This is the night race with the largest number of athletes ever with a running route brilliant with light and spreading a positive message about ESG (environment, society, governance).
VPBank VnExpress Marathon Ho Chi Minh City Midnight (VVMM) 2025 is honored as a spring race, towards the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the South and national reunification.
The tournament brings many innovations when expanding scale, optimizing route, taking runners to explore spaces with historical imprints, interwoven with the modern features of the most vibrant city in Vietnam. Not only that, each athlete participating in the tournament will have the opportunity to contribute to spreading the ESG message, covering the empty land in Tay Ninh and Thanh Hoa.
According to the organizing committee, the tournament recorded 12,000 athletes registering to participate. This is a record number of registrations in the VnExpress Marathon system since its inception in 2019, and is also the night race with the largest number of athletes in Vietnam to date. The tournament attracted more than 600 foreign athletes and many teams with thousands of members to participate.
Starting on Truong Dinh Street, the section passing through Tao Dan Park, 12,000 athletes will compete on the route through famous landmarks of Ho Chi Minh City such as Tao Dan Park, Doc Lap Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral, Ben Bach Dang... to explore the youthfulness and dynamism of District 1 or the new urban area of Thu Thiem before finishing at Le Duan Street, the section in front of the Zoo and Botanical Gardens.
This colorful running track will be an opportunity for athletes to see the "uringless city" with a vibrant pace of life through different lenses.
VPBank's route VnExpress Marathon Ho Chi Minh City Midnight has been certified by the International Marathon Association (AIMS) to meet the competition length standards for all 4 distances. Athletes can use their achievements in the tournament as a qualifying document to register to participate in the world's biggest marathons such as Chicago, Tokyo, Boston, etc.
With the desire to create a brilliant and bright night running route, for the first time in the night running race system, athletes will be equipped with a light bracelet in a racekit bag.
