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The 2026 Xiamen Haicang Half Marathon celebrates the event’s 10th anniversary on Sunday, 6 December, with an 18,000-runner field and a single 21.0975K half-marathon programme. The race developed from the half-marathon component of the wider Xiamen Marathon before becoming an independent event in 2016, and the current edition is staged on a coastal urban course through Haicang District.
The race starts at 07:00 from the junction of Xinggang Road and Jiaosong Road. The published route heads along Xinggang Road, Jiangang Road and Haicang Avenue, turns near Paitou Road, then uses Changyu Road and Binhu Road for additional out-and-back sections around the Haicang Central TOD area before returning to the same Xinggang Road and Jiaosong Road junction. Organiser material describes the course as linking Haicang’s mountain, sea, lake, island and city landscapes, while current local reporting says the 2026 course has been optimised to reduce gradients and turns for faster running conditions.
Registration opened on 17 September and closes at 17:00 on 8 October 2026. Entry uses a pre-registration, payment and ballot system, with ballot results scheduled for mid-October and unsuccessful applicants receiving a full refund. The published fee is CNY 180 for Chinese entrants, including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and USD 60 for international entrants.
The 2026 edition also includes a direct-entry incentive for the following year’s Xiamen Marathon. One hundred eligible finishers will be selected by random draw for places in the 2027 Xiamen Marathon. Competition awards cover the first eight men and women by gun time, with additional record bonuses including CNY 20,000 for breaking the event record. The organiser has also announced higher-level bonuses for eligible national and China-based half-marathon records.
Detailed race-pack collection arrangements and final participant-pack contents have not yet been clearly published for the 2026 edition. Runners should therefore use the official event website and WeChat channels for the final pre-race bulletin, bib collection instructions, transport advice and any last operational updates.
Prizes
Top eight men and women by gun time; record bonuses include CNY 20,000 for the event record, CNY 40,000 for the national half-marathon record for eligible Chinese athletes, and CNY 100,000 for the China-based half-marathon record.