MANILA, Philippines — The second staging of the Manila Marathon this coming weekend drew an enormous variety of 19,000 contributors, making it one of many largest operating occasions to be held within the nation this 12 months.
Worldwide marathoner Rio Dela Cruz made the disclosure 5 days earlier than the worldwide race introduced by Samsung Galaxy, fires off on the SM Mall of Asia Advanced on Sunday.
The occasion options 4 races at 42km, 21km, 10km, and 5km, and provides a complete of P700,000 in money prizes, together with P100,000 every for the female and male champion within the premier 42km competitors.
“We’re completely happy to announce that we have already got 19,000 runners,” mentioned Dela Cruz in Tuesday’s Philippine Sportswriters Affiliation Discussion board on the convention corridor of the Rizal Memorial Sports activities Advanced.
“Yung ating 42k ay merong 3,000 (contributors), at ito yung nakakagulat, yung ating 21k ay could 7,000 runners, making it one of many largest 21k that now we have organized. 10k is inside 5,200, and yung 3k virtually 4,000 runners.”
With the massive variety of contributors, security and safety of the runners are of foremost concern for the organizers, in response to Andrew Neri, managing director of Run Rio Inc., who additionally appeared within the Discussion board introduced by San Miguel Company, Philippine Sports activities Fee, Philippine Olympic Committee, Good/PLDT, MILO, and the nation’s 24/7 sports activities app ArenaPlus.
“Parang dalawang occasion ito by way of numbers kasi ang common namin is round 8,000 to 10,000. E ngayon nasa 19,000. So ang ginawa namin doble din, doble yung safety namin, yung medical doctors namin, yung ambulances namin, since for us, security and safety are high priorities,” mentioned Neri.
Sanctioned by the Philippine Athletics Observe and Area Affiliation and acknowledged as a part of the World Athletics’ rankings competitors, the race will showcase members of the nationwide workforce resembling Christine Hallasgo, Artjoy Torregosa, Richard Salano, and Arlan Arbois in addition to entries from Japan, the US, Singapore, UK, Canada, Malaysia, China, South Korea, Kenya, France, Poland, Switzerland, amongst others.
“This race is just not solely essential for me but additionally for our nation dahil ito ay qualifying by our nationwide workforce for the Southeast Asian Video games,” mentioned Dela Cruz, president and CEO of Run Rio Inc. “So karamihan po sa kanila ay tatakbo para makita nila ang kanilang efficiency. At kung maabot nila yung customary ng SEA Video games, maaari silang makuha.”
The SEA Video games is from Decembr 9-20 in Thailand.
The race will run via 4 cities, particularly Manila, Makati, Paranaque, and Pasay, whereas it’ll additionally take runners via a number of the iconic landmarks within the nation’s capital such because the Rizal Park, Intramuros, Roxas Boulevard and the CCP Advanced.
Runners for the 42k would be the first to be flagged off at 12:00 midnight, adopted by the 21k at 4 a.m., 10k at 5 a.m., and the 3k at 5:30 a.m.
