Paris Marathon winners
The 49th Paris Marathon finished today with Shurre Demise of Ethiopia winning the women's race and Italy’s Yemaneberhan Crippa taking the men's title. (runnersworld.com) Organizers expected around 60,000 runners to tackle the 42.195 km course for this edition. (sortiraparis.com)
Italy’s Yemaneberhan Crippa won the men’s race at the Paris Marathon on Sunday, and Ethiopia’s Shure Demise took the women’s title in a course record. (schneiderelectricparismarathon.com) Crippa finished the 42.195-kilometer race in 2:05:18, beating Ethiopia’s Bayelign Teshager by five seconds and Kenya’s Sila Kiptoo by 10 seconds. The Paris Marathon website said Crippa became the first Italian winner of the race. (schneiderelectricparismarathon.com) Demise ran 2:18:34, breaking the women’s course record, with Ethiopia’s Misgane Alemayehu Wolteji second in 2:19:08 and Kenya’s Magdalyne Masai third in 2:19:17. The official race site listed France’s Mekdes Woldu as the top French woman in eighth place in 2:26:25. (schneiderelectricparismarathon.com) The 49th edition started on the Champs-Élysées and finished on Avenue Foch after passing landmarks including Place de la Concorde, Opéra, Bastille, Bois de Vincennes, the Seine quays and Bois de Boulogne. Sortir à Paris said the race was held on Sunday, April 12, 2026. (sortiraparis.com) Organizers expected about 60,000 runners for this year’s race, which France 3 described as a record edition with 20,800 women entered, or 33 percent of the field. ESPN said Crippa was the fastest of nearly 60,000 runners on the day. (france3-regions.franceinfo.fr) (espn.com) The race also doubled as a marker for French distance running. Emmanuel Roudolff-Levisse finished sixth overall in 2:05:58 as the top French man, and the official site said wheelchair athlete Thibault Daurat won the para sport race at age 22. (schneiderelectricparismarathon.com) Paris remains one of Europe’s biggest city marathons, with a mass field that far exceeds the elite race at the front. Sunday’s finish delivered both a first Italian men’s winner and a new women’s course mark in the same edition. (finishers.com) (schneiderelectricparismarathon.com) By early afternoon in Paris, the official race site had already shifted from live tracking to results pages and finish-line coverage. The 2026 edition closed with two headline performances: Crippa’s late move in the men’s race and Demise’s record run in the women’s field. (schneiderelectricparismarathon.com) (espn.com)
