Paris Marathon Winners
At the Paris Marathon on Sunday, Ethiopia’s Shurre Demise won the women’s race while Italy’s Yemaneberhan Crippa took the men’s title. (runnersworld.com) Their wins were the standout road‑race results from the weekend as spring marathon season builds. (runnersworld.com)
Italy’s Yemaneberhan Crippa won the Paris Marathon on Sunday, and Ethiopia’s Shure Demise took the women’s race in a course record. (schneiderelectricparismarathon.com) Crippa finished the 42.195-kilometer race in 2:05:18, ahead of Ethiopia’s Bayelign Teshager in 2:05:23 and Kenya’s Sila Kiptoo in 2:05:28. The Paris Marathon organizer said Crippa’s win made him the first Italian man to take the title. (schneiderelectricparismarathon.com) Demise ran 2:18:34 to break the women’s course record, with Ethiopia’s Misgane Alemayehu second in 2:19:08 and Kenya’s Magdalyne Masai third in 2:19:17. Reuters reported that Demise’s mark lowered the previous course standard in Paris. (schneiderelectricparismarathon.com) (france24.com) The 2026 race was the 49th edition of the Paris Marathon, which started on the Champs-Élysées and finished on Avenue Foch. French outlet Le Parisien reported about 60,000 runners were entered across the field. (sortiraparis.com) (leparisien.fr) Paris is one of the first major European city marathons of the spring, landing two weeks before the 2026 London Marathon on April 26. The race often draws elite fields chasing fast times before the championship-heavy summer track season. (schneiderelectricparismarathon.com) (londonmarathonevents.co.uk) Crippa, 29, was born in Ethiopia and runs for Italy, where he has held national records on the track and on the road. Reuters said Sunday’s result was a personal best for him at the marathon distance. (france24.com) (worldathletics.org) Demise, 29, had already run 2:17:51 in Valencia in December 2024, one of the fastest marathons in history by a woman at the time. Her Paris win added a course record on a different kind of stage: a major city race with nearly 60,000 starters. (worldathletics.org) (espn.com) The top French finishers were Emmanuel Roudolff-Levisse, sixth overall in 2:05:58, and Mekdes Woldu, eighth in the women’s race in 2:26:25. In the wheelchair event, 22-year-old Thibault Daurat won on home roads, according to the race organizer. (schneiderelectricparismarathon.com) Sunday’s results put Paris on the spring marathon calendar before Boston on April 20 and London on April 26. Demise leaves with the fastest women’s race in event history, and Crippa leaves with Italy’s first men’s win in Paris. (baa.org) (londonmarathonevents.co.uk) (schneiderelectricparismarathon.com)
