| Bgcolour: | darkred |
| Date: | November |
| Location: | Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
| Type: | Road |
| Distance: | Half marathon |
| Est: | 1997 |
| Record: | Men: 1:00:11 (2013) Franklin ChepkwonyWomen: 1:08:24 (2019) Nancy Jelagat |
| Sponsor: | New Balance |
| Participants: | 8,108 (2019) 7,873 (2018) |
The Boulogne-Billancourt Half Marathon (fr|Semi-marathon de Boulogne-Billancourt) is an annual road running event over the half marathon distance which takes place in November in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
The event was first organised in 1997 by the Athletic Club de Boulogne-Billancourt. The race steadily increased in size in its first years, attaining 1000 entrants by 2000 and doubling this number three years later. The Fédération française d'athlétisme classed it as a national level race in 2006 and following the participation of 4000 runners from 26 countries, it was raised to international race status the following year.[1]
At the 2008 edition, Kenyan Nicholas Manza ran a race record time of 1:00:12 hours. A year later, Ethiopia's Firehiwot Dado became the first woman to complete the distance in under one hour and ten minutes, setting the women's course record of 1:09:26 hours.[1] The 2011 race was the first run with IAAF Bronze Label Road Race status, marking it as one of the foremost races of its kind.[2]
The course for the race is a looped circuit that starts and finishes at the town hall. It follows a clockwise route along the river Seine, passing the Sèvres - Cité de la céramique, Pont de Saint-Cloud. It heads north towards the Longchamp Racecourse and has a short loop through the Bois de Boulogne, where it reaches the halfway mark. At this point the course loops back on itself and follows the Seine in a southerly direction until it finally ends up at the town hall finish point.[3]
Key:
| class=unsortable | Edition | Year | class=unsortable | Men's winner | Time (h:m:s) | class=unsortable | Women's winner | Time (h:m:s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1997 | 1:08:00 | 1:19:41 | |||||
| 2nd | 1998 | 1:07:38 | 1:21:03 | |||||
| 3rd | 1999 | 1:04:25 | 1:15:45 | |||||
| 4th | 2000 | 1:04:55 | 1:15:15 | |||||
| 5th | 2001 | 1:02:42 | 1:13:29 | |||||
| 6th | 2002 | 1:02:46 | 1:12:53 | |||||
| 7th | 2003 | 1:02:22 | 1:16:47 | |||||
| 8th | 2004 | 1:01:51 | 1:14:16 | |||||
| 9th | 2005 | 1:00:47 | 1:12:00 | |||||
| 10th | 2006 | 1:04:25 | 1:15:18 | |||||
| 11th | 2007 | 1:02:37 | 1:13:27 | |||||
| 12th | 2008 | 1:00:12 | 1:10:53 | |||||
| 13th | 2009 | 1:02:50 | 1:09:26 | |||||
| 14th | 2010 | 1:03:01 | 1:11:01 | |||||
| 15th | 2011 | 1:01:38 | 1:10:57 | |||||
| 16th | 2012 | 1:01:07 | 1:11:11 | |||||
| 17th | 2013 | 1:00:11 | 1:10:33 | |||||
| 18th | 2014 | 1:01:03 | 1:11:10 | |||||
| 2015 | Cancelled due to November 2015 Paris attacks[4] | |||||||
| 19th | 2016 | 1:02:04 | 1:10:21 | |||||
| 20th | 2017 | 1:01:13 | 1:08:29 | |||||
| 21st | 2018 | 1:00:55 | 1:10:48 | |||||
| 22nd | 2019 | 1:00:12 | 1:08:24 | |||||