Overview

• Organizers list 55,146 registered marathon runners within a weekend program totaling nearly 80,000 participants from about 160 nations.
• Start times on Sunday place handbikers off at 8:50 and wheelchair athletes at 8:56, with runners beginning in four waves from 9:15 and the final finishers expected around 16:15.
• Street closures have already begun, including Straße des 17. Juni shut from September 13 to 24 and extended restrictions in the Regierungsviertel, with about 40 tram and bus lines interrupted or rerouted.
• Saturday features the Generali 5K at 10:00 with roughly 10,500 entrants, a Mini-Marathon and youth finale around midday, and an inlineskating marathon on a five-lap circuit from 12:20 with about 2,200 skaters.
• Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe leads the men’s field with defending champion Milkesa Mengesha also entered, Haile Gebrselassie touts Berlin as the best place to chase sub-two hours, forecasters see highs near 27°C, and organizers expect up to 1 million spectators alongside RTL’s free-to-air broadcast until about 12:15 with streaming to roughly 14:30.