The Lille Métropole Half Marathon (French: Semi-Marathon de Lille Métropole) is an annual half marathon foot race which takes place in Lille, France, in early September. First organised by the Association de Promotion des Événements Lillois in 1986, the race began as a marathon event before switching to the shorter distance in 1996.[1] The course of the race begins in the Boulevard de la Liberté and finishes at the front of Lille's city hall on Rue de Paris.[2]
The French Half Marathon Championships were held concurrently with the final edition of the marathon race in 1995. Bruno Leger was the men's winner with a time of 1:02:31 while Christine Mallo took the women's title in 1:12:05.[3] The half marathon race has delivered some fast winning times – the 2009 race saw the top three men run under an hour and Mary Keitany ran the seventh quickest run ever to become the women's race winner.[4] The men's course record of 59:05, set by Ezekiel Chebii in 2012, is the fastest ever recorded for the distance in France.[5]
In addition to the half and full marathon, the Lille Half Marathon also hosted an elite 5K run and 10K run starting in 2023.[6][7]
^HISTORIQUE Archived 2010-08-31 at the Wayback Machine (in French). Semi-Marathon Lille. Retrieved on 2010-04-06.
^The half-marathon Archived 2010-04-12 at the Wayback Machine. Lille Tourism. Retrieved on 2010-04-06.
^Seigneuric, Yves (2009-09-22). National Road Champions for France. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2010-04-06.
^Turner, Chris (2009-09-07). Keitany powers to 67mins clocking in Lille Half Marathon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-04-06.
^Top Lists - Half Marathon - men - senior - outdoor. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-01-19.
^"2023 Lille Half Marathon Results". World Athletics.
^"Le Semi-Marathon de Lille". RunAgain. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
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