Riverside kilometres, late summer heat, cover that keeps pace

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A fall at pace on flat tarmac, €150,000 of care

A flat course invites you to push, and at that speed an unseen kerb or a nudge inside a tight pack puts you down hard. Collarbone, knee, wrist: your medical costs cover emergency treatment, surgery if needed and the rehabilitation that follows.

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Off a Loire embankment and back to your own bed

Some kilometres run away from the city along embankments and gravel paths where an ambulance takes time to reach you. Assistance and repatriation cover the real cost of evacuation from where you fell and of the journey home once doctors agree.

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Chip time, podiums and a 20 km option, all under Competition

Tours is raced with official timing and category prizes, whichever distance you pick. The Competition option covers this start line and every other race on your calendar, including the ones you sign up for after September.

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A knee wrecked at 35 km, up to €200,000

By the thirty-fifth kilometre your legs stop answering, and one awkward step can ruin a knee for good. If lasting damage is recognised, the permanent disability capital is paid according to the assessed degree so you can reorganise work and daily life.

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Pacing, heat and the trap of a flat course

A flat marathon punishes pacing mistakes more than hills do. Plenty of runners set off at half-marathon rhythm, hold on for thirty kilometres and then fall apart on hard tarmac that hammers every joint. The Loire's late season adds its own twist: cool starts, warm afternoons, poor hydration and cramp that ends in a fall.

Getting to the Tours start line takes months of volume, much of it alone beside the water or out among the vineyards. That is where stress fractures, tendon problems and unwitnessed falls happen. A year-round marathon insurance policy covers those sessions exactly as it covers race morning, in France and abroad.

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Tours at a glance, from start to conditions

The Marathon de Tours gathers around eight thousand runners in late September on a flat route through the Loire Valley. Alongside the marathon, a 10 to 20 km race lets you taste the atmosphere without taking on the full distance.

  • Location: Tours, Loire Valley, France
  • Next edition: Next edition to be confirmed
  • Format: Marathon and a 10 to 20 km race
  • Participants: Around 8,000 runners
  • Conditions: Mild late season, occasionally warm afternoons, flat and fast course

One policy, every runner on your road race

You put a marathon and a shorter race on the road the same morning. We insure all your participants under one policy. While the event is running, medical assistance stays reachable day and night, repatriation is included, and we can also partner your road race.

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FAQ

Before you collect your Tours bib

Yes. Cover depends on being a registered participant, not on the distance you run. Whether you take on twenty kilometres or the full marathon, all four guarantees apply in the same way.

The bodily consequences of an accident are covered whatever the weather. If a fall injures you on a heavy afternoon, medical costs, assistance and, when needed, repatriation to your home address all come into play.

No. This is not cancellation insurance. The policy deals with the bodily consequences of an accident and leaves aside the entry fee, the hotel and the trip to the Loire Valley.

Yes. Training sits inside the cover just as racing does. Riverside long runs, hill sessions and tune-up races all come under the same guarantees, with no separate declaration for each one.

The figure depends on the formula you choose, how long you want cover and whether you add the Competition option. The online quote gives your price in a few minutes with no obligation.

Between the Loire and the Cher, run your 42 km with a clear head