The Valencia Half Marathon 2025 sells out its race bibs the day it opens to the general public

The Valencia Half Marathon Trinidad Alfonso Zurich 2025 has had to hang up the sold-out sign today after opening registration to the general public following a week of preferential access for participants in the 2024 race, who have shown real loyalty to the race.

The opening of registration to the general public for the Valencia Half Marathon and Marathon has generated so much interest that at some points as many as 36,000 people were in the waiting room (a system to avoid overloading the website). In the case of the Valencia Half Marathon 2025, which will take place on 26th October, the rush to sign up for the event has been such that the 12,000 registrations that were put on sale flew out the door in less than three hours and the organisers have now had to set up a waiting list.

For 2025, both races have maintained their capacity and maximum number of runners. In the case of the 21K this remains at 25,000 bibs, while the Valencia Marathon has made a maximum of 35,000 bibs available for runners.

Loyal runners

Since 4 December and until the opening to the general public, everyone participating in 2024 has been able to register on a preferential basis. This is an exclusive period through which the organisers, SD Correcaminos and Valencia City Council, reward the loyalty of participants every year and which, this year, was extended to runners from the towns affected by the flooding last October who had to cancel their registration.

At the time it opened to the general public, the half marathon had already sold more than 13,000 race bibs, a figure that shows the loyalty of the runners to the Valencian race, as more than 50% of those who participated in 2024 in the 21K want to repeat the experience in Valencia Ciudad del Running in 2025. This is much higher than last year’s figure, which was around 40%. This preferential period also closed with 69% of registrations coming from Valencian runners.

Paco Borao, president of SD Correcaminos, said he was overwhelmed by the reaction of the runners: “To be trusted by the runners is a wonderful thing, but what happened today is unbelievable. No one would ever have imagined it, neither young nor old. Thank you very much all of you for choosing Valencia for your challenges”.

Charity organisation for 2025

With the opening of the registration for next year’s race, the voluntary charitable donations the runners make to the race’s charity have also begun and, for the half marathon, the charity will be ASPAS Valencia.