BERLIN HALF MARATHON

Running spots are allocated by lottery; inline skating, wheelchair, and handcycle entries are handled separately.

• Entries are personal and cannot be transferred to another person or another year.
• You cannot add a clothing bag after completing your registration.

You must pick up your bib in person at the half marathon expo at Tempelhof Airport.

• You need your Start Pass and photo ID. Collection by someone else, postal delivery and race-day collection are not available.
• On race day, be sure to wear your bib and the participant wristband put on at the expo.
• Only registered participants can enter the start and finish areas. Family can cheer from the spectator area just behind the start line.
• Toilets are available in the start and finish areas.

Only runners who purchase a clothing bag can check in luggage; everyone else receives a poncho after the finish.

• You can hang any warm clothing you take off before the start on the fence or place it in a marked container for collection by Berliner Stadtmission.
• The race starts regardless of the weather unless the German Weather Service issues a warning.

All aid station locations are on the right-hand side in the direction of travel, and you can refill your water container at the last table at the water station.

A pacer carrying a flag with a target time runs in every wave.

• The target times are 1:25, 1:35, 1:45, 2:00, 2:15 and 2:30.
• Your start block is set by the best or target time you entered when you registered, and it's shown by the letter on your bib. You can update your time in your account until about two months before the race.
• It is fine to start in a slower corral.

The runners' time limit is 3 hours 15 minutes after you cross the start line.

• If you haven't reached the 18 km mark by 2:15 p.m., you'll move to the sidewalk or ride the sweep bus to the finish, with no time, finisher medal, or finish-area refreshments.
• The inline skating time limit is 1 hour 10 minutes (chip time).

Only open-ear earphones are allowed on the course.

• Escort vehicles, wheeled equipment such as strollers and skateboards, selfie sticks, and animals aren't allowed on the course.
• Helmets are compulsory for inline skaters, wheelchair participants, and handcycle participants.

At the finish area, you will receive tea, water, ERDINGER Alkoholfrei non-alcoholic beer, sports drink, and fruit.

• Your family can meet you at the signs marked with the first letter of your surname in front of the Paul-Löbe-Haus.
• Free massages are available opposite the Reichstagswiese, and changing rooms and showers are available in the finish area.
• Same-day engraving for finisher medal costs €17 at the booth on Scheidemannstraße outside the event venue.
• No paper finisher certificate is provided; download it from the results list.