Course Marathon

The marathon is an individual sporting event of running

The marathon is an individual running sporting event which is usually contested on the road over a distance of 42.195 kilometres.

This sporting event is inspired by a historical fact or what tradition says about it.

Philippides, a Greek messenger, is said to have run from Marathon to Athens, a distance of about 40 km

to announce the victory against the Persians at the end of the battle of Marathon during the first Persian war in

Arrived out of breath on the Areopagus, he would have died there after having delivered his message.