Acute cardiac care & resuscitationCohort study
Characteristics of sudden cardiac arrest during endurance racing: a decade of the Paris registry
- Registry-based observational study
Authors' conclusion
SCA incidences during endurance races are low, with male predominance, high survival rates, and a high proportion of unexplained cases.
Study context
- Population
- Participants in Paris endurance races (half marathon, marathon, 20 km), 2011–2024 excluding 202017 SCA cases
- Participants
- 1.2 million participants
- Exposure
- Men vs women
- Outcome
- Incidence of SCA during endurance races, by sex
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Crude SCA incidence
- SCA cases male
- 88%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Timing of SCA
- Overrepresented in final kilometres of short races
- Men had twice the acceleration rate of women
Aetiology
- No cause identified
- 47.1%
Survival after hospitalization
- Survived
- 88% (15/17)
- All survivors cerebral performance category (CPC) 1 except one CPC 2
Original publication
Characteristics of sudden cardiac arrest during endurance racing: a decade of the Paris registry. Europace. Published 9 February 2026. doi:10.1093/europace/euaf313
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it