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The international athletics federation IAAF has now ratified the world record mark of 2:03:38 hrs by Kenyan Patrick Makau at the BMW BERLIN MARATHON on September 25th, 2011. Also ratified was Makau´s world record for 30 km as a split time of the same marathon.

It’s all sold out for the 39th BMW BERLIN MARATHON 2012. At least for the running marathon. Nonetheless, you can still be part of it – in a very face-paced race of inline skaters. The BMW BERLIN MARATHON Inline Skating has become a classic race of its own, offering a magical marathon atmosphere on the same course – but a day before the runners head through the German capital.

As early as never before the BMW BERLIN MARATHON is sold out. Registration for next year´s event (September 30th, 2012) closed Thursday, December 8th, almost nine months ahead. The field is limited to 40,000 participants. The last 1,000 entries were connected with a charitable donation for projects helping children (42,195 euros). There are a few entries left in connection with travel arrangements at classified travel agents (see www.bmw-berlin-marathon.com/en/service/tour-operators.html).

As of today (Tuesday) there are only 1,000 entries left at the BMW BERLIN MARATHON 2012. Those last 1,000 tickets are available for an extra 42,195 euros which is a charitable donation for projects helping children (RTL Spendenmarathon). The field is limited to 40,000 runners. Registration had started October 20th.

Until Tuesday, November 29th, 35,000 runners have registered for the BMW BERLIN MARATHON on September 30th, 2012. The participant limit is set at 40,000 which means that only 4,000 spots are left. Another 1,000 entries are available for an extra 42,195 euros which is a charitable donation for projects helping children (RTL Spendenmarathon). Registration had started October 20th. After four days almost 20,000 had registered.

Two weeks after registration for the BMW BERLIN MARATHON 2012 had started already 26,761 runners have signed in. A year ago this figure had been reached only by mid-January, two and a half months after registration kick-off. Participation limit is set at 40,000. The 39th BMW BERLIN MARATHON will take place on September 30th, 2012.

18.973 runners have signed in by Monday, October 24th at 12 noon, four days after registration for the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON 2012 had started last Thursday. A year ago 5,000 entries had come in after 48 hours and it took eight days to reach 10,000. Registration for the first 10,000 participants was 60 Euros. For the next wave, the registration fee is 80 Euros (up to 25,000), and thereafter it is 100 Euros.

Almost 24 hours after starting online registration for the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON 2012 already 10,000 runners have signed in. There were technical problems during the first two hours after registration had started. A year ago 5,000 entries had come in after 48 hours and it took more than four weeks to reach 10,000. Registration for the first 10,000 participants was 60 Euros.

At noon on Thursday, October 20, online registration for the 39th BMW BERLIN MARATHON on September 30, 2012 will begin. The limit is set at 40,000 participants. The registration fee for the first 10,000 registrants is 60 Euros. The next 15,000 registrations will have a 80 Euro fee, and the remaining will have a 100 Euro fee. This year the participant limit was reached by February.

If further proof were needed of the ascendancy of Kenyan distance running over their perennial rivals, the Ethiopians, notwithstanding the substantial inconvenience offered by the likes of Mo Farah, Bernard Lagat and Galen Rupp on the track, and Ryan Hall on the road, then it came with this weekend’s results from the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON.

The Inline skating races at the 38th edition of the BMW BERLIN MARATHON produced two sensational results: Sabine Berg from Gera won the women’s title in a mass sprint and the Frenchman Ewen Fernandez took the men’s crown after a daring breakaway from 21 kilometres. For the first time in 12 years a German stood on top of the podium. The 21-year-old Sabine Berg (Powerslide Matter World Team) clocked 1:14:56 to beat both the previous year’s winner Giovanna Turchiarelli (ITA/Alessi World Team,...

Patrick Makau has crowned the 38th BMW BERLIN MARATHON with a world record. The 26 year-old Kenyan clocked 2:03:38, beating Haile Gebrselassie and improving the record of the Ethiopian by 21 seconds. With a dramatic surge after 27 k defending champion Patrick Makau had dropped Haile Gebrselassie well behind. While the Ethiopian later dropped out after the 35 k mark he lost another world record to Patrick Makau on a miserable day for him: The Kenyan had passed the 30 k mark in 1:27:38, eleven...

All roads lead to Berlin. First, on Thursday, came women’s world record holder, Paula Radcliffe, ready to revive a flagging career in Sunday’s 38th BMW BERLIN-MARATHON. Later that day, the German Pope arrived, and drove part of the marathon course, en route to say mass in the Olympic Stadium. Then today, Friday, came the heavenly twins of men’s marathoning – world record holder and living legend Haile Gebrselassie, and last year’s Berlin winner Patrick Makau, out to strengthen his tenuous grasp...

It should be a match made in heaven, the women’s marathon world record holder finally running on the universally recognised fastest marathon course in the world. But it’s been two years since Paula Radcliffe ran a 42.195k race, finishing fourth in New York 2009, and, on her own admission today, “I was hurting”.

Her only race since then was, again in her own words, “a bit of a disaster”. That was a 10k in London in May, when she finished a poor third, in 33.17, the sort of time that she did...

At the 2011 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, the IAAF Congress passed a motion to change the standard by which women athletes achieve world record performances. By the new criterion, only times achieved in all-women competitions would be recognized for world record purposes, and performances achieved in mixed conditions would now be referred to only as “world best”.

It is finally here: The app for the 38th BMW BERLIN MARATHON for all iPhone owners. With it you have access to all of the important information about the events happening during the marathon week, a course map, transit information for the subways and elevated trains (U- and S-Bahn), a live ticker that will be reporting from the race on Sunday, and much more. The best part of it: your friends and family can all see exactly where you are on the course.

The Marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie faces one of his toughest ever challenges in the BMW BERLIN MARATHON on September 25th. With Patrick Makau at the starting line Gebrselassie is facing the fastest marathon runner of 2010. Last year the Kenyan won the Rotterdam Marathon in April, clocking 2:04:48, and ran 2:05:08 at the BERLIN MARATHON last September in a tactical race beset by heavy rain. At the Virgin London Marathon last April Makau fell near the halfway mark and finished a...

The BMW BERLIN MARATHON will be broadcasted live in more than 150 countries. In Germany n-tv will start it´s 4 hours live coverage at 8.30 a.m. International coverage is provided by Eurosport, BBC 2, Supersport, Al Jazeera, Sport 5 (Israel), Fuji TV (Japan), CBC (Canada), Sky Mexico, Globosat (Brasil) and by Universal Sports via cable and Webstream in the U.S.

The BMW BERLIN-MARATHON 2011 gives you the opportunity to receive race results as SMS messages or via email. All you have to do is to register for this service by providing your mobile phone number and/or your email address for a starting number of your choice. Due to your selection you will receive an SMS at the Half Marathon, and when the runner crosses the finishing line. More detailed information is provided just once by email, as soon as the corrected final results are available. You may...

TV producer René Hiepen visited Haile Gebrselassie in Addis Abba where he lives, works and trains. There he is preparing for the BMW BERLIN MARATHON on September 25th. The BMW BERLIN MARATHON on September 25th is covered live internationally on Eurosport (9-11.30 a.m.) and nationally on n-tv (8.30 a.m. – 12.20 p.m.).

Inline skating enjoys great popularity, especially in Eastern Europe. More and more people appreciate the dynamic way of movement on wheels. For the SEB 5th Tartu Rulluisumaraton in Estonia, one of the biggest inline skating marathons in this region, skaters from 13 countries are registered. All the neighboring countries of Estonia will be presented, in addition skaters from Byelorussia, Ukraine, Germany, Qatar and Venezuela.

Marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe of Great Britain is the top female entry at the BMW BERLIN MARATHON on September 25th. With her and Haile Gebrselassie on the starting line, both marathon record holders are competing in the same race – a premiere on German soil. Thirty-seven year old Radcliffe set her mark of 2:15:25 hrs 2003 in London. The BMW BERLIN MARATHON will be her first marathon after giving birth to her second child in September 2010.

With the BMW BERLIN MARATHON 100 days away, race director Mark Milde announced the return of marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie to the streets of Berlin. Here the Ethiopian superstar of long distance running had his greatest success as a marathon runner winning four times in a row between 2006 and 2009 clocking the world marathon record twice (2007 and 2008). His record time of 2:03:59 hrs still stands to day as the mark to beat.

Online registration for the Vattenfall BERLIN HALF MARATHON on 1. April 2012 will open on Tuesday, May 17th at 12 p.m. The participation limit is set at 27,500 runners. Registration is closing on 9. March 2012 unless the participation limit has been reached earlier.

The 2010–2011 World Marathon Majors series resumes with a doubleheader weekend, beginning with the Virgin London Marathon on Sunday, April 17, then jumping over the Atlantic for the Boston Marathon the next day.

The WMM series leaderboard is sure to be reshuffled in the chase for the $1 million jackpot. Many of the world\'s top marathoners will be looking to chase down WMM series points leaders Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia and Liliya Shobukhova of Russia on the streets of London.

Listen to the interview with the Kenyan winner Geoffrey Kipsang who took the race with 60:38 (all times still unofficial) from his fellow Kenyans Eliud Kiplagat (60:52) and Daniel Chebii (60:56).

Two Kenyan youngsters stole the show and dominated the 31st edition of the Vattenfall BERLIN HALF MARATHON on Sunday. In warm temperatures of close to 20° Celsius in the shade and a slight wind, the IAAF’s World Junior Cross Country Champion Geoffrey Kipsang won the race in 60:38 minutes. Valentine Kipketer was the surprise women’s winner with 70:12. Both champions are just 18 years old. Organisers registered a record number of 25,500 runners for the event. Adding other competitions the total...

Renowned for super fast times and world records in road races, Berlin should see another high-class event this Sunday: The 31st edition of the Vattenfall BERLIN HALF MARATHON will feature a men’s race in which seven competitors have already run sub 61 minutes. Two of them have broken the prestigious one hour barrier.

Five Weeks before the events takes place (April 3rd) and more than one week before the registration deadline the Vattenfall BERLIN HALFMARATHON has sold out it´s 25.500 spots for runners and power walkers. Still available are spots for inline skaters (until March 11th).

Registration for the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON 2011 has closed as 40,000 entries have been reached by Monday morning, February 28th. The BMW BERLIN-MARATHON takes place on September 25th and belongs to the World Marathon Majors, the five most important marathons worldwide, accompanying the Virgin London Marathon, the Boston Marathon, The Bank of America Chicago Marathon and the ING New York Marathon.

Early as never before the BMW BERLIN MARATHON has sold out its 40,000 entries. Just one thousand bib numbers are left, all of them are charity entries for 142,195 Euro, of which 42,195 Euro are substituting childhood poverty in Germany...

The BMW BERLIN MARATHON 2011 seems to sell out early as never before. On Friday, February 4th, there were just 5.000 spots left for this year´s marathon which takes place September 25th.

23,931 registrations was the count on Wednesday, January 5th, at noon time. Thus a little more than 1,000 spots are left of the second wave of entries (until 25,000). Entry fee at this stage is 80 Euros, thereafter, until the total participation limit of 40,000 is reached, it is 100 Euros.