Pila Half Marathon

The Signify Pila Half Marathon is a run with history. For three decades, the greatest Polish runners have competed there. Olympians, medalists of the Polish championships, those who wrote down the golden cards of Polish athletics! A run with a fast route conducive to achieving personal records. To this day, many players have personal bests from Piła.

The attendance record is also an exponent of Piła’s hospitality and involvement of the organizers. In 2018, 3,825 competitors passed the finish line! And it would probably be more if not for the fact that 4,000 runners are the maximum group matched to the capacity of the route. After the pandemic, the run wants to refer to the numbers from before 2020.

Piła is the seat of the Polish Running Association (PSB), and the director of the run itself is Mr. Henryk Paskal, the president of PSB, who in the early 1990s brought new standards from various parts of the world, which were replicated by many other Polish running events. Foreign runners have been coming to Piła since the beginning of the event. Among others, from Japan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Norway, Austria, Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland and many other countries. 

Piła is well connected with the rest of the country. The city itself, which offers cultural and historical heritage with the house where Stanisław Staszic was born, with the 19th-century Engine House, or the neo-Gothic building of the teachers’ seminary from the beginning of the 20th century. You can take a breath in many parks in Piła, which are the green lungs of the city, or take a walk along the charming boulevard on the Gwda River.