The Zayed International Half Marathon is an annual road running competition which takes place in January in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The inaugural edition of the half marathon race, named after Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan,[1] was held in 2008.

[4] The 2009 race was scheduled to take place at the Yas Marina Circuit Formula One course, but this was never finalised and the competition was postponed for that year.

[1] However, runners criticised the organisation of the race: some athletes were not informed of changes to the start time, and some roads were not closed to traffic and the public, resulting in runners having to weave their way through cars and school children between the Marina Mall and the Emirates Palace.

[6][7] The top three finishers in the men's half marathon race all recorded sub-one hour times in spite of warm conditions.