24 de October de 2024
La eDreams Mitja Marató Barcelona by Brooks 2025 breaks its participation record for second consecutive year and closes registrations with 30,000 bibs sold
Barcelona’s half marathon repeats for a second year as the biggest 21.097 km race in Spain and the second biggest in Europe
For its 35th edition, the eDreams Mitja Marató Barcelona by Brooks 2025 has closed registrations with 30,000 bibs sold. Organised by the Barcelona City Council and RPM SPORTS, this race has reached sold out four months before its celebration on February 16, two months earlier than it did for 2024.
A figure that beats the participation record of the race for a second consecutive year, set so far this 2024 with 28,235 participants, and that exceeds by more than 2,000 the total registrations of the 2024 edition. Thus, the eDreams Mitja Marató Barcelona by Brooks 2025 repeats for the second year as the half marathon with more runners in Spain and the second one with more participants in Europe, only behind the half marathon of Berlin (Germany).
“We are very happy to see how runners continue to choose the eDreams Mitja Marató de Barcelona by Brooks as one of their favorite races to test themselves. We believe that we have been able to transmit that our race goes beyond running 21 kilometers. It is about experiencing a great celebration of sport in a great city like Barcelona, alongside thousands of runners with unique and different objectives, but always with the same common denominator: enjoyment. As organizers, we have set ourselves the challenge of offering the best services to these 30,000 runners so that next 16 February will be a date they will always remember’, assures Mauro Llorens, director of the eDreams Mitja Marató Barcelona by Brooks.
“Barcelona has one of the best half marathons in the world, and this sold out run almost four months before our race confirms it. We are very happy because 30,000 athletes from all over the world have already booked 16 February 2025 in their diaries to take part in our city festival. We are working hard to make this eDreams Mita Marató Barcelona by Brooks a very special edition and for everyone to enjoy it to the maximum’, says the Councillor for Sports of the Barcelona City Council, David Escudé.