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Eindhoven Marathon

marathon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ1187849 ↗
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The Eindhoven Marathon (Dutch: Marathon Eindhoven) is an annual marathon race over the classic distance of 42.195km which is held in the city of Eindhoven, The Netherlands in October. It has been an annual race since 1990 – it was held biennially over the eight years before this date.

Kenneth Kipkemoi and Paskalia Chepkogei are the men's and women's course record holders with times of 2:04:51 and 2:22:47 hours, respectively.

Around 30,000 people participate in one of the runs or walks at the ASML Marathon Eindhoven, which includes runs like the marathon and the half marathon. The weekend event is usually attended by around 200,000 people.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Eindhoven, Marathon and marathon.
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This entry incorporates text from “Eindhoven Marathon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.