{"id":10357,"date":"2025-11-25T16:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zurichmaratonsansebastian.com\/?p=10357"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:45:19","slug":"thomas-holliday-and-maite-arraiza-win-the-zurich-marathon-donostia-san-sebastian-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zurichmaratonsansebastian.com\/en\/thomas-holliday-and-maite-arraiza-win-the-zurich-marathon-donostia-san-sebastian-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Holliday and Maite Arraiza win the Zurich Marathon Donostia\u2013San Sebasti\u00e1n 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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San Sebasti\u00e1n, 23 November 2025 \u2013 The Zurich Marathon Donostia\u2013San Sebasti\u00e1n 2025 made history this Sunday with 11,500 runners, consolidating itself as the city\u2019s major sporting event. Among them, 3,271 women and 35% international participants from 70 nationalities \u2014 unprecedented figures in the race\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 46th edition of the Zurich Marathon Donostia\u2013San Sebasti\u00e1n, the second stop of the Zurich Las 5 Grandes circuit, once again sold out, with 7,000 bibs for the marathon and 4,500 for the 10K. Both races were held on a fully urban course, lined from the early morning with thousands of locals cheering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The marathon start was especially emotional, featuring the presence of Joaldunak at the finish area, a txalaparta performance, and the iconic song \u201cBaga Biga Higa\u201d by Mikel Laboa marking the beginning of the race. Throughout the city, the festive atmosphere continued with orchestras, drummers, DJs and countless cheering points accompanying the runners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of effective participation, the event gathered 5,100 finishers in the marathon and 3,215 finishers in the 10K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marathon winners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the men\u2019s category, Britain\u2019s Thomas Holliday took the win in 2:22:34, followed by Aki Nummela (2:23:51) and Sim\u00f3n R\u00edo (2:24:22).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the women\u2019s category, local runner Maite Arraiza claimed victory with 2:44:59, followed by Louise Flynn (2:48:38) and Alejandra S\u00e1nchez (2:49:41).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10K Podiums<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 10K race, the top three men were Raphael Daverede, Andoni Acebedo and Justo Utriainen, while Laurine Avinio, Maite Etxezarreta and Olivia Lindh led the women\u2019s podium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expo Sports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Runner\u2019s Fair, held at the Kursaal Centre and open from Friday afternoon, featured over a dozen exhibitors. Thousands of participants came to pick up their bib numbers and runner\u2019s bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Sebasti\u00e1n, 23 November 2025 \u2013 The Zurich Marathon Donostia\u2013San Sebasti\u00e1n 2025 made history this Sunday with 11,500 runners, consolidating itself as the city\u2019s major sporting event. Among them, 3,271 women and 35% international participants from 70 nationalities \u2014 unprecedented figures in the race\u2019s history. The 46th edition of the Zurich Marathon Donostia\u2013San Sebasti\u00e1n, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurichmaratonsansebastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurichmaratonsansebastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurichmaratonsansebastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurichmaratonsansebastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurichmaratonsansebastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zurichmaratonsansebastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10359,"href":"https:\/\/zurichmaratonsansebastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions\/10359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurichmaratonsansebastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurichmaratonsansebastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurichmaratonsansebastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurichmaratonsansebastian.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}