Mallorca Marathon events reach 50% female participation

On 20th October the TUI Palma Marathon Mallorca will celebrate its 20th anniversary as the athletics event of reference in the Balearic Islands and promises to be a historic edition in terms of participation, greater than in recent editions, and which has already reached for the first time in its history real parity between women and men registered by adding the percentages of the three races held on that day: 42, 21 and 9 kilometres.

It is the first event of its kind in Spain in which the number of women registered is technically the same as the number of men. Women runners represent 27% of the participants in the marathon distance, 46% in the half marathon and an overwhelming 64% in the 9km race. Even that 27% is a record among Spanish marathons, ranging from 15% to 21% among the four main marathons organised in Spain.

The race will celebrate its 20th anniversary on 20 October, and is the athletics event with the highest number of participants in the Balearic Islands. It is run over three distances (9, 21 and 42 kilometres) and the number of registrations is much higher than in previous years.

The TUI Palma Marathon Mallorca is organised by Kumulus, with the collaboration of the Ajuntament de Palma and the main sponsorship of TUI, the Fundació Mallorca Turisme and co-financed with the Sustainable Tourism Tax fund of the Govern de les Illes Balears. Collaborators: 361º, Zafiro Hotels, Proa Group, Fornes Logistics and Port de Palma, among others.