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. +Men's race resultPositionAthleteNationalityTimeSabastian Sawe2:02:16Akira Akasaki2:06:15Chimdessa Debele2:06:574Guye Adola2:07:115Yuhei Urano2:07:356Hassan Chahdi2:07:437Shin Kimura2:08:378Hendrik Pfeiffer2:09:149Joseph Tiophil Panga2:09:3510Ahmed Ouhda2:10:39 +Women's race resultPositionAthleteNationalityTimeRosemary Wanjiru2:21:05Dera Dida2:21:08Azmera Gebru2:21:294Violah Cheptoo2:21:405Fantu Worku2:21:576Fabienne Königstein2:22:177Degitu Azimeraw2:23:028Domenika Mayer2:23:169Honami Maeda2:24:3610Mestawut Fikir2:24:52 +Wheelchair men's race resultPositionAthleteNationalityTimeMarcel Hug1:17:30David Weir1:23:13Geert Schipper1:24:144Jetze Plat1:24:145Hiroki Nishida1:24:146Ludwig Malter1:24:15 +Wheelchair women's race resultPositionAthleteNationalityTimeManuela Schär1:35:08Jade Hall1:40:18Eden Rainbow-Cooper1:40:194Tatyana McFadden1:40:225Patricia Eachus1:47:256Vanessa De Souza1:47:29
References
See also World Marathon Majors List of marathon races List of World Athletics Label marathon races
External links Official site