Košice Peace Marathon · 5/10/2025

METHOD AND CONDITIONS OF REGISTRATION

The only method of registration for the event is online registration, which is available on the webpage of the organizer at www.kosicemarathon.com. Part of the online registration on the mentioned webpage is also the payment system set for the payment of the entry fee.

Participants in the Marathon, Halfmarathon and Handbike disciplines register individually via their competitor’s account at the online registration.

The Relay 4 × 1/4 marathon team is always registered by one of its members. Relay teams consist of four members. Each member of the relay team may run only one section. The relay course is identical to the marathon course. The individual sections of the relay have the following lengths: 12 km, 9 km, 12 km, 9 km. The order of runners in the relay is entered during registration.
For more detailed information on relay registration and start procedures, please refer to the additional provisions of these regulations.

ENTRY FEE FOR KOŠICE PEACE MARATHON

Entry fee for the Kosice Peace Marathon 2025 is scheduled as follows:

*The stated entry fee must be paid for each member of the relay.
If the date of registration and the date of payment do not match, the date of payment is decisive for determining the amount of the entry fee.

BONUS CODE FOR THE KOSICE PEACE HALF MARATHON

By registering for the Košice Peace Marathon 2025, you gain a special bonus. This entitles you to register for the Košice Peace Half Marathon, taking place on May 10, 2025, in the Half Marathon and Quarter Marathon disciplines, with a discounted entry fee of 22 EUR.
To take advantage of this benefit and test your readiness before the peak of the autumn season, it is necessary to align the order of your registrations. If you wish to use this benefit, please make your registration for our October running event first. The discount code will be generated automatically by the registration system, with no additional request required. You can then use the code at your discretion. If you are unable to register for the KPHM personally, the code can be transferred to any person of your choice.

WHAT DOES THE ENTRY FEE GET YOU?

The entry fee is used primarily to cover part of the costs associated with the overall preparation and organization of the event.
As part of this, the organizer provides the participant with the following, as well as other services and benefits not listed here:

• Starting number with disposable chip (with participant’s name if application and entry fee payment are received by 31st August)
• Measurement of time and relevant split times using chip technology
• SMS with finishing time (if participant supplies cell-phone number in application)
• Medal for reaching the finish within the time limit
• A special discount on the purchase of a premium Event T-shirt
• Marathon magazine
• Storage service for personal belongings
• Measurement of finishing time and intermediate times
• Medical services around course and at finish
• Refreshments around course (every 5 km)
• Refreshments and services in finish area
• On-line participant’s diploma
• On-line results list
• Information service – event info sent to participant’s e-mail address
• Other services and benefits will be published on an ongoing basis as more detailed specifications are known

PAYMENT OF ENTRY FEE

The on-line registration for the Kosice Peace Marathon becomes valid only after payment of the entry fee, which must be paid at the same time as your registration.

A registration form which is not submitted simultaneously with payment of the prescribed entry fee to the account of the organizer is incomplete and shall be considered by the organizer as invalid. The organizer shall decide whether such a registration is to be left in the records for further communication with the participant.

HOW TO PAY THE ENTRY FEE

1. Payment by card
The following payment cards are accepted:
Master Card
Master Card Electronic
VISA
VISA Electron
Diners Club International

2. Payment with a registration code
Payment using a registration code is intended mainly for event partners and employers (hereinafter referred to as a Company) that offer participation and starting in individual Events as a benefit for their employees or for other persons based on their own decision.

In case of payment with a registration code, all obligations and rights of the participant following from participation in the event as stated in the General Terms and Conditions remain valid.

CHECKING THE REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT

Registration and receipt of the entry fee payment can be checked by logging into the competitor’s account in the online registration section of our website.

The organizer cannot be held responsible for incorrectly entered details either in your application or in your entry fee payment instructions!

CANCELLATION, SHIFTING OF A START

1. The organizer does not refund a paid entry fee.

2. A registered participant who does not appear at the event, does not pick up his or her start number and does not make it to the start of the event has no claim on a refunding of the entry fee or any claim for the refunding of possible other payments associated with participation. The organizer in such a case has no obligation to offer or otherwise substitute an ordered service or to deliver material equipment and objects associated with the start at the event.

Cancellation of a start

1. A registered participant may request the shifting of his or her participation and entry fee to the following year of the event online on the website of the organizer after logging in to his or her participant’s account and may do so no later than midnight on Thursday, September 25, 2025.
For such a step the following conditions must be met:
a) At the moment of submitting a request the participant had met all conditions of participation for the event in the given year.

b) A participant who is allowed the opportunity to shift the entry fee and who subsequently wants to use this opportunity must in the following year again properly register for the event in a discipline written in the propositions, which does not have to be identical with the original discipline from the previous year, and must do so no later than by the deadline which the organizer published for the relevant year.

c) Such a participant shall receive prior to the opening of registration for the subsequent year of the event a registration code with instructions for its use. After receiving instructions with the registration code, the participant must register properly online for the event in the period stipulated in these instructions. At the same time with such a repeated registration the participant shall pay a handling fee for shifting the start in the amount of 10.00 EUR.

2. Shifting the start to the following year of the Kosice Peace Marathon is not possible if the participant is registered for the event through a registration code, with the following attributes:
a) the code was obtained free of charge as a gift, special benefit or winning in various competitions, draws, etc.
b) the code is paid by the employer (another legal entity)

3. Shifting the start to the following year is not possible also if the participant despite the sending of a request to shift the start picked up his start number for the given year of the event.

4. If the participant does not observe the deadline and conditions for the shift of the entry fee or does not pay the handling fee, the possibility of shifting the entry fee automatically expires.

5. A shift of the entry fee is possible only one time and only to the next, that is, the following year of the event. A repeated shift of an already shifted entry fee is not possible.

Shifting of a start to another person

1. A registered participant may request the shifting of the right to start to another person via e-mail and may do so up to 9:00 a.m. on September 10, 2025. Such transfer will have to be carried out by midnight on September 11, 2025 based on the assigned registration code.

2. The request for shifting of the right to start must always come from the originally registered participant. In the case of such a shift, the new participant shall pay a handling fee in the amount of 10.00 EUR.

3. With the shifting of the right to start to a new participant the paid entry fee and all other paid fees and claims associated with them are also shifted. The approval or rejection of such a request is upon the fulfilment of all conditions in the exclusive authority of the organizer.

4. Shifting the start to the another participant is not possible if the participant is registered for the event through a registration code, with the following attributes:
a) the code was obtained free of charge as a gift, special benefit or winning in various competitions, draws, etc.
b) the code is paid by the employer (another legal entity) and this payment is made only after the event and only for participants who completed the given year of the event

5. Shifting the start to the another participant is not possible also if:
a) the participant is registered for The Slovak Marathon or Half Marathon Championships,
b) the participant is member of any loyalty program of the event,
c) the participant picked up his start number at the Kosice Peace Marathon presentation.
d) the participation limit set by the organizer for the selected disciplines has been met.

Change of discipline
Changing the discipline from Marathon to Half-Marathon and vice versa can be done after logging in to the competitor’s account up to 9:00 a.m. on September 12, 2025.
Any changes in other disciplines of the Event are not possible. It is also not possible to combine multiple disciplines in any way, i.e. participation in a relay with a start in another discipline.

Change in a member of relay
1. Change of relay team member, or the order of relay team members can only be done by the person who registered the relay team, after logging into their competitor account.
2. You can change the member of the relay after logging into the competitor’s account in the “My registrations” section. Then pressing the “Replace competitor” button, then fill in the registration data of the new participant and save the data by pressing the “Save” button.
3. You can change the order of competitors in the relay after logging into the competitor’s account in the “My registrations” section. You can change the order of relay competitors by moving the given competitor to the desired section. You can then save the new order by pressing the “Save” button.
4. The change of order or member of the relay team can be done at the latest before picking up the start numbers.
5. The order or relay team member can be changed repeatedly.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This inner-city circuit is based on the original course set up for the World Half-marathon Championships in 1997. There are no prominent uphill sections, and the streets are fully asphalt surfaced. The marathon course consists of two laps, while the half-marathon runners complete just one. The marathon, as the main discipline of the Košice Peace Marathon has WA and AIMS certificates issued for its course. Additional disciplines take place in parts and sections of this urban circuit, and their competitive distance is not subject to such international certifications.

PARAMETERS AND ADVANTAGES OF THE COURSE IN KOŠICE

A fast marathon course must be distinguished by several positive parameters. In addition to the low number of directional changes or sharp turns, the elevation profile is also obviously important. In Košice it was possible to create a course which from this point of view satisfied even the most demanding criteria and is comparable in this respect to the courses on which the fastest times in the world ranking are achieved every year.

If we take a closer look at the elevation profile of the course, we see that the elevation between the lowest and highest-lying points achieves on the city circuit in Košice only 16.35 m (200.700 m above sea level to 217.050 m a.s.l). Another major factor, the total of all climbs on the marathon course, in Košice adds up to only 74 metres.

COURSE MAP

► Course map Marathon – Google maps
► Course map Halfmarathon – Google maps
► Course map Inline – Google maps

► Map [pdf]

COURSE ELEVATION PROFILE

All the fast marathon courses must have couple of positive parameters. Besides very few direction changes or sharp turns it is of course the elevation profile. In Košice there is a course meeting the most challenging criteria. In Berlin where plenty of world records have been set up there are 21 direction changes on the course in the angle equal 90˚or even sharper. In Košice the number of such direction changes on the full marathon course is the same low.
If we have a closer look to its elevation profile we will find out that difference between the lowest point on this Košice city circuit and its peak is only 16,35 m (200,7 m above sea level – 217,05 m a.s.l.). The cumulative elevation gain on the marathon course is then 74 meters.
For your information in Berlin the difference between lowest and highest point is 25,6 m (cumulative elevation gain 37 m) and in Boston 146,3m (cumulative elevation gain 241 m).