TotalEnergies Bilbao Night Half Marathon Certified World Athletics Label

Inaugurated in 2010 as a competitive 21K road running race, TotalEnergies Bilbao Night Half Marathon sits now alongside the world’s premier running races. By receiving the World Athletics prestigious Road Race Label, the global governing body of athletics recognized the world class quality of event organization, high standard of course and elite field of athletes.

About TotalEnergies Bilbao Night Half Marathon

The Half Marathon has carried out a homologation of the circuit at an international level that has been definitive in meeting all the requirements of world-class races.

The rest of the requirements were already met within the ordinary services that it has been providing to its runners for 15 years.

• Have at least 3 years of seniority.
• Be part of the National Calendar.
• Have an internationally approved circuit.
• Carry out anti-doping controls.
• Have elite WA athletes.
• Precisely mark the route.
• Have adequate supplies.
• Perform timing with chip system.
• Live broadcast of the race,
• Offer pacemakers.
• Make the exit through drawers.
• Etc.
  

About the World Athletics Labels

The World Athletics Label is available to all duly-sanctioned road races that have taken place for at least two consecutive years prior to 2023 and hold an international measurement certificate.

The “World Athletics Label Road Races” program gathers the world’s leading road races.

A World Athletics Label denotes high standards in event organization, safety and runner experience, application of the World Athletics Competition Rules, support from public authorities to the event and a financial commitment to anti-doping.

The Labels also categorize elite competitions, with implications on ranking points available to international elite athletes, Olympics and World Championships qualification slots offered by the highest-categorized competitions.

About World Athletics

On 17 July 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden, following the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in the Swedish capital, the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) was founded as the world governing body for the sport of track and field athletics.

During the 10 decades that followed, World Athletics underwent many changes which reflected the political and socio-economic evolution of the wider world. Even the IAAF’s name has changed, in 2001 becoming the ‘International Association of Athletics Federations’ to reflect the growth of a professional sporting world which did not exist in 1912, and then again in 2019 to ‘World Athletics’.

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