The Bertlicher Straßenläufe ("Bertlich Road Races") are held three times per year in Herten, a former mining town in the green northern part of the industrial Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr region) in Germany's state of Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia).
Map of the venue:
Each event offers a plethora of races, all starting and finishing at the athletics track in Bertlich, a district of Herten:
- 850m for children
- 5km
- 7.5km
- 10km
- 15km
- 21.1km half marathon
- 30km
- 42.2km marathon
The route runs on more-or-less flat roads through agricultural land. The course has been accurately measured.
The half marathon is two laps, the 30k race is three laps and the full marathon is also three laps. The time limit to finish the marathon is five hours.
Bertlicher Straßenläufe 2025:
Date:
- Sunday 16 February 2025 *
- Sunday 28 September 2025
- Sunday 30 November 2025
* Due to construction works, the routes will be approximately 300m shorter. The Marathon has been cancelled!
Event website:
Number of finishers:
| Feb | Sep | Nov/Dec | |
| 2025 | 623 | ||
| 2024 | 795 | 548 | 506 |
| 2023 | 670 | 558 | 516 |
| 2022 | 714 | 562 | 534 |
| 2021 | --- | 637 | 556 |
| 2020 | --- | --- | --- |
| 2019 | 1,009 | 552 | 628 |
| 2018 | 1,006 | 817 | 508 |
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