The Lille Métropole Half Marathon (French

French language

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: Semi-Marathon de Lille Métropole) is an annual half marathon

Half marathon

A half marathon is a road running event of . It is half the distance of a marathon and usually run on roads. Participation in half marathons has grown steadily recently. One of the main reasons for this is that it is a challenging distance, but does not require the same level of training that a...

 foot race which takes place in Lille

Lille

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, France

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 in early September. First organised by the Association de Promotion des Événements Lillois in 1986, the race began as a marathon

Marathon

The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

 event before switching to the shorter distance in 1996. The course of the race begins in the Boulevard de la Liberté and finishes at the front of Lille's city hall on Rue de Paris.

The French Half Marathon Championships were held concurrently with the final edition of the marathon race in 1995. Bruno Leger was the men's winner with a time of 1:02:31 while Christine Mallo took the women's title in 1:12:05. The half marathon race has delivered some fast winning times – the 2009 race saw the top three men run under an hour and Mary Keitany ran the seventh quickest run ever to become the women's race winner.

Marathon

Edition	Year	Men's winner	Time (h Hour The hour is a unit of measurement of time. In modern usage, an hour comprises 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds... :m Minute A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle. The minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 seconds. In the UTC time scale, a minute on rare occasions has 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. The minute is not an SI unit; however, it is accepted for use with SI units... :s Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Women's winner	Time (h Hour The hour is a unit of measurement of time. In modern usage, an hour comprises 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds... :m Minute A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle. The minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 seconds. In the UTC time scale, a minute on rare occasions has 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. The minute is not an SI unit; however, it is accepted for use with SI units... :s Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )
1st	1986		2:14:16		2:33:58
2nd	1987		2:14:41		2:41:43
3rd	1988		2:13:08		2:42:25
4th	1989		2:14:11		2:45:15
5th	1990		2:14:51		2:37:46
6th	1991		2:17:45		2:42:38
7th	1992		2:13:15		2:35:46
8th	1993		2:14:24		2:36:50
9th	1994		2:14:53		2:43:55
10th	1995		2:14:48		2:36:21

Half marathon

Edition	Year	Men's winner	Time (h Hour The hour is a unit of measurement of time. In modern usage, an hour comprises 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds... :m Minute A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle. The minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 seconds. In the UTC time scale, a minute on rare occasions has 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. The minute is not an SI unit; however, it is accepted for use with SI units... :s Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )	Women's winner	Time (h Hour The hour is a unit of measurement of time. In modern usage, an hour comprises 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds... :m Minute A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle. The minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 seconds. In the UTC time scale, a minute on rare occasions has 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. The minute is not an SI unit; however, it is accepted for use with SI units... :s Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )
1st	1996		1:02:11		1:11:21
2nd	1997		1:01:10		1:11:26
3rd	1998		1:01:46		1:12:43
4th	1999		1:00:38		1:12:38
5th	2000		1:01:30		1:11:08
6th	2001		1:02:08		1:13:16
7th	2002		1:01:42		1:11:45
8th	2003		1:00:52		1:09:39
9th	2004		1:01:01		1:10:15
10th	2005		1:00:54		1:11:37
11th	2006		1:01:20		1:11:36
12th	2007		59:45		1:08:43
13th	2008		59:36		1:11:42
14th	2009		59:37		1:07:00
15th	2010		59:34		1:07:40
16th	2011		1:00:02		1:08:21

Winners by country

Country	Men's race	Women's race	Total
	10	9	19
	2	3	5
	1	2	3
	1	0	1
	0	1	1
	1	0	1

Multiple winners

Athlete	Country	Wins	Years
Joseph Maregu		2	2006, 2007
Mary Keitany		2	2007, 2009

External links

• Official website