The 34th Beijing International Marathon has gone ahead despite concerns about bad air quality.
Many of the 25,000 runners wore face masks or used sponges to battle the smog. One resident in the city told the BBC that the air smelt like burnt coal.
The organisers warned runners to expect slight or moderate smog, but the US embassy said the air was so bad, it represented a hazard.
Some athletes are reported to have given up because of the pollution.
However China's Gong Lihua, who came in third in the women's race, told the South China Morning Post that while the smog had no "major" impact on her performance.
Beijing resident Neil Holt told the BBC that although the air quality was better than last year, "it was still very polluted".
"You can hardly see [the stadium] through the smog," he said. "it is really hard to breathe when it is like this."
The men's race was won by Ethiopian runner Girmay Birhanu Gebru and another Ethiopian, Fatuma Sado Dergo, won the women's race.
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