The Lille Métropole Half Marathon ( French : Semi-Marathon de Lille Métropole ) is an annual half marathon foot race which takes place in Lille , France , in early September. First organised by the Association de Promotion des Événements Lillois in 1986, the race began as a marathon event before switching to the shorter distance in 1996. The course of the race begins in the Boulevard de la Liberté and finishes at the front of Lille's city hall on Rue de Paris.
3-411: The French Half Marathon Championships were held concurrently with the final edition of the marathon race in 1995. Bruno Leger was the men's winner with a time of 1:02:31 while Christine Mallo took the women's title in 1:12:05. The half marathon race has delivered some fast winning times – the 2009 race saw the top three men run under an hour and Mary Keitany ran the seventh quickest run ever to become
6-610: Is a French former athlete , who specialized in long-distance running . She won the French national title in the half marathon in 1995. In 1996, at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Palma de Mallorca , Spain, Mallo placed sixth in the individual event in 1:12:24, and won the silver medal in the team event alongside her compatriots Zahia Dahmani and Muriel Linsolas . She placed 14th in
9-533: The women's race winner. The men's course record of 59:05, set by Ezekiel Chebii in 2012, is the fastest ever recorded for the distance in France. In addition to the half and full marathon, the Lille Half Marathon also hosted an elite 5K run and 10K run starting in 2023. Key: Course record Christine Mallo Christine Mallo (born 26 February 1966 at Orléans )
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