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Marathon de Paris — every edition

12 editions, 520,581 classified finishers, 2013–2026. Every figure here is read from the results the timekeeper published.

Editions
12
2013–2026
Finishers
520,581
classified, all editions
Women
25.3%
131,798 of 520,581
Biggest field
57,516
2026
The size of the field

Classified finishers per edition. The axis starts at zero, so the height of a point is the size of the field.

020,00040,00060,0002013201520172019202120232026Classified finishers per edition, 2013 to 2026

The size of the field. Use the left and right arrow keys to read each point.

Show the numbers
YearFinishers
201338,686
201438,526
201540,262
201641,791
201741,099
201842,377
2019—
2020—
202127,114
202233,599
202350,778
202453,899
202554,934
202657,516
The winning time

Fastest finisher, over the same 42.195 km every year — so unlike a mountain race, these times are directly comparable.

2:04:002:05:002:06:002:07:002:08:002013201520172019202120232026Winning time per edition, 2013 to 2026

The winning time. Use the left and right arrow keys to read each point.

The scale starts at 2:04:00, not zero — these are finishing times, and a clock plotted from zero is a flat line. Read the gaps between points, not their height above the axis.

Fastest of the archive: Elisha ROTICH in 2021, 2:04:21 (2:57/km).

Show the numbers
YearWinner
20132:05:38
20142:05:03
20152:05:49
20162:07:11
20172:06:10
20182:06:25
2019—
2020—
20212:04:21
20222:05:07
20232:07:15
20242:05:33
20252:05:25
20262:05:18
The median finisher

Half the field finished faster than this, half slower.

gun time4:00:004:30:005:00:005:30:002013201520172019202120232026Median finishing time per edition, 2013 to 2026

The median finisher. Use the left and right arrow keys to read each point.

The scale starts at 4:00:00, not zero — these are finishing times, and a clock plotted from zero is a flat line. Read the gaps between points, not their height above the axis.

Show the numbers
YearMedian
20134:38:08
20144:42:54
20154:51:19
20165:08:41
20175:01:48
20185:09:45
2019—
2020—
20214:03:22
20224:00:15
20234:00:38
20244:06:41
20254:06:42
20264:08:47
Women in the field

Share of classified finishers.

0%10%20%30%40%2013201520172019202120232026Women as a share of classified finishers per edition, 2013 to 2026

Women in the field. Use the left and right arrow keys to read each point.

Show the numbers
YearWomen
201320.4%
201420.5%
201523.8%
201624.2%
201723.9%
201824.2%
2019—
2020—
202121.3%
202224.2%
202325.7%
202427.3%
202529.8%
202631.8%

Where the timing breaks down

Not every edition supports every page. These are the ones whose data would not carry the analysis the others get, and what went wrong in each — stated here rather than left for a reader to infer from a missing table.

2023results only

Results only. Every runner has all ten mats and not one chain adds up: the intervals sum to 97.4% of the finish time, which by the feed's own segment speeds is 40.1 km of 42.195 — the km-30 leg measures 3.9 km where the course says 5. Publishing them would put every late-race split about three minutes early.

The clock changed

The editions from 2013 to 2018 are ranked on gun time — measured from the starter’s gun, however long a runner waited to reach the line. From 2021 the official classification switches to chip time.

It is not a detail. In a field this size the later pens cross the start line more than an hour after the gun, so the two clocks disagree by more than the gap between the median finisher and the top hundred. Each edition here is ranked the way its own results were published, established by testing which time field reproduces the provider’s own ordering — not by trusting the flag in the feed, which is honest on some editions and wrong on others.

Missing years

2019Raced, but the timing provider cannot serve it: the race and its results both answer HTTP 500 on every attempt, while the editions either side of it answer 200 from the same host in the same second. The event resolves and reports 47,495 entrants — the results themselves are what is unreachable. Absent at source, not missing from this import.
2020Cancelled — the pandemic. The 2021 edition ran in October rather than April, which is why its field is the smallest of the modern years.

Every edition

YearFinishersWomenWinnerWinning timeMedianClock
201338,68620.4%PETER SOME2:05:384:38:08gun
201438,52620.5%Kenenisa BEKELE2:05:034:42:54gun
201540,26223.8%MARK KORIR2:05:494:51:19gun
201641,79124.2%Cybrian KOTUT2:07:115:08:41gun
201741,09923.9%Paul LONYANGATA2:06:105:01:48gun
201842,37724.2%Paul LONYANGATA2:06:255:09:45gun
202127,11421.3%Elisha ROTICH2:04:214:03:22chip
202233,59924.2%Deso GELMISA2:05:074:00:15chip
202350,77825.7%Abeje AYANA2:07:154:00:38chip
202453,89927.3%Mulugeta UMA2:05:334:06:41chip
202554,93429.8%Benard BIWOTT2:05:254:06:42chip
202657,51631.8%Yemaneberhan CRIPPA2:05:184:08:47chip

What this archive will not tell you

How many people abandoned. Every edition here lists classified finishers only — there are no DNF rows to count, so an abandon rate computed from these numbers would come out as zero for every year.

First names

Every first name in the archive

29,360 distinct first names over 520,581 named finishes, across 12 editions. The 260 most common are listed here.

One caution the page cannot repeat often enough: a median time attached to a name is an age chart wearing a disguise. Names go in and out of fashion, so a name popular thirty years ago belongs to people now thirty years older — worth far more minutes than anything about the name itself.

The forty most common

Classified finishes, all editions. Hover a bar.

05,00010,00015,000JeanThomasPhilippeAlexandreRomainMaximeMathieuFranck

Fastest median

Names with 130 or more finishes.

Leo3:49:30498
Arthur3:53:051,075
Corentin3:54:03641
Tanguy3:54:38357
Jules3:54:58467
Hugo3:55:011,407
Baptiste3:55:071,288
Valentin3:55:211,144
Lucas3:55:301,005
Quentin3:56:011,630
Theo3:56:12853
Tom3:57:211,035

Slowest median

Names with 130 or more finishes.

Sylvie5:15:41700
Patricia5:07:35460
Catherine5:07:15943
Christine5:01:26750
Veronique5:01:05683
Rebecca4:59:34318
Valerie4:59:191,006
Maria4:58:50915
Jennifer4:57:45478
Rachel4:57:42402
Sonia4:57:14324
Nathalie4:56:311,413
Read those two columns together. They are not a finding about names — they are the age structure of French given names, measured on a race course. The generations page shows what age actually costs here, which is the honest version of this table.

The full list

NameFinishesWomenMenMedianFastest of them
Jean11,61030115804:25:37Jean-Damascene · 2:15:13 · 2018
Nicolas7,566175654:08:22Nicolas KIRWA · 2:07:22 · 2021
David6,051460474:18:46David · 2:19:35 · 2025
Pierre5,816758094:09:39Pierre-Louis · 2:19:54 · 2026
Christophe5,650—56504:17:27Christophe · 2:32:47 · 2022
Thomas5,625856174:03:31Thomas · 2:08:47 · 2021
Julien5,384253824:07:22Julien · 2:11:52 · 2022
Sebastien5,221252194:11:39Sébastien CHARNAY · 2:24:58 · 2014
Olivier5,125351224:19:09Olivier · 2:25:34 · 2024
Laurent5,014350114:22:18Laurent · 2:27:32 · 2025
Philippe4,887648814:27:05Philippe · 2:34:11 · 2013
Stephane4,7431347304:20:06Stephane · 2:34:01 · 2022
Guillaume4,731247294:07:06Guillaume · 2:19:54 · 2026
Frederic4,465144644:19:44Frederic · 2:29:55 · 2023
Vincent4,406344034:09:43Vincent · 2:11:55 · 2015
Alexandre4,163441594:05:18Alexandre · 2:21:08 · 2025
Eric3,874138734:26:01Eric NDIEMA · 2:06:34 · 2013
Antoine3,618236164:00:03Antoine · 2:18:37 · 2024
Jerome3,565235634:13:26Jerome · 2:27:59 · 2022
Francois3,401433974:13:46François · 2:21:10 · 2015
Romain3,295232934:04:12Romain COURCIERES · 2:19:12 · 2018
Arnaud3,058330554:09:56Arnaud MICHEL · 2:27:58 · 2025
Thierry2,993529884:30:14Thierry · 2:26:42 · 2024
Marie2,877287254:42:19Marie-Ange · 2:48:46 · 2017
Paul2,840—28404:08:36Paul LONYANGATA · 2:06:10 · 2017
Maxime2,793427894:03:09Maxime · 2:24:51 · 2025
Pascal2,720227184:27:22Pascal · 2:23:15 · 2023
Benoit2,699426954:07:57Benoît · 2:28:12 · 2026
Benjamin2,692126914:03:58Benjamin · 2:12:00 · 2013
Patrick2,569125684:29:16Patrick · 2:30:55 · 2016
Mathieu2,518425144:03:58Mathieu · 2:22:36 · 2023
Cedric2,409324064:12:49Cedric · 2:25:54 · 2015
Bruno2,350123494:23:15Bruno · 2:39:19 · 2026
Marc2,324123234:21:33Marc · 2:28:20 · 2026
Michael2,303123024:20:55Michael GRAS · 2:10:55 · 2022
Franck2,281222794:22:53Franck · 2:32:51 · 2015
Clement2,233422293:58:04Clement · 2:26:14 · 2021
Anne2,048204444:49:39Anne Sophie · 2:44:24 · 2023
Daniel2,032120314:25:48Daniel · 2:30:15 · 2026
Anthony2,010220084:07:54Anthony · 2:19:45 · 2025
Emmanuel1,985219834:17:31Emmanuel ROUDOLFF LEVISSE · 2:05:58 · 2026
Matthieu1,950219484:05:03Matthieu · 2:32:54 · 2025
Damien1,940—19404:07:13Damien · 2:28:35 · 2021
Fabien1,938119374:11:08Fabien · 2:24:27 · 2024
Xavier1,937—19374:20:19Xavier · 2:25:38 · 2026
Alain1,910—19104:34:37Alain · 2:37:09 · 2026
Sylvain1,872—18724:14:00Sylvain · 2:34:17 · 2023
Florian1,832—18324:01:42Florian · 2:13:50 · 2025
Fabrice1,774—17744:14:56Fabrice · 2:28:17 · 2018
Jeremy1,764117634:06:14Jeremy · 2:23:38 · 2023
Michel1,736217344:40:29Michel · 2:34:01 · 2014
Simon1,718117174:03:50Simon · 2:18:46 · 2014
Christian1,712717054:28:35Christian · 2:38:58 · 2023
Kevin1,693116924:09:11Kevin · 2:30:05 · 2024
Ludovic1,688216864:11:27Ludovic BAUR · 2:28:03 · 2024
Sophie1,655165234:44:45Sophie · 2:57:18 · 2023
Didier1,636116354:37:30Didier · 2:40:26 · 2016
Quentin1,630316273:56:01Quentin · 2:24:40 · 2026
Alexis1,6031815854:02:34Alexis TURPIN · 2:23:01 · 2026
Adrien1,585—15854:00:26Adrien · 2:15:57 · 2023
Louis1,570515653:58:27Louis-Marie · 2:21:28 · 2024
Dominique1,52920713224:35:38Dominique · 2:37:16 · 2014
Charles1,518315154:10:34Charles · 2:32:02 · 2023
Gregory1,511—15114:14:52Gregory · 2:22:07 · 2022
Jonathan1,478—14784:09:37Jonathan · 2:22:27 · 2023
Cyril1,476214744:17:45Cyril THOMAS · 2:29:01 · 2013
Martin1,467414634:00:27Martin KOSGEI · 2:08:31 · 2018
Nathalie1,413141034:56:31Nathalie · 2:57:28 · 2013
Hugo1,407214053:55:01Hugo · 2:22:30 · 2017
Stephanie1,394139314:46:58Stephanie · 2:52:50 · 2024
Herve1,393113924:29:15Herve · 2:43:54 · 2016
Mickael1,388113874:08:09Mickael · 2:27:21 · 2021
Gilles1,365113644:30:42Gilles · 2:29:27 · 2024
Yann1,354213524:11:49Yann · 2:24:03 · 2024
Richard1,311613054:25:36Richard MENGICH · 2:08:46 · 2017
James1,296—12964:19:13James · 2:24:03 · 2022
Raphael1,296412924:06:27Raphael · 2:28:13 · 2023
Baptiste1,288—12883:55:07Baptiste · 2:32:51 · 2026
Jose1,283212814:18:39Jose Maria · 2:35:23 · 2023
Loic1,273112724:08:26Loic · 2:29:29 · 2024
Julie1,266126154:39:31Julie · 2:43:31 · 2026
Isabelle1,230122914:55:54Isabelle · 2:52:55 · 2013
Victor1,207—12073:57:46Victor · 2:08:29 · 2026
Aurelien1,205—12054:05:21Aurelien · 2:24:14 · 2022
Celine1,196119154:40:09Celine · 2:57:25 · 2025
Camille1,1909722184:22:42Camille · 2:26:28 · 2023
Florent1,162—11624:06:56Florent · 2:28:47 · 2023
Samuel1,157—11574:00:48Samuel KOSGEI · 2:08:39 · 2017
Valentin1,144111433:55:21Valentin · 2:19:47 · 2025
Remi1,143211414:03:14Rémi · 2:23:21 · 2026
Bertrand1,139111384:19:15Bertrand · 2:38:14 · 2025
Caroline1,136113424:47:49Caroline · 2:45:10 · 2026
Laura1,128112354:39:50Laura · 3:04:23 · 2021
Sarah1,1121112—4:43:06Sarah KLEIN · 2:34:09 · 2016
Yannick1,092810844:16:39Yannick · 2:16:10 · 2013
Claire1,083108034:40:44Claire · 3:00:06 · 2022
Arthur1,075110743:53:05Arthur · 2:33:15 · 2026
Denis1,057110564:23:46Denis · 2:10:18 · 2022
Patrice1,052410484:27:03Patrice · 2:42:33 · 2015
Tom1,035110343:57:21Tom CARRASCOSA · 2:35:00 · 2026
Charlotte1,013101214:32:23Charlotte · 2:53:45 · 2026
Valerie1,006100514:59:19Valérie · 3:07:00 · 2014
Lucas1,005110043:55:30Lucas LIARD · 2:24:04 · 2024
Thibault985—9854:00:58Thibault TRIMBOUR · 2:30:34 · 2023
Sandrine98198014:47:30Sandrine GODIN · 2:59:20 · 2023
William975—9754:11:09William · 2:24:59 · 2014
Catherine94394215:07:15Catherine · 2:36:57 · 2021
John93119304:34:50John · 2:19:32 · 2026
Robert921—9214:31:36Robert KWAMBAI · 2:08:48 · 2014
Maria91591414:58:50Maria LOPEZ DE TEJADA · 2:56:42 · 2017
Lionel895—8954:20:05Lionel · 2:35:31 · 2022
Pauline894894—4:32:36Pauline · 2:50:07 · 2025
Peter878—8784:29:07Peter SOME · 2:05:38 · 2013
Bernard86328614:47:40Bernard KOECH · 2:11:31 · 2016
Theo85318523:56:12Théo · 2:19:39 · 2026
Aurelie847847—4:37:18Aurelie · 2:50:35 · 2026
Marion83783254:31:12Marion · 2:55:55 · 2017
Mark833—8334:24:24Mark KORIR · 2:05:49 · 2015
Etienne82918284:04:33Etienne · 2:30:38 · 2025
Virginie827827—4:45:04Virginie · 3:00:24 · 2023
Jacques825—8254:29:43Jacques · 2:33:37 · 2026
Andrew817—8174:29:06Andrew · 2:31:40 · 2023
Alex805347714:08:22Alex · 2:31:03 · 2022
Yves78217814:29:22Yves · 2:39:36 · 2015
Emilie76576414:33:13Emilie · 2:35:13 · 2022
Emma756756—4:33:47Emma QUAGLIA · 2:35:53 · 2016
Laurence751705464:53:25Laurence · 3:07:43 · 2022
Christine75074915:01:26Christine · 3:06:57 · 2021
Delphine737737—4:44:13Delphine · 2:49:15 · 2026
Mathilde72772614:27:08Mathilde · 2:51:40 · 2026
Matthew712—7124:14:57Matthew · 2:10:23 · 2022
Helene71170834:43:54Helene COLLE · 2:50:04 · 2022
Christopher701—7014:25:17Christopher · 2:21:02 · 2013
Sylvie70069645:15:41Sylvie · 3:02:51 · 2016
Anna70069914:44:32Anna · 2:55:16 · 2022
Audrey69869354:41:21Audrey · 2:51:46 · 2026
Cecile69068824:42:02Cecile · 2:56:23 · 2025
Carlos684—6844:19:08Carlos · 2:38:38 · 2018
Veronique683683—5:01:05Véronique · 2:55:45 · 2026
Gregoire677—6773:57:29Gregoire · 2:32:04 · 2025
Luc676—6764:22:12Luc · 2:21:08 · 2023
Elodie675675—4:36:53Elodie · 2:39:41 · 2018
Thibaut670—6704:07:35Thibaut · 2:23:38 · 2023
Yoann665—6654:04:27Yoann KOWAL · 2:14:56 · 2023
Edouard664—6644:04:00Edouard DUPAS · 2:21:47 · 2024
Manuel66216614:16:02Manuel · 2:21:21 · 2021
Bastien662—6623:59:19Bastien · 2:28:09 · 2025
Robin645196263:58:41Robin · 2:25:31 · 2026
Corentin641—6413:54:03Corentin · 2:27:59 · 2026
Florence64163924:55:16Florence · 2:47:07 · 2018
Christelle63563414:44:26Christelle · 2:44:10 · 2023
Chris626106164:21:40Chris · 2:31:38 · 2022
Joel625—6254:21:48Joel KIMURER · 2:05:25 · 2021
Regis623—6234:23:49Regis · 2:37:51 · 2023
Marine621621—4:28:03Marine · 2:55:39 · 2026
Remy61716164:04:18Remy · 2:38:57 · 2024
Claude615285874:38:31Claude · 2:33:47 · 2013
Chloe612612—4:27:02Chloé · 2:48:57 · 2026
Andrea6002843164:27:03Andrea · 2:33:15 · 2023
Alice600600—4:29:16Alice · 2:42:06 · 2021
Juan59435914:19:50Juan · 2:46:16 · 2022
Antonio58115804:19:27Antonio · 2:36:26 · 2025
Serge576—5764:38:29Serge · 2:49:24 · 2024
Cyrille57535724:17:24Cyrille · 2:43:17 · 2025
Alexandra572572—4:40:50Alexandra · 2:46:06 · 2013
Lucie572572—4:32:06Lucie ROSE · 2:52:39 · 2025
Melanie56656514:40:17Melanie · 3:19:53 · 2024
Gaetan565—5654:01:27Gaetan CALS · 2:16:43 · 2022
Gabriel55915584:04:16Gabriel BRIAND · 2:18:34 · 2023
Sandra558558—4:47:37Sandra · 3:04:20 · 2023
Nathan55715564:03:23Nathan · 2:33:36 · 2022
Tony54915484:15:08Tony · 2:29:54 · 2013
Lea54454314:26:06Lea · 2:59:29 · 2026
Andre54235394:25:25Andre Silva · 2:45:59 · 2025
Adam54115404:12:22Adam · 2:27:59 · 2017
Mohamed540—5404:22:28Mohamed ISMAIL · 2:05:38 · 2026
Karine537537—4:54:40Karine PASQUIER · 2:34:55 · 2015
Gerard52815274:44:47Gerard · 2:44:39 · 2023
Louise52652424:31:25Louise-Marie · 2:56:26 · 2023
Laetitia52652424:44:08Laetitia · 3:02:17 · 2021
Axel52515244:03:29Axel · 2:34:16 · 2023
Joseph522—5224:23:07Joseph · 2:36:06 · 2017
Steven513—5134:12:17Steven · 2:36:15 · 2023
Stephen509—5094:21:42Stephen CHEBOGUT · 2:06:57 · 2017
Manon506506—4:24:47Manon · 2:46:39 · 2026
Erwan50315024:02:45Erwan · 2:32:41 · 2021
Leo49824963:49:30Leo ROULLEAU · 2:22:19 · 2022
Alexander49514944:11:08Alexander · 2:31:37 · 2021
Ben48724854:06:44Ben · 2:29:43 · 2018
Corinne48047824:54:20Corinne HERBRETEAU · 2:36:26 · 2015
Marco48014794:15:54Marco · 2:32:51 · 2021
Jennifer47847624:57:45Jennifer · 3:06:39 · 2023
Carole477477—4:55:00Carole · 2:54:48 · 2014
Juliette46946814:19:46Juliette · 3:05:24 · 2025
Henri467—4674:12:18Henri · 2:47:06 · 2021
Jules46734643:54:58Jules · 2:38:59 · 2023
Gael46654614:14:26Gael · 2:38:14 · 2024
Renaud465—4654:10:01Renaud · 2:23:21 · 2022
Francis46414634:33:54Francis · 2:42:38 · 2021
Amelie46146014:33:12Amélie · 2:51:32 · 2014
Lisa46146014:36:36Lisa · 2:59:33 · 2026
Patricia46045915:07:35Patricia · 3:03:06 · 2017
Steve458—4584:21:12Steve · 2:37:50 · 2025
Luis45614554:17:21Luis Miguel · 2:40:14 · 2023
Fanny456456—4:33:08Fanny · 2:55:11 · 2018
Johan45514544:13:54Johan · 2:35:40 · 2021
Jessica453453—4:39:02Jessica · 2:59:29 · 2026
Dimitri447—4474:09:12Dimitri · 2:29:18 · 2026
Guy44514444:36:08Guy · 2:47:36 · 2014
Emmanuelle442442—4:42:15Emmanuelle · 2:49:53 · 2024
Jeremie43714364:04:54Jeremie · 2:29:03 · 2025
Justine43443314:27:46Justine · 3:03:14 · 2024
Severine43243114:41:22Severine · 2:40:05 · 2015
Jordan426174093:59:36Jordan · 2:33:11 · 2022
Karim42524234:12:45Karim · 2:41:51 · 2013
Estelle410410—4:35:38Estelle · 2:58:43 · 2026
Brice409—4094:09:43Brice · 2:21:37 · 2022
Tim407—4074:13:29Tim · 2:37:30 · 2023
Rachel40239844:57:42Rachel · 2:51:07 · 2022
Elise400400—4:28:52Elise · 2:56:26 · 2024
Tristan396—3964:02:41Tristan · 2:46:22 · 2026
Oliver396—3964:04:18Oliver · 2:31:14 · 2026
Julia396396—4:34:45Julia · 3:01:34 · 2024
Ronan392—3924:04:40Ronan · 2:28:05 · 2026
Jack39133884:05:39Jack · 2:47:16 · 2026
Alban390—3904:12:38Alban · 2:22:32 · 2016
Clemence38938814:22:08Clemence · 2:56:24 · 2022
Laure38638514:42:32Laure DESMURS · 2:52:20 · 2026
Mathias38423824:00:17Mathias KYBURZ · 2:07:44 · 2024
Jan383113724:12:16Jan-Willem · 2:35:34 · 2018
Francisco38113804:15:02Francisco · 2:40:27 · 2025
Emily380380—4:35:26Emily NGETICH · 2:30:47 · 2015
Sam377113664:04:10Sam · 2:38:21 · 2023
Maxence37413733:58:23Maxence · 2:44:17 · 2026
Miguel372—3724:14:32Miguel · 2:23:53 · 2015
Anais361361—4:29:36Anais QUEMENER · 2:32:12 · 2023
Geoffrey359—3593:59:44Geoffrey · 2:31:50 · 2024
Frank359—3594:24:21Frank · 2:56:44 · 2025
Vanessa359359—4:50:50Vanessa · 2:59:00 · 2026
Tanguy357—3573:54:38Tanguy BENKRITLY · 2:20:30 · 2023
Magali349349—4:51:36Magali · 2:56:52 · 2025
Andreas348—3484:15:04Andreas · 2:23:57 · 2022
Alan339—3394:07:45Alan · 2:45:31 · 2026
Hugues335—3354:11:15Hugues · 2:41:02 · 2025
George33433314:06:02George · 2:39:23 · 2023
Aymeric334—3344:08:46Aymeric · 2:36:57 · 2021
Morgan332283044:03:11Morgan · 2:23:11 · 2026
Amandine33233114:30:49Amandine · 3:03:54 · 2016
Victoria32932814:31:50Victoria · 3:06:59 · 2023
Mehdi324—3244:23:32Mehdi · 2:27:41 · 2024
Thibaud324—3243:59:32Thibaud · 2:25:10 · 2024
Sonia32432314:57:14Sonia · 3:05:27 · 2023
Clara32332214:18:08Clara · 2:51:24 · 2026
Margaux32232114:22:43Margaux · 2:54:22 · 2026
Ian321—3214:41:18Ian · 2:41:07 · 2025
Mikael32013194:13:40Mikael · 2:32:57 · 2016
Georges32013194:30:07Georges · 2:34:03 · 2013
Rebecca318318—4:59:34Rebecca CHESIRE · 2:31:29 · 2016
Stefan317—3174:07:26Stefan · 2:26:35 · 2022
Boris31613154:09:18Boris · 2:27:38 · 2024

Anonymised entries carry no name and are not counted. runners only.

Generations

Who races it, by age

520,575 classified finishes across 12 editions, placed in the age band the organiser filed each athlete under. A further 6 carry no usable age class.

French athletics, in two masters schemes — five-year M-bands in the recent editions, ten-year V-bands in the older ones.

The whole archive, by band

Classified finishes, all editions. Hover a bar for its count.

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How the age structure moved, 2013 to 2026

Each band’s share of the classified field that year, young at the bottom. Hover a year for its make-up.

Under 2020–3940–4950–5960–6970 and over
0%25%50%75%100%201320142015201620172018202120222023202420252026

The bands sum to the whole classified field each year, so this is composition — it says nothing about whether the race grew.

Is the mapping right?

The organiser’s class codes do not state their ages, so they are mapped — and the mapping is checked against this archive rather than taken on trust. If it were off by one class, anyone racing either side of a vocabulary change would appear to jump years in a single season.

Across 91,529 pairs of consecutive editions by the same person, the band moves backwards 2,105 times and skips more than one bucket 569 times — 97.1% consistent. The residue is the size name collisions predict.

Median finish by band

BandMarathon de Paris
Under 205:16:15 · 17
20–394:36:22 · 262,012
40–494:33:13 · 153,700
50–594:48:50 · 84,813
60–695:14:40 · 18,243
70 and over5:52:20 · 1,790

Each cell is the median of that band’s per-edition medians, with the classified finishes behind it.

Women

Women in the archive

131,798 of 520,581 classified finishes across 12 editions — 25.3%.

The highest share is 2026 at 31.8%. The furthest up an overall field any woman has finished is Flomena CHEYECH, 13th overall in 2014.

Share of the classified field

Women as a percentage of classified runners, per edition.

0%10%20%30%40%201320152017202120232026Women as a share of classified finishers, per edition

Share of the classified field. Use the left and right arrow keys to read each point.

The axis starts at zero, so the height of a point is the share.

Show the numbers
YearMarathon de Paris
201320.4%
201420.5%
201523.8%
201624.2%
201723.9%
201824.2%
202121.3%
202224.2%
202325.7%
202427.3%
202529.8%
202631.8%
How many women finished

The count, not the share — the two move differently when a race grows.

05,00010,00015,00020,000201320152017202120232026Number of women classified, per edition

How many women finished. Use the left and right arrow keys to read each point.

Show the numbers
YearMarathon de Paris
20137,910
20147,879
20159,580
201610,108
20179,814
201810,253
20215,773
20228,135
202313,046
202414,692
202516,345
202618,263

The fastest woman, every edition

With her place in the overall field, which is the number that says how far up she finished. These are mass-start races with one classification; the women’s classification is a cut of it, not a separate event.

YearFastest womanTimeOverallWomenMedian gap
2026Shure DEMISEET2:18:341818,263 · 31.8%+28:16
2025Bedatu HIRPAET2:20:452316,345 · 29.8%+28:16
2024Mestawut FIKIRET2:20:451614,692 · 27.3%+27:38
2023Helah KIPROPKE2:23:194413,046 · 25.7%+25:12
2022Judith JEPTUMKE2:19:48258,135 · 24.2%+25:22
2021Tigist MEMUYEET2:26:11245,773 · 21.3%+25:36
2018Betsy SAINAKE2:22:562710,253 · 24.2%+51:37
2017Purity RIONORIPOKE2:20:55249,814 · 23.9%+53:18
2016Visiline JEPKESHOKE2:25:531910,108 · 24.2%+53:40
2015Meseret MENGISTUETH2:23:26299,580 · 23.8%+53:56
2014Flomena CHEYECHKEN2:22:44137,879 · 20.5%+45:17
2013Boru TADESEET2:21:06277,910 · 20.4%+47:07

“Median gap” is the women’s median finish minus the men’s in the same edition. It is a gap between two medians, not between two comparable athletes: the fields differ in size, depth and age structure.

Regulars

Who keeps coming back

385,461 distinct people have finished at least one of the 12 editions. 309,772 came once and did not return; 75,689 came back at least once more.

68 people have finished every one of the 12.

How many editions people finish

Each bar is the number of people with that many finished editions. Hover for the count.

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The first step is the steep one — 80% of people who finish never come back. The right-hand tail is real but invisible at this scale; it is in the table below.

6 editions or more — 3,447 people

“Editions” counts distinct years, not finishes.

NameEditionsFinishesYearsBest
Patrick121413 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 262:37:57
Nicolas123613 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 262:43:08
Christophe123213 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 262:45:13
Fred121213 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 262:53:57
Sebastien121213 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 262:55:15
Cyrille121413 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 262:58:08
Jérôme121613 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 262:58:19
Jean-Charles121213 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 262:59:08
Olivier121213 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 262:59:12
Yann121213 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 263:00:05
Thando121213 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 263:02:51
Pascal121513 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 263:09:10
Eric121713 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 263:09:27
Bruno121213 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 263:13:48
Didier121213 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 263:13:54
Martin121313 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 263:14:20
Christian121213 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 263:15:05
Damien121213 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 263:15:46
Yann121513 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 263:16:25
Jean-Paul121213 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 263:17:00

Showing 20 of 3,447 runners who have finished more than once — the deepest 500 are listed.

How sure is “the same person”? These exports carry no athlete id, so one person across editions is a normalized name — accent- and case-folded, punctuation stripped, first and last name treated as interchangeable because the organiser swaps them between years. That merges different people who share a name, and the rate is measured rather than assumed: two finishers in the same race are certainly different humans, and 5302 such collisions occur among 520,581 named finishes. Applied to every cross-edition pair that predicts roughly 55,825 merges that are two people rather than one. Read the repeat counts as an upper bound.

About this project and its data. The results are Sport Innovation / TimeTo’s — the official timekeeper of the event. They were fetched once after the event and republished here with segment times, recomputed leaderboards and a page per athlete that the official results do not offer. The timing is their work; the analysis is mine, and any mistake in it is mine too. Course details come from Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), the organiser. Each edition is ranked as its own official results were — gun time on the older years, chip time from 2019 — established per edition against the published ordering. Athletes who asked to be anonymous in the official results stay anonymous here. Names and bib numbers come from that public classification and nothing else; if one of them is yours and you would rather it were not here, ask me and I will take it off — the result stays as an anonymous line so the totals on this page remain correct.

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