World Athletics Gold Label + CAA Category A — Registration for the 2026 SPDB Shanghai Half Marathon opens today at 10:00!

Public runners pre-registration period：January 16 10:00 to January 19 14:00.

The lottery results will be announced on January 27.

Payment period is January 27 to January 30, 12:00

Direct-entry runners registration period：January 16 10:00 to January 23 12:00

Entry fee：160 RMB per person

Registration platform：Shangma APP or the Shanghai Half Marathon official website

As an important part of the Shanghai Marathon system, this year's event continues the "direct qualification to the Shanghai Marathon" mechanism:The top 200 men and top 100 women finishers will receive direct entry to the 2026 Shanghai Marathon.

Last year's automatic qualifying times — men: 1:17:55, women: 1:33:37. With automatic entry slots becoming increasingly competitive, what time do you think you'll have to run this year to secure direct entry to the Shanghai Marathon?

As a World Athletics Gold Label event, last year's editionwas organized toPlatinum-level standards and invited 22 international guest athletes, including many popular Hakone Ekiden competitors such asOta Sosei,Hirabayashi Kiyosumi,Aito Satoand others. Ota Sosei has competed in this race for two consecutive years — will we see him again this year? Asahi Kuroda?

The Chinese Athletics Association merged A1 and A2 events into Category A last year, so this year's Shanghai Half Marathon is classified as a World Athletics A race.7:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 15 the gun will go, with a field of 15,000 runners. The start is at the Oriental Pearl (Fenghe Road), and the finish is set at the SPDB Oriental Sports Center (Yongyao Road).

Are you ready to register? Good luck, everyone!