ATHENS RUNNING WEEKENDS

Welcome to “World Senior Games 2017” a worldwide event with different sports and events taking place all together, one of the most interesting athletic events held in Greece. Take the chance to participate in this exciting event and explore the beautiful city of Athens!

Welcome to “World Senior Games 2017” a worldwide event with different sports and events taking place all together, one of the most interesting athletic events held in Greece. Take the chance to participate in this exciting event and explore the beautiful city of Athens!

The Epidavros Historic Run is an exciting event taking place in one of the most important and popular archaeological sites in Greece offering the chance to combine running and enjoying the Theatre of Epidavros. With its extraordinary acoustics, this has become a very popular venue for productions from all over the world.

The "Nafplio Marathon" is a nice opportunity to run a fantastic route in one of the most beautiful towns in the area of Argolis (in eastern Peloponnese) as well as one of the most romantic, mysterious, blessed, full of natural beauty and culture cities all over Greece. Runners will have the chance to enjoy the city that was the first capital of the newly born Greek state between 1823 and 1834 and at the same time walking with the history, in the old town, they can easily release the important days this placed lived. Nafplio is a perfect base to explore major archeaological sites in Greece (Theatre of Epidaurus, Mycenae, Tyrins and many more).

For the 34th time, “Athens Marathon. The Authentic” is ready to welcome more than 35,000 runners of all ages with 15,000 of them running the entire Authentic Marathon Course, also known as The Classic Marathon A celebration of human will and mind, of solidarity and primary values, bearing messages for a better future at personal, community, national and international level.

The Meteora Trail Run is a unique chance to experience the 'Greece’s city in the sky' with the most captivating views at place 'out of this world'. A location with immense, breathtaking rock formations, 'sculpted' by the very hand of God is characterized by U.N.E.S.C.O as a “monument of Humanity that has to be maintained“. Meteora is one of Christianity’s holiest places as well as a landscape of outstanding natural beauty.

Run around Thessaloniki center and enjoy the beauty of the city through an appealing running night run event of low difficulty. Experience an outstanding celebration mood that characterizes this event during the evening and explore an outstanding celebration mood that characterizes this event during the evening.

The "Spetses mini Marathon-Cross Spetses Channel Swimming Competition" is a mass sporting event being held in an island boasting a long naval tradition and rich history, offering a variety of activities, short excursions and romantic trips around the island in horse-drawn carriages.

Run “Andros Trail Race 2016” and experience wild, breathtaking landscapes, scenery and face new challenges! Run through nature’s and man’s amazing “creations” such as old tracks, cobbled old streets, Venetian pathways and certified hiking trails, high mountains, ravines and streams, small oak forests, fountains, water mills, stone bridges, traditional villages, Monasteries and medieval Castles. Explore Andros’ sandy beaches, the rocky coastlines, rich history and elegant architecture.

Run the ’Ioannina Lake Run 2016’ and to explore the vivid city of Ioannina, surrounded by abundant natural beauty and endowed with rich historical evidence and experience running along the lakeside of Pamvotis lake. Run the biggest race of 30km lakeside flat asphalt path and achieve your Personal Best!
In addition, the flat route will enable you to achieve a Personal Best!

The Naxathlon 2016 is offering a unique endurance sporting experience and adventure in a place which is considered to be the "heart" of the Aegean combining the magic of the beaches and the beautiful mountainous landscape as an exotic backdrop, offering a feast of activities.

"Navarino Challenge 2016" is taking place in one of the most breathtaking and unspoiled landscapes in Greece, where the film "Before Midnight", sequel to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, was wrapped and shot. It aims to the awareness regarding childhood obesity and the benefits of the Mediterranean diet, an idea of the world's leading Greek American Supreme Marathon runner, Dean Karnazes.

Run “Tinos Marble Trail 2016” and experience the wild natural landscape of the area, featuring impressive gorges, virgin beaches and rocky coasts, as well as the manmade features, including traditional villages and abandoned settlements, handmade footpaths, old stone-walls, remaining windmills and pigeon houses, marble quarries, white-plastered monasteries and churches.

Run “Syros City Trail 2016” and discover an island where Greek tradition and western influence come to a harmonious marriage. Explore one of most interesting islands in Cyclades due to its glorious past and unique combination of the Greek Classicism & Rennaisance styles, the Cycladic culture and its Roman Catholic & Orthodox history.

Chios Half Marathon is a fantastic opportunity to discover a diverse and fragrant island. Medieval mastic villages, beautiful beaches, old mansions with stone pebbled courtyards, village castles perched on rocks, museums and Byzantine monuments, explosive customs, impressive caverns, Oinousses and Psara isles, long lasting traditions, History, distinguished personalities, culture, architecture, nature and a thriving city form a unique waiting to be discovered destination.

The Epidavros 15K Run Race is an exciting event taking place in one of the most important and popular archaeological sites in Greece offering the chance to combine running and enjoying the Theatre of Epidavros. With its extraordinary acoustics, this has become a very popular venue for the annual Epidavros Festival productions of Classical drama, which are staged on Friday and Saturday nights from June through until the last weekend in August.

The Antiparos Run Race is an exciting running event taking place in a small holiday paradise located southwest of Paros Island in the Greek islands of The Cyclades. The calm cycladic landscape, with the scattered churches, the famous cave and the Enetic castle, is ideal for running.

Agistri Running and Swimming Race 2016 is offering the chance to run, swim, walk and have fun at a tiny green island with crystal beaches, attracting many tourists looking for relaxing holidays. The island of Agistri, a name that in Greek is translated as “Fishing Hook”, is a small yet beautiful island in the Saronic Gulf just 1 hour from Piraeus port in Agistri.

The “Tinos Running Experience”, taking place in a spiritual island, is offering a mix of religious traditions and unspoiled architecture and natural beauty giving to it a particular character. Runners can enjoy beautiful beaches and its traditional villages, the simplicity of the life, the gentle curve of its hills.

The International Mountain Race Psiloritis, except the uniqueness of Crete, is offering a unique mountain endurance sporting experience and adventure in the place where Zeus brought up. Please note that eligibility to Psiloritis Race have men and women, who on the race day will have completed the age of 18 and that they have taken part in any trail race or in a rough asphalt road race before. In order to participate in the race it is needed to have taken part in any race or in a rough asphalt road race.