22nd Cracovia Marathon: registration has started! On 6 April 2025 be with us at the starting line!
You can now register online for next year's most important running event in Kraków - the 22nd Cracovia Marathon! Registration for those willing to face the unique marathon route ‘through history’ started on 6 November 2024 - just 5 months before the event. 7,500 people will be able to take part in the challenge over the royal distance with the start (at 9:00 a.m.) and finish on Krakow's Main Market Square, scheduled for 6 April 2025.
#ThroughHistory
Organised since 2002, the Cracovia Marathon is the most important running event in Kraków and the largest spring run over the royal distance in Poland. The event is held under the motto ‘through history’. Since 2014, the start and finish line of the marathon have been located on the Main Market Square, one of the most recognisable places in Kraków. Participants run past the city's most important monuments, such as the Cloth Hall, Wawel Royal Castle and ‘Na Skałce’ church. They also pass modern buildings characteristic of the capital of Małopolska, such as the TAURON Arena Kraków, the ICE Kraków Congress Centre or the Father Bernatek footbridge. In 2005, the runners made their first appearance in Nowa Huta and returned there in 2018, after a five-year break.
Cracovia Marathon in numbers
The Cracovia Marathon is one of the most popular running events in Poland. It is also the most international of all Polish marathons, with the highest turnout of participants from abroad in the country. Past editions of the Cracovia Marathon have hosted runners from 70 countries.
The course records of the Cracovia Marathon, both among men and women, were set during its 18th edition. They are respectively for men: 2:09:18 (Cyprian Kotut from Kenya) and for women 2:28:03 (Victoriya Khapilina from Ukraine).
Royal Running Triad 2025 and Gold Series 42
The 22nd Cracovia Marathon, together with the 18th Three Mounds' Run and the 11th Cracovia Royal Half Marathon, will form the 8th edition of the Royal Running Triad - those planning to win the trophy should also note in their calendar the dates of 21 September 2025 - for the 18th Three Mounds’ Run and 12 October 2025 for the 11th Cracovia Royal Half Marathon.
The 22nd Cracovia Marathon will also be the first run as part of the Gold Series 42 cycle - a new project which connects the Cracovia Marathon, the Warsaw Marathon and the Poznań Marathon.
Registration for the 22nd Cracovia Marathon
Online registration for the 22nd Cracovia Marathon is carried out via registration form. Before registering, please read the REGULATIONS of the run. Online registrations will be accepted until 25 March 2025 or until the day on which the limit of starters is exhausted. If there are spaces left, registrations will still be available at the Competition Office - on 4-5 April 2025.
A valid entry is deemed to be a correctly completed entry form and payment of the entry fee. If payment is not made immediately after registration, the application is considered invalid.
Group registration
Group registration is possible. The minimum number of athletes that can be signed up in this way is 5 people. There is a 10% discount for groups of 10 or more. Details on the group registration rules can be found HERE.
Terms of participation
There is a limit of 7,500 participants. The organiser reserves the right to change the above limit.
The run is open to persons who will be 18 years of age on 6 April 2025 at the latest.
To be classified, a competitor must run along the approved route and complete the run within the regulatory time of 6 hours.
Entry fee
PLN 160 – until 10.01.2025*
PLN 200 – from 11.01.2025 to 28.02.2025*
PLN 250 – from 01.03.2025 to 31.03.2025*
PLN 280 – 4-5.04.2025 at the Competition Office, in case the limit of participants is not reached.
* or until the limit of participants is reached
Payment of the entry fee can only be made via the PayU payment system up to 25 March 2025, directly after registering for participation or - in the case of not exceeding the limit of participants and accepting entries - at the Competition Office, at the aforementioned rate.
Failure to pay at the time of entry will result in removal from the start list.
The PayU system allows payment of the entry fee in EURO by converting the entry fee according to the EURO exchange rate on the day of payment. It is not possible to pay in EURO at the Competition Office.
T-shirt
Starter package do not include a T-shirt. When registering, competitors only declare their desire to purchase a T-shirt and select its size. T-shirts will be sold by the Technical Sponsor of the Cracovia Marathon, at a dedicated stand in the Competition Office at the Expo. The Organiser does not act as an intermediary in the purchase of T-shirts.
Attention! Please read the following documents:
Regulations of the 22nd Cracovia Marathon
Starter package pickup instructions
Run the 22nd Cracovia Marathon and create history with us!