Shanghai Stadium.
The course records were both set in 2012 as Kenya's Sylvester Kimeli Teimet set the men's standard of 2:09:01 hours and Ethiopian Feyse Tadese broke the women's record with 2:24:08 hours. Participation also reached a new high that year, as over 30,000 runners competed in the marathon.
Shanghai East Best and Lansheng Event Management Co., LTD,are the exclusive organizer of Shanghai International Marathon, Shang-ma Series, and Shang-ma Club. The company aims to achieve breakthroughs in the event organizing and enlarge combined event effect through branding operation, to popularize the spirit of the events through leading citizens into healthy and progressive lifestyle, to make the events more influential through creating fashionable and stylish road race culture and to expand the driving force of the events through forming a creative industrial chain.
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Shanghai International Marathon, Race Date: 2024-12-01, Distance: Marathon
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
| Male | 2:06:26 | Samsom Amare | eri | |
| 2nd Male | 2:06:30 | Titus Kipruto | ken | |
| 3rd Male | 2:06:34 | Solomon Kirwa Yego | ken | |
| 4th Male | 2:06:53 | Kenneth Keter | ken | |
| Female | 2:25:21 | Bekelech Gudeta | ethi | |
| 2nd Female | 2:25:29 | Sisay Meseret Gola | ethi | |
| 3rd Female | 2:26:28 | Tejitu Siyum | ethi | |
| 4th Female | 2:22:22 | Sandrafelis Chebet | ken |
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
Awards
Men’s and Women’s Full Marathon
Award for ranking (USD):
| Place | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Award | 45,000 | 25,000 | 12,000 | 6,000 | 5,000 | 4,000 | 3,000 | 2,000 |
Notes: The result of Men’s full marathon’s champion must be within 2:09:30; the result of Women’s full marathon’s champion must be within 2:26:00. For those champions who don’t meet the standards, the awards will be reduced 50%. The result of the winning athletes will be post on the official website for 10 days, and then, with the confirmation of negative doping control result, the awards shall be given.
Awards for breaking records:
a. Award for breaking the world record marathon time: USD 100,000
b. Award for breaking the record time of the Shanghai International Marathon: USD 10,000 (only for 1st place)
c. Only the highest dollar award will be provided to any one runner, no combination of awards will be given.
d. Chinese athletes will be awarded equivalent RMB
(3) According to the Chinese tax regulation, 20% personal income tax will be levied on the winnings.
(4) Any runner who completes the marathon within 6 hours 15 minutes will be awarded with a medal. The certificate of result will be available for self-printing on the official Shanghai International Marathon website 5 working days after the race. Please download the certificate within 90 days. Results will be available to check 24 hours after the race.
Fukuoka Marathon
Sunday November 9th, 2025
Fukuoka, Japan
Distance: Marathon
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The Fukuoka International Open Marathon Championship is one of the longest running races in Japan, it is alsoan international men’s marathon race established in 1947. The course record is held by Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia, running 2:05:18 in 2009. Frank Shorter won first straight years from 1971 to 1974. Derek Clayton set the World Record here in 1967 running 2:09:37.
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Fukuoka Marathon, Race Date: 2024-12-01, Distance: Marathon
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
| Male | 2:05:16 | Yuya YOSHIDA | jpn | |
| 2nd Male | 2:06:54 | Yusuke NISHIYAMA | jpn | |
| 3rd Male | 2:08:28 | Patrick MATHENGE | ken | |
| 4th Male | 2:08:52 | Kenya SONOTA | jpn |
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
SINGAPORE MARATHON
Sunday December 7th, 2025
Singapore, Singapore
Distance: Marathon · Half Marathon · Marathon Relay · 10K · Kids Race
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The Singapore Marathon is an annual international marathon race which is held in December in the city of Singapore. It is an IAAF Gold Label Road Race. It has grown significantly since its inaugural race in 1982 – the 2013 event attracted a total of 60,000 entrants for all categories. There are four separate categories of competition: the full marathon, the half marathon, the 10 kilometres run, and the 10 km wheelchair race. Furthermore, 10 km team competitions as well as a number of short running competitions for children.
Prize money for the full marathon race is divided into three categories: the open prize (for all competitors), the Singapore prize (open to national competitors), and the veteran prize (which acts as a masters competition).
Between 2004 and 2008, it was part of "The Greatest Race on Earth" series of road races, sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank (the other three legs being the Hong Kong Marathon, Mumbai Marathon and Nairobi Marathon).
The times recorded at the Singapore Marathon tend to be slower than those at other marathons as Singapore's climate is usually hot and humid. Kenyans Luke Kibet and Salina Kosgei are the men's and women's course record holders, respectively. The 2006 edition also acted as the country's national championships, with Elangovan Ganesan and Vivian Tan Yoke Pin taking the honours.
Crossing the Singapore Marathon finish line is an experience like no other, an experience that no one can ever take away from you. Whatever the outcome, YOU ARE A FINISHER.
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SINGAPORE MARATHON, Race Date: 2024-12-01, Distance: Marathon
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
| Male | 2:16:06 | Geoffrey Yegon | ken | |
| 2nd Male | 2:16:12 | Abel Sikowo | uga | |
| 3rd Male | 2:16:24 | Korir Laban Kipngetich | ken | |
| 4th Male | 2:16:56 | Rutto Jackson Kemboi | ken | |
| Female | 2:39:04 | FANTU ZEWUDE JIFAR | ethi | |
| 2nd Female | 2:39:34 | Agnes Keino | ken | |
| 3rd Female | 2:39:41 | Meleka Meseret Dinke | ethi | |
| 4th Female | 2:40:19 | Sharon Cherop | ken |
| Division | Time | Name | Age | Home |
(2017 Race report from IAAF) It may have been one of the slowest marathons of her burgeoning career, but Pamela Rotich’s 2:38:31 triumph at the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon on Sunday (3) was her first victory at an IAAF Gold Label event.
Compatriot Cosmas Kimutai made it a Kenyan double – the seventh in the past eight editions – by winning the men’s race in 2:22:48 in what was his first race for three years.
The race, despite starting at 4:30am, still couldn’t escape the 28C heat, so times were understandably affected, as is often the case in Singapore. The opening pace wasn’t significantly fast with the lead women going through 10 kilometres in 36:11. There were seven women still out in front as they reached the half-way mark in 1:19:52.
Kenya’s Rebecca Korir and Peninah Kigen were the first to drop back, but compatriots and namesakes Rebecca Kangogo Chesir and Peninah Arusei still featured in the lead pack alongside Rotich and Ethiopia’s Chaltu Waka. The remaining quartet reached 25 kilometres in 1:34:04.
Within the space of five kilometres, the lead pack had been reduced to two women as Rotich and defending champion Chesir passed 30 kilometres in 1:51:51 and 35 kilometres in 2:10:17. Chesir was unable to hold on for much longer, though, and Rotich finally broke away from her opponent with just five kilometres remaining.
Rotich reached the finish line in 2:38:31, the fastest winning time in Singapore since 2012. Although nearly 10 minutes shy of the 2:27:48 personal best she set when winning in Daegu earlier this year, Rotich achieved her ninth successive podium finish in an international marathon.
Chesir completed the race four minutes quicker than her 2:43:04 winning time from last year, but on this occasion had to settle for second place in 2:38:48. Arusei finished third in 2:39:07.
Cosmas Koech Kimutai hadn’t been considered one of the pre-race favourites for the Singapore Marathon. Not only had he not raced at all since 2014, but he set his PB back in 2010. And even then, his 2:09:25 best was only the eighth fastest among the elite entrants. It would have taken a brave person to bet on him.
The opening pace in the men’s race was even more cautious, relatively speaking, than in the women’s. With no one willing to make an early move in the tough conditions, a large lead pack passed through half way in 1:12:00, making it clear that today wasn’t a day to challenge the course record of 2:11:25.
Ten men were still in contention at 30 kilometres, reached in 1:43:11. Kimutai still featured in the lead pack alongside fellow Kenyans Justus Kimutai, Eliud Tarus, Paul Matheka and veteran Mark Kiptoo, the fastest entrant.
With a quarter of the race left, Kimutai made his move and by 35 kilometres had opened up a nine-second gap on Matheka and 2012 Singapore Marathon winner Kennedy Lilan. A 15:55 split between 35 and 40 kilometres meant that Kimutai had increased his lead to 26 seconds with just two kilometres remaining.
He held on to his lead and won comfortably in 2:22:48. Justus Kimutai finished strongly to overtake Matheka in the closing stages and take second place in 2:23:07. Matheka finished third in 2:23:25, 16 seconds ahead of Kiptoo.
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Excited to see this made the list! Planning to run it this year.