It combines a mass race with elite level international participants.

[1][2] In addition to the main half marathon, there a number of other events held during the race weekend including separate divisions for handbikes and jogging strollers, a non-competitive 7-kilometre (4.3-mile) run called the STRAUdine, and nordic walking.

This tournament produced the fastest men's and women's times for the half marathon ever run on Italian soil (58:59 minutes by Zersenay Tadese and 1:06:25 by Lornah Kiplagat).

All the men's winners have been from Kenya and Kenyan women have topped the podium on all but four occasions.

Margaret Okayo won the competition three times in its first four years and Hungary's Anikó Kálovics has since matched that feat.