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Helsinki Marathon in Helsinki
Helsinki Marathon, currently sponsored as the Bjorn Borg Helsinki Marathon, is a separate August race operating independently from the larger, older Helsinki City Marathon held each May. It occupies roughly the summer calendar slot the city's marathon held before its 2018 shift to spring, giving distance runners a second, smaller-scale marathon option in the Finnish capital.
A separate race operating under the plain name Helsinki Marathon, currently sponsored under the Bjorn Borg name, runs each year in August, occupying roughly the same summer calendar slot the city's older, larger marathon held for decades before that event shifted to a May date in 2018 and rebranded as Helsinki City Run.