SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2026 · COPENHAGEN
A Copenhagen Half Marathon poster, made from your own run.
Thirty-five thousand people run a half marathon through Copenhagen on 20 September. Your watch will make a file that morning. We turn that file into a print — your route, your time, your numbers, on uncoated matte paper.
- Date
- Sun 20 Sep 2026
- Distance
- 21.0975 km
- Runners
- 35,000
- Start
- 09:47 mass race
The race in 2026 is not CPH Half — and that matters if you are searching for it
Copenhagen Half Marathon (CPH Half) does not take place in 2026. The organisers have paused it for one year because Copenhagen is hosting the World Athletics Road Running Championships on 19–20 September 2026 instead. The half marathon world title is decided on Sunday 20 September, and 35,000 people run the mass race behind the elite field. CPH Half itself returns in September 2027.
So if you are looking for “Copenhagen Half Marathon 2026”, this is the race you mean. Same city, same distance, different name on the bib.
What we print
Not a map of the course. A map of your run — the line your watch recorded, with the numbers that were really in the file. Distance, elevation, your time, your pace. Nothing estimated, nothing filled in.
You choose the paper: Museum 250 gsm, uncoated archival matte, or Classic 170 gsm, uncoated matte. Both come loose or framed behind acrylic in a wooden frame. One exception: loose 70×100 is Museum 250 only, because the lighter sheet bends at that size. Three sizes: 30×40, 50×70 and 70×100 cm. From 349 kr loose, from 799 kr framed.
Why after the race and not before
A poster of the official course is a poster anyone could own. A poster of your file is a poster of the morning you had — where you slowed at 15 km, where the line wobbles because you took the corner wide, and the time that is yours and nobody else’s.
You can order it the same afternoon. The file is ready the moment you stop your watch.
From finish line to wall, in about four minutes
- Export the run from Strava, Garmin Connect, Coros or whatever your watch syncs to. GPX, TCX or FIT all work.
- Drop the file into the editor. It is read in your browser and never reaches us.
- Choose the motif, the size and which four numbers go on the sheet.
- We print it and post it. Two to four working days to make, then shipping on top.
Questions people actually ask
Is the Copenhagen Half Marathon happening in 2026?
No. CPH Half is paused for one year. On 19–20 September 2026 Copenhagen hosts the World Athletics Road Running Championships instead, and the half marathon is run on Sunday 20 September. CPH Half returns in September 2027.
Can I get a poster of the official course?
No, and that is deliberate. We print the route your own watch recorded, not a copy of the organisers’ course map. It means every print is different, and it means we are never redrawing someone else’s data.
What file do I need?
GPX, TCX or FIT — zipped or not. Every watch and every platform will hand you one. If your file has heart rate or cadence in it, you can put those on the poster too; if it does not, those fields stay empty rather than being guessed.
I lost my watch data. Can you still make it?
Only if you can find the file somewhere — Strava, Garmin Connect, your phone. We cannot reconstruct a run without it, and we will not draw an approximation and call it yours.
Will my home address be on the poster?
No. Before anything is drawn we clip a radius from both ends of the track, so the line starts somewhere along a road rather than at a door. The default removes 500 metres at each end and you can push it out to two kilometres or switch it off.
How long does it take to arrive?
Two to four working days to print, then two to five working days to Denmark and three to eight elsewhere in the EU. Shipping is worked out from the size, the framing and the address, and shown at checkout.
Can I order before the race?
There is nothing to print until you have run it. Come back on the Sunday afternoon with the file — that is the whole point.
Epic Efforts is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to CPH Half, Sparta, World Athletics or the organisers of the World Athletics Road Running Championships. Event names are used only to describe which run a print is made from. Race facts on this page are from the organisers’ own published information, September 2026.