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LOTTO Poznań Maraton

The organiser has not published a date. Poznań
Poznań Old Town
© OpenStreetMap Poznań Old Town. Photograph by Scotch Mist, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons . Course line © OpenStreetMap contributors

The course

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A climb of 21 m from km 11 to km 14, another climb of 25 m from km 21 to km 24, then flat home.

Start, finish

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  1. Photo: Chris8686, CC0

km 37.1mile 23.1

Enea Stadion

The organiser's course text sends runners through Enea Stadion near the end, where it says the crowd waits.

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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 59 and 89 metres, a range of 30 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: Most Świętego Rocha, km 9.4 to 9.6; Most Przemysła I, km 19.9 to 20.1; Wiadukt Dolna Wilda, km 20.9 to 21. 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 14
  • climb to 24
  • flat 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
  • The old town returnsBack on the Old Market Square after 18 years, finish at Plac Marka.
  • Low ground, then the plateauLow through the first third, then a step up and level from km 25.
  • Race weekend 20262026: 9:00 start, expo and bibs in hall 3 of the fairground.
Course notes 3 short reads on the course
km 0 to 42.2LandmarkThe old town returnsBack on the Old Market Square after 18 years, finish at Plac Marka.

The organiser’s route text takes runners from Bukowska along Roosevelta, Pułaskiego and Aleja Wielkopolska to Sołacz, back through Garbary and Aleje Niepodległości to the centre, then over the Warta by way of Wielka, Mostowa and the St Roch bridge to the Malta lake and the Ratajskie estates. The return runs along Hetmańska through Łazarz, Górczyn, Raszyn, Junikowo and Ławica to Bukowska, through Enea Stadion and along Grunwaldzka to Plac Marka.

Sourced

km 0 to 42.2GradientLow ground, then the plateauLow through the first third, then a step up and level from km 25.

The course starts at 80 m, drops to 60 m by km 5 and reaches its low point of 59 m at km 9. It is still near 61 m at km 10 and 20, with a rise to about 76 m at km 15 between them. From km 25 it stays between 78 and 89 m, peaking at 89 m at km 34.3, and finishes at 84 m, 4 m above where it began. The 2026 course totals 93.5 m of climbing, spread in small steps rather than one hill.

Measured

km 0 to 42.2TacticsRace weekend 20262026: 9:00 start, expo and bibs in hall 3 of the fairground.

In 2026 the wheelchair start was at 8:55 and the marathon at 9:00, with the first finishers expected on Plac Marka from about 11:05. Bibs were handed out on Friday and Saturday from 10:00 to 20:00, and 4,487 runners finished.

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Race fuel

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

Finish

One every 40 minutes, the orange marks on the profile. Poznań stays within 30 m98 ft of height, so they go 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

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
93.5 m307 ft

The LOTTO Poznań Maraton is a course of 42.2 km with 93.5 m of climbing. Its lowest point is 59 m and its highest 89 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 2.11% 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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