Introduction
With some 17,000 runners of 117 different nationalities hailing from 59 countries, cheered on by spectators from the Grand Duchy and neighbouring countries, the ING Night Marathon Luxembourg is a major international event on the capital's sports calendar.
City staff
To organise this major sporting event and ensure that it comes off as smoothly as possible, the City has mobilised more than 450 municipal staff – from departments as widely diverse as the Services Circulation, Eaux, Hygiène, Maintenance, Parcs, Parking, Sports, Transports en commun and Voirie (Traffic, Water, Sanitation, Maintenance, Parks, Parking, Sports, Public Transport, and Roads departments) – to provide the organisational and logistical support that organising an event of this size requires.
Runners flying City of Luxembourg colours
Luxembourg City's municipal staff will once again be strongly represented at the 2025 marathon. In all, 656 runners will set off on 31 May 2025 wearing T-shirts in the City's colours:
- 18 individual runners (3 women and 15 men), and five 4-person teams (10 women and 10 men) have signed up for the marathon;
- 106 runners (32 women and 74 men) have signed up for the half-marathon;
- 512 children and educators are registered for the mini-marathon (4.2 km) and the mini-mini-marathon (1 km) respectively. Children from Luxembourg City's municipal foyers scolaires will be trained for several weeks at the Josy Barthel Stadium by sports instructors from the "Sports pour tous" (Sports for All) programme. During the race, these children will be accompanied by 71 educators, as well as instructors from the Service Sports (Sports Department).
Measures to protect the environment
As in past years, the City of Luxembourg has worked closely with the organisers to ensure that the marathon is held in an environmentally friendly manner.
Accordingly, a number of measures have been taken to reduce the environmental impact of this major sporting event, including the use of reusable and returnable cups at vendors' stalls and, for some drinks, reusable and returnable bottles; an enhanced waste-sorting system; distribution of tap water; meals made from locally produced organic products, served at the "Luxexpo/The Box" site; the use of hybrid buses and electric cars along the race route; distribution of reusable bags to runners; and the use of green electricity along the race route.
CGDIS safety measures
Precautionary measures
As in previous years, the Grand Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps (Corps grand-ducal d'incendie et de secours – CGDIS) has prepared a temporary emergency and response plan to ensure that this year's ING Night Marathon Luxembourg runs as smoothly as possible.
Additionally, several temporary fire response stations will be set up at various points along the race route so that CGDIS teams can respond quickly to incidents anywhere in the city, should the need arise.
At the same time, the CGDIS will continue to leverage its operational capabilities nationwide to ensure public safety at all times.
Emergency medical services
The CGDIS will be deploying 185 volunteer and professional firefighters to provide emergency services during the marathon and operational coverage for Luxembourg City and surrounding districts.
To provide adequate coverage for the event – which is expected to attract thousands of spectators, runners and visitors in and around Luxexpo/The Box – the CGDIS has made special arrangements, which include a brigade-level command structure and:
- 1 advance medical post, with sufficient staff cover
- 1 emergency services unit at the centre of the course
- 10 ambulances
- 12 foot-patrol units
- 3 motorcycle units
- 6 bicycle units
- vans to provide operational coverage in the city's various districts.
The number of SAMU medical emergency personnel will be increased to ensure sufficient aid services Luxembourg City and its surrounding area.
On-call hospital emergency services
On the day of the marathon, emergency services will be provided by the Kirchberg hospital, which will be on call that day.
For the duration of the event, the on-call hospital will be permanently accessible either from the highway via the Serra roundabout, Boulevard Pierre Werner and Rue Edward Steichen, or from the Neudorf district via Rue du Grünewald.
The City of Luxembourg’s Service Circulation (Traffic Department) will ensure proper signage is in place to alert road users of traffic diversions.
