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Marathon de Vannes 2026: elevation profile, climbs and gradients
Marathon in Vannes on 27 September 2026: 42.195 km with 245 m of climbing and 248 m of descent, according to the course published by the organiser. Here is where it climbs, how steep, and where the race is decided.
The profile
The three numbers to read first
- 5.7 metres climbed per km. Rolling course: a few real climbs, plan them.
- Where the climbing sits. No climb worth the name: the biggest one gains 10 m. Pacing is about the wind, the crowd and the water stations, not the hills.
- The steepest 100 m. The steepest 100 m are at km 41.1, at +7.4 %: short and sharp, do not attack it.
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The sections that matter
Sections longer than 200 m at 2 % or more, or with at least 10 m of elevation change. Everything else is flat or false flat. Max = the steepest 100 m of the section.
| Where | What | Length | Altitude | Avg | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| km 0.6 → 1.110 → 21 m | climb | 550 m | 10 → 21 m | +1.9 % | +5.5 % |
| km 1.3 → 1.921 → 6 m | descent | 560 m | 21 → 6 m | -2.6 % | -5.5 % |
| km 6.5 → 6.818 → 11 m | descent | 310 m | 18 → 11 m | -2.3 % | -3.7 % |
| km 6.8 → 7.311 → 23 m | climb | 460 m | 11 → 23 m | +2.6 % | +3.4 % |
| km 7.5 → 8.222 → 5 m | descent | 700 m | 22 → 5 m | -2.4 % | -4.7 % |
| km 16.0 → 16.25 → 14 m | climb | 260 m | 5 → 14 m | +3.6 % | +5.3 % |
| km 16.2 → 16.414 → 9 m | descent | 210 m | 14 → 9 m | -2.5 % | -2.7 % |
| km 18.3 → 18.84 → 18 m | climb | 540 m | 4 → 18 m | +2.5 % | +3.4 % |
| km 19.3 → 19.820 → 9 m | descent | 520 m | 20 → 9 m | -2.0 % | -2.4 % |
| km 20.7 → 21.011 → 5 m | descent | 280 m | 11 → 5 m | -2.3 % | -2.8 % |
| km 22.1 → 22.44 → 12 m | climb | 340 m | 4 → 12 m | +2.3 % | +4.0 % |
| km 22.4 → 22.912 → -5 m | descent | 500 m | 12 → -5 m | -3.4 % | -5.8 % |
| km 25.4 → 25.718 → 11 m | descent | 300 m | 18 → 11 m | -2.4 % | -3.7 % |
| km 25.7 → 26.211 → 23 m | climb | 460 m | 11 → 23 m | +2.6 % | +3.4 % |
| km 26.4 → 27.122 → 5 m | descent | 700 m | 22 → 5 m | -2.4 % | -4.7 % |
| km 36.4 → 36.95 → 18 m | climb | 560 m | 5 → 18 m | +2.3 % | +3.4 % |
| km 37.4 → 37.920 → 9 m | descent | 520 m | 20 → 9 m | -2.0 % | -2.3 % |
| km 38.9 → 39.111 → 5 m | descent | 270 m | 11 → 5 m | -2.4 % | -2.9 % |
| km 40.2 → 40.54 → 12 m | climb | 340 m | 4 → 12 m | +2.3 % | +4.0 % |
| km 40.5 → 41.012 → -5 m | descent | 510 m | 12 → -5 m | -3.4 % | -5.8 % |
The steepest stretches
-5.8 % · at km 22.7steepest descent over 100 m
-4.8 % · at km 22.6steepest descent over 250 m
-3.5 % · at km 22.4steepest descent over 500 m
-1.9 % · at km 26.4steepest descent over 1000 m
Where the numbers come from
The course is the public Strava route published by the organiser (« Marathon de Vannes »), read without an account through its public embed. Altigraph shows the computed profile and links to the original route; the track itself is not redistributed.
No official climbing figure was found on the organiser's website; the 245 m above are computed by Altigraph after smoothing the altitude over 50 m, which removes GPS jitter. Adding up every rise of the same track without any smoothing gives 306 m: that raw sum is usually the figure race brochures quote.
Method: the track is resampled every 10 m, altitude is smoothed over 50 m either side, the local gradient is measured over 100 m, then the course is cut into climbs (over 1.5 %), descents (under -1.5 %) and flat parts. The thresholds are the same as on the home page.
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Profile computed on 21 September 2026 from the organiser's course. A course can change until race day: the organiser's page is the reference.