{"id":21593,"date":"2016-09-14T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deploy.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/yourrun\/marathon\/strecke\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:19:56","slug":"course","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/yourrun\/marathon\/course\/","title":{"rendered":"Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Kenyan Wilson Kipsang won the Frankfurt Marathon 2011 in 2:03:42 hours, which is the current course record. With this best time, the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon is the third fastest city race worldwide. The women\u2019s record was set in 2024. Hawi Feysa from Ethiopia reached the finish line after 2:17:25 hours. The German Athlete Arne Gabius caused the big surprise in 2015; he ran the german record in a time of 2:08:33 hours! But the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon is also a good place for recreational athletes and amateurs. This fact has been proven by an analysis of the website marathon-ergebnisse.de. According to them, the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon is the by far fastest among the five largest German marathons. The average finish time is 3:57:56 hours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][dhsv_vc_template_part post_id=”21674″][vc_empty_space][vc_tta_accordion shape=”square” color=”white” c_icon=”chevron” c_position=”right” active_section=”99999″ collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Course map” tab_id=”1473848396936-65a4852e-ec40″][vc_column_text]Course map of the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon as PDF<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Course profile” tab_id=”1474537841945-ec795884-6e83″][vc_column_text]There is only a height difference of 27,8 meters spread over the length of 42195 meters [between the lowest point (89,4 meters above sea level) and the highest point (117,2 meters above sea level)].
\nThe route can be run easily and quickly and has resulted in last year in new track records for both men and women \u2013 it has a total elevation gain of only 27.8 meters, spread over the entire route length of 42 195 meters. The route is set up circular and runs along both sides of the river Main. The first part of the route leads the runners through the city of Frankfurt with itsfascinating skyline, then to the district of Sachsenhausen, towards the residential area of H\u00f6chst and back along the Mainzer Landstrasse through the city center and the trade fair tower into the Festhalle with its red carpet.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Water and nutrition stations” tab_id=”1473848459913-1a7fbea6-60d8″][vc_column_text css=””]The stations at 5km and 10km are lined up on both sides; all other stations are one-sided only!<\/p>\n

Every 5km the order at each water station is as following: clock, medical aid, own nutrition, Rosbacher mineral water Naturell, isotonic drinks by Rosbacher, troughs with water to dunk in your sponge, litter bins. Starting at 15km, we additionally offer organic bananas. At KM 10 \/ 20 \/ 25 \/ 35 and 40 Powerbar gels and at KM 5 \/ 15 and 30 powerbar bars are offered. At 30km, 35km, 40 km Vita Cola and at 32,5km Krombacher o,0% are offered. Refreshments (Rosbacher mineral water Naturell and troughs with water) can also be found at 12.5km, 17.5km, 22.5km, 27.5km, 32,5 and 37.5km.<\/p>\n

You’ll find an overview\u00a0 of water and natrition stations here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The drinks are offered not from bottles, but from cups.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][vc_empty_space][dhsv_vc_hr][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][dhsv_vc_teaserbox title=”Course highlights” image=”8291″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frankfurt-marathon.com%2Fen%2Fprogram%2Ffestivities%2Fhighlights%2F||target:%20_blank|”][dhsv_vc_video_youtube video_id=”f5INzPbAdoc”][dhsv_vc_teaserbox title=”Course parties” image=”8306″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frankfurt-marathon.com%2Fen%2Fprogram%2Ffestivities%2F||target:%20_blank|”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces”][vc_column][dhsv_vc_header bgimage=”654541″ headline=”Sunday, 25th October 2026″ subline=”10:00am”][dhsv_vc_menu_list anzeigeart=”show_level” menu_id=”15″][\/dhsv_vc_header][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][dhsv_vc_hr][dhsv_vc_headline_subline headline=”Course” subline=”Mainova Frankfurt Marathon”][vc_column_text css=””] The Kenyan Wilson Kipsang won the Frankfurt Marathon 2011 in 2:03:42 hours, which is the current course record. With this best time, the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon is the third fastest city race worldwide. The women\u2019s record was set in ganzen Artikel lesen…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":7580,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"yst_prominent_words":[608,12188,12209,584,4649,12206,24464,24470,4739,14630,1478,4742,24473,4556,4484,4625,12221,24467,24476,14633],"class_list":["post-21593","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21593"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681967,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21593\/revisions\/681967"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}