The inaugural occasion in Brussels and Leuven takes place on April 12-13 subsequent yr with membership runners rubbing shoulders with elites
There are actually lower than six months to go earlier than the European Working Championships takes place in Brussels and Leuven in Belgium.
For the primary time the European Championships is open to all, too, with extraordinary runners capable of race alongside the elites.
There are additionally a wide range of distances – 10km, half-marathon and the total marathon – and already 15,000 runners have signed up for the occasion.
The marathon begins on the Royal Palace in Brussels and follows a scenic course by way of to Leuven. The half marathon and 10km set off from Leuven and cross town and wider environment.
Uniquely, the online end time of the highest 25 runners per nation, together with elites, will probably be added up and this can kind the idea for the nation rating per competitors and gender. The nation with the bottom mixture time in every race and gender class are declared winners.
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European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov says: “The European Working Championships symbolises my imaginative and prescient of a sport that actually is for everybody. Younger and previous, female and male, quick and sluggish, huge and small, elite and novice will all compete collectively and concurrently in mass marathon, half marathon and 10km races, with international and nationwide rating locations on provide.
“For too lengthy, athletics has been seen as a rarefied exercise, the protect of solely the super-fit and the super-gifted. All youngsters, and a rising variety of adults throughout our continent, participate in athletics, within the type of leisure operating, on daily basis. But a lot of them don’t consider themselves as athletes. I’m decided to bridge this hole.”
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