Kenya’s Daniel Kiprono Sang won the 17th Casablanca Marathon, held on Sunday, October 25, 2026. He completed the 42.195-kilometre course in 2:06:41. The result, published through the official results portal and corroborated by several reports, was the leading performance in the men’s standings at this edition of the race staged in Casablanca.
Edwin Kiprop Kiptoo finished second in 2:07:17, while Mandefro Workineh Tadese completed the podium in 2:08:40. All three leading runners therefore finished inside 2:09. Sang’s advantage over Kiptoo was 36 seconds, and fewer than two minutes separated the runner-up from Tadese, establishing the verified order and times at the front of the men’s marathon.
Ayalew Bere wins the women’s race
Ayalew Bere claimed victory in the women’s marathon with a time of 2:25:21. Her result appears in all three independent reports included in the verified material. Alongside Daniel Kiprono Sang’s men’s title, Bere’s performance completed the list of winners in the two principal races, each contested over the official marathon distance of 42.195 kilometres during the 17th edition.
Morocco’s Soukaina Atanane secured second place in the women’s marathon, recording 2:26:40. Kenya’s Gladys Cherop Longari finished third in 2:27:21. Atanane crossed the line one minute and 19 seconds after Bere and 41 seconds before Longari. Her performance placed a Moroccan runner on the women’s marathon podium between the two athletes who occupied first and third positions.
A Moroccan victory in the men’s half-marathon
Moroccan runner Yakoub Labquira won the men’s half-marathon in 1:01:21. The event covered 21.097 kilometres, according to the official programme for the edition. Labquira’s performance gave Morocco first place in this classification after a closely contested race in which only twelve seconds separated the recorded times of the three runners who ultimately occupied the podium.
Shadrack Korir Kipyegon took second place in 1:01:25, finishing four seconds behind Yakoub Labquira. Martin Magengo Kiprotich placed third in 1:01:33, another eight seconds behind Kipyegon. This tightly grouped podium completes the verified men’s half-marathon results and stands alongside the separate marathon classification headed by Daniel Kiprono Sang, whose victory came over the full 42.195-kilometre distance.
Morocco sweeps the women’s half-marathon podium
Moroccan runners occupied all three positions on the women’s half-marathon podium. Fatiha Asmid won the race in 1:07:22, with Meryeme Azrour taking second place in 1:07:28. Kaoutar Farkoussi completed the sweep by finishing third in 1:08:24. The classification therefore featured only Moroccan athletes in its first three positions, unlike the other verified podiums from the edition.
Only six seconds separated Fatiha Asmid and Meryeme Azrour, while Kaoutar Farkoussi finished 56 seconds behind the runner-up. The sweep was Morocco’s most complete collective showing across the verified podiums. It accompanied Yakoub Labquira’s victory in the men’s half-marathon and Soukaina Atanane’s second-place finish in the women’s marathon, giving Moroccan runners podium representation across those three classifications.
Three race formats under a World Athletics Elite label
The 2026 programme comprised three formats: a 42.195-kilometre marathon, a 21.097-kilometre half-marathon and a 4 × 10.5-kilometre relay. The Association des Coureurs du Grand Casablanca, known as ACGC, organized the event. The 17th edition held World Athletics Elite label status, as documented by both the official programme and the available report describing the meeting.
A mobile application was also available for the 2026 edition. It offered race information and a system for tracking runners in real time. These digital functions accompanied the three formats included in the programme and provided a way to follow participants during the event, while the verified marathon and half-marathon rankings separately established the podium positions and finishing times reported in the results.
Participation, accessibility and attributed claims
According to ACGC president Bouchta El Fadel, more than 15,000 runners participated in the 2026 edition. That figure remains an organizer statement reported by Aujourd’hui Le Maroc rather than an independently audited count in the reviewed sources. El Fadel also said event records were broken in the men’s and women’s marathons and in the women’s half-marathon, although the previous marks were not provided.
The edition also featured Challenge 421, through which participants with disabilities covered the final 421 metres and crossed the finish line with other runners. The available results establish the podiums and times presented here. The record claim, however, remains attributed to the ACGC president because the verified material does not provide the earlier event records required to conduct an independent numerical comparison with the 2026 performances.
