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How you can still get a ticket for the sold-out Öresund Bridge Run

The Bridge Run 2025, a half-marathon across the Öresund Bridge from Denmark to Sweden, sold out within hours when tickets went on sale on February 1st. But disappointed runners who missed out may still be able to toe the starting line.

How you can still get a ticket for the sold-out Öresund Bridge Run
It may not be too late to score a race bib for Bridge Run 2025. Photo by Miguel A Amutio on Unsplash

The 21.1-kilometre Bridge Run will be held on June 15th, 2025 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the bridge’s opening in 2000. Runners will set out from Copenhagen suburb Tårnby and cover the full 16 kilometres of the tunnel and bridge sections of the crossing, finishing in Swedish city Malmö.

Some 40,000 race bibs were available to participants when registrations for the unique running event opened on February 1st, but massive interest and technical issues with the ticketing platform frustrated many as the event sold out in just two hours.

Over 100,000 people were in the queue to buy tickets on the day, according to the Bridge Run website.

READ ALSO: Denmark-Sweden bridge half marathon sells all 40,000 tickets in two hours

Race organisers MAI (Malmö Allmänna Idrottsförening) in Malmö and Sparta Athletics & Running have now confirmed a waiting list system for those who would like the chance to be offered a ticket if somebody else decides to sell their registration, for example due to injury, illness or other plans.

Registration for the waiting list is open on the Sportstiming platform, which was also used for race registration.

“We always experience a level of buying and selling of bibs at big races,” the Bridge Run website states.

Once a participant sells their ticket back to the event through the exchange platform, a buyer is found from the waiting list via ballot, it explains.

That person will then receive an email with a link to register for the event. They have 24 hours to respond before the bib is offered to the next person.

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EUROVISION

Swedish police pleased after Eurovision weekend passes peacefully

Despite concerns that tension in the run-up to Eurovision could escalate into violence, Swedish police said they were pleased with how the week went.

Swedish police pleased after Eurovision weekend passes peacefully

A total of 20 people were taken into custody by police on the final night of Eurovision in Malmö. One person was arrested and is suspected of violence against a police officer. But despite the tension during the event, police described the night as calm, all things considered.

“I’m very pleased,” police commander Per Engström said in a statement. “The event could go ahead in a safe and secure manner, while police secured the opportunity for citizens to, in a democratic spirit, express various opinions – almost completely without disturbances.”

A major pro-Palestinian demonstration on Saturday afternoon went ahead peacefully, with organisers collaborating closely with police. Thousands of people marched through Malmö, carrying pro-Palestinian symbols, and some held up signs referencing EBU’s separate decision to disqualify The Netherlands’ entry Joost Klein after he was accused of inapproppriate behaviour towards a photographer.

Things got more tense when hundreds of people also gathered outside the arena during the final, with those protesters lacking a demonstration permit.

Swedish, Norwegian and Danish police formed a human chain to push people away when they tried to get through to the area where the Eurovision audience was queuing. People who didn’t move voluntarily were carried away, with some shouting “fuck the police”, “shame on you” and “you support genocide”, according to reporters on the scene. Police said they used pepper spray on some occasions.

Nobody was seriously injured in the protests, according to police.

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