In Omsk, athletes will again run the coldest race in the world
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On Saturday, January 7, in Omsk on Cathedral Square, the Christmas half marathon traditionally starts – the coldest race in the world. This time, foreigners are again participating in it – representatives of various states, from Saudi Arabia to Vietnam and Mozambique.
On Saturday, January 7, at 13:00, the Christmas Half Marathon will be held in Omsk. The first race of the new year will bring together 1,032 winter runners from various regions of Russia and other countries.
The organizers announced that everyone will be able to overcome the mass distance of 3 km. For more trained runners over 14 years old, there will be a “ten” – 10.55 km.
The main distance is a half marathon, 21.1 km. This year, well-known athletes are participating in the race – Omsk residents Tamara Volnina, Maria Kostina, the family and sports duet of Natalia and Yuri Tarasovs – and others.
From other countries, 41 athletes registered this time. Including, first of all, Asia and Africa are represented – for example, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Jordan, Laos, Mozambique and Guinea. In addition, there are 6 athletes from Nicaragua.
There will be 991 runners from Russia. Of these, Omsk residents – 842 (86 from rural areas, the rest – from the regional center).
As always, there will be a competition for the most original costume among the participants.
The opening ceremony of the race will begin at Cathedral Square at 12:45.
As added in the mayor’s office of Omsk, city services were intensively preparing the race track and approaches to Orthodox churches. Work on the distance of runners began on January 3 – on the streets of Spartakovskaya, Lenin, Tarskaya, Ivan Alekseev and others.
On the day of the half marathon and after it, the road workers will continue cleaning the roads and, in addition, they will be engaged in manual garbage collection.
Also, on January 7, 10 units of heavy vehicles will be allocated from the car park of the city UDKhB to cordon off the race track.
Earlier we wrotehow traffic in Omsk will be blocked due to the half marathon.
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