Over 15,000 people took part in the day's races at the 2011 edition of the event.

[1] The half marathon attracts the highest number of entries from the public (over 5000) while the marathon race typically features up to 2000 runners annually.

[4] The marathon has elite level participants and German, East African and Eastern European runners have been the most successful in this category.

The course records were both broken in 2013: South Africa's Lusapho April has the men's best of 2:08:32 hours while Olena Burkovska holds the women's record of 2:27:07 hours.

Natalia Galushko has won the race the most times, with three straight wins from 1995 to 1997, while Stephan Freigang and Andrey Gordayev are the most successful male runners, having both had two back-to-back wins.