[Explanation] After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, press the pause button for various sports events including marathons.
Recently, as the epidemic situation has improved significantly, Chongqing has begun to resume sports events in an orderly manner.
At 8:30 am on October 18th, the 2020 Fairy Mountain Marathon started at the Fairy Mountain Scenic Spot in Wulong District, Chongqing City. This was the first marathon held in Chongqing after the epidemic.
The Fairy Mountain Marathon has two events, a half marathon and a mini marathon, with a scale of 2,000 participants. Among them, the half marathon includes individual races and couples races, and the mini marathon includes individual races and parent-child races.
Compared with other marathons, the biggest feature of the Fairy Mountain Marathon is that the entire event is deeply integrated with the World Natural Heritage Site Chongqing Wulong Fairy Mountain tourism and vacation resources, and the local beauty is fully displayed in the track plan to create Chongqing's first vacation marathon.
After the game started, the players ran along Ginkgo Avenue outside the Fairy Mountain Visitor Center.
In the first half of the competition, players need to go through multiple climbing stages, which puts a certain test on their physical strength.
In the second half, the track is mostly downhill, and the runners run slightly easier.
After fierce competition, Sha Zhengyou from Chengdu, Sichuan won the men's half-time team championship with a time of 1 hour, 9 minutes and 42 seconds.
The women's half-time champion Feng Qing also came from Chengdu, Sichuan. Her time was 1 hour 23 minutes and 18 seconds.
[Concurrent] Sha Zhengyou, the champion of the men's half-course team
Because of the impact of the epidemic this year, it has been a long time since I came out for a game. It is rare to have such a game.
For me, I played well today because I have tried my best.
[Concurrent] Feng Qing, champion of women's half-course
On the whole, since I was more excited to run anyway, I felt that there was finally a race, and everyone ran wildly.
[Explanation] Chongqing's first marathon after the epidemic also attracted Olympic champion Li Xuerui to help out.
[Concurrent] Olympic champion Li Xuerui
Everyone has been holding back for a long time because of the epidemic, and may be particularly eager for sports and marathons.
I am also very happy to be able to participate in the first race of this year, and I hope that through today’s first race, we can make a good start, and then after the epidemic slowly returns to normal, then we can have more races for everyone to participate in. , And then more people participate in sports activities.
Reporting from Chongqing by reporter Xiao Jiangchuan
Editor in charge: 【Luo Pan】