Races in Austria

Trail running 'above the rooftops of Vienna': the autumn Vienna Woods and a start at Cobenzl overlooking the city.

A classic since the early 1970s: 27 km around the Wolfgangsee, named among the world's 38 most beautiful runs.

A New Year's Eve run through central Graz: 5 or 10 km along the old-town streets on 31 December.

An evening New Year's Eve run through central Innsbruck: about 5 km over two laps on 31 December.

A New Year's Eve lap of Vienna's Ringstrasse past the Opera, Hofburg and Parliament — costumes and thousands of runners.

A famous New Year's road race in Peuerbach: a 6.8 km and 5.1 km public run plus elite races on 31 December.

One of Europe's fastest half marathons: a perfectly flat loop along the Traun river in Wels.

A spring half marathon in Graz, starting and finishing on Karmeliterplatz below the Schlossberg.

A spring half marathon in Innsbruck — the season opener beneath the snow-capped Nordkette.

Upper Austria's biggest running party: a start on a Danube bridge, 21,000 runners and 150,000 spectators.

A spring half marathon through the rural Oichten valley near Salzburg, doubling as the state 5 and 10 km championships.

A marathon in the city of music — with a concert from the Vienna Symphony Orchestra for the runners and a finish on the Ringstrasse by the Burgtheater.

Graz's biggest corporate run: 5 km through the city centre on a warm May evening.

A trail festival on the 2023 World Championship courses: from a vertical race to 112 km above Innsbruck.

A corporate run in Gmunden on Lake Traunsee: about 4.2 km along the scenic waterfront.

7.6 km and 1,221 m up — from the cog railway in St. Wolfgang to the Schafberg, with gradients of up to 26%.

A trail over three summits above the Semmering — 4 to 28 km, with a relay and even a dog category.

Starting on a bridge overlooking Mozart's old town, finishing by the Great Festival Hall — a festival-marathon with just nine meters of elevation change.

Wels's big corporate run: about 5 km through the city in the evening with thousands of participants.

A half marathon along the Mondsee promenade, finishing on the market square — for the 45th time in 2027.

Austria's largest women's run in Vienna's Prater: flat 5 km and 10 km with thousands of participants.

A women's race along Lake Constance, from the Lochau shore to Bregenz and past the famous floating stage.

A half marathon along the Traunsee into the sunset — starting at 7:08 p.m. and finishing in the summer dusk.

A summer race through the spa town of Baden near Vienna: half marathon, 10 km and 5 km around the old-town rings.

Trail running around the crown of the Wilder Kaiser: from 8 km to a 56 km ultra with 3,640 m of climbing.

An ultra trail along the Stubai high-level paths — 14 to 100 km, starting and finishing in Neustift.

13.3 km and 1,300 m of climbing from Heiligenblut to the Pasterze glacier below the Grossglockner, a Mountain Running World Cup stage.

110 km around Austria's highest peak — past 14 glaciers, through seven valleys and three federal states.

Evening laps of central Villach: 6 km to the cheers of the crowd on Standesamtplatz — the 25th edition.

Two days of skyrunning above Saalbach: 13 summits in 47 km, a 1,000 m vertical and a six-hour challenge.

A Tyrolean legend: 52 km on foot through the Karwendel, from Scharnitz to the shore of the Achensee.

12.9 km and 1,234 m of climbing up the hairpins — from central Kitzbühel to the top of the Kitzbüheler Horn.

4.3 km, 1,320 m of climbing and 2,500 steps — a vertical race up the Untersberg above Salzburg.

A mountain race onto the Rax plateau, Vienna's 'home mountain': from 8.8 km with 1,100 m of climbing to an extreme 15.5 km.

A half marathon along the Wörthersee from the Velden castle to Klagenfurt — 10,000 runners from 69 nations.

3.6 km and 512 m up: a race from the valley to the top station of the Karren cable car above Dornbirn.

Trail running beneath the Dachstein south face: the Silberkarklamm gorge, a via ferrata and a glacier climb.

23 km around the Achensee, Tyrol's largest lake, framed by the peaks of the Rofan and Karwendel.

Austria's biggest corporate run: more than 30,000 runners from a thousand companies on the Danube Island.

An evening 5 km on Vienna's Ringstrasse, with 22,000 runners under the lights of its palaces and opera house.

Carinthia's only full-distance marathon: through the Bleistätter Moor and along the Ossiacher See.

A dead-flat marathon through the national park beside the steppe lake Neusiedler See.

A marathon through the Wachau along the Danube — between vineyards, abbeys and apricot orchards.

A new marathon, 'Run the Lake': a full lap of the Wörthersee from Klagenfurt's lido and back.

An ultra trail across the hills of the Vienna Woods — 50 and 100 km, UTMB-rated, with runners from 20 nations.

Styria's big autumn race: around 14,000 runners, music along the route and a course past the sights of Graz.