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Sanxiang Metropolis Daily on October 20 (text/all-media reporter Ye Zhu video/Xie Jiashen Ye Zhu) cheered and rushed to Changma's ten-year journey and felt the pulse of the city with his footsteps! At 7:30 on October 20, with the crisp sound of the starting gun, the 2024 Changsha Marathon and National Half Marathon Championship (the fourth stop) officially started in the East Square of Helong Sports Center, and more than 30,000 runners gathered into a red river, rushing along both sides of the river. Since 2015, the Changsha Marathon has successfully held seven offline races and three online races, and more than 400,000 domestic and foreign runners have participated in the Changsha Marathon.
30,000 people visited the city together
The event was hosted by the Chinese Athletics Association, Hunan Provincial Sports Bureau, and Changsha Municipal People's Government; Undertaken by Hunan Provincial Athletics Association and Changsha Sports Bureau. The event has three events: marathon (42.195 km), half marathon (21.0975 km) and happy run (5 km), including 12,000 marathon runners, 13,000 half marathon runners, 5,000 happy runners, 200 runners in the National Half Marathon Championship (fourth stop), and 20 marathon elite runners; The total number of participants exceeded 30,000.
This year's Changma race route is still the most beautiful track that thousands of runners are very familiar with - with the two banks of the river and the Shanshui Zhou City as the main line, passing through Furong Square, Wuyi Square, Hunan Financial Center, University Science and Technology City, Xiangjiang Scenic Belt, Orange Island Scenic Area, Xianjia Lake Scenic Area, Yuelu Mountain Scenic Area, Yanghu Area and other Changsha city landmarks and highlight areas; It fully shows the rapid development of the beautiful Changsha and the red background of the hometown of the great man.
After fierce competition, Tafis · Deleger Abi from Ethiopia won the men's championship of the full marathon with a time of 02 hours 10 minutes · 05; Kuftu · Tahir · Dadisso, also from Ethiopia, won the women's marathon with a time of 2 hours, 23 minutes and 13 shots.
Chinese runners Sun Zongyang and He Fang won the men's and women's half marathon championships with a time of 01:06:25 and 01:18:27 respectively.
Old friends and new people continue to challenge themselves with Changma
Since 2015, the Changsha Marathon has successfully held seven offline races and three online races. More than 400,000 runners at home and abroad participated in the Changsha Marathon, ran through the "two banks of the river", experienced the rapid development of Changsha city, and felt the hospitality of Changsha people.
At the finish of the marathon, Guizhou couple Hong Yue and Pan Sufang, who won the first place in the men's and women's categories in the long marathon half marathon event in 2023, were the first to finish the marathon among the domestic male and female runners this year. In addition, the reporter of Sanxiang Metropolis Daily also met a special runner - the 9th place in the men's marathon event, Zhao Guocun from Qinghai. In 2021, he represented China in the Tokyo Paralympic Athletics Marathon T46 class, finishing fifth in 2 hours, 33 minutes and 11 seconds. "This is my first time participating in the long marathon, running 2 hours, 21 minutes and 14 seconds, setting my PB (personal best) and the best time for a Chinese disabled person in a marathon." Zhao Guocun said, "This year has been constantly refreshing PB, and this summer, I have also trained quite systematically. As long as we train hard, anything is possible. ”
Also participating in the long marathon for the first time, Ms. Huang, a runner from Changsha, arrived at the finish of the half marathon two minutes before the closing time with the "closing rabbit". "Today I felt like the weather was nice and the atmosphere was great. On both sides of the track, passing spectators shouted cheers, and the running groups on the track cheered each other on. Ms. Huang told the reporter of Sanxiang Metropolis Daily that she was very happy to complete the expected goal, "I ran to the finish line unconsciously, and I will sign up for the competition next year." ”