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Tokyo Marathon adds nonbinary category for 2025 race

Jun 27, 2024

Tokyo Marathon adds nonbinary category for 2025 race

With this addition, Tokyo becomes the last of the six Abbott World Marathon Majors to offer a nonbinary gender category for athletes.

Vancouver long-distance running events seeing registration uptick

Jun 23, 2024

Vancouver long-distance running events seeing registration uptick

About 4,600 people are signed up to run the Vancouver Half Marathon, up nearly 50 per cent from last year.

Grandma’s Marathon breaks weekend attendance record

Jun 23, 2024

Grandma’s Marathon breaks weekend attendance record

Including each of the weekend’s three races, the 2024 race weekend had 17,401 total finishers across the three events.

Japanese Ekiden relay race makes UK debut

Jun 22, 2024

Japanese Ekiden relay race makes UK debut

Nineteen teams, including one from the University of Oxford, will compete wearing a traditional Japanese sash instead of using a baton.

RunSignup’s 2024 midyear trends show increases in per-race participation – and pricing

Jun 19, 2024

RunSignup’s 2024 midyear trends show increases in per-race participation – and pricing

Early 2024 data shows growth in race participation, increases in race prices, and younger runners slowly returning to races.

One runner dies, at least three injured at 2024 Ultra-Trail du Haut-Giffre

Jun 15, 2024

One runner dies, at least three injured at 2024 Ultra-Trail du Haut-Giffre

Tragedy strikes an ultramarathon trail race in France, where one runner died and three more were seriously injured in falls during inclement weather.

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Runners directed off race route by prankster teens

Jun 10, 2024

Runners directed off race route by prankster teens

425 runners attempting a 5km race were sent in the wrong direction after a group of teenagers moved directional signs and cones.

May races up 5% from 2023

Jun 6, 2024

May races up 5% from 2023

RunSignup's latest data has pointed to an increase in registrations for the month of May from similar figures in 2023.

BAA unveils new Boston Marathon logo

Jun 6, 2024

BAA unveils new Boston Marathon logo

BAA unveiled renderings of the new logo, which "features a new blue and yellow unicorn that now faces forward (to the right) as a symbol of progress."

IRONMAN shifts to TicketSocket white label event registration from 2025

Jun 5, 2024

IRONMAN shifts to TicketSocket white label event registration from 2025

TicketSocket will provide white label registration services for all IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 Triathlon Series events.

Flying Pig Marathon names new President & CEO

Jun 5, 2024

Flying Pig Marathon names new President & CEO

Former President and CEO Iris Simpson Bush is stepping down from the position after holding it for more than 20 years.

Running club to use Pride funds to host LGBTQ+ race

Jun 5, 2024

Running club to use Pride funds to host LGBTQ+ race

Queer Running Club will use the £5,000 it has been awarded to host the "first ever queer and trans only running event in Hackney".