There were 18 A-class races across the country in one day, and the participants reached six figures: marathons, crowded

Yesterday, there were 18 A-class events across the country, with six-figure participants

Marathon, crowded

The marathon is packed. Yesterday, including the Nanjing Jiangdao Half Marathon, Yancheng Marathon, Yangzhou Jianzhen Half Marathon, Shanghai Half Marathon, Beijing Half Marathon, etc., 18 Class A marathon events across the country started with guns.

"It feels like the whole country is running marathons", "crowds of people", "too spectacular"... No wonder netizens make such an exclamation. The data proves that road racing is now returning to public life in a popular way. There are many numbers and good results, and the marathon and the sea of people are really back.

Correspondent Jianxuan Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News Reporter Xu Sheng Xue Bai Comprehensive Xinhua News Agency, China News Network

10,000 runners in Nanjing started along the river

At 4 a.m. on April 16, the Bank of Nanjing 8 Nanjing Jiangdao Half Marathon with the slogan "Jiangdao Banma Walks with Ning" started at Nanjing Eco-Science and Technology Island, and about 2023,10000 runners set off along the river. The organizing committee also specially invited Xu Mengtao, China's first snow sports Grand Slam winner and women's freestyle skiing aerials champion at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, to participate and lead.

Nanjing Jianye District was the organizer of the event, and Jiang Chen, deputy secretary of the district party committee and mayor of the district, participated in the race as a runner. "Jianye District is working hard to build Jiangdao Banma into a national high-quality PB (personal best) track and a world-renowned gold medal event." Jiang Chen said, "This track is also a smart track, and data collection stations with face recognition and chip sensing functions are built along the way." ”

The reporter saw that the sides and surrounding of the track are equipped with facilities such as heart rate collection columns, live broadcast screens, big data centers, smart navigation screens, data query terminals, and intelligent access terminals. Eye-catching mileage signs were installed along the route, and the ground was painted with new three-color lines and sports slogans. Runners do not need to wear smart devices, through the mini program on the track can view fitness records, sports rankings, finish results, heart rate, blood oxygen and other data in real time, and the system can also automatically generate sports video logs and photo posters for runners.

Yangzhou and Yancheng focus on "canal wind"

Yesterday, the 2023 Yangzhou Jianzhen Half Marathon was held as scheduled.

After three years, "Yangma" is new. As a member of the Jiangsu Grand Canal Marathon Series, Yangzhou has launched a new route that can better showcase the culture of the Grand Canal. The starting point is near the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the end is changed to Sanwan Park, where the Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum is located. The track runs along the ancient canal around the ancient city, connecting Yangzhou's canal culture, historical monuments and cultural landscapes, showing the new look of the canal city with landmark buildings, and highlighting the characteristics of Yangzhou as the origin city of the canal.

In fact, the new "Yangma" route itself is also a food check-in line. The starting point Marathon Park is close to Wenchang East Road, you can check in the most popular Yangzhou food; In the Taizhou Road food gathering area, you can eat from morning to night in the old town; The area around Wanfu Road and Slender West Lake Road is the "highland" of Yangzhou food check-in... Official data shows that from 4:14 on April 16 to 15:16 on April 5, Yangzhou received a total of 93,1013 overnight tourists, an increase of 04.2019% year-on-year and 102.35% over the same period in <>.

On the same day, the 2023 Yancheng Marathon and Grand Canal Marathon Series (Yancheng Station) also started enthusiastically, attracting a total of 15000,<> participants, starting and ending at Yannan Sports Center, connecting the city's characteristic landmarks and attractions such as the Great Bronze Horse, the New Fourth Army Memorial Hall, the Haiyan Museum, the China Begonia Garden, and the Dream Town.

5,<> people signed up for Beijing Half Malaysia

This spring, major international and domestic competitions have fully resumed. At 16 o'clock in the morning of the 7th, the Shanghai Half Marathon started under the Oriental Pearl Tower, the route is located in Pudong, Shanghai, passing through Lujiazui, Expo area and other landmark sections. After three rounds of guns, nearly 15000,<> half-horse runners ran to their heart's content.

Ezra Kipkt Tanui from Kenya crossed the finish line first, winning the men's category in 1:01:52. Surprisingly, the women's record was rewritten, with Ethiopia's Alamandis Eya Ssayi winning the women's category with a time of 1 hour, 10 minutes and 15 seconds.

As China's long-established mass road running event, the Beijing Half Marathon has now become a spring event for running enthusiasts, with more than 27,5 people from 2 countries and regions including China, France and Brazil signing up this year, with a scale of <>,<> participants. This year's Beijing half-horse finish medal integrates the "double Olympic elements" of the "Bird's Nest" of the National Stadium and the "Ice Ribbon" of the National Speed Skating Stadium, and has become the focus of post-race photo shoots.

"The Return of the Good Man": 18 Class A events a day across the country

The 2023 Wuhan Marathon, held yesterday, with the theme of "The Return of the Good Man", reproduced the classic track of "one city, two rivers, three towns, four bridges and five lakes", and implemented a two-shot start for the first time to ease the starting congestion and improve the event experience.

Also focusing on the "Yangtze River selling point" is the 2023 Yueyang Marathon. The Yueyang Marathon is an upgrade from the "Yueyang Junshan Most Beautiful Yangtze River Shoreline Marathon", which has been held twice, and more than <>,<> participants at home and abroad competed along the shoreline of the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake yesterday.

The reporter learned from the Chinese Athletic Association that a total of 18 Class A marathons, including the Beijing Half Marathon, the Wuhan Marathon, and the Nanjing Jiangdao Half Marathon, started yesterday. China News Network estimates that yesterday alone, runners in Class A races reached six figures, not counting other levels of road running.