The 2021 Berlin Marathon was a

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race held on 26 September 2021. It was the 47th edition of the annual

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. It was the first edition of the Berlin Marathon to take place after the start of the

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in 2019. The 2020 Berlin Marathon was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The race was the first of the five

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held in 2021; all the events in the series took place in the space of six weeks between late September and early November. The marathon distance is just over in length and the course is run around the city and starts and finishes in the Tiergarten. The marathon was won by

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and

Gotytom Gebreslase Gotytom Gebreslase (born 15 January 1995) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the marathon at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. In 2021, in her marathon debut, Gebreslase took victory in the women's race at the B ...

, both of

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, in 2:05:45 and 2:20:09, respectively, while the wheelchair race was won by

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and

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, both of

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, in 1:24:03 and 1:37:31, respectively.

Results

Results for the top ten in the running races and top three in the wheelchair races are listed below.

References

External links

Official website
2021 in Berlin

Berlin Marathon

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