Boston Marathon
Ticketing, access, and credentialing for ~30,000 people across a sprawling race footprint.
The Boston Athletic Association has run the world’s oldest annual marathon since 1897, one of the seven World Marathon Majors and a race most runners can only enter by hitting a qualifying time, moving tens of thousands of runners, staff, and guests across a multi-venue Boston footprint.
Control access and credentials for roughly 30,000 people across start, finish, and hospitality zones on a single Patriots’ Day, a point-to-point course that begins in Hopkinton and ends on Boylston Street, with no margin for slow gates.
wrstSCN ran access on 44–46 NTR-6 truss portals backed by handhelds and photo-tether stations. Manifest drove RFID credentials, ticketing was handled in-house, and wrstPASS issued NFC wallet passes for a fast tap-in.
WRSTBND issued ~8,636 NFC wallet passes and ~28,000 RFID credentials in 2024 alone, then returned in 2025 and 2026 at the same ~30,000-person scale, deploying credential printers on-site in 2026 for same-day badge production.
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