Tirana Marathon

Tirana Marathon is Albania's largest annual road race, organized by Tirana Municipality together with Fortius Athletic Club, with routes approved by World Athletics. The event starts and finishes at Skanderbeg Square in the heart of the capital, and the course also passes the Blloku neighborhood before returning to the finish. Race day includes four distances: the full Marathon (42.195K), Half Marathon (21.0975K), Tirana 10K, and "We Too," a 2.3K category for participants with disabilities. All categories require participants to be at least 18 years old on race day. The next edition, the 10th, is confirmed for Sunday, October 25, 2026 with a 09:00 start from Skanderbeg Square, again held during a year Tirana holds the title "Mediterranean Capital of Culture and Dialogue"; the organizers' own recap of the prior (9th, 2025) edition cites more than 4,000 runners from Albania and abroad, with a 6-hour course cutoff. Registration is open now via the official EasyPay ticketing platform; exact 2026 entry pricing is not published on any publicly accessible page (the EasyPay checkout itself returns a Cloudflare bot challenge to automated access), so the listed price remains a low-confidence estimate carried over from prior-cycle research.