Jungfrau Marathon

Jungfrau Marathon
Jungfrau Marathon
Date	September
Location	Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau mountains, Switzerland
Event type	Mountain running
Distance	Mountain marathon
Established	1993
Course records	Men's: 2:49:01 (2003); Jonathan Wyatt; Women's: 3:12:56 (2017); Maude Mathys
Official site	Jungfrau Marathon
Participants	2,909 finishers (2021); 3,716 (2019)

The Jungfrau Marathon at km 40 in 2004

Swiss alphorn players and flag-waver

Spectators in Wengen

Moraine

Bagpiper at the moraine

The Jungfrau Marathon is one of the best known mountain marathons in the world, in full view of the famous Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau mountains in the Bernese Oberland area of the Swiss Alps.

The first Jungfrau Marathon was held in 1993. Approximately 3,500 runners from 35 different nations participate. The Jungfrau Marathon takes place each year in September.

The 2007 edition of the competition incorporated the World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge and attracted 4200 participants from 50 countries.^[1]

The course[]

The 42.195-kilometre (26.219 mi) course starts in Interlaken and climbs 5,960 feet (1,823 m) in elevation to the finish at the Kleine Scheidegg.

The first 10 km of the course are flat. The race begins in central Interlaken and circles around the town centre before moving east to Bönigen, where runners briefly run along the shore of Lake Brienz. The race proceeds southwards to Wilderswil at the 10 km mark. From there the course heads upward through Zweilütschinen (at 15 km) to Lauterbrunnen (at 20 km). The course loops for 5 km south of the town before returning to Lauterbrunnen and then heading eastward up the alpside. It is at this point that the race is steepest, zigzagging up the hillside and climbing 450 m in the 5 km to Wengen. The course heads southeast and relentlessly upward over the Wengernalp, turning east and then northeast beneath the Eiger toward the finish. It reaches its highest point of 7,234 feet (2,205 m) around the 40 km point, and then heads steeply downhill for the last kilometre to the finish at Kleine Scheidegg at an altitude of 2061 m.^[2] At the highest point the runners are traditionally greeted by a bagpipe player.

Past winners[]

Key: Course record

Edition	Date	Men's Winner	Time (h:m:s)	Women's Winner	Time (h:m:s)	Notes
1st	25-09-1993	(SUI)	3:00:05	(GER)	3:30:00
2nd	24-09-1994	(SUI)	3:02:05	Fabiola Rueda-Oppliger (SUI)	3:34:01
3rd	09-09-1995	(SUI)	3:00:19	(SUI)	3:28:46
4th	07-09-1996	(SUI)	2:55:07	Isabella Moretti (SUI)	3:27:57
5th	06-09-1997	(SUI)	2:58:43	Franziska Rochat-Moser (SUI)	3:22:49
6th	05-09-1998	(CZE)	2:59:03	(FRA)	3:23:53
7th	04-09-1999	(SUI)	2:54:34	(RUS)	3:23:38
8th	02-09-2000	(RUS)	2:59:33	(RUS)	3:22:04
9th	01-09-2001	(MAR)	2:56:37	Marie-Luce Romanens (SUI)	3:21:03
10th	6/7-09-2002	Tesfaye Eticha (ETH)	2:53:28	Chantal Dällenbach (FRA)	3:25:18
11th	06-09-2003	Jonathan Wyatt (NZL)	2:49:01	(ETH)	3:21:46
12th	11-09-2004	Tesfaye Eticha (ETH)	2:59:30	(ETH)	3:23:11
13th	10-09-2005	Tesfaye Eticha (ETH)	2:59:21	(ETH)	3:29:15
14th	09-09-2006	Tesfaye Eticha (ETH)	2:59:44	Simona Staicu (ROM)	3:26:26
15th	08-09-2007	Jonathan Wyatt (NZL)	2:55:33	Anita Håkenstad (NOR)	3:23:06
16th	06-09-2008	Hermann Achmüller (ITA)	3:03:18	Simona Staicu (HUN)	3:35:05
17th	05-09-2009	Jonathan Wyatt (NZL)	2:58:33	(CZE)	3:34:24
18th	09-09-2010	Marco De Gasperi (ITA)	2:56:42	Simona Staicu (HUN)	3:33:45
19th	10-09-2011	Markus Hohenwarter (AUT)	3:01:52	Aline Camboulives (FRA)	3:29:56
20th	8/9-09-2012	Markus Hohenwarter (AUT)	2:59:42	Stevie Kremer (USA)	3:22:42
21st	14-09-2013	(KEN)	2:50:29	Andrea Mayr (AUT)	3:20:21
22nd	12-09-2014	(KEN)	3:01.57	Aline Camboulives (FRA)	3:27:20	^[3]^[4]
23rd	12-09-2015	(BUL)	3:02.37	Aline Camboulives (FRA)	3:28:43
24th	10-09-2016	Robbie Simpson (GBR)	3:00.11	Martina Strähl (SUI)	3:19:15
25th	09-09-2017	(COL)	2:56.20	Maude Mathys (SUI)	3:12:56
26th	08-09-2018	Robbie Simpson (GBR)	2:56:31	Martina Strähl (SUI)	3:14:36
27th	07-09-2019	Robbie Simpson (GBR)	2:59.29	(SUI)	3:36.13
28th	11-09-2021	(COL)	3:05.02	Laura Hottenrott (SUI)	3:36.13