Announcing the prize money for top finishers
12 March 2024At the Rimi Riga Marathon on May 18-19, we will provide prize money for the top finishers of all distances – DPD mile (1609m), 5km, 10km, half marathon and marathon. This year, for both men and women, the prize money pool for the fastest finishers will be the same, ensuring full gender equality.
In order to motivate runners to achieve high-quality results and records, we will also award additional bonuses for breaking the best results of the Rimi Riga Marathon courses, as well as for any Latvian records that might fall in the Rimi Riga Marathon!
Prize money
In the marathon and half-marathon distance, we will award prize money to the top six finishers, while in the 10km, 5km and DPD mile distances, cash prizes will be awarded to those runners who finish in the podium positions. Cash prizes for marathoners and half marathoners will also depend on the quality of the finishing result (see the tables below for more details).
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. Runners will be entitled to €1,500 for setting a new men’s course record (2:08:51) or a new women’s course record (2:26:16) of the Rimi Riga Marathon 42km distance, while for setting a new men’s course record (59:10) or women’s course record (1:07:25) of the Rimi Riga Marathon half marathon runners will be entitled to a €3,000 bonus. These bonuses only apply to the first place winner.
Also, in order to motivate Rimi to break one of the Latvian records in the Riga Marathon, the new record holders will receive cash prizes for any such an achievement. For setting the Latvian men’s marathon record (2:14:23) – €1,200, for setting a new Latvian women’s record in the marathon (2:22:56) – €2,500, for a new Latvian men’s half marathon record (1:04:21) – €800, while for women (1:08:43) – 1500 €. For breaking the Latvian record in the mile distance for men (4:15.87) and women (4:52.00), 5km distance for men (14:14) and women (15:23) 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 per the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Latvia.