IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Cardiff 2016, Launched

Published by IAAF on February 25, 2015

The IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, Cardiff 2016, was officially launched in the host city on Wednesday (25).

The 22nd edition of the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships will be an important stepping stone for many of the athletes towards the Olympic Games marathon in Rio 147 days later but, following in the footsteps of the innovative approach by its predecessor in Copenhagen last year, it will also offer 25,000 runners of all ages and abilities the chance to compete in a mass participation race along the fast and flat course around the Welsh capital. 

Club and casual runners will be able to rub shoulders with the world’s elite athletes at the biggest athletics event to be staged in Wales since the Commonwealth Games in 1958.

Runners have the chance to claim one of the 25,000 places in the event by registering their interest on the official website www.cardiff2016.co.uk