Vantaan Maraton, live.

Four laps around Tikkurila

A city marathon where the same 10.5 km lap is run four times and every lap comes back past the race centre.

Vantaan Maraton — the Vantaa Marathon — is run in October from Tikkurila Sports Park, where the current event has been held since 1994. The 2026 race was on Saturday 3 October 2026; the organiser lists the next one for Saturday 9 October 2027. Start and finish are in the sports park in front of the race office, at Läntinen Valkoisenlähteentie 52–54. The programme has a marathon, a half marathon, road races over 10 km and 5 km, a 4 × 10.55 km marathon relay and a children’s minimarathon.

The course is a 10.5 km lap: four times for the marathon, twice for the half. Each lap has three drink stations — at 3.5 km on Niittytie, at 7.0 km on Angervotie and at 10.5 km at the race centre — serving runners’ own bottles, sports drink and water. There are pacers in the marathon and the half, and the marathon time limit is 6 hours. In 2026 the route had to be changed slightly around the Vantaa light-rail construction sites. The race is run by three local clubs, Kenttäurheilijat-58, Korson Kunto and Vantaan Salamat, with around 150 volunteers.

A lap course is kind to spectators: in the sports park you see your runner every 10.5 km. The hour in between is what Livebib is for. The runner shares a link to their own broadcast, and family and friends open it in a browser, with no account and no app: position on the course line, distance covered and a finish estimate that updates as the race goes. Anything estimated is marked as estimated, and the runner decides who gets the link.