International entry opens for Nagoya

The 2025 edition of the largest women’s running festival in the world will be held on Sunday, March 9, next year, in Nagoya, Japan, with 20,000 participants, including 3,500 overseas and 500 virtual race entrants to provide the world’s best stage for women runners to shine. Entries with accommodation package are now being accepted as advance entries.

Launched in 2012, the Nagoya Women’s Marathon is certified by Guinness World Records as the largest women’s marathon in the world and is a World Athletics Platinum Label race. All 2025 finishers will receive a beautiful tumbler from Baccarat, a French luxury lifestyle brand celebrating its 260th anniversary, as a memento of their achievement. Attracting much attention, the design of the finisher tumbler will be unveiled on a special stage at the Marathon Expo on the day before the race.

The 2025 event will feature a virtual race, the Nagoya Women’s Online Marathon 2025, which originally started as an alternative way of event participation under the travel restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic, providing a feasible and sustainable option for runners who are unable to visit Nagoya or Japan on race day or who wish to reduce their environmental footprint by traveling long distances. Participants of the virtual marathon who have completed running a total distance of 42.195 km on a smartphone application during the event period of February 9, 2025, to March 31, 2025, will receive the same finisher prizes as the Nagoya Women’s Marathon 2025 by mail. Entries will be accepted from Friday, October 18, 2024, to Thursday, October 31, 2024.

For more information about the race entry, please visit the race’s official website and click the ENTRY banner.