Record-breaking $11.2 million raised during St. Jude Memphis Marathon® Weekend

Photography by Biomedical Communications

On Sat., Dec. 1, 2018, over 26,000 participants and 40,000 spectators from across the country and around the world gathered for St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend presented by Juice Plus+® and raised over $11.2 million for the kids of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital®.  This year, participants  took to the streets on four new courses, a new finish line and new finish festival experience.  Over the last 17 years, participants running as St. Jude Heroes have joined the fight against childhood cancer and raised more than $70 million to support the St. Jude mission: Finding cures. Saving children.®

  • St. Jude logo
  • A team prays in a huddle before the race.
  • The racers take off running from the start line.

    The new start line for the marathon and half marathon began on B.B. King Blvd.
  • Participants run under the Beale Street "Home of the Blues" sign.

    The four new courses took runners past several Memphis landmarks.
  • Runners race down the street.
  • Runners go through the Cook Convention Center drive.
  • Participants race past the Mississippi River bridge.
  • Hundreds of runners go down Riverside Drive.

    Marathon, half marathon and 10K runners enjoyed views of the Mississippi River.
  • A woman in a pancho cheers on passing runners.
  • Runners pass Mud Island in downtown Memphis.
  • A St. Jude hero gives the camera a thumbs up.
  • Racers enter the St. Jude campus.

    26,000 participants from across the country and around the world took to the streets of Memphis.
  • People in St. Jude shirts cheer on passing runners.

    Over 4,000 volunteers help make St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend a success.
  • Runners pass through the St. Jude campus with the pyramid in the background.
  • Two runners hold hands.
  • A woman cheers and hold up a sign that says "Run, John, Run! Go Team Liz!"
  • A St. Jude patient cheers on runners holding a sign that says "When you get tired, run with your Heart!"
  • A St. Jude patient in a wheelchair holds out her hand to high five passing runners.
  • A St. Jude patient yells and high fives a participant.
  • A runner high fives a St. Jude patient.
  • A St. Jude hero runs through campus.
  • Runners leave the St. Jude campus.

    Running through the campus of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a highlight of each course.
  • A St. Jude hero holds her hands up while running through the St. Jude campus.

    Over 6,000 St. Jude Heroes raised over $11.2 million for the kids of St. Jude.
  • A St. Jude hero waves at the camera.
  • A St. Jude hero runs through a Memphis neighborhood.

    The mission mile on the marathon course showed participants a series of patient photos – in treatment and after treatment.
  • A St. Jude hero runs the marathon.
  • Runners high five a volunteer as they cross the finish line.
  • The first runner crosses the finish line.

    Garang Madut of Lebanon, Tennessee was the top male marathon finisher with a time of 2:29:04.
  • The first marathon finisher wraps himself in a blanket.

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