Paris Marathon winners
Ethiopia’s Shure Demise won the women’s Paris Marathon on Sunday and an Italian took the men’s race as the 49th edition drew about 60,000 runners — a participation figure called a world record. (lufkindailynews.com)(rmcsport.bfmtv.com)
Italy’s Yemaneberhan Crippa won the men’s Paris Marathon on Sunday, and Ethiopia’s Shure Demise took the women’s race in a course record. (france24.com) Crippa, 29, finished the 42.195-kilometer race in 2 hours, 5 minutes, 16 seconds, five seconds ahead of Ethiopia’s Bayelign Teshager, with Kenya’s Sila Kiptoo third in 2:05:26. (france24.com) Demise, 30, won in 2:18:33, cutting more than a minute off the previous women’s course record; Misgane Alemayehu of Ethiopia was second in 2:19:06 and Kenya’s Magdalyne Masai third in 2:19:18. (france24.com) The 2026 race was the 49th edition of the Paris Marathon, one of Europe’s biggest road races, and organizers had billed it as a record year for participation. Nearly 60,000 runners were expected on the start line on the Champs-Élysées. (lequipe.fr) That field size extends a growth streak for the event. The official race site said 56,950 runners started in 2025, which it called a participation record at the time. (schneiderelectricparismarathon.com) The makeup of the field also shifted this year. L’Équipe reported that about one in three entrants were women and nearly one in two were running their first marathon. (lequipe.fr) Paris has become a target race for both elite runners and mass entrants because of its flat city-center course and spring date. The route runs from the Champs-Élysées to Avenue Foch, near the Arc de Triomphe. (clickondetroit.com) Sunday’s results also gave the race two benchmark performances at once: a personal best for Crippa and a course record for Demise. In a year built around a bigger field, the front of the race moved faster too. (france24.com)
