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33-528: Events are split over two days, with skaters competing on the marathon course on Saturday before the running events. Power walkers, hand-bikers, wheelchair riders, and a children's marathon (4.2195 kilometres (2.6219 mi), 1/10 of the regular distance) are also part of the marathon weekend, which is organised by SCC EVENTS . The elite running and wheelchair races are part of the World Marathon Majors , an annual series of top level races offering

66-454: A $ 1 million prize purse. BMW is the current title sponsor for the race. The city's flat course regularly produces fast performances: a record eight women scored times below 2:20 in the 2023 race , and a record nine men were below 2:05 and 15 finished inside 2:06. The marathon world record has been broken in Berlin on thirteen occasions, particularly the most recent eight instances on

99-555: A baker and running enthusiast in the city. The race had 244 finishers; 234 men and 10 women, and was won by Günter Hallas and Jutta von Haase in times of 2:44:53 and 3:22:01 respectively. In 1977, Christa Vahlensieck established a new women's world record at the Berlin Marathon, running 2:34:47. Four years later, the race started outside the Reichstag for the first time, by which time it had grown to 2,583 finishers, making it

132-408: A marathon world record. Two years later, one of the race's pacemakers, Simon Biwott won the race, after one of the favourites had pulled out in the second half of the race. In 2001, Naoko Takahashi became the first woman to run a sub-2:20 marathon, completing the Berlin Marathon in 2:19:46. The race had continued to be the venue of world records; between 2003 and 2018, seven men's records were set at

165-520: A tract of land in Güterfelde (today a component of Stahnsdorf ) as additional graveyard, with the first burial taking place in 1913. Friedenau's municipal construction councillor Hans Altmann designed for the cemetery a mourning chapel, an office, a gardener's house, a flower shop, benches and a fountain as well as a net of paths replicating the streets net in Friedenau. Since June 1913 the cemetery

198-791: Is a German sports club based in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin and founded in 1902 as Charlottenburger Sport-Club 1902 . In 1911, they merged with Sport-Club Westen 05 and changed their club colors from yellow and blue to black and white. The club is known for its football section who played in 2. Bundesliga in 1983–84 , its athletics section that organises among others the Berlin Marathon , and its men's volleyball ( Berlin Recycling Volleys ) and American football ( Berlin Rebels ) teams, both of whom play in

231-624: Is the highest in the city. Friedenau is part of the southwestern suburbs, right at the border with the inner city Schöneberg district, separated by the Berlin Ringbahn and the BAB 100 motorway ( Stadtring ). It borders the Wilmersdorf locality to the west and Steglitz to the south. The streets and squares are laid out according to a geometric urban design with an almost complete assembly of Gründerzeit buildings, which survived

264-528: Is the most successful athlete, with twenty wins in the men's race. The next most successful athlete is Manuela Schär , who has won the women's race six times. Both these athletes also hold the records for time, with Frei setting the men's race record of 1:21:39 in 1997 and Schär setting the women's race record of 1:36:53 in 2018. Key :       Course record (in bold) SCC Berlin SC Charlottenburg (also known as SCC Berlin )

297-701: The Franco-Prussian War . It was adopted by Mr. Hähnel, then the director of the Landerwerb- und Bauverein auf Actien (inc.), which developed the real estate in the area. When in 1874 the area constituted as an independent municipality within the Province of Brandenburg , the denotation had already been established and became the official municipal name. Friedenau opened its own non-denominational municipal cemetery, today's Städtischer Friedhof III , which soon grew too small. So in 1909 Friedenau bought

330-465: The German Empire . The majority of Friedenau's buildings date to the early 20th century. Therefore, the architectural styles are almost uniform. 185 buildings are protected as cultural heritage sites . More recent development does not necessarily match the surrounding cityscape, since the reconstruction efforts after World War II , especially in the earlier years, gave little consideration to

363-538: The Mommsenstadion (capacity: 15,005) which was built in 1930 and known originally as SCC-Stadion. Today it is owned by the State of Berlin, and shared with Tennis Borussia Berlin . Friedenau Friedenau ( German: [ˌfriːdə'naʊ̯] ) is a locality ( Ortsteil ) within the borough ( Bezirk ) of Tempelhof-Schöneberg in Berlin, Germany. Relatively small by area, its population density

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396-533: The bombing of Berlin in World War II . The characteristic feature of Friedenau its Carstenn layout , named after urban developer Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carsten. This symmetrical layout consists of an avenue dividing a circular road, which is demarcated by four town squares . Some streets in Friedenau were named after rivers in Alsace-Lorraine to commemorate the annexation of this region into

429-476: The 2019 race. It is considered the largest inline skater marathon in the world and is the final venue of the World Inline Cup . The men's and women's race records are held by Bart Swings (56:49 in 2015) and Maira Yaqueline Arias (1:06:35 in 2017). Key :       Course record (in bold) A handcycle race was first held at the race in 2004. In 2008, 166 handcyclists participated in

462-614: The Amateurliga before slipping from sight into lower division play. Charlottenburg enjoyed a brief resurgence in the early 1980s, rising quickly through the Landesliga Berlin (IV) and the Amateur Oberliga Berlin (III) to play the 1983–84 season in the 2. Bundesliga . That campaign ended in the failure of an 18th-place finish and relegation. The team remained competitive, earning a second-place result in

495-630: The American Sector of West Berlin . The Güterfelde cemetery, since 1920 called Forest Cemetery of Schöneberg was operated since 1935 by Berlin's Borough of Wilmersdorf , called Wilmersdorf Forest Cemetery Güterfelde ( German : Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Güterfelde ). After 1945 the cemetery happened to be in the Soviet Zone of Occupation and later in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), thus with

528-628: The Berlin Marathon series. There have been several title sponsors in the race's history. From 1974 until 1989 it was just the Berlin Marathon . In 1990, it was the Yanase Berlin Marathon . In 1991 and 1992 it was the Canon Berlin Marathon . It reverted to simply the Berlin Marathon from 1993 until 1997. It then became the Alberto Berlin Marathon in 1998 and 1999. A new title sponsor changed

561-416: The Berlin Marathon. The men's and women's race records are held by Jetze Plat (1:00:01 in 2019) and Christiane Reppe (1:08:54 in 2016). Key :       Course record (in bold) A wheelchair section was first officially held at the Berlin Marathon in 1981. Only men competed that year. The wheelchair race typically starts earlier in the day before the runners and power walkers. Heinz Frei

594-601: The Brandenburg Gate for the first time and since then, the course has covered both halves of the unified city. It was reported that a great many of the runners had tears in their eyes as they ran through the gate. Nowadays, after leaving Brandenburg Gate, the course passes Charlottenburg , around Tiergarten , along Moabit and Mitte , and then south to Friedrichshain . After that, it winds west between Kreuzberg and Neukölln , through Schöneberg , over to Friedenau and Zehlendorf , before turning north back toward

627-524: The Oberliga in 1985 and another title in 1986. SCC took part in the subsequent promotion round for 2. Bundesliga play, but finished behind FC St. Pauli and Rot-Weiss Essen , before crashing disastrously to a last-place finish the following season. The club competed in the third and fourth division through the balance of the 1980s and well on into the 1990s before finally slipping to the fifth tier Berlin-Liga and Landesliga Berlin. A runners-up finish in

660-469: The city's center. Looping above Schöneberg , the course comes full circle as it finishes through the Gate. There have been two other major international marathons in Berlin. At the 1936 Olympic Games and at the 2009 IAAF World Championships , both using different routes. A marathon in Berlin on 14 Oct 1973 was won by Ulrich Hutmacher (GER) with a time of 2:19:32, but that race is not considered to be part of

693-529: The division title. SG Charlottenburg soon began to break up into its original separate clubs and in 1949 SC Charlottenburg re-emerged to play third-tier football. They were promoted to the Amateurliga Berlin in 1950 for a three-season turn before being relegated. In 1963, the same year that the Bundesliga , Germany's new professional league, was formed, SCC made a single season appearance in

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726-556: The increasing Eastern interdiction of West Berlin the cemetery grew inaccessible for the Friedenauers. On 5 April 1986 a bomb exploded at the La Belle discothèque in a former cinema on Hauptstraße 78, killing a Turkish woman and two U.S. servicemen and injuring numerous people. A plaque marks the site. Friedenau has always been home to creative artists, especially of authors. Prominent residents include: Friedenau has access to

759-541: The largest city road race in Germany. The following year, before German unification , some East Germans secretly ran the race, registering under false names to avoid recriminations from the East German secret service. In 1989, a children's race was added to the event, and eight years later an inline skating marathon was contested. In 1998, Ronaldo da Costa set a new men's world record, the only South American to hold

792-612: The latter in 2015 took the club back up to the Berlin-Liga but it was relegated back to the Landesliga in 2016. The club's honours: A men's volleyball section was established at SCC when the section from Bundesliga club VdS Berlin joined in 1989. Two years later the section merged with the one from East Berlin's SC Berlin (former SC Dynamo Berlin ). The team played as SCC Berlin until 2011 and as Berlin Recycling Volleys since then. Together with VfB Friedrichshafen they are

825-486: The men's progression (as of September 2022). The current record was set at the 2022 edition, where Eliud Kipchoge won the men's race in 2:01:09. Tigist Assefa set a new women's world record in 2023 with 2:11:53. In the wheelchair race, Catherine Debrunner ( Switzerland ) 2023 broke the world record in 1:34:16 hours, with two women just one second behind. The Berlin Marathon was established in 1974 by Horst Milde,

858-513: The most successful team in German men's volleyball, having won 12 championships and 6 German cups. Today one of Berlin's largest sports clubs, SCC offers a wide variety of activities to its membership including American football ( Berlin Rebels ), baseball and softball , basketball , handball , ice hockey , field hockey , athletics , tennis , swimming , and volleyball . The football and American football sides play their home matches at

891-604: The name to the real,- Berlin Marathon from 2000 to 2010. Since 2011 it has been called the BMW Berlin Marathon . In terms of finishing athletes, Berlin is one of five world-wide marathons with more than 50,000 finishers, along with the New York City Marathon , Chicago Marathon , London Marathon and Paris Marathon . Key: An inline skating section was added to the marathon event in 1997. A total of 5081 people took part in this section in

924-418: The preservation of architectural uniformity. In 1871 it was founded as an affluent commuter town on the estates of the former Deutsch- Wilmersdorf manor. The German name Friedenau , referring to Frieden (peace) and the suffix -au meaning floodplains (hence "floodplain of peace"), was proposed by Hedwig Hähnel, wife of the architect Hermann Hähnel, in memory of the 1871 Peace of Frankfurt , which ended

957-455: The race; the most recent remains as the current world record time; Eliud Kipchoge 's 2:01:39. The event was held in mid-September in 2000 and 2018, because of a conflict with the Women's Olympic Marathon , and due to German Unity Day preparations, respectively. The 2020 edition of the event was prohibited from being held on its originally scheduled dates due to the coronavirus pandemic , and

990-546: The top divisions of their sports. Through the early 1920s the club went through other mergers and played football in the Oberliga Berlin-Brandenburg (I) as Union-SCC Charlottenburg  – through its association with FC Union Halensee (1898) – with their best result coming in 1922 when they finished as vice-champions after losing a two-game final to Norden-Nordwest Berlin (2–4, 0–1). The club changed its name to SC Charlottenburg in 1927 and

1023-473: Was accessible via the so-called cemetery train line ending at Stahnsdorf station . Friedenau joined with the town of Schöneberg in 1920 – under the latter's name – as the former 11th administrative borough of Greater Berlin . In the short time from 29 April to 30 June 1945, when the Red Army occupied all Berlin, it was a borough in its own right, until it was reunified with Schöneberg as one borough within

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1056-520: Was eventually cancelled once it was clear that it would not be possible to hold it at a later date in 2020. All registrants were given the option of either transferring their entry to 2021 or obtaining a refund. The course within the metropolis starts and finishes near the Brandenburg Gate . Due to the division of the city , the marathon events before 1990 were limited to West Berlin only. On 30 September 1990 athletes were able to run through

1089-489: Was relegated that same year. SCC returned to the Oberliga for a single season in 1928–29. Charlottenburg played lower-tier football throughout the 1930s and most of the 1940s. After World War II it was one of a number of sides that was part of a single association known as SG Charlottenburg representing the district. The combined side re-appeared in the top flight in the Oberliga Berlin in 1946, promptly capturing

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