The 16th edition of the Santiago Marathon took place on Sunday, featuring a 42-kilometer course winding through the iconic streets and urban landscapes of Chile’s capital city. This year, the race was timed by our new partner TAGID using MYLAPS BibTag technology for the first time.
Participants had the option to choose between a full marathon, half marathon, or 10 km race. With an impressive turnout of 29,695 runners, the Santiago Marathon stands as the largest race in the region. For this large scale event, TAGID utilized 10 BibTag Smart Decoders and 10 BibTag Portable Decoders at 8 intermediary timing points to ensure optimal read rates.
2024 Winners of Maratón de Santiago
Kenyan, Edwin Kibet Koech, demonstrated his superiority by becoming the clear winner of the Santiago Marathon 2024, crossing the finish line with an excellent time of two hours, 10 minutes, and 19 seconds.
Kenyan, Josephine Chepkoech, won the women’s competition at the 2024 Maratón de Santiago with a time of two hours, 30 minutes, and 16 seconds.
BibTag technology – the standard in sports timing
MYLAPS, founded in 1982, is the inventor of automatic sports timing, and develops technology that is used all over the world, from the Olympics, major marathons, and NASCAR to countless local races. To offer best-in-class timing services, TAGID decided to use MYLAPS BibTag technology. This is the standard timing system for mass running events with affordable chips and the highest read-rates in the industry. It was used in October at the Chicago Marathon when Kelvin Kiptum broke the world record. The MYLAPS ThinTag is 75% thinner than regular tags resulting in less waste and shipment space, which has a positive impact on carbon emissions.
