Olympic Champion Tola Smashes Beijing Marathon Course Record
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(from left to right) The Chinese Cirencuomu, second ranked, the Ethiopian Anchinalu Dessie Genaneh, first ranked, and the Chinese Lu Ying, third ranked, pose during the award ceremony of the women's race on the occasion of the Beijing Marathon 2026.
The 2026 Beijing Marathon and National Marathon Championships were held on Sunday in Beijing, the capital of China. Despite a limit of 32,000 participants, more than 265,000 runners registered for the marathon; the race started at Tiananmen Square and finished at Beijing Olympic Park.
Olympic champion Tola smashes Beijing Marathon course record
BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Olympic champion Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia won the 2026 Beijing Marathon in two hours three minutes and 10 seconds on Sunday, cutting the previous course record by nearly four minutes. The previous course mark of 2:07:06 was set by Kenyan runner Mathew Kipkoech Kisorio in 2019. Ethiopian runners swept the podium, and the second and third placed Muktar Edris and Adane Kebede Geb
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