First Decade of IAAF Label Road Races Development （2008-2017）

The first decade of IAAF label road races development has played a leading role in worldwide road races development, analyzing which have a reference significance for the further internationalization and sustainable development of China's road races. By using the methods of literature review, interviews and case analysis, this paper reviews the development of label road races. The result shows that the number of races and the number of involved countries increased rapidly, but the dominant countries are relatively stable; label races co-developed with other race systems, and marathon takes over half proportion of all road races; women run, series run and other innovative races such as rock and roll races become a trend; At the same time, there are problems such as concentrated distribution of the event, unexpected events led to the interruption or cancellation of event and the quality of participants needs to be improved. Proposals for China are as follows: promoting the construction of certification system for road races in China; enhancing the international organization participation and voice of China road race organizers; fostering a variety of high-standard innovative road races; strengthening the construction of series races and shaping the accumulation power of internationalized China road races; strengthening the service outside the competition and improve the quality of participants; constructing the mechanism of early warning and control of race risks.