Sunday 13 April 2025

Statue at the Red Bull Arena in the Sportforum Leipzig, Germany (Copyright © 2018 Hendrik Böttger / runinternational.eu)

 

The Leipzig Marathon is a long-standing road running event that has been held since 1977 in the sports-mad city of Leipzig, capital of the state of Sachsen (Saxony) in eastern Germany.

It's a family-friendly event offering races for all ages:

  • 600m: kids run
  • 4km: run and walk
  • 10km: run and walk
  • 21.1km half marathon: run, inline skating, wheelchairs and handbikes
  • 42.2km marathon

The start and the finish are at the Red Bull Arena (pictured above) in the Sportforum Leipzig, a vast complex of sports venues, situated approximately two kilometres west of the historic centre.

The full marathon is two laps of the half marathon course. Participants must complete the first lap in two hours fourty minutes. The time limit to finish the race is six hours.

The route is AIMS-certified and mainly flat and fast, and it passes several interesting sights such as the Augustusplatz in the city centre ...

 

Augustusplatz, Leipzig, Germany (Copyright © 2015 Hendrik Böttger / runinternational.eu)

 

... and the Völkerschlachtdenkmal, a colossal monument erected in 1913 to commemorate Napoleon's defeat in the ‘Battle of the Nations’ near Leipzig 100 years earlier:

 

Völkerschlachtdenkmal, Leipzig, Germany (Copyright © 2012 Hendrik Böttger / runinternational.eu)

 

Map of the venue:

 

47. Leipzig Marathon:

Date:

  • 13 April 2025 (Sunday)

Event website:

 

Number of finishers (runners):

  10km 21.1km 42.2km 42.2km relay
2024 1,324 3,036 788 ---
2023 1,050 2,011 657 20 teams
2022 --- --- --- ---
2021 --- --- --- ---
2020 --- --- --- ---
2019 1,458 2,300 668 45 teams

 

No guarantee is made as to the accuracy or thoroughness of the information on this page.