On the morning of December 31, with the sound of the starting gun, the 2023 SCO Kunming Marathon was launched on the bank of Dianchi Lake, and 15,000 runners ran hard towards the front accompanied by blue sky, blue waves, wetlands and white gulls. At the same time, the envoys of the 26 SCO countries also met in Kunming to witness the "Shanghai Spirit" and the spirit of sportsmanship.
The race is divided into four categories: full marathon, half marathon, public health run (5km) and SCO parent-child run. The event is guided by the Secretariat of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the people of Yunnan Province, and certified by the Chinese Athletics Association, hosted by the Yunnan Provincial Sports Bureau, the Yunnan Provincial People's Foreign Affairs Office, and the Kunming Municipal People's Government, and organized by the Propaganda Department of the Kunming Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Kunming Municipal Education and Sports Bureau, the Kunming Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the Kunming Municipal People's Foreign Affairs Office, the Kunming Dianchi National Tourism Resort Management Committee, the Guandu District People, and the Chenggong District People.
Four days before the race, the SCO Kunming Marathon was held at the distribution site of the Dianchi Dam race bags. There are about 60 booths at the exhibition, focusing on the rich sports, tourism, cultural and creative products of Kunming, Yunnan Province. Here, there are not only endless tourist scenery, cultural and sports events, but also local specialties and excellent cultural and creative products that you can't buy enough, but also the cultural customs of the SCO countries.
In order to explore the integrated development of "sports +", during the event, a "preferential gift package" was also launched to runners, bringing together preferential activities launched by Kunming's A-level scenic spots, catering and trade, hot spring spas, etc., and pushed to every runner through the *** and ** platforms, so that runners can enjoy Kunming's winter gifts, and thus activate the city's economic cells.
The Kunming Cityscape Boutique Route is also pushed to runners in the form of "City Walk" through platforms such as Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, and **, encouraging everyone to participate in the "City Walk" check-in activity after the marathon, and recording the check-in process and experience in **and**, and the organizer will reward the check-in authors. In addition, along the track, the "Power Gas Station" also used various cheerleading teams and cultural performances to cheer for the runners and enliven the competition atmosphere.
The marathon is a meaningful activity to exercise and enrich your life, and today is the last day of 2023, so participating in this event is a special ceremony to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. Wang Yaodong, who participated in the 5-kilometer public health run project, said.
Shi Xiaoyu's family, who participated in the SCO parent-child run, happily introduced the harvest and feelings of the event to the reporter of Chuncheng Evening News-Kaiping News. "I've run marathons many times before, in both the full marathon and the half marathon. Now that my children have grown up, I want to make the whole family like this sport through my drive, so that our bodies and lives are getting better and better. Shi Xiaoyu's father, Shi Yonghui, said.
According to reports, since 2016, the SCO Kunming Marathon has been held for seven consecutive years, and has been well received by all parties in the SCO countries and sports enthusiasts. The total number of online and offline participants has reached 1.96 million, and it has won the bronze medal event and gold medal event of the Chinese Athletics Association, the bronze label event of the IAAF, the silver label event of the World Athletics Federation and the elite label event of the World Athletics Federation.
Today, the SCO Kunming Marathon is not only a sports event, but also a symbol of solidarity and cooperation among the SCO countries to build a closer community with a shared future, and a window for Yunnan and Kunming to show the world the achievements of the coordinated development of culture, sports and tourism and the construction of ecological civilization.
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