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California International Marathon
Sacramento, CA · Sports
- When
- December 6, 2026
- Where
- California State Capitol · Sacramento · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A point-to-point marathon with a fast, net-downhill course from Folsom Dam to the California State Capitol. Run since 1983, it is a Boston Marathon and Olympic Trials qualifier and one of the ten largest marathons in the country, with just under 10,000 finishers.
The history within reach
- California International Marathonsame spot
A point-to-point marathon with a fast, net-downhill course from Folsom Dam to the California State Capitol.
- The State Capitolsame spot
Sacramento won the capital in 1854 partly by offering the land free, and then spent twenty years on a dome modelled on Washington's.
A Manson follower in a red robe pointed a loaded Colt at Gerald Ford in the Capitol park.
A two-day festival spanning eight blocks of Sacramento's Capitol Mall, with more than 250 vendors and multiple entertainment stages, paired with a Sunday march that starts at Southside Park.
- The Great Flood of 18620.4 mi
Forty-three days of rain turned the Central Valley into an inland sea 300 miles long, drowning perhaps a third of California's cattle and bankrupting the state.