IMFR is the shortcut for " International Marathon Fellowship of Rotarians". The idea of founding this organisation is based on the marathon of Paris in 2005, where a group of enthusiastic running Rotarian friends from Toulouse with Jean Claude Brocart and Christophe Cruzel as the leaders were invited to run in occasion of the 100 year jubilee of Rotary.

The charter party of this international fellowship was celebrated in 2006 during the marathon in Berlin.

The main idea of this fellowship is to organize one Rotarian event a year during an international marathon, where you can find new Rotarian friends and run for a beneficent purpose.

Other big events were organized in Amsterdam 2007, New York 2008 and Ma©doc 2009.

Vienna 2010 , Townsville (Australia) 2011,  Graz (Austria) 2012, London 2013, Rome 2014 and Paris 2015.

The Marathon Runners and their supporting families are always spending together a full weekend (or three weeks like  2011 in Australia) with a lot of common activities.  A main item of the events is the donation to special Rotarian projects, especially for Polio Plus.

A special honor was given 2015 to the founder of the Fellowship and organizer of the first event in Paris: Past Governor Jean-Claude Brocart from RC Toulouse (France) awarded the first Paul Harris Fellow of the IMFR.

The IMFR has organized not only one International event a year, but also many National events with a more national audience. To give a better care to the members of so many different countries, the IMFR has nominated Country Representatives, who support the common idea of Rotary and Running in their own countries. There are Country Representatives for many European Countries and for the Philippines and the USA, too.

If you need more information or more pictures, just feel free to aks for or have a look on our homepage: www.rotarinarun.org or on facebook:

www.fb.com/IMFRRotarianRun

You find us at www.rotary-run.de