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Since 1995 Distance Running has covered news and opinions from AIMS member races worldwide. Here you can browse and read previous issues of the magazine.

2024

  • 119

    Edition 1 2024

    Fjordkraft Bergen City Marathon, Norway

  • 120

    Edition 2 2024

    Halong Bay Heritage Marathon, Vietnam

  • 121

    Edition 3 2024

    Halong Bay Heritage Marathon, Vietnam

  • 122

    Edition 4 2024

    Halong Bay Heritage Marathon, Vietnam

2023

  • 115

    Edition 1 2023

    Berlin Half Marathon, Germany

  • 116

    Edition 2 2023

    Athens Marathon. The Authentic, Greece

  • 117

    Edition 3 2023

    French Riviera Marathon Nice-Cannes, France

  • 118

    Edition 4 2023

    Košice Peace Marathon, Slovakia celebrates 100 years

2022

  • 111

    Edition 1 2022

    Zurich Maratón de Sevilla, Spain

  • 112

    Edition 2 2022

    40th anniversary of AIMS

  • 113

    Edition 3 2022

    Porto Marathon EDP, Portugal

  • 114

    Edition 4 2022

    Osaka Marathon, Japan

2021

  • 107

    Edition 1 2021

    Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, India

  • 108

    Edition 2 2021

    Rimi Riga Marathon, Latvia

  • 109

    Edition 3 2021

    Eilat Desert Marathon, Israel

  • 110

    Edition 4 2021

    Eliud Kipchoge wins the Olympic Marathon in Tokyo

2020

  • 103

    Edition 1 2020

    Chongqing International Marathon, China

  • 104

    Edition 2 2020

    Maratonina Città di Udine, Italy

  • 105

    Edition 3 2020

    Vodafone Istanbul Marathon, Turkey

  • 106

    Edition 4 2020

    Runners in the Moscow Half Marathon held on 2 August. Over 9500 runners finished along with nearly 2500 others in the supporting 5km event. Winners were Rinas Akhmadeev (1:04:24) and Elena Korobkina (1:10:29). Korobkina went on to win the 10km event held in association with the Absolute Moscow Marathon on 20 September in a time of 31:49. Around 9500 finished the Marathon along with another 12,000 in the 10km.

2019

  • 99

    Edition 1 2019

    SSQ Quebec City Marathon, Canada. Photo: Mathieu Bélanger

  • 100

    Edition 2 2019

    Nagoya Women’s Marathon, Japan

  • 101

    Edition 3 2019

    Maratón Guadalajara Megacable hidratado por Electrolit, Mexico

  • 102

    Edition 4 2019

    La Ruta de las Iglesias, Ecuador

2018

  • 95

    Edition 1 2018

    Thessaloniki Night Half Marathon, Greece

  • 96

    Edition 2 2018

    Al Mouj Muscat Marathon, Oman, 19 January 2018. Photo: Antony Jones/Lloyd Images

  • 97

    Edition 3 2018

    Du Motion-Runners’ Days Dubrovnik, Croatia

  • 98

    Edition 4 2018

    New world record in the men’s marathon: Eliud Kipchoge smashes Dennis Kimetto’s 2014 record by 78 seconds with a new record time of 2:01:39 at the BMW Berlin-Marathon on 16th September

2017

  • 91

    Edition 1 2017

    Maratón Valencia Trinidad Alfonso, Spain. Photo: Jose Royo

  • 92

    Edition 2 2017

    Kobe Marathon, Japan

  • 93

    Edition 3 2017

    Great Wall Marathon, China (Photo: Albatros Travel)

  • 94

    Edition 4 2017

    Baxters Loch Ness Marathon, Great Britain. Photo: Tim Winterburn

2016

  • 87

    Edition 1 2016

    Mount Fuji Marathon, Japan

  • 88

    Edition 2 2016

    Kilimanjaro Marathon, Tanzania

  • 89

    Edition 3 2016

    Wizz Air Skopje Marathon (MKD), Sunday 8 May 2016. Runners coming over the Stone Bridge, one of the most important landmarks of the City of Skopje. Photo by Vancho Djambaski

  • 90

    Edition 4 2016

    PNB MetLife Satara Hill Half Marathon, India. Photo by Dhiraj Zanwar

2015

  • 83

    Edition 1 2015

    Florence Kiplagat and Dennis Kimetto, world record breakers both, were awarded at the AIMS Best Marathon Runner Gala held in Athens, Greece

  • 84

    Edition 2 2015

    Runners in the Chevron Houston Marathon (USA) pass the Houston First Court of Appeals early in the morning of Sunday 18 January 2015.

  • 85

    Edition 3 2015

    SPAR Budapest Marathon: Runners passing the Chain Bridge on the Danube embankment

  • 86

    Edition 4 2015

    Participants wear traditional dress for the “Trachtenlauf” at the Munich Marathon, Germany. Photo: Norbert Wilhelmi

2014

  • 70

    Edition 1 2014

    Chosun Ilbo Chuncheon International Marathon, Korea

  • 71

    Edition 2 2014

    New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi International Marathon, Chinese Taipei, 2 March 2014.

  • 72

    Edition 3 2014

    29th Telekom Vivicittá Spring Half Marathon, Budapest, Hungary, Sun 13 April 2014

  • 82

    Edition 4 2014

    International Ergo White Nights Marathon, Russia, Sunday 29 June 2014.

2013

  • 66

    Edition 1 2013

    The start of the TCS Amsterdam Marathon on 21 October. See race feature in this issue. Photo by Karel Delvoye.

  • 67

    Edition 2 2013

    Runners cross the start line at the Tokyo Marathon, 24 February 2013. Photo: Tokyo Marathon Foundation

  • 68

    Edition 3 2013

    Runners at the start of the Three Hearts Marathon, Slovenia. (Photo: Dani Mouke)

  • 69

    Edition 4 2013

    Mandela Day Marathon, South Africa: In the foreground runners near the top of ‘Struggle Hill’. In the background: Marco Cianfanelli’s sculpture of Nelson Mandela. Pictures courtesy of Mandela Day Marathon and The Apartheid Museum.

2012

  • 62

    Edition 1 2012

    Ed Whitlock sets an over-80 world record of 3:15:51 in the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon on 16 October 2011.

  • 63

    Edition 2 2012

    Runners in the Standard Chartered Mumbai Half Marathon stream off the 4km-long Sealink as the early-start mass marathon participants embark on their outward journey, 15km into the race.

  • 64

    Edition 3 2012

    Proud medal winners at the Steinmetz Gaborone Marathon held on 22 April 2012. Photo by Ulf Nermark

  • 65

    Edition 4 2012

    A runner passes below the dominating frontage of the Chateau Frontenac Hotel in the SSQ Quebec City Marathon on 26 August.

2011

  • 58

    January – March 2011

    If there is just one race a Marathon runner must do once in their running life it is the Athens Classic Marathon, where it all started…

  • 59

    Edition 2 2011

    WORLD RECORD: 18 February 2011: Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon, United Arab Emirates – Mary Keitany tore around this clockwise loop course to record 1:05:50 and rip no less than 35 seconds off Lornah Kiplagat’s 2007 world record for the half marathon.

  • 60

    Edition 3 2011

    Billed “the world’s most beautiful marathon”, the Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon is one to add to any collector’s list of things to do. It offers an ultra marathon covering a distance of 56km (35 miles), as well as a half marathon, and takes place in Cape Town annually on Easter Sunday.

  • 61

    Edition 4 2011

    The Australian Outback Marathon is a fully “packaged” marathon experience.

2010

  • 54

    January–March 2010

    Venice Marathon, Italy, 25 October 2009

  • 55

    April–June 2010

    Maratona di Roma, 21 March 2010

  • 56

    July–September 2010

    Quita Ultimas Noticias 15km race, Ecuador, June 13 2010

  • 57

    October–December 2010

    The Kleine Scheidegg at the Jungfrau Marathon, Switzerland, described by some as “the world’s most beautiful marathon course”, 11 September 2010.

2009

  • 50

    January-March 2009

    The spectacular indoor finish of the Dresdner-Kleinwort Frankfurt Marathon, Germany. 26th September 2008

  • 51

    April-June 2009

    Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, India, 18 January 2009

  • 52

    July-September 2009

    Edinburgh Marathon, Great Britain, 31st May 2009

  • 53

    October-December 2009

    Great Scottish Run, Great Britain, 6 September 2009

2008

  • 46

    Edition 1 2008

    Beijing Marathon, 21 October 2007

  • 47

    April–June 2008

    AIMS Children’s Series, Algeria

  • 48

    Edition 3 2008

    Dorando Pietri at the London Olympic Marathon in 1908

  • 49

    Edition 4 2008

    Ruta de las Iglesias, Ecuador

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