China News Service, April 26. According to the US "Overseas Chinese News" report, the Brooklyn Marathon and Half Marathon organized by the New York City Running Association kicked off at 7 am on the 24th, attracting nearly 20,000 people including Chinese. People participated in the competition, and finally some Chinese athletes ran out of good results.
This year's Brooklyn Marathon uses a new route, starting at McLaren Park in Brooklyn and ending at Prospect Park, crossing under three bridges in Williamsburg, Manhattan and Brooklyn along the way, and enjoying the North Great view of the Brooklyn waterfront.
The new route was also used for the half marathon that day.
This year, a total of 19,000 runners participated in the competition. About 16,200 runners participated in the half marathon and about 2,800 people participated in the full marathon.
As in previous years, the event has also attracted many Chinese participants this year, and some of them have achieved their best results.
Among the Chinese male runners participating in the Brooklyn full marathon, the best time was 2 hours, 51 minutes and 6 seconds; the best time for the Chinese female runners was 3 hours, 19 minutes and 12 seconds.
In the half-marathon event, the best time among the Chinese female runners was 1 hour, 25 minutes and 16 seconds; the best time among the Chinese male runners was 1 hour, 17 minutes and 24 seconds.
Mr. Fu, a Chinese athlete from the Lanshan Club in New York, participated in the half marathon that day, and the final result was 1 hour and 49 minutes. He was quite satisfied with this, because he only trained for half a year to run the marathon.
According to him, among the runners on the 24th, most of the half-marathon runners were runners, and there were many Chinese. He saw many Chinese faces on the road. It can be seen that the marathon has attracted more and more Chinese to participate, and he plans to participate in the Long Island held in May. In the marathon, I also hope that my performance can steadily improve.
(Cui Guoqi)