2025 Berlin Marathon


The 2025 Berlin Marathon was the 51st edition of the annual marathon race in Berlin, held on Sunday, September 21, 2025. A Platinum Label marathon, it was one of the six World Marathon Majors events scheduled for 2025.
Kenyan runner Sabastian Sawe won the men's race with a world-leading time of 2:02:16. Fellow Kenyan runner Rosemary Wanjiru won the women's race with a time of 2:21:05. Swiss wheelchair athletes Marcel Hug and Manuela Schär won their respective races. This was Hug's tenth and Schär's seventh win at the Berlin Marathon.

Competitors

The elite field for the 2025 edition was noted for its depth. The men's race featured defending champion Milkesa Mengesha, but the favorite was Sabastian Sawe, who had a phenomenal start to his marathon career with two wins in two major races. Despite very warm conditions, Sawe ran a solo race for the final 17 kilometers to secure the victory.
The women's elite field was headlined by Rosemary Wanjiru, who had an impressive debut at the Berlin Marathon in 2022. Wanjiru won after a dramatic finish, holding off a late surge from Ethiopian runner Dera Dida to win by three seconds. The race also featured both Japanese national record holders, Kengo Suzuki and Honami Maeda, a rare occurrence for a marathon outside of Japan.

Results

Results for the top ten in the running races and top six in the wheelchair races are listed below.
PositionAthleteNationalityTime
Sabastian Sawe2:02:16
Akira Akasaki2:06:15
Chimdessa Debele2:06:57
4Guye Adola2:07:11
5Yuhei Urano2:07:35
6Hassan Chahdi2:07:43
7Shin Kimura2:08:37
8Hendrik Pfeiffer2:09:14
9Joseph Tiophil Panga2:09:35
10Ahmed Ouhda2:10:39

PositionAthleteNationalityTime
Marcel Hug1:17:30
David Weir1:23:13
Geert Schipper1:24:14
4Jetze Plat1:24:14
5Hiroki Nishida1:24:14
6Ludwig Malter1:24:15