As in most events in the Abbott World Marathon Majors Series (AbbottWMM)*, BMW BERLIN-MARATHON race entries are allocated by lottery. Registration for the lottery of race entries for 2025 took place from October 7th until November 21st 2024 and is now closed.
All participants in the lottery (including fast runners with a qualifying time) will automatically receive their result by email at the beginning of December.
*Except for the Boston Marathon, which has a time and age group classification system.
Lottery results
- The lottery results will be announced on December 05, 2024 during the day.
- From December 06, 2024, the charge will be made by our service provider Adyen N.V. The process may take a different amount of time depending on the bank.
If the amount has not been charged after this time, check your user account, where a new payment option will pop up and the payment process will be retried. - Sending the results can take up to a whole day. However, you can see in your user account whether you have been drawn.
1. if your race entry says “fixed”, you have been allocated a race entry.
2. if your race entry says “Pre-registered”, you have unfortunately not been drawn. - The registration is personal and cannot be transferred or canceled.
You can register for the lottery in one of the following three ways. Please note that the selection is binding and your registration cannot be changed afterwards.
Registration
- Each team member needs their own user account.
- When registering, the first person indicates that this is a team registration and chooses a name for the team.
- Once registration is complete, a team code is sent with the registration confirmation.
- This code must be passed on to the other 1-2 team members.
- The other members of the team select “Join an existing team” when registering and enter the code. This code cannot be added later.
- Each team member completes the registration themselves, enters payment details and receives confirmation by e-mail.
Participation
- If the team is drawn in the lottery, all members of the team receive a race entry.
- There is no team ranking. Each person is starts and is listed individually in the results list.
- If a team member is unable to run after the draw, this has no effect on the other members of the team. A subsequent nomination is not possible.
Registration
- To register as a fast runner a proof of the qualification time achieved and a proof of age must be uploaded during the registration process.
- Make sure that all qualification information is visible on your proof.
- Registering as a fast runner is not a guarantee of a race entry. You will only be accepted after your proof has been checked at the beginning of December 2024.
- In the event of invalid proof, the registration will be considered in the draw for race entries.
Proof
- The qualifying time must have been achieved in an official race that is part of the AbbottWMM Wanda Age Group World Rankings, certified by AIMS or listed by USTA TF.
- Only official certificates and links to the official results page of the race will be recognized as proof.
- Only marathon times are counted. These must not be older than 2 years (time run in 2023 or 2024).
- Results from other routes or virtual events are not taken into account.
Qualifying times
- Male Runners up to 44 years (born 2007 to 1981): under 2:45 hours
Runners up to 59 years (born 1980 to 1966): under 2:55 hours
Runners 60 years and older (born 1965 and older): under 3:25 hours - Female Runners up to 44 years (born 2007 to 1981) under: 3:10 hours
Female runners up to 59 years (born 1980 to 1966): under 3:30 hours
Female runners over 60 years (born 1965 and older): under 4:20 hours
Guaranteed race entries
If you had a goodwill offer or a Skate to Run race entry. The deadline for redeeming these codes was November 21 2024. These codes are no longer valid and registrations have expired.
Jubilee Club members can still register via their user account until 31.12.2024. TO THE JUBILEE-CLUB
SCC e.V members will receive further information on how to register later in the year.
