When the event is suspended or postponed again and again due to epidemic prevention, although there is still a possibility of running the race in theory, many words are actually needless to say, and in the remaining days of 2021, it is difficult to see large-scale marathon events held again.
The absence of events, in a way, also means that the story of this year's marathon season is over, albeit with some abrupt taste. How do we remember this abrupt 2021 season? Uncertainty seems to be the main theme of the year.
The beginning of 2021 was the postponement of Xiamen Horse, and then the marathon entered a period of silence, waiting until March and April, after ushering in a wave of collective outbreaks in March and April, and then again because of the epidemic + silver event, and then the second half of the year was only short-lived and declared over.
But just as no winter will not pass, the winter that belongs to the marathon will gradually return after the normalization of epidemic prevention. In this issue, let's review the unforgettable 2021 season of the Chinese marathon.
On December 31, 2020, on the occasion of the new year, the Xiamen Organizing Committee announced the postponement of the 2021 Xiamen Marathon, and the time of the event will be announced separately.
The scheduled holding of the event in the second half of 2020 made runners think that epidemic prevention had entered normalization, and they did not expect that the opening drama of 2021 would be stopped. Without the sense of ceremony and farewell of the last participant before the winter training, the runners directly entered the precipitation period.
Time to March 7, 2021, Tianzhu Mountain 5A scenic spot, the 2021 Tianzhu Mountain Mountain Half Marathon on this day to start the gun, more than 1200 runners from Jiangxi, Shandong, Zhejiang and other parts of the country to participate in the competition, the first official marathon in 2021 officially launched.
65 days after the start of the year, the first race of 2021 was late. In this competition, Hefei's Cao Pengfei won the first place in the men's group with a time of 1:10:58, and Liang Jing won the second place with a time of 1:11:37. Pity the story of the two runners later, a sigh.
In March, large marathon events in China were still sporadically held, but the time entered April, and the event ushered in an intensive outbreak period. Basically, more than 10 events are held every week, and in many cases, it is as high as 20+. Xiamen, Wuxi, Xuzhou, the three competitions were held in two consecutive days.
In terms of results, Yang Dinghong won the 2021 Xiamen Marathon men's championship with a time of 2:15:25; Jiao Jing won the 2021 Xiamen Marathon women's championship with a time of 2:35:30; Li Zicheng won the 2021 Wuxi Marathon men's championship with a time of 2:16:19; and Ding Changqin won the 2021 Wuxi Marathon women's championship with a time of 2:32:45.
It is worth mentioning that at the Xiamen Marathon held on April 10, the domestic carbon plate running shoe 160X 2.0 has a footing rate of more than half in the three runners, which can be seen as a signal for the rise of domestic carbon plate running shoes.
This weekend, at the most important Xuzhou Marathon and Tokyo Olympic Trials, Peng Jianhua (2:11:16), Yang Shaohui (2:11:19), Dong Guojian (2:11:20) and Zhang Deshun (2:29:11), Bai Li (2:29:12) and Li Zhixuan (2:29:13) won the top three places in the Tokyo Olympic Games. After nearly four months, they will represent their country on the Olympic stage.
The event in full swing can't help but make people sigh: everything is back! But this beauty lasted only about two months. In late May, sporadic cases broke out in Lu'an, Anhui, Yingkou, Liaoning, Yinchuan, Ningxia and other places, and many marathons and related road running events were postponed and cancelled.
On June 13, the Shaanxi Baoji Linyou Summer Half Marathon was the last race in the first half of the year, in which Cen Wanjiang and Yang Hua from Guizhou won the championship with a time of 1:08:09 and 1:18:54 respectively, and the first half of the race came to an end.
The second half of the major events will not start until September. On September 19, the 2021 China Changzhi Ring Zhangze Lake Marathon began, becoming the first shot in the autumn event, with a total of 3,000 runners participating in the event. In the end, Guan Yousheng and Yao Yuzhou won the male and female championships of the event with a time of 2:18:31 and 2:53:00 respectively.
This month, the 14th National Games, a quadrennial blockbuster event, was held in Shaanxi. As a quadrennial system examination, the final of the National Games marathon held on September 26 attracted a lot of attention, and a group of elite runners raced to Xi'an.
In the end, in the heavy rain of the ancient capital of Xi'an, Renqing Dongzhibu, a post-00s youngster from Qinghai, won the men's championship in the last minute by beating Jiangxi's Peng Jianhua with a time of 2:14:26; Zhang Deshun of Yunnan defeated Shanghai's Li Zhixuan to win the women's championship with a 2:32:31 victory.
The National Games came to an end, and the registration information was frequently released. I thought autumn would be a harvest season. But who would have thought that October 17 would be the final chapter of the 2021 season.
On October 17, 12 marathons, including the 2021 Hengshui Lake Marathon and National Marathon Championship, the 2021 Changzhou West Taihu Lake Half Marathon, and the 2021 Yellow River Estuary Dongying Marathon, became the last race to be held today.
In terms of results, at the Changzhou West Taihu Lake Half Marathon, Wu Xiangdong won the championship with a time of 1:03:58; at the Hengshui Lake Marathon and National Marathon Championship, Guan Yousheng won the championship with a time of 2:14:59, Yang Dinghong won the championship at 2:15:12; and Li Zicheng won the championship with a time of 2:18:52 at the Huanghekou Dongying Marathon held in his hometown of Shandong.
Since then, due to epidemic prevention requirements, events have been postponed and cancelled, and some events have been postponed again and again until they are announced. Fast forward to December, postponements and cancellations become the norm, and I believe runners have become accustomed to...
Marathons are a carnival for runners, but everything should be built on a safe and healthy environment, and everything is still stable at the moment. But the suspension, in order to better start, let's look forward to the day of the reunion for a long time and the day we step on the track again!