BMW BERLIN-MARATHON 2023: The Finisher Magazine
What was that BMW BERLIN-MARATHON like? September 24th will go down in history as one of the greatest festive days in running: Even before the first starting shot was fired, a record number of 47,912 entries from 156 nations had been allocated. And that is just the marathon runners. Of these, 43,010 reached the finish line at the Brandenburg Gate. This is the second highest number of finishers in the history of the race. Tigst Assefa runs into completely new dimensions with a world record. Eliud Kipchoge wins for the fifth time. Amanal Petros pulverises the German record. And Domenika Mayer becomes the second-best German of all time. In this digital finisher magazine we have compiled all the stories and the best photos from the 49th BMW BERLIN-MARATHON for you. We hope you enjoy reading, looking at the photos and reminiscing!
What was that BMW BERLIN-MARATHON like? September 24th will go down in history as one of the greatest festive days in running: Even before the first starting shot was fired, a record number of 47,912 entries from 156 nations had been allocated. And that is just the marathon runners. Of these, 43,010 reached the finish line at the Brandenburg Gate. This is the second highest number of finishers in the history of the race. Tigst Assefa runs into completely new dimensions with a world record. Eliud Kipchoge wins for the fifth time. Amanal Petros pulverises the German record. And Domenika Mayer becomes the second-best German of all time. In this digital finisher magazine we have compiled all the stories and the best photos from the 49th BMW BERLIN-MARATHON for you. We hope you enjoy reading, looking at the photos and reminiscing!
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as managing director of SCC<br />
Events, the makers of the <strong>BMW</strong><br />
<strong>BERLIN</strong>-<strong>MARATHON</strong> and initiators<br />
of Marathon Team Berlin,<br />
was instrumental in ensuring<br />
that the finale of the new series<br />
in <strong>2023</strong> could be held as<br />
part of the marathon in Berlin.<br />
A new stop has already been<br />
set: in addition to Hanover, Paderborn,<br />
Hamburg and Berlin,<br />
the NTT Data Citylauf Dresden<br />
will be part of the R5K Tour in<br />
2024.<br />
<strong>The</strong> female U20 overall winner<br />
in <strong>2023</strong> is already looking forward<br />
to this. “I’ll be back next<br />
year and want to continue the<br />
success story in the U23,” said<br />
Linda Meier from LAC Passau<br />
after winning in Berlin in 16:40<br />
minutes, the same time as second-placed<br />
U23 winner Kiara<br />
Nahen (LC Paderborn). “It was<br />
a great feeling to run towards<br />
the Brandenburg Gate, but I<br />
didn’t really realise my surroundings<br />
before that as I was<br />
so focused on myself,” said the<br />
athlete, who is currently training<br />
with Klaus Hammer-Behringer<br />
in Passau before she<br />
moves to Tübingen in autumn<br />
to join Isabelle Baumann’s<br />
strong group.<br />
Running with the<br />
stars of the scene<br />
A highlight was being able to<br />
join all the winners of the R5K<br />
at the start of the <strong>BMW</strong> BER-<br />
LIN-<strong>MARATHON</strong> at the front<br />
of the field alongside the elite<br />
marathon runners and accompany<br />
them on the first kilometres<br />
of the course—a special<br />
treat for the talents, awarded<br />
to them by Berlin’s marathon<br />
race director Mark Milde at the<br />
award ceremony.<br />
Kiara Nahen, the overall female<br />
U23 winner, also appreciated<br />
it: “It was already mega cool to<br />
be able to travel through Germany<br />
and experience the cities<br />
thanks to the series,” she enthused,<br />
“but the atmosphere<br />
at the Brandenburg Gate was
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