The Berlin Marathon is a marathon held every year on the streets of Berlin, Germany, on the last weekend of September, with the course starting and finishing near the Brandenburg Gate. Horst Milde, a local baker and running enthusiast, established it in 1974, when 244 runners finished. The weekend includes the marathon itself, a race for the public, an inline skating race, a handcycle race, a wheelchair race and a children's marathon. Its flat, fast course has made it the site of repeated marathon world records, broken there on thirteen occasions, and the elite running and wheelchair races belong to the World Marathon Majors. The 2024 race marked the fiftieth anniversary of the event and set a record for the most finishers in a marathon at that time.
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