The 2023 Chongqing Marathon will be crowded with people. Information**.
2024 Chongqing Marathon, have you won the lottery?This question has become a hot topic in the marathon circle in the past few days.
According to the data released by the event operator, Chongma Sports, the registration for the Chongqing Marathon started on December 5 and the pre-registration ended on December 15. There are a total of 151662 pre-registrations in Malaysia, but the winning rate is only 398%。
Everyone can't help but wonder——
There are so many sports, why are you keen on marathons?
In many marathon events, why do runners favor heavy horses?
What can a marathon bring to the city?
01 Marathon is quietly becoming a national sport
The 2023 Chongqing Marathon will start. Information**.
Finally won this year!"Mr. Zhang, 42 years old, has signed up for Chongma for three consecutive years and won the lottery for the first time.
In recent years, more and more runners like Mr. Zhang have joined the "horse racing" camp because of their love for running. Marathons in many big cities require a "lottery lottery" to participate.
In this year's Beijing Marathon, 130,000 people rushed for 30,000 placesThe Shanghai Marathon was even worse, with a winning rate of only 137%。The winning rate of heavy horses this year is as low as 398%, first of all, compared with previous years, the number of applicants has increased significantly;The second is that among the 13,250 people who won the lottery, there are 8,000 reserved places, so there are only 5,250 runners in the lottery.
Swimming, football, badminton, ......There are so many sports, why are people so keen on marathons in recent years?
I used to like football, but as I got older, I couldn't get used to this kind of confrontational sport. Mr. Zhang said that the reason why he started running at the age of 39 is that compared with other sports, the marathon has relatively low requirements for participants' physical fitness and sports skillsOn the other hand, it is also a good choice for parks, trails, and communities as long as they can ensure safety.
Marathons are different from other types of sports in that they often involve not only professional athletes, but also many amateur runners. In the view of the person in charge of heavy horse sports, elite runners compete on the same stage with mass runners, which is not available in other sports. The breakthrough of professional players can inspire more amateur players;The pursuit of amateur masters reminds professional players not to relax.
Because of this, the marathon can mobilize the enthusiasm of the public to participate and enhance the sense of honor and gain.
It can be said that the marathon is becoming a national sport.
02 High gold content One of the domestic Grand Slam events
Along the way, there are unique landscapes in Chongqing. Information**.
Under the running boom, marathons have developed in a "blowout" style in cities across the country.
According to the official website of China Marathon, as of November this year, there have been 367 marathons across the country. The density of events has exceeded the average of one event a day.
There are many marathons, why do runners favor heavy horses?
Lan Xia, an elite runner who has participated in the Chongqing Marathon for four consecutive years, was lucky to win the lottery next year.
Lan Xia. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
Lan Xia has been the champion of Chongqing Marathon, Nanjing Marathon and many other races, with a full marathon PB (personal best) score of 2:50:17 and a half marathon PB score of 1:22:10, and was selected as one of the top 100 Chinese women's marathons in 2021.
I sign up for Heavy Horse every year, and the reason that attracts me is definitely that Heavy Horse is one of the four major Grand Slam tournaments in China. Lan Xia said that if the World Marathon Grand Slam is the temple of all marathon runners, then looking at China, the four Grand Slams are the top events of domestic marathons.
Lan Xia "cleared" the Chinese Marathon Grand Slam for two consecutive seasons, and also won the exclusive Chinese Marathon Grand Slam second-order eight-star finisher medal.
The Chinese Athletics Association created and held the Chinese Marathon Grand Slam event system. Jin Feihong, executive chairman of the China Marathon Grand Slam Organizing Committee, introduced that the goal of the event system is to gather China's top marathon resources, put forward the standards of China's high-quality events, so that China's marathons can be in line with international standards and achieve the goal of internationalization and marketization.
When selecting the founding members of the China Marathon Grand Slam, four more stations were selected among the 14 international gold standards in China, namely the Chongqing Marathon, the Wuhan Marathon, the Beijing Marathon and the Guangzhou Marathon.
In addition to the high gold content of the event, the heavy horse track has also become one of the reasons for attracting runners to register first.
The track is clean and comfortable, running along the river, and the buildings along the way are super beautiful, perfect for creating 'pb'. After running heavy horses for four consecutive years, Lan Xia feels that running heavy horses is a kind of enjoyment.
Chongqing's topography has a certain innate advantage for athletes to refresh their results. According to Tang Yuyu, an associate researcher at the Institute of Urban and Regional Economy of the Chongqing Academy of Social Sciences and a doctor of regional economy, Chongqing's unique track design that organically combines flat land with a small number of gentle slopes is conducive to the perfect combination of challenges and opportunities for contestants, and to a greater extent stimulate their potential beyond their personal limitsChongqing's unique climate and landscape charm along the river provide participants with a pleasant experience that will adjust the competition to the best condition.
03 Absorb experience and promote Chongqing to hold comprehensive sports events
The runners ran through the French sailor barracks. Information**.
According to official statistics, the competition has attracted more than 300,000 competitors from more than 190 countries and regions around the world for more than 10 years, and is broadcast live to the world every year.
Chongqing has also held many influential events like heavy horses.
Just last month, the 2023 China Cup World Figure Skating Grand Prix was successfully held in Chongqing, which is an international A-level event hosted by the International Skating Union (ISU) and the third time that the China Cup World Figure Skating Grand Prix has been held in Chongqing after 2019 and 2020.
The holding of popular events has a very obvious effect on the city's brand marketing and commercial consumption. According to statistics, Chongma drives about 300 million yuan of sports tourism consumption every year, and the creation and development of related supporting IP has driven the in-depth integration and development of business, tourism, culture and sports, and plays a unique role in attracting investment and economic and trade exchanges.
However, it is worth thinking that Chongqing has not yet hosted large-scale comprehensive sports events. Not long ago, the relevant person in charge of the Chongqing Municipal Sports Bureau said that in the past year, Chongqing is planning the construction of stadium facilities around hosting large-scale comprehensive sports events.
The successful experience of the heavy horse event tells us that in order for Chongqing to successfully host a comprehensive sports event, it is not only necessary to deeply integrate with the unique advantages of local resources, but also to provide support from first-class event venue facilities, competition hosting capabilities and the city's soft and hard foundation. In Tang Yuyu's view, efforts can be made from three aspects:
It is planned to build a number of major event venues and consolidate the cornerstone of the competition. First of all, it is necessary to optimize and improve the layout of the city's sports facilities, plan and build a number of modern, professional and intelligent stadiums and facilities with the ability to host large-scale comprehensive sports events and international single sports events, and promote the comprehensive level of the city's large-scale stadiums and facilities to enter the forefront of the country.
It is necessary to build a brand matrix of sports events with Chongqing characteristics and further enhance the ability to host games. Combined with Chongqing's characteristics, we will strive to bid for more international and domestic sports events, actively introduce professional event operation teams, hold professional events at a high level, and continue to cultivate and expand local events in Chongqing. Summarize the successful experience of Chongqing Marathon and other events, strengthen the accumulation and long-term systematic planning in the talent reserve of large-scale events, the organization of the competition, and the linkage of business, tourism, cultural and sports resources. Introduce or hold large-scale professional exhibition activities, international and national conferences and forums to improve the comprehensive service level of the exhibition.
It is necessary to strengthen the construction of urban soft and hard facilities and consolidate service guarantees. Improve the construction of urban supporting service guarantee systems such as roads, medical care, emergency response, catering and accommodation, improve the civilized quality of citizens, improve the dissemination, attractiveness and influence of Chongqing's culture, and enhance the city's soft and hard power.
The Chongqing Marathon, like the city, is enthusiastic, open, vibrant, and full of hope.
Hualong Net reporters Qiu Xiaoya and Dong Jinwen.