On the 27th, the Chinese Athletics Association issued an announcement to announce the arrangements for the 2024 National Marathon Championships and the National Half Marathon Championships.
The Wuxi Marathon, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, is not only the opening event of this year's National Marathon Championships, but also the marathon selection of the Paris Olympic Games.
Last year's Wuxi Marathon was "five races in one", He Jie and Yang Shaohui both broke the men's marathon national record that had been in the dust for nearly 16 years, and reached the qualification line for the Paris Olympics and the World Championships. At the same time, 1,261 people "broke three" in the whole marathon, creating an era of "1,000 people breaking three" in China's marathon.
The 2024 Wuxi Marathon is scheduled to fire at 7 a.m. on March 24. The event attracted 265,900 registrations, the highest number of registrations for a marathon in China and the second largest in Asia, after the Tokyo Marathon. In the end, 33,000 lucky winners will take to the track and participate in the race.
Like last year, this year's Wuxi Marathon is still the first stop of the National Championships, the other two races, the Hengshui Lake Marathon and the Beijing Marathon, both held in the second half of the year.
Last year, the Wuxi Marathon was a selection event for the Asian Games in Hangzhou and the World Championships in Budapest, and this year it has been upgraded to the Paris Olympic Trials, which will be the last chance for Chinese athletes to qualify for the Olympics – three men and three women have already reached the Paris Olympics, and have already achieved their full quota.
Those who fail to meet the standards will go all out to achieve a counterattack and grab the admission ticket, and those who have reached the standard will not dare to take it lightly and strive to achieve better results and retain their qualifications.
Another suspense of "multi-race in one".
lies in the number of "breaking three".
Can it surpass the 3,000 mark
Setting a new milestone for the Chinese marathon?
Let's wait and see