50,000 People Run “Fuzhou Marathon” to Visit the Blessed City

On the morning of December 15, Zuohai 2024 Fuzhou Marathon started in Fuzhou, and 50,000 runners used their footsteps to measure the beauty of the blessed state.

This year’s Fuzhou Marathon competition route starts from Wuyi Square, passing through 3 Lanes and 7 Alleys, Shangxiahang, Yantai Mountain, Huahai Park, etc., to show the beauty of Fuzhou to the world.

More and more young people like marathon

The scale of the event reached 50,000 people.

On the morning of December 15, Wuyi Square was crowded with people. At 7: 30 in the morning, the starting gun rang and the players rushed out of the starting line like arrows. On both sides of the track, many citizens cheered for the players.

The total number of participants reached 50000, including 15000 marathon runners, 20000 half marathon runners, 12000 healthy runners and 3,000 family runners. Among them, the newly-established family running project turns “one person marathon” into “one family marathon”, allowing runners to leave good memories with their families while participating in the competition.

“11 people in our family participated.” Ms. Lin introduced that among the 11 people, there are 3 whole-marathon, 1 half-marathon and 7 healthy running. “The whole family participates, and everyone cheers each other and focuses on participation.”

Many citizens participated in the family marathon

Running a marathon and visiting a city is the biggest feeling of many runners. Mr. Zhang is from Shanghai. He likes the weather and scenery in Fuzhou very much. “The Fuzhou Marathon runway is relatively flat and the scenery along the way is beautiful. I like it very much.”

“It’s getting better every year.” The 71-year-old uncle Lin is from Fuzhou. Since the establishment of Fuzhou Marathon in 2015, he has registered every year.

According to statistics, among the contestants of this year’s Fuzhou Marathon, the youngest is 1 year old and the oldest is 84 years old; 4177 people under the age of 16 and 893 people over the age of 60; The farthest contestant in China comes from Kashgar, Xinjiang; The province with the largest number of participants outside Fujian is Zhejiang, with 2683 people; There are 128 contestants from Taiwan Province and 79 from Hongkong and Macau. There are 104 foreign players, and players from 20 countries and regions have signed up for the competition.

The winners praised Fuzhou.

After fierce competition, the whole-marathon and half-marathon men’s and women’s team champions were finally released.

The men’s and women’s champions of the whole marathon are from Ethiopia. Among them, 28-year-old Enderis won the men’s championship in 2 hours, 10 minutes and 54 seconds. The winner of the women’s team was Tadesse, with a time of 2 hours, 27 minutes and 05 seconds, which broke Ding Changqin’s record of 2 hours, 28 minutes and 22 seconds in the Fuzhou Marathon women’s team last year. After the game, Enderis said: “It feels great and I am very happy to come to Fuzhou.”

Tadesse, women’s champion of the whole marathon

The runner-up of the whole-marathon men’s team was won by China’s Li Zicheng. He is an international marathon athlete and is known as “the first professional marathon in China”. Li Zicheng’s impression of Fuzhou is particularly good, “The cultural heritage is very deep, so I also made a special circle of friends. I am very happy to enjoy the happiness in the blessed state.”

Whole-marathon men’s group award scene.

The half-marathon men’s championship was won by Nie Xudong. “I have been practicing marathon for ten years, and it is expected to win the first place.” Nie Xudong introduced that the weather in Fuzhou is very good, the track and the scenery along the way are very good, and the audience is very enthusiastic.

Huang Xuemei, champion of the half marathon women’s team

The champion of the Half Marathon Women’s Team is Huang Xuemei, who is familiar to Chinese people. Born in 1992, she is a software engineer in the Science and Technology Development Department of Xiamen International Bank. On August 11 this year, she won the women’s championship in the mass marathon of the Paris Olympic Games, thus becoming the first gold medal winner in the mass marathon in the history of the Olympic Games, and was called “the No.1 lady of mass marathon”. “The people of Fuzhou are very enthusiastic, and I heard people cheering for me along the way.” Huang Xuemei hopes that more people will come to Fuzhou to run Fuzhou Marathon and enjoy the happiness.

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The “behind-the-scenes marathon” is touching.

Behind the event, the reporter saw another “marathon” quietly staged. Thousands of medical staff, police officers, auxiliary police officers, security guards and 5230 volunteers have been guarding the entire section of the event since dawn.

After the game, volunteers took care of the contestants.

In order to do a good job in medical security, Fuzhou Health and Health Commission set up 24 medical stations (points) along the track, arranged 78 touring electric vehicles, 23 ambulances, 572 medical volunteers and 104 first-aid runners, deployed 127 AEDs along the way, designated 9 designated hospitals for treatment, planned 14 transfer routes, and 10 health emergency teams were on standby in the hospital, with a total of more than 1500 people participating in the medical security work.

Enthusiastic citizens cheer for the contestants.

The pacemakers who are called “official pacer” and “medical pacer” are indispensable “guardians” on the track. According to reports, there are 53 whole-marathon pacers and 39 half-marathon pacers to serve the players this year. (Fuzhou Evening News written by reporter Chen Dan and photographed by Zhang Xuyang, Shi Meixiang, Chi Yuan and Bao Hua)