Ahmedabad, 08 October 2025: The Adani Ahmedabad Marathon (AAM), one of the city’s most celebrated annual sporting events, today announced a special collaboration with award-winning designer Aaquib Wani for its 9th edition, scheduled for 30 November 2025.In a unique initiative, Adani Sportsline and Wani are inviting design ideas from the public to co-create the official marathon jersey. Curated into the final design by Wani, the jersey will go beyond being a sporting outfit to become a symbol of community pride and collective creativity, aligned with the marathon’s enduring cause, #Run4OurSoldiers.
Recognised in the Forbes 30 Under 30 (Design) list, Wani has created iconic designs for the Indian cricket team jerseys and the official kits for India’s contingents at the Asian Games 2023 and Paris 2024 Olympics. His storytelling-driven design language spans cultural installations, music festivals, and sportswear.
Sharing his excitement, Aaquib Wani said: “Designing the official jersey for the Adani Ahmedabad Marathon is a unique and exciting opportunity for me. Ahmedabad is undoubtedly a city rich in art and craft, and I look forward to receiving ideas from creative minds across the community to craft a design that truly represents the marathon. This event is bigger than a race, with its core cause of #Run4OurSoldiers and it’s inspiring to see how the Adani Group and its sports arm have nurtured the marathon into a movement over the past nine years. My best wishes to the organisers and all the runners participating this year.”
Since its inception, the Adani Ahmedabad Marathon has championed #Run4OurSoldiers, honouring India’s armed forces. Internationally recognised, the marathon has been part of the Global Marathon Event List by the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) since 2022 and is certified by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI).
Organised entirely by Adani Sportsline, the 2025 edition will once again flag off from the Sabarmati Riverfront Sports Park, passing iconic landmarks such as the Atal Bridge, Gandhi Ashram and Ellis Bridge.
The event will feature four race categories—full marathon, half marathon, 10 km run and 5 km run—welcoming runners across all age groups and abilities.
Here’s the video link to Aaquib’s message – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NC0FZv887tRe-CnP8oiNYM8UcD-3Remi/view?usp=sharing
About Adani Ahmedabad Marathon
The marathon, an initiative of the Adani Group, is an expression of solidarity towards the brave-hearts of India’s armed forces. The marathon took its inaugural stride in November 2017 and completed its fifth lap in November 2021. It has earned runners’ affection for offering one of the most picturesque routes in the world. The race categories include full marathon, half marathon, 10 km run and 5 km run. The races, which attracted nearly 20,000 participants in the first two editions, saw over 17,000 participants in the third and fourth editions. Post-Covid, the Ahmedabad Marathon was the first to organise a physical event by devising time-slot based systems that permitted over 8,000 runners to participate in 2021 over two days while adhering to COVID-19 norms.
In 2022, the Ahmedabad Marathon made it to the ‘Global Marathon Event List – AIMS World Running’, Ahmedabad’s only run to be featured on this global list. In 2024, more than 20,000 participants had joined the #Run4OurSoldiers event in solidarity of our armed forces.
The “#Run4OurSoldiers” campaign is its distinguishing feature. It presents a unique opportunity for participants to pay tribute to our soldiers. More than 3,000 defence personnel participated in the run last year. A major portion of the proceeds goes for the welfare of the armed forces.
About Adani Sportsline
Adani Sportsline is the sports arm of the diversified Adani Group, which has a presence in ports, logistics, energy, utility, infrastructure, electric power generation and transmission, mining, airport operations, natural gas, and food processing.
Formed in 2019, Adani Sportsline has an overarching philosophy to inculcate a culture of sports at the grassroots level and create globally competitive opportunities for future champions in India. In line with the group’s vision of nation-building, the company aims to build a world-class ecosystem that nurtures sporting talent, accelerates the sports economy and plays the role of an enabler in India’s journey to become a leading sporting nation.
Further information at: https://adanisportsline.com/