Kenyan Derick Chege Njoroge wins the 2026 Skopje Marathon, Dario Ivanovski takes bronze

Kenyan Derick Chege Njoroge is the winner of the 22nd edition of the Wizz Air Skopje Marathon, as Libertas reports. He covered the distance of 42.195 kilometres in 2 hours, 12 minutes and 56 seconds.

According to sportmanija.mk’s reporting, another Kenyan, Edwin Kimaru Kosgei, placed second, while the best Macedonian athlete, Dario Ivanovski, won the bronze medal with a time of 2:13:49.

In the men’s competition, fully seven of the top ten were Kenyans, while Macedonia had another representative in the top 10, Zhan Tosev, in ninth place. In the women’s competition, Kenyan Kemunto won, ahead of her compatriots Kipkemoi and Kakuri.

The half-marathon podiums, in both the men’s and the women’s competitions, were also entirely Kenyan. More than 15,000 runners from 63 countries took part in this edition. This is the follow-up to the morning’s news about the marathon start — now with the official results.