Loch Ness Marathon

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Loch Ness Marathon
Date	Late September / Early October
Location	Inverness, Scotland
Event type	Road
Distance	Marathon, 10K, 5K
Primary sponsor	Baxters
Established	2002
Course records	Men's: 2:20:13 (2009) Women's: 2:42:04 (2019)
Official site	Loch Ness Marathon
Participants	2,637 finishers (2021) 3,584 (2019)

The Loch Ness Marathon (Gaelic: Marathon Loch Nis) is an annual marathon race in Scotland, held along the famous loch, Loch Ness, ending in Inverness. The event is part of the Festival of Running, held annually at the beginning of October. This also includes a 10K race and a 5K fun run, and attracts over 8,000 participants across all of the events.^[1] The first prize in the marathon is approx 1,400 GBP.

The marathon starts near Whitebridge, and follows the southern side of Loch Ness, passing through the villages of Foyers, Inverfarigaig and Dores. The route goes into Inverness, crossing the River Ness by the Ness Bridge in the city centre, and finishes at Bught Park.

The marathon supports several charities, including Highland Hospice, Leonard Cheshire, Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland, and the Scottish Community Foundation. The lead partner charity since 2013 has been Macmillan Cancer Support, who have been involved in the event since 2009.

Kenyan was a convincing winner of the 2007 Baxters Loch Ness Marathon in a time of 2 hours 23 minutes. The women's race was won by from Tanzania in a time of 2:55. The 2007 event saw 5600 people take part in the three main events - marathon, 10 km, and the 5 km with fifty different nationalities were represented.

In 2005 Simon Pride from Fochabers won in 2:30:15 whilst Julia Myatt won the women's event in 2.51.56. 18 nationalities were represented in the 2005 event.

Winners of the 2010 event were Tomas Abyu of Salford Harriers in a time of 2:20:50 and Dinknesh Mekash Tefera from Ethiopia in 02:46:37, a new course record for the women's race.

Past winners[]

Key:   Course record

Edition	Year	Men's winner	Time (h:m:s)	Women's winner	Time (h:m:s)
1st	2002	(KEN)	2:33:36	(GBR)	2:57:06
2nd	2003	Tomas Abyu (ETH)	2:20:59	Trudi Thomson (GBR)	2:50:42
3rd	2004	(GBR)	2:27:58	(GBR)	2:59:57
4th	2005	(GBR)	2:30:15	(GBR)	2:51:52
5th	2006	(KEN)	2:22:17	(KEN)	2:46:54
6th	2007	(KEN)	2:23:17	(TAN)	2:55:04
7th	2008	(KEN)	2:28:03	(TAN)	2:51:23
8th	2009	(KEN)	2:20:13	(KEN)	2:48:25
9th	2010	Tomas Abyu (ETH)	2:20:50	(ETH)	2:46:39
10th	2011	Tomas Abyu (ETH)	2:20:50	(GBR)	2:59:14
11th	2012	(GBR)	2:20:24	(GBR)	2:54:54
12th	2013	(KEN)	2:27:21	(GBR)	2:46:37
13th	2014[2]	Tomas Abyu (ETH)	2:22:41	(GBR)	2:46:10
14th	2015	(KEN)	2:25:19	(GBR)	2:44:50
15th	2016	(JOR)	2:20:52	(GBR)	2:47:03
16th	2017	(JOR)	2:22:02	(GBR)	2:48:10
17th	2018	(JOR)	2:22:56	(GBR)	2:51:11
18th	2019	(KEN)	2:29:31	(GBR)	2:42:04
19th	2021	(GBR)	2:32:21	(GBR)	2:48:15

References[]

List of winners

• Youngson, Colin (2013-08-25). Loch Ness Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.

External links[]

• Loch Ness Marathon