2024 Hong Kong Marathon: African Runners Dominate, Champions Crowned

2024-01-22 02:41:00

Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, January 21 (Reporters Lu Yun and Wei Hua) The 2024 Hong Kong Marathon will start with a gunshot on the 21st. As an annual event in Hong Kong’s sports community, this competition attracted approximately 74,000 runners. Six runners from Africa took the top three places in both the men’s and women’s marathon categories.

Some contestants take photos before the game

This event is divided into full marathon, half marathon and 10km categories. The starting point of the full marathon and half marathon is on Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, and the 10km category starts from the Eastern District Corridor. All categories end in Victoria Park. . The event organizing committee invited many overseas runners to participate and held the Asian Marathon Championships at the same time.

The picture shows the match scene

The temperature in Hong Kong was suitable that day, which was more suitable for the performance of the players. The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Mr Lee Ka-chiu, presided over the starting ceremony of the competition. After competition, Serio from Kenya crossed the line first with a time of 2 hours, 12 minutes and 51 seconds and became the champion of the men’s marathon; the women’s championship was won by Armino of Ethiopia, with a time of 2 hours, 28 minutes and 47 seconds.

Sun Xiaoyang and Chen Yufan from Mainland China won the men’s half marathon and men’s 10km championships respectively.

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