Bath Half Marathon
| Bath Half Marathon | |
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| Date | March |
| Location | Bath, United Kingdom |
| Event type | Road |
| Distance | Half marathon |
| Established | 1981 |
| Course records |
Men's: 1:02:01 (2012) Edwin Kiptoo Women's: 1:09.27 (2007) Liz Yelling |
| Official site | bathhalf |
| Participants | 11,693 |
The Bath Half Marathon (also known as the "Vitality Bath Half Marathon" or "BATHALF") is an annual road running half marathon held in Bath, England. It has been held every year since 1981, normally on the second or third Sunday in March. The race was first run in the year after the first London Marathon in 1980 and has remained a popular race for runners preparing for the London Marathon. Since 2015 the race has been sponsored by Vitality. The next race is scheduled for Sunday 13 March 2016.
It is the largest single day charity fundraising event in South West England, raising over £2 million for charity in 2014.
Since 2000 the race has been organised by Bath-based Running High Events Ltd.
The Bath Half is a fast flat course, straddling both sides of the River Avon. The race starts and finishes in Great Pulteney Street - with a roadway spanning 46 feet (14 m) - one of the widest Georgian boulevards in Europe. The first mile is gently downhill down Pulteney Road to Churchill Bridge, then following two identical laps from Churchill Bridge, rising up past Green Park station, round Queen Square, then down Charlotte Street and westbound out of the city centre along the A4 road (Upper Bristol Road and Newbridge Road) to Newbridge and crossing the 'New Bridge' at the 'Twerton Fork' at the beginning of the dual carriageway. From here the race heads back eastbound on the A36 road back towards the city centre, along Lower Bristol Road, before crossing over Churchill Bridge and up Green Park again for the beginning of the second lap. At the end of the second lap the runners pass across Churchill Bridge, finally rising up Pulteney Road to the finish back in Great Pulteney Street.
The course route is unchanged since minor modifications in 2006, the current course being close to the original course used in early years of the race. It was remeasured in 2006 by IAAF official course measurer Hugh Jones, describing the course as 'officially flat, with three undulations'. The assembly area for the race is the Bath Recreation Ground.
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