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The World Athletics Road Running Championships Yangzhou 27 will bring one of the sport's global championship events to Yangzhou, Jiangsu, on Sunday 28 March 2027. The meeting is part of the World Athletics Series and follows the Road Running Championships format that combines world-title racing over recognised road distances.
World Athletics has confirmed the elite timetable for Yangzhou. The women's 5K is scheduled for 06:10 local time, followed by the men's 5K at 06:35, the women's half marathon at 07:00 and the men's half marathon at 07:20. The published programme therefore places both 5K and 21.0975K championship racing into a compact early-morning window.
Yangzhou was originally due to host the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in 2022, but that edition was cancelled because of the pandemic. World Athletics subsequently awarded the city the 2027 Road Running Championships, preserving Yangzhou's place in the federation's global road-running programme. The event also forms part of a wider period in which China is hosting multiple World Athletics Series competitions.
The championship is especially significant because it sits above ordinary label-road-race status: athletes will be competing for world titles rather than only an individual city-race result. World Athletics has separately confirmed that leading performers from its RUN X treadmill championship can earn federation wild-card opportunities for the Yangzhou 5K.
At the time of ARC's September 2026 research, the exact Yangzhou course, start and finish points, public mass-participation registration, entry fees, race-pack arrangements, cut-offs and participant benefits had not yet been published for the 2027 edition. Those fields have therefore been left unfilled rather than inferred from Copenhagen 2026 or from Yangzhou's regular road races.
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