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Hyderabad Marathon

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Durgam Cheruvu Cable Bridge
© OpenStreetMap Durgam Cheruvu Cable Bridge. Photograph by Kavali Chandrakanth KCK, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons . Course line © OpenStreetMap contributors

The course

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A climb of 82 m from km 11 to km 18, another climb of 44 m from km 26 to km 30, then another climb of 24 m home from km 37.

StartFinish

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  1. Photo: Y Sai Kumar, CC BY 4.0

km 35.8mile 22.2

University of Hyderabad

The organiser describes a peaceful run through HCU, the University of Hyderabad campus, after the last flyover at Gachibowli.

Photo: Y Sai Kumar, CC BY 4.0

Height drawn many times taller than life. Heights: GEDTM30.

Course elevation profile, 8× vertical exaggeration Elevation along the course from km 0 to km 42. The trace runs between 516 and 608 metres, a range of 92 metres, drawn at 8 times vertical exaggeration so the shape is legible. Smoothed over 1 km before this profile was derived. An unsmoothed urban surface carries the buildings and would assert a climb that is not there. The dashed stretches are bridge decks: Necklace Road, km 7 to 7.1; Khairatabad Flyover, km 10.1 to 10.8; Punjagutta Flyover, km 13.4 to 14.5; Durgam Cheruvu Bridge, km 19.5 to 21.9; Gachibowli Flyover, km 27.1 to 28.1. A bare-earth model reads the ground or the water beneath a bridge, not the deck the runner is on, so those runs are interpolated between the ground either side rather than measured, and they under-report the real climb across a span.
0 10 20 30 40 km
0 10 20 26.2 mi

Dashed: bridge

  • climb to 18
  • climb to 30
  • climb home

Your 5 gels, at the orange marksFor a 4:00 finish, one every 40 minutes

  1. km 7mile 4.4
  2. km 14.1mile 8.7
  3. km 21.1mile 13.1
  4. km 28.1mile 17.5
  5. km 35.2mile 21.8

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The course in short 3 lines
  • From Necklace Road to a finish on the Gachibowli trackNecklace Road, Banjara Hills, the cable bridge, a campus, and a finish on the stadium track.
  • 191 m of climbing between 516 m and 608 m above sea level190.8 m of climbing; 516 m at km 1.3 to 608 m at km 30.1; a net rise of 88 m.
  • Off at 4:30 am in 2026, with an 11:00 cut-off2026: flag-off 4:30 am (elite 4:20), holding area 3:30 am, cut-off 11:00 am.
Course notes 3 short reads on the course
Whole courseGeometryFrom Necklace Road to a finish on the Gachibowli trackNecklace Road, Banjara Hills, the cable bridge, a campus, and a finish on the stadium track.

Per the organiser, the marathon starts smoothly at People’s Plaza, runs along Necklace Road and loops around Hussain Sagar before it turns serious: flyovers stack up, Raj Bhavan Road stretches the legs, and Punjagutta and Banjara Hills climb past KBR Park to the Jubilee Hills Checkpost. The Durgam Cheruvu cable bridge follows, then Mindspace, Biodiversity Junction, a last flyover at Gachibowli and a quiet run through the University of Hyderabad, with the finish on the track inside Gachibowli Athletic Stadium. This is the 2026 route.

Sourced

Whole courseGradient191 m of climbing between 516 m and 608 m above sea level190.8 m of climbing; 516 m at km 1.3 to 608 m at km 30.1; a net rise of 88 m.

The start at People’s Plaza is at 517 m and the finish in Gachibowli at 605 m, so the course ends 88 m higher than it begins. The lowest point is at km 1.3 (516.0 m) and the highest at km 30.1 (607.9 m), a relief of 91.9 m. The organiser’s own figure is 445 m of ascent and 361 m of descent, with 44.2% of the route uphill.

Measured

Whole courseTacticsOff at 4:30 am in 2026, with an 11:00 cut-off2026: flag-off 4:30 am (elite 4:20), holding area 3:30 am, cut-off 11:00 am.

The 2026 race day schedule on the organiser’s site has the half marathon at 5:30 am (cut-off 9:00), the 10K at 7:15 am (cut-off 9:15) and the 5K on Saturday 29 August. All three longer races finished at Gachibowli Stadium, with the marathon and half starting at People’s Plaza on Necklace Road.

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Race fuel

Energy gel
An energy gel sachet
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5 gels for Hyderabad, plus 1 spare

Finish

One every 40 minutes, the orange marks on the profile, by the clock:

  1. km 7mile 4.4
  2. km 14.1mile 8.7
  3. km 21.1mile 13.1
  4. km 28.1mile 17.5
  5. km 35.2mile 21.8

Our pick: SiS BETA Fuel gel, box of 6, strawberry and lime. 40 g of carbohydrate a gel, about twice a usual gel, from two kinds of sugar your body takes up side by side.

Easy to forget on race morning: pack them with your bib the night before.

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In Canada the button opens GU Energy Gel, Salted Caramel, 24-pack, the best seller there.

Outside the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the UK and Ireland, Spain and Portugal, Italy, the rest of the EU and Canada the button opens GU Energy Gel, Chocolate Outrage, 24-pack on Amazon.com, the best seller there.

Anti-chafe
Compeed Anti-blister stick
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Compeed anti-blister stick, 8 ml

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An invisible layer before the start keeps seams, straps and shoes from rubbing skin raw.

Put it on before you leave for the start: heels and toes, inner thighs, under a bra or heart-rate strap.

Try it on a long run first, like everything you use on race day.

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Number belt
A race number belt
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Compressport Race Belt

Holds your bib without safety pins through your top, with loops for up to 8 gels.

Clip the bib on the night before, so it goes on with your shorts in the morning.

Keep the number on the front, where officials and photographers can see it.

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Electrolytes
A tube of electrolyte tablets
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SiS Hydro electrolyte tablets, tube of 20

One tablet in a bottle puts back some of the salt you sweat out.

One tablet in 500 ml of water in the hour before the start.

Only if you have used them in training: nothing new on race day.

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Blister plasters
Compeed Blister plasters, medium, 6
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Compeed

Compeed blister plasters, medium, 6

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One in a pocket cushions a blister if one starts.

Put it on clean, dry skin and leave it until it comes off by itself.

Give a couple to whoever comes to cheer, so they are there at the km you need them.

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distance
42.2 km26.2 mi
climb
190.8 m626 ft

The Hyderabad Marathon is a hilly course of 42.2 km with 190.8 m of climbing. Its lowest point is 516 m and its highest 608 m above sea level.

Trip

Getting a place

Entry through the organiser

Entry details on the organiser’s site →

The organiser, a third party. We take no entries and have no part in the race.

Sources and licence

Last checked.

Course line matched onto OpenStreetMap road geometry: (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License 1.0 (ODbL). Elevation sampled from GEDTM30, Global Ensemble Digital Terrain Model at 30 m (v1.2): Elevation: GEDTM30 (Ho & Hengl, OpenGeoHub), CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Elevation gain computed by us from that line, smoothed over 1 kmsmoothed over 0.6 mi.

The line follows the road down its middle, so it measures 0.25% longer than the certified distance, which is measured on the shortest legal line through every bend.

Date and entry information from the organiser.

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