Race Info – Sunday

Date

Start/Finish area

How to get there

Plan your trip for the quickest way to the location

• Check the timetables at the official website of Budapest’s Public Transport, BKK,
• or plan your trip either with the help of BKK application or Google maps,
• or download the BKK Futár mobile app from the Google Play Store (available for iOS and Windows phone as well)

Parking

• The parking lot is available at the northern end of the Margaret Island, next to Arpad Bridge.
• Parking spaces are limited, arrive on time.
• You must comply with the traffic signs placed in the parking lot, and follow the rules of the KRESZ (Hungarian public road traffic rules).

Starts

• 9:00 am Telekom Vivicitta Spring Half Marathon: 21.097,5 m
• 9:00 am Telekom Vivicitta Spring Half Marathon Relay for 2: 21.097,5 m in two sections run by two runners
• 9:00 am Telekom Vivicitta Spring Half Marathon Relay for 3: 21.097,5 m in two sections run by three runners
• 1:00 pm Telekom Vivicitta 10 km

The half marathon route will be published later. Click here to see the course maps of 2022.

Telekom Vivicitta Spring Half Marathon & Half Marathon Relays

• The course runs through the heart of Budapest, crosses several bridges and passes the most well-known sites of the city.

Telekom Vivicitta 10 km

• The course runs along the Danube in the heart of Budapest, crossing bridges and passing several of the most well-known sites of the city.

Bib Pick-up

• The start number can only be picked up at  the race center.
• The race center will be located on the ground floor of the Margaret Island Water Tower.

Half Marathon (21,1km):

• 21th of April between 12:00-18:00
• 22nd of April from 8:00 to 18:00
• 23rd of April between 7:00-8:30

10 kilometres:

• 21st of April between 12:00-18:00
• 22nd of April from 8:00 to 18:00
• 23rd of April from 10:00 to 12:30

Race Center

• The race center will be located on the ground floor of the Margaret Island Water Tower

ATM

• Please note that not all exhibitors accept credit cards and there is no ATM at the location, make sure you have cash.

Changing rooms

• The men’s changing room will be set up in a tent on the west side of the Great Meadow.
  The women’s changing room will be located on the floor of the Water Tower on Margaret Island.
• Facilities will be open before and after the race.
• Showers are also available on location for individual half marathon runners.
• Additionally, there will be changing rooms at the relay exchange station.

Cloakroom

• The cloakroom tents will be set up on the Pest side of the Great Meadow, near the men’s changing rooms.
• In tents at the start/finish area. It can be used with the baggage tag attached to your bib.
• Attention! We don’t guard valuables in the cloakroom!
• There will be no cloakroom at the relay exchange station.
• There will be a monitored bike rack at the site of the race.

Toilets

• There will be portable toilets and urinals for men near the race center, at the start/finish area, at each refreshment and relay exchange station.

Shower

Individual half marathon runners can use the showers located in the changing rooms of the Margaret Island Open Air Stage until 13h00. These are located on the Pest side of the Margaret Island Water Tower.

• The information about refreshment stations will be updated later.
• Details of the update will be published once the route is finalised.

Telekom Vivicitta Spring Half Marathon & Half Marathon Relays

• Five refreshment stations are expected on the route.

Telekom Vivicitta 10 km

• Two refreshment stations are expected on the route.

Telekom Vivicitta Spring Half Marathon planned finish times:

• 1 hour 30 minutes
• 1 hour 45 minutes
• 2 hours
• 2 hours 15 minutes
• 2 hours 30 minutes
• 2 hours 45 minutes
• 3 hours

Telekom Vivicitta 10 km planned finish times:

• 50 minutes
• 1 hour
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• 1 hour 30 minutes

In advance: online at entry.budapestmarathon.com until midnight on April 18. Click here for prices and further details.

On-site: If the limit has not been reached registration is also possible on-site at the race center:
There is no on-site registration for wheelchair and handbike racers!

The registration fee includes:

• participation in the race
• race number
• a unique technical T-shirt with the race logo
• a unique finisher’s medal for finishers
• refreshments
• goody bag
• medical service
• course closed to traffic
• chip timing
• other programs before and after the race
• 21.26% VAT

Entry limit

For the individual numbers including the half marathon, we can accept the first 6000 entries!

For the 10 km and 7 km individual events, as well as for the Half Marathon Pair and Trio events, we can accept the first 8100 entries in total!

Time limit

Telekom Vivicitta Spring Half Marathon & Half Marathon Relays

• 3 hours net time
• A sweep bus follows the runners at a steady pace behind the 3:00 pace runners. If you are passed by the sweep bus, you have to get on the bus, your race number will be crossed and you are not allowed to enter the finish area.

Telekom Vivicitta 10 km

• 1 hour 30 minutes net time
• A sweep bus follows the runners at a steady pace behind the 1:30 pace runners. If you are passed by the sweep bus, you have to get on the bus, your race number will be crossed and you are not allowed to enter the finish area.

Age requirement

By race day, registrants for half marathon must be 12 or older (born before April 24, 2011).

Order your medal insert engraved with your name and your result!
By doing this you can skip the long queues and you don’t have to bother with cash. Buy it online and after the event we will send you the medal insert engraved with your name and time that fits neatly into the back of your finisher medal.
We will engrave your name and time on a small stick-on metal card and send it to your postal address. When you get it you can easily stick it onto the back of your medal and your personalized medal is ready!
The medal insert can be ordered prior the race online at our website. Click here!
The personal medal insert can only be ordered for those with an individual result.
The price of the medal insert with shipping and handling (to a foreign address) is 12 €.

The picture shows last year’s medal!

We will publish the 2023 medal as soon as it is ready, and if there is place for engraved medal insert, you can order it in the online account according to the announcement.

The UHF chip will be located at the back of your bib number. Consequently, it is essential that you wear your own bib correctly: well visibly on your chest without folding it. Failure to do so may result in 10-minute time penalty.

Prizes will be issued to the top 3 male and female individuals and teams.

Rules of the relay exchange:

• At the relay exchange stations, you have to hand over the RELAY BIB to the next runner in the designated area.
• Please make sure that you finish the distance in the designated area: special tables will show you the way to the relay exchange areas and the finish line for the relay teams. Our race organizer team will be there to help you.
• Wearing the RELAY BIB on the waist during your run is obligatory and essential.
• Please pull the RELAY BIB to the front when arriving at the relay exchange area OR the finish line.
• The timing chip is attached to the RELAY BIB. Do not remove or injure the chip on the back of the RELAY BIB.
• Make sure you use your own team’s RELAY BIB
• Please leave the time measuring area as soon as possible

Relay for 2 exchange station:

Relay for 3 exchange stations:

• The location of the exchange station will be published once the route is finalised.

A list of results will be published online real time, the lists are being updated while runners are crossing the finish line. Runners who do not have a time at one of the check points along the course will not be given a rank. Those who received a 10-minute penalty will be marked with an asterisk.

During the race medical services are available at the medical area beside the finish line. If you see someone collapsing along the course please notify the race organizers posted at each kilometer sign or at the refreshment stations. At the back of each bib you can find the phone number of the medical team. Fill in the emergency section on the back of your bib. Do not forget to mention if you have taken any medication before the race!

• Please wear your race number on the front and make sure that it is clearly visible at all times and don’t fold it! Make sure you put your race number on your T-shirt properly with the safety pins which can be found in your race packet and also on the registration tables. Improper wear might result in a 10-minute time penalty.
• Participation in the event is open to any properly trained runner or wheelchair racer who has agreed to the standard terms and conditions.
• When you use earphones, you are unable to hear noises from outside, so you might obstruct a runner who is trying to pass you or race marshals or members of the medical team. It is not recommended to listen to MP3 players or any other devices plugged into both ears.
• Among the runners, there will be race organizers on bikes and motorbikes, and also ambulances if needed.
• Participants are not permitted to roller-skate, bike, run without a race number, or run with a dog. Those attempting to run accompanied by someone on a bicycle or on roller-skates can be disqualified.
• Any commercial or promotional activity should be permitted by BSI in advance, in a manner determined by BSI.
• BSI reserves the right to limit the number of participants and close registration at any time.
• BSI reserves the right to change the route,the program and the date of the event.