Xinhua News Agency, WUHAN, April 13, 2019 Jimusaer in Xinjiang. The Tianshan Marathon Organizing Committee announced on the 13th that the event will start on June 30 in the southern Tianshan wind belt Jimusaer in Xinjiang Jimsar County.
This event has three projects: full marathon, half marathon and healthy running (6.5km), with a total competition scale of 5,000. Li Dongming, general manager of Beijing Centrino Sports Management Co., Ltd., introduced at the press conference held at the site of Wuhan Marathon Expo that all and half marathon routes are located on the accompanying highway of Tianshan scenic belt, participants can overlook the ridge snow and the roadside onion Green/pale green Yuan Ye, with Tianshan characteristics. The competition registration has been opened and is expected to end on May 19.
At the press conference, Huang Lisheng, the annual figure of the Chinese marathon and associate professor of sports department of Xiamen University, interacted with running friends on the spot. Huang Lisheng has completed 88 full-course marathons at home and abroad. He expressed his optimism about Tianshan marathon and believed that the development of Xinjiang marathon would form its own characteristics in the future.
Wang Jun, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Jimsar County National People’s Congress, said that the event aims to combine the characteristics of marathon with Jimusar’s own historical and cultural accumulation and characteristic geomorphic features, and through long-term continuous construction, form a unique “tourism + Sports” independent IP address.