Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships marathon gold medallist Richard Ringer will head the German squad who will contest the Roma 2024 half marathon.
Ringer will be joined by Germany’s marathon and half marathon record-holder Amanal Petros, Samuel Fitwi Sibhatu, Simon Boch, Hendrik Pfeiffer and Filimon Abraham in the men’s team.
Melat Kejeta, the 2020 World Athletic Half Marathon Championships silver medallist, is joined by Domenika Mayer, Fabienne Königstein, Esther Pfeiffer, former U20 and U23 European champion on the track Alina Reh and Katharina Steinruck in the women’s team.
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First time since Gothenburg 2006, a European Athletics Championships road race will finish inside the main stadium.
Both half marathons take place on Sunday 9 June on a largely flat and spectator-friendly course, allowing fans to spot their favourite runners multiple times on their 13.1-mile journeys.
The men’s race is scheduled for 9.00am followed by the women’s race at 9.30am with the Fori Imperiali providing an impressive and dramatic backdrop for the start of both races.
Iconic sites
From there, the course passes some of the most iconic sites of the host city, running alongside the Altare della Patria in Piazza Venezia, then crossing the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and Piazza Navona, heading for Castel Sant'Angelo and St. Peter's Square, before moving towards Piazza Mazzini and reaching Lungotevere Guglielmo Oberdan, the main road along the River Tiber.
After six kilometres, the athletes will then complete three loops of a circuit which passes the Ponte della Musica and crosses the Tiber on Ponte Duca D'Aosta.
The closing kilometres of the course will be run through the grounds of the Foro Italico Park before a grandstand finish inside the Stadio Olimpico where the individual and team champions will be crowned.
The fast and flat course will also give the half marathon winners a chance to take one of the ten €50,000 performance bonuses that will be on offer at the European Athletics Championships for the first time.