14 November 2024

Two distances, a youngsters’s route and fan assist: how the Moscow Marathon might be held on September 18

On September 18, with the assist of town Sports activities Division, the primary race of the nation, the Moscow Marathon, might be held. Everybody will have the ability to run via the middle of the capital, problem themselves, break private data, and assist the contributors.

Runners can historically select one in all two distances — 42.2 kilometers or 10 kilometers. There may also be a company relay race. The route runs via essentially the most lovely streets of town, athletes are ready for views of well-known sights and the eye of followers.

Additionally, the Moscow Marathon will host the ultimate of the All-Russian Spartakiad in summer time sports activities among the many strongest runners on the marathon distance.

All contributors of the race will begin on the identical time at 09:00. The route of the marathon distance will start on the Luzhniki Small Sports activities Area, and the ten—kilometer race will start on Luzhniki Avenue close to the Alley of Fame. Athletes will run alongside the embankments of the Moskva River, the Backyard and Boulevard Ring, the Crimean Bridge, Tverskaya Avenue, Theater Passage, alongside the partitions of the Kremlin and end on the Pageant Sq..

The leaders are ready for medals, cups, items from companions and financial rewards. The winners of the marathon distance might be six women and men who confirmed the very best end result. The contributors who took locations from first to 3rd within the absolute championship amongst women and men at a 10-kilometer distance may also obtain awards. The leaders of the company relay race would be the three groups that completed first. As well as, the contributors of the race might be awarded in age classes, and along with the winners of the Moscow Marathon, the winners of the All-Russian Spartakiad, who took locations from first to 3rd amongst women and men, will obtain awards.

All contributors who meet the six-hour restrict might be awarded a commemorative medal created on the idea of the architectural symbols of town encountered on the route. Over time, the medals depicted the towers of the Moscow Metropolis enterprise middle, the Crimean Bridge, the Zaryadye Park, the high-rise on the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment and the constructing of the Polytechnic Museum. The design of this 12 months’s award will historically be a shock for the contributors.

Not solely grownup athletes, but additionally younger athletes can be part of the marathon. For them, the staff of the working group will maintain a youngsters’s race. On September 17, youngsters beneath the age of 9 will compete on the 400-meter distance, and contributors aged 10 to 13 years — at a distance of 800 meters. Medals within the youngsters’s race might be awarded to everybody who crossed the end line, and for the primary three girls and boys within the age teams of 10-11 and 12-13 years, a solemn awarding ceremony with cups and items might be held.

In the course of the marathon, site visitors might be restricted on some central streets of the capital. Sections alongside the marathon route might be closed from 07:00 ��about 17:00.

At the moment, it will likely be unattainable to drive alongside the Luzhnetskaya, Savvinskaya, Frunzenskaya and Kotelnicheskaya embankments. Sections of Tverskaya, Mokhovaya and Krasnaya Presnya streets, Strastnoy, Pokrovsky and Chistoprudny Boulevards, Lubyanskaya, New and Outdated Squares may also be blocked.

From 00:01 on September 18 till the top of the occasion, it will likely be unattainable to park within the blocked areas.