SEB 31st Tartu Running Marathon set new records
On Sunday, on the 12th of May SEB 31st Tartu running marathon was held. Marathon was won by Roman Fosti who broke the course record of Estonian men with his time being 1:15:50 (overall course record is 1:11:38).
Records were broken also concerning the number of finishers – unofficial results show that in total of 4031 crossed the finish line of different distances of SEB 31st Tartu running marathon making it the absolute record number of finishers in the history of Tartu running marathon. Running marathon had four different distances: 23 km running (2013 finishers), 23 km Nordic walking (242 finishers), 10 km running (1287 finishers) and 10 km Nordic walking (489 finishers).
Children’s races of SEB 31st Tartu running marathon brought along almost 20% growth in the number of participants – in 2012 there were 2610 children, this year the number was remarkable 3115.
This year brought along the very first Charity run. Charity run was an event where all the people who took part in the run donated in order to collect money for therapeutic water gymnastics for rheumatoid children of South-Estonia. Organisers hoped for approximately 200 participants, but there were altogether 577 participants. With the help of pharmaceutical company Teva the donated sum was 3808 Euros.
The programme of the running marathon consisted of more events than the main event on the 12th of May. Official training, children’s events, charity run together with the running marathon itself brought together 8336 people that is 1546 people more than in 2012.
Race director Kunnar Karu: “Organising the running marathon went quite calmly and I am happy that we had the chance to offer the best marathon emotions for so many people. I am especially glad that children’s events are popular as the children are the future of our sports.” About the future: “There aren’t very big plans concerning the running marathon, but we have some plans concerning the course – the idea is to change the course a bit so it is more united with the legendary Tartu ski marathon course,” says Karu.
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