Announcing the prize money!
5 March 2025At the Rimi Riga Marathon on May 17-18, we will provide prize money for the top finishers of all distances – DPD mile (1609m), 6km, 10km, half marathon and marathon. For both men and women, the prize money pool for the fastest finishers will be the same, ensuring full gender equality.
The Rimi Riga Marathon prize money pool this year reflects athletic priorities, anticipating top results on the new single-loop 42km course and the courses inherited from World Road Running Championships – 21km and DPD Road Mile.
In order to motivate runners to achieve high-quality results and records, we will also award additional bonuses for breaking the course records and national records!
Prize money
In the marathon and half-marathon distance, we will award prize money to the top six finishers, while in the 10km, 6km and DPD mile distances, cash prizes will be awarded to those runners who finish in the podium positions. Cash prizes for marathoners, half marathoners and DPD Mile finishers will also depend on finishing times.
Additional bonuses for records
In addition to cash prizes for the top finishers, we will also award cash prizes to those runners who will beat the records of the Rimi Riga Marathon in either of the longer distances and DPD Mile.
Runners who break the Rimi Riga Marathon 42km course record – 2:08:51 for men or 2:26:18 for women – will receive €1,500. Additionally, a €3,000 bonus will be awarded if the finishing time is 2:07:00 or faster (only for the 1st place finisher). The same applies to the 21 km distance: runners who break the Rimi Riga Marathon half marathon record – 59:10 for men or 1:07:13 for women – will receive €1,500. A €3,000 bonus will be awarded if the finishing time is 59:00 or faster (only for the 1st place finisher). For the Rimi Riga Marathon DPD Mile, runners who break the course record – 3:56.13 for men or 4:20.98 for women – will receive €1,500.
In order to motivate to break Latvian records in the Rimi Riga Marathon, cash prizes are secured for setting the Latvian men’s marathon record (2:14:23) and Latvian women’s record in the marathon (2:22:56) – €1,500, for setting a new Latvian men’s half marathon record (1:04:21) and women (1:08:43) – 750 €. For breaking the Latvian record in the DPD mile distance for men (4:15.87) and women (4:52.00), or 10km distance for men (29:10) and women (31:33) €500 will be due. These cash prizes are only available to citizens of Latvia.
Income tax is deducted from all cash prizes according to the legislation of the Republic of Latvia.
