Valencia Half Marathon sports discipline competed in athletics
The Valencia Half Marathon (Spanish: Medio Maratón de Valencia) is an annual half marathon road running event held in Valencia, Spain, since 1988.  It is categorized as a Gold Label Road Race by World Athletics.  The race is organised by the Valencian sports club SD Correcaminos, which also organises the annual Valencia Marathon.The race attracts top level elite competitors from Kenya, Ethiopia and Morocco, as well as runners from the host country Spain.History
The event was initially founded as a race of 20 km (12 mi), called the "20 kilómetros Adidas", with the inaugural race taking place in 1988.  From 1993 to 1995, the race was not contested for reasons beyond the organizer's control.The race was later lengthened to a half marathon, beginning with the 2006 edition of the race.  The change coincided with a growth in the number of participants and a higher standard of elite level competition. A record 9328 runners from over 10,300 entrants finished the race in October 2013.On 30 July 2020, the race organizer announced the cancellation of the 2020 in-person edition of the race due to the coronavirus pandemic, with all registrants given the option of transferring their entry to 2021 or obtaining a full refund.  About a month later, on 10 September, the organizer announced that the Valencia Marathon (which it also organized and whose mass race was just cancelled days earlier) would hold an "Elite Edition" of the race on 6 December, and that it would also include a half marathon race that year.  On the day of the race, four half marathon runners broke the previous world record of 58:01, with Kenyan Kibiwott Kandie setting a new world record of 57:32.
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