What:  California International Marathon
When:  Sunday, December 37:00 a.m. start
Where:  Folsom Dam to State capitol
Who:  11,000 marathoners, 3,500 CIM Relay Challenge runners, 3,500 UC Davis Children’s Hospital maraFUNrun 5k participants, 55,000 spectators, 3,200 volunteers, 25,000 Expo attendees
Distance:  CIM – 26.2 miles; maraFUNrun – 5k
Established:  1983; 35th annual
Certification:  USA Track & Field
Economic Impact:  $11 million
Men’s Course Record:  Jerry Lawson, USA, 1993, 2:10:27
Women’s Course Record:  Volha Mazuronal, BEL, 2014, 2:27:34
Prize Purse:
Equal amounts are awarded to men and women
Open – 1st – $20,000; 2nd – $12,500; 3rd – $9,000; 4th – $6,500; 5th – $5,000;
6th – $4,000; 7th – $3,000; 8th – $2,000; 9th – $1,000; 10th – $500
Performance Bonuses (athletes only able to earn one performance bonus):
  • American Record: $10,000 (available to one athlete per gender)
  • Course Record: $5,000 (available to one athlete per gender)
  • Olympic Trials A Standard: $1500 (available to all athletes that reach standard)
  • Olympic Trials B Standard: $500 (available to all athletes that reach standard)
Bib Guarantee Bonuses:
Field seeded and bib numbers assigned 7 days prior to race Bib number guarantees to top-10 bib numbers in descending order.
Bib Displacement Bonuses:
$100 bonus for every bib number displaced by an athlete (eg: if athlete wearing bib #7 finishes in 4th place, they will receive $300 bonus). Athlete can only receive displacement bonuses by finishing in the top-10. Bibs #11 and up all start will the value of 11
The awarding of all PA-USATF prize money will be determined according to Grand Prix rules and managed by PA-USATF.
Course Closure Time:  6 hours after start; 1:08 p.m.

By the Numbers:

  • 150,000 servings of water
  • 3,000 gallons of nuun
  • 6,000 Sierra Nevada beers
  • 16,000 CLIF Shots
  • 8,000 CLIF Minis
  • 14,000 bananas
  • 275,000 cups
  • 17 aid stations
  • 12,000 quarter-zip marathon shirts
  • 4,000 relay tech shirts
  • 3,500 maraFUNrun 5k shirts
  • 25 bands on course
  • 4,000 rubber medical gloves
  • 5,000 band aids
  • 64 tubs of Vaseline
  • 12,000 “painter” recovery jackets
  • 72,000 safety pins
  • 1 ton of discarded clothes donated to local charities
  • Over 13,000 pounds of waste diverted from landfill
  • Over $400,000 donated to local charities
  • Over $150,000 paid to local municipal and county service providers
  • 6 different municipalities and over 50 neighborhoods covered on course
  • 12 streakers (run every CIM)
  • 1,500 members of the CIM Loyal Runner Club
  • 2,000 cones
  • 1,000 barricades
  • 620 portalets
  • 180 medical volunteers
  • 55,000 spectators
  • 3,200 race volunteers
  • $140,000 prize purse
  • 25,000 Expo attendees
  • 1.5 million website visitors annually
  • Over 25,000 social media followers
  • 160 radios
  • 39 pace team leaders
  • 30 race sponsors
  • Over 114,000 finishers since 1983
  • Runners from 29 countries
  • 7,500 hotel room nights
  • $11 million boost to local economy
  • 138,336 feet of Sacramento County roadway covered
  • 2 miles of fencing