On October 18, the results of the registration lottery for the 2023 Guangzhou Marathon were announced. Registered runners can log in to the official website of the Guangzhou Marathon, Maramala, and Digital Heartbeat APP to check the lottery results. Registration fee payment will be due at 17:00 on October 21, and those who fail to pay in time will be used for the second lottery. The reporter interviewed Cao Jianxin, a 70-year-old loyal runner. He said that he was very excited to run on the “One River and Two Straits” track in Guangzhou for the tenth time. As long as he can continue running, he will remain a loyal runner.
Contestants run on the track on both sides of the river in Guangzhou.
The Guangzhou Marathon Organizing Committee reminds runners that winners must pay the registration fee and complete the corresponding registration process before 17:00 on October 21. Failure to pay on time will be deemed as automatically giving up the qualification for this event; if there are unpaid places after the first round of lottery payment, the organizing committee will conduct a second round of lottery, and the results of the second round of lottery will be announced at 10 a.m. on October 23 announced at the time.
In addition, registration for public welfare and charity will start at 10 a.m. on October 24. Public welfare and charity quotas are only open to contestants who have registered for the 2023 Guangzhou Marathon but have not won the lottery. Applicants must meet the registration requirements for the 2023 Guangzhou Marathon and are subject to successful payment. The principle is first come, first served, while the quota is full.
For many runners who did not win the lottery, the Guangzhou Marathon Organizing Committee will also send out a big gift package – Guangzhou Marathon direct to North Marathon. According to reports, the Guangzhou Marathon Organizing Committee will randomly select 100 runners who meet the registration qualification requirements for the 2023 Beijing Marathon from the winners and losers of the 2023 Guangzhou Marathon, and will directly participate in the 2023 Beijing Marathon. After the list of direct players is confirmed, it will be released through the official platform of the event.
It is reported that a total of 140,846 people have registered for the 2023 Guangzhou Marathon, setting a new record for the number of registrations for the previous Guangzhou Marathon. Among them, 86,155 were marathon runners and 54,691 were half marathon runners. Calculated according to the scale of the event: excluding direct quotas and sponsor quotas, the winning rate for the full marathon is about 19%; the winning rate for the half marathon is about 16%.
Huang Wenlong from Guangxi said: “In 2013, I participated in the Guangzhou Marathon half-marathon for the first time in my life and visited my wife who was studying in Guangzhou. I will register for the full marathon in 2023. Our family of three will go together for a 10-year appointment. I am grateful for winning the lottery in Guangzhou Marathon. Thank you for meeting me, I’m here.”
Xu Caihong, leader of the Guangzhou Marathon running group, said, “This is my first time to apply for the Guangzhou Marathon. I am very lucky to win the lottery. This year our running group has a very high winning rate and everyone is very happy. “I ran 4,000 kilometers last year and I am still running. Another running group won the ‘running champion’ medal, but because my family is in poor health, I will be busier and run less this year, only two to three hundred kilometers per month.”
As a loyal runner who has participated in 9 Guangzhou Marathons, 70-year-old Cao Jianxin has witnessed the past and present of the Guangdong Long-distance Running. He said that the Guangzhou Long-distance Running has a long history, and the Guangzhou Torch Long-distance Running Team has a history of more than 40 years. Long-distance running competitions began to be held in Guangzhou in the 1990s. It can be said that they started at the same time as marathons in Beijing and other places. He once won sixth place in the Guangzhou long-distance running competition in 1987. “I competed again this year. This is my tenth time competing in the Guangzhou Marathon since 2012. In terms of the events I participated in, all of them were full marathons, which is ‘highly valuable’.”
After so many years of participating in the Guangzhou Marathon, Cao Jianxin has deep feelings and feelings for this event. He said that first of all, more people participated, from a few thousand at the beginning to 30,000 now. Marathon running is not only popular among young people, but also more and more elderly people are participating in it; secondly, the level of Guangzhou Marathon continues to improve. In the past, runners who ran under 3 hours in Guangzhou Marathon were very rare, but now there are a lot of them; the third Guangzhou Marathon track is The “golden track” runs on both sides of the Pearl River. The track is more than 30 kilometers long and lined with green trees, which is rare in China. Every section of the road has a story. A Guangzhou Marathon track can tell the whole of Guangzhou’s modern history. Guangzhou Marathon did a good job in organizing the race. Whether it was gathering and setting off at the Tianhe Sports Center, or collecting the completion package at the end of Huacheng Square, everything was in order.
As the number of people who love running continues to increase, various running groups have been established one after another. Runners can be seen everywhere in residential areas, parks, roads, and riversides. The Guangzhou Municipal Government has also responded to the needs of citizens by building green jogging trails everywhere, such as People run on the jogging track of Tianhe Sports Center every day. There are also places like Ersha Island, Biological Island, and both sides of the Pearl River where people like to run. On Saturdays and Sundays, these places become super large training grounds. . Now other cities in China are also developing green jogging trails, and it can be said that this was promoted from Guangzhou.
The holding of marathons in Guangzhou has also led to the holding of marathons in various places in Guangdong Province. Marathons in cities such as Shenzhen have attracted attention and popularity, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has become the favorite horse racing destination for runners.
2023-10-19 01:59:26
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