Bournemouth Marathon

Bournemouth Marathon
Location	Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Event type	Road
Distance	Marathon & Half Marathon
Established	2013 (2013)
Course records	Marathon: Men: Boaz Kiprono 2:16:00 Women: Olga Kotovska 2:30:04 Half Marathon: Men: Richard Horton 1:08:02 Women: Anna Boniface 1:19:43
Official site	Bournemouth Marathon

The Bournemouth Marathon was a road race run over the distance of 42.195 km or 26 miles and 385 yards. It took place each October in Bournemouth on the south coast of England. It was discontinued in 2020, although the half-marathon event continues. The inaugural Bournemouth Marathon took place on 6 October 2013. It was part of a festival of running which included a half marathon, 10km run, and shorter races.

The marathon held the IAAF Road Race Bronze Label status in the 2015, 2016 and 2017 editions.

Elite race winners

Key:   Current course record

Marathon

Year	Men's Winner	Time (h:m:s)	Women's Winner	Time (h:m:s)
2013	Ebisa Merga (ETH)	2:16:41	Olga Kotovska (UKR)	2:30:04
2014	Andrew Lesuuda (KEN)	2:21:44	Kateryna Stetsenko (UKR)	2:30:58
2015	Boaz Kiprono (KEN)	2:16:00	Joan Kigen (KEN)	2:36:46
2016	Stanley Kiprotich (KEN)	2:17:59	Eddah Jepkosgei (KEN)	2:40:38
2017	Jacek Cieluszecki (POL)	2:31:59	Laura Trimble (GBR)	3:05:18
2018	Iain Trickett (GBR)	2:25:45	Sarah Hill (GBR)	2:55:39
2019	Lloyd Biddell (GBR)	2:25:48	Gill Bland (GBR)	2:59:41

Half Marathon

Year	Time (h:m:s)	Men's winner	Time (h:m:s)	Women's winner
2013	1:18:41	Manol Dimitrov (BUL)	1:29:03	Amanda Kerr (GBR)
2014	1:09:30	Jacek Cieluszecki (POL)	1:25:28	Helen Dyke (GBR)
2015	1:08:02	Richard Horton (GBR)	1:22:50	Tamsin Lewis (GBR)
2016	1:11:04	Alex Wall-Clarke (GBR)	1:21:26	Emma Dews (GBR)
2017	1:10:29	Peter Baksh (GBR)	1:19:43	Anna Boniface (GBR)
2018	1:10:14	Alex Van Tuyl (GBR)	1:24:25	Alissa Ellis (GBR)
2019	1:09:45	James Hoad (GBR)	1:21:17	Sophie Delderfield (GBR)

External links

• Bournemouth Marathon official website Archived 2017-03-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Bournemouth Marathon past years results