MCM Awards

The Marine Corps Marathon awards ceremony is held at 12:30 p.m. on race day at the Marine Corps War Memorial.  MCBQ Commander Colonel Choike is joined by other high ranking military personel to present the awards, as well as offer their congratulations to the winners.   

The MCM offers over 510 MCM and MCM10K awards with only a handful being presented to winners on race day.  

The following awards are presented race day:

• MCM Overall: top three male and top three female awards, presented at finish line
• Challenge Cup competition
• MCM10K Overall: top male and top female
• Wheelchair
• Handcycle
• USMC Award: top three active duty male and female Marine finishers
• Navy Federal Award: top active duty male and female Navy finisher
• US Armed Forces Retired presented by GE: top three male and top three female
• Special Olympics: top male and top female
• Special Olympics Unified Team: top male or top female
• Penguin award: presented to the last official finisher at the finish line

The following awards are mailed out after event weekend:

• MCM Individual Awards
  • MCM Overall Masters
  • MCM Overall Seniors: male and female age 50+
  • top three male and top three females in the following increments: 10-14, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-70, 80+
• MCM Speciality Awards
  • LtCol D. Ice Award: first retired military finisher
• MCM Weight Groups
  • Clydesdale divisions: top two males: 185-199 lbs, 200-224 lbs, 225+ lbs
  • Athena divisions: top two females: 155-159 lbs, 170+ lbs
    
• MCM Teams Awards
  • Men, Women, Mixed, open
  • Masters: each team member must be over 40 years of age

• MCM10K Awards
• • Overall Masters: top male and top female age 40-49
  • Overall Seniors: top male and top female age 50+
  • Age groups: top three male and top three female in each of the following increments: 14 and under, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80 and above