China News Service, Taiyuan, March 15th (Reporter Hu Jian) The 2023 Taiyuan Marathon (hereinafter referred to as: Taiyuan Marathon) held a press conference on the 15th at the Binhe Sports Center in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. The 2023 Taiyuan Marathon will be held on May 21 on 7 When the guns are fired, the race starts. The scale of the event is 35,000 people. There are 4 competition events: men's and women's marathons, men's and women's half marathons, mini-runs and family parent-child runs.
This year's Taiyuan Marathon is the first large-scale mass sports event held in Taiyuan in the post-epidemic period. As early as November last year, the organizing committee started event planning and preparations.
The reason why the organizing committee decided to start the race in May is to satisfy the desire of runners to go outdoors, and at the same time, it also wants runners at home and abroad to run on both sides of the Fen River in full bloom and enjoy the beauty of Taiyuan in May.
Taiyuan Marathon Organizing Committee held a press conference.
Photo courtesy of the Taima Organizing Committee
The 2023 Taiyuan Marathon Finishing Medal also shows the beauty of Taiyuan's ancient and modern rivers and mountains. The design takes into account cultural heritage, architectural art, natural and cultural landscapes. The elements of the city wall are integrated into it.
In 2023, Taima Marathon will resume inviting foreign runners to participate. The scale of participation is 35,000 people, including 10,000 people for marathon, 15,000 people for half marathon, 7,000 people for mini run, and 3,000 people for family parent-child race. .
This year's Taiyuan Marathon will launch a series of activities of "Hundred Regiments Race Taiyuan Race" and "Enthusiastic Shanxi, Hospitality in Shanxi" on the basis of the previous running team battles. Taiyuan Marathon will serve as a link and bridge to attract runners from outside the province to experience Shanxi and Taiyuan Historical and cultural, geographical and cultural and cultural tourism resources.
While preparing the established security and medical insurance plans, the Taima Organizing Committee has also made detailed emergency plans for the safety of runners after "Yangkang" and the possible extreme high temperature weather.
The number of participants and the scale of the event this year created the highest in the history of Taima.
Photo courtesy of the Taima Organizing Committee
This year, Taima will join hands with the Chinese Athletics Association to carry out sports and health science popularization public welfare activities at the Taima Pre-Game Expo. At that time, the China Athletic Association Sports Health Expert Think Tank will invite many sports experts to carry out sports protection, scientific training, and sports nutrition for runners. Security and other health science popularization.
Jiuniu Animal Husbandry · 2023 Taiyuan Marathon is sponsored by Shanxi Provincial Sports Bureau and Taiyuan Municipal People's Government, organized by Shanxi Provincial Athletic Association, Taiyuan Sports Bureau and Kaicheng Sports, co-organized by relevant units in Shanxi Province and Taiyuan City, and hosted by the Chinese Athletics Association Certification unit.
After 13 years of hard work, Taima Marathon has become a "double gold" marathon event with the top ten domestic IAAF gold medals and the Chinese Athletics Association gold medal.
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