The future of the 43rd Istanbul Marathon will be run
The marathon will be held for the 43rd time in the “golden category”, the title of “the only marathon run in the world” by the World Athletics Association.
In the last training on the European side from the Anatolian side, the organization, which is the only marathon between two, marathon (42 kilometers 195 meters), 15 kilometers run and 8 kilometers public run will be held in the competition.
A total of 40 thousand people will run in the organization that will be broadcast live on TRT Spor Yıldız and Spor Istanbul youtube channel.
The idea of coming to Europe from Asia, which was first sent by Tercüman Newspaper in 1973, was realized in 1979 with the initiative of a group of German tourists.
The Istanbul Marathon, which will be considered every year, was organized by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality for the future of the future.
While categories and complements are increased in the marathon during the Istanbul Municipality period, the participation of local and foreign athletes will be remarkable.
It entered President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s growing sprawling, world’s largest marathon store in the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.
54 elite athletes will participate
It has been reported that 54 elite athletes will run the 43rd Istanbul Marathon.
In addition to Kenyan Daniel Kipkore Kibet, who holds the track record with 2.09.44, men’s athletes such as Chele Dechasa, Yitayal Zerihun and Bazu Worku will compete in the organization, who had previously scored below 2.07.
One of the highlights of the race is Victor Kiplangat, 22 young Ugandans who ran the overall year half marathon with 59.26.
In women, Chepgneno, who is one of the former champions of Frankfurtton, who ran the Marathon with a time of 2.21.59, and who ran in Amsterdam with a time of 2.24 Jack38, stands out.
Among the elite athletes participating in the race, there is something that happens in 2 hours and 30 minutes of performance.
There will also be a separate struggle between Turkish athletes in the Istanbul Marathon. In the men’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, alongside Yavuz Ağralı, who wore the national jersey, Mert Girmalejese, Mestan Turhan, Halil Yasin, Hüseyin Can, Bekirhan Kabadayı, Ömer Alkanoğlu, Ahmet Alkanoğlu and Üzeyir Söylemez will compete. In women, elite Dilan Atak, Fatma Karasu, Derya Kaya and Gülbahar Çetin will run the marathon.
Tracks
The start of the races to be held within the scope of the organization will be taken 250 meters behind the 15 July Martyrs Bridge on the Anatolian side.
The 42,195 kilometer marathon will start at 09:00. After the bridge, leaving the Bar Beşiktaş turn, the athletes will go to Beşiktaş on the Baros Boulevard, on the coastal road to Karaköy. After the Galata Bridge, the athletes will turn in the direction of Sirkeci, following the coastal road, the front of Bakırköy Air Force Academy will turn in the direction.
They will pass the park that will come towards Gülhane Park from the coastal road, and will come to Sultanahmet. The race will end at the “At Square”, the meeting and sports center of the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires, between the entrance gate of the Blue Mosque and the Obelisk.
09. In the 15-kilometer run, the athletes will leave the Beşiktaş turn at 15:00 and reach Karaköy from the Barbarı coast and are on the coastal road. After the Galata Bridge, the athletes will turn in the direction of Sirkeci and arrive at the underground road at the Yenikapı Rally Ground on the street on the coastal road.
After raising the 15 Martyrs Bridge in the public marches that will start under the Altunizade Bridge at 09:45, it will leave the Beşiktaş turn and descend into Beşiktaş from the Barbaros Boulevard. Eight kilometer public run, Vodafone Park son in Dolmabahçe.
Awards
The first 35′ thousand dollars will be given from N Kolay 43rd Screening and Marathon.
The runners-up in the marathon will receive $20,000, and the Kids will receive $10,000.
For Turks, the winners of the marathon will receive 30 thousand liras, the runners-up will have 15 thousand liras, and the people will have 5 thousand liras.
Roads will be closed
It will be closed for the N Kolay.Istanbul Marathon with a track and a connection road.
For the organization, July Martyrs Bridge will be closed at 03.00 and all roads on the track will be closed from 05.00 onwards.
It will be selected as a vehicle from 12.30 on the 15 Julyites Bridge and track roads. Barbaros Boulevard will not be closed to traffic in both directions this year. The transition to the Ortaköy-Levent direction vehicle will be kept open.
The buses that will carry the athletes who will participate in the marathon and 15-kilometer races to the bridge will depart from Taksim and Sultanahmet Square at 07.00-07.30.
Foreign athlete stamp in Istanbul Marathon
On the other hand, it is noteworthy that foreign athletes take part in the Istanbul Marathon.
As far as men’s harmony, 11 Turkish and 31 foreign athletes won out of 42 races.
In the marathon, which was run for the first time in 1979 and Hasan Saylan’s game, the first places were shared among Turkish athletes for the first 4 years. In men, the last teams come to the forefront of the athletes. Foreign athletes took the first place in 28 marathons.
Not once among Turkish athletes, Kenyan, 7 times elected, two British and once French, Zimbabwean, Lithuanian, Moroccan and Azerbaijani athletes came first in the marathon.
Organization marathon running in the organization has been held since 1991. In 29 of the remaining 30 races, only the Turkish athlete came first.
Serap Aktaş, who was the only winner for Turkey in 1994, was old, while Turkish athletes have not been able to take the first place for the last 26 races.
Among the foreign athletes in women, 8 times class, 6 times Russian, 5 times Kenyan, 4 times Romanian and Ukrainian, and once British and Belarusian athletes took the first place.
Kenyan athlete Benard Cheruide also won Diana Chemyogei in last year’s marathon.
Best and worst ratings
Formerly known as the Intercontinental Eurasian Marathon, Kenyan athlete Daniel Kipkore Kibet achieved the best place in the Istanbul Marathon with the name of his son in 9 years.
Kibet is on the course when Felix Kimutai, who had a time of 2.09.44 in 2019, permanently finished a time of 2.09.57, which he reinstated in 2018.
In women, the best place was made by Kenyan athlete Ruth Chepngetich, the winner of 2018. Chepngetich broke the race record with a time of 2.18.35.
By the way, the areas to be finished in the second place are signed by İsmail Karagöz, the British Jacki Davis in 1991, with the track to be built in 1982 with 2.41.13 at the worst time.
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