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On the equator the humidity stops sweat from cooling you, and core temperature creeps up hour after hour. Exertional heat illness, blackout, a fall onto hot asphalt: your medical costs are guaranteed up to €150,000, from emergency transport through to a hospital stay.
Between French Guiana and your own front door sits an intercontinental flight, and nobody boards one with a fresh cast or straight off a drip. Assistance and repatriation are covered at actual cost, including the medical escort and the rearranged journey.
A certified marathon is official competition, which is exactly what most personal policies leave out. The Competition option covers your entry in Kourou and across your whole season, from the long training runs to the next start line you book.
Rhabdomyolysis, kidney strain, a fracture that never knits properly: a marathon run in this climate can leave consequences that outlast the season. A permanent disability capital sum of up to €200,000 then offsets lost capacity and a changed working life.
In February the rainy season is turning and the air over Kourou stays heavy well before sunrise. A runner used to temperate pacing loses minutes per kilometre here without noticing: aid stations underused, salt never replaced, splits copied from a European spring. Withdrawals and heat incidents cluster in the closing ten kilometres, when there is little left to give.
Building a marathon also means six months of long runs, hill work and intervals on hot road surfaces, often alone at the end of the day. Year-round marathon insurance covers that whole build as well as the race itself, in South America and anywhere else you travel for a bib.
Held in February at Kourou, the Marathon de l'Espace offers the classic distance to roughly 500 runners, in the unusual setting of a town shaped by spaceflight. A single format, steady heat and very high humidity make it a race of pacing and fluids rather than speed.
One day, one distance, and several hours of running to keep safe: we insure all your marathon entrants through a single subscription. Our medical assistance line answers day and night while the race is on, repatriation is included, and that applies anywhere in the world. We can also come in as a partner.
Yes. Cover applies in French Guiana as elsewhere, whatever country you live in. It runs through your training, your stay and your return journey, including the organisation of a repatriation if one is needed.
Yes, when it causes a medically recorded injury, such as exertional heat illness treated in hospital or a fall that follows it. Treatment and assistance are then mobilised within the limits of the contract.
The guarantee makes no distinction between the race and the build-up. A muscle tear on a three-hour run, a fall on a climb or an impact in training opens exactly the same rights as race morning.
No. This is not cancellation insurance: neither the flight, the hotel nor the bib is reimbursed. It answers only for the medical consequences of a bodily accident, in training or in the race.
The figure depends on how long you want cover for, the discipline and the Competition option, which a timed marathon calls for. The AxeoSport online quote returns it straight away, with no commitment.
