Cardiff have been awarded the right to host the World Half-Marathon Championships in 2016.
The organisers announced the news in Monaco today, stating that they want 20,016 fun runners to enter the race.
"It is a landmark moment for Wales and for the city of Cardiff," BBC Sport quotes a spokesman as saying.
The race will be staged on the existing half-marathon course in Cardiff.
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