Table tennis test competition of the 7th World Military Games begins

Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, May 1 (Reporter Feng Guodong, Li Jinfeng) on the morning of the 1st, the table tennis test competition of the 7th World Military Games and the 2019 Wuhan Youth table tennis competition were located in the opening area of Wuhan airport port (East West Lake District) wuhan fifth ring sport center gymnasium kicked off.

The table tennis test competition is organized and implemented by the military games executive committee. A total of 186 young athletes from 9 urban areas in Wuhan participated in the competition that day. During the three-day competition, they will compete in three age groups and seven projects.

9-year-old Qiao Yujin, a contestant, said: “I was a little nervous when I played in such a beautiful stadium for the first time. The venue is ‘high-end ‘. After the opening of this year’s military games, parents must bring me here to watch the game.”

Peng Tao, director of Wuhan competition committee and district chief of Dongxihu district of Wuhan City People’s Government, said that this event was an all-round test of table tennis venues of the military games, it aims to comprehensively examine various preparations of table tennis project, so as to sum up experience and find problems, and provide reference for running table tennis competition of military games well.

The 7th World Military Games will be held in Wuhan from October 18-27. At that time, nearly 10,000 active soldiers from more than 100 countries and regions will compete on the same stage.

2019 International Tian Lian road running Conference held in Lanzhou at the end of this month

Xinhua News Agency, Lanzhou, May 15 (Reporter Zhang Rui, fan Peiyi) the reporter learned from the media briefing on the 2019 International Tian Lian road running Conference and the preparations for Lanzhou International Marathon held on 15th that, the 2019 International Tian Lian road running conference will be held in Lanzhou city, Gansu province from May 30 to June 2, 2019. The CEO of the international Tian Lian, Jon lichen, and the Minister of competition and activity, Paul Hardy, will attend the conference. It is understood that this conference is the industry conference with the highest specifications in the world’s road running field and the largest number of countries, regions and people. It will also be the first official road running conference held by IAAF in China.

According to Wang Zhengxuan, director of Lanzhou Sports Bureau, the preparations for the 2019 International Tian Lian road running conference are currently being carried out in an orderly manner. After early invitation, a total of people from the United States, France, A total of 125 international guests from 44 countries and regions including Italy attended the meeting, including IAAF officials, international speakers, IAAF committee, etc, representatives from 50 IAAF sign events will also attend the meeting.

In this meeting, the participants will discuss and share the positive impact of road running on urban economy, society and environment around the theme of “road running to boost urban civilization, and will watch the 2019 Lanzhou International Marathon held in Lanzhou on June 2.

It is understood that watching the Lanzhou International Marathon is an important agenda of the 2019 International Tian Lian road running conference. This competition takes “international lanma and delicate Lanzhou” as its theme, setting 5 kilometers, half way, in the whole three projects, 138071 people from 19 countries and regions participated in the registration. After two rounds of lottery, a total of 40007 people signed the competition.

Lanzhou International Marathon was founded in 2011 and upgraded to the gold standard event of IAAF in December, 2017. Lanzhou Marathon is currently the highest gold standard event in China, so it is also known as the “Asian high Marathon”.