Vienna City Marathon
The Vienna City Marathon on April 17th is a fixed annual event for thousands of runners and passes by the city’s top attractions – with expert accompaniment on request. With Haile Gebrselassie a top class marathon runner is participating in 2011. For the spectators, this is a unique opportunity to experience the world's most successful runner in action.
Around 30,000 runners from some 100 nations took part in the Vienna City Marathon and its smaller cousins, the half and junior marathons, in 2010. Naturally, the marathon route is a major sporting challenge, but it also runs past some of Vienna's most attractive sights. The route begins at the Vienna International Centre, crosses the Danube into the green of the Prater, winds along the Danube Canal to the Ringstraße, from the Vienna State Opera right out to Schönbrunn Palace, back again to the Ring and the Prater and finally to the finish line at Heldenplatz.
Copyright: WienTourismus/Peter Koller
Event starts April 17, 2011 and ends April 17, 2011
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