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A total of 1325 participants enjoyed the snowy weather of Otepää on the first day of the 44th Tartu Maraton’s main events. By exception, Estonia’s cross-country skiing team member and double Olympic champion Andrus Veerpalu’s son Andreas Veerpalu took part of the first amateurs’ race.

From Tartu Maraton to the World Championships

The reason why 22 years old Veerpalu will not take part in tomorrow’s elite race is simple: on Sunday’s evening, he is traveling to Lahti’s World Champs, where his first start is the 15 km CT on Wednesday. This is also the reason why Veerpalu didn’t ski the whole marathon today, instead, he stepped down from the course after the second six kilometers long lap. “The main goal for today was to do one strong workout. Conditions weren’t easy because it was hard to race alone with a strong headwind,” said Veerpalu. “Anyway, I think that it is great that Tartu Maraton takes place nevertheless on this lap made of artificial snow,” he added.

 The 6th FIS Worldloppet Cup stage live

44th Tartu Maraton continues tomorrow morning with the elite race, the 6th FIS Worldloppet Cup stage – women start at 8.55 am and men five minutes later. In addition to the elite race, there are two amateurs’ starts on Sunday, which start at 11 am and 14 pm respectively. There will be a live broadcast, commentated in English and in Estonian. We will host the broadcast on the Worldloppet website! So be sure to be online tomorrow from 8:55 (means 7:55 CET)