Qilu.com Lightning News on January 1Shandong Sports and Leisure Channel News, today, the 2024 Yunding New Year's Day Climbing Vertical Marathon started at Jinan Yunding Building. Li Zheng, deputy director of the Education, Science, Health and Sports Committee of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Wang Qiang, deputy director of the Shandong Provincial Sports Bureau, and Zhang Hua, director of the Shandong Provincial Athletics Management Center, attended the event.
The competition was guided by the Shandong Provincial Athletics Association and jointly sponsored by the Jinan Athletics Association and Shandong Ronghui Sports Facilities. It is understood that the vertical marathon attracted more than 600 athletes from all over the province to participate, among them, the Shaanxi National Games track and field men's 50km race walking champion Bian Tongda is also among them. The competition consists of three categories: men's and women's individual competition group and parent-child group, with a vertical height of 339 meters and a finish floor of 71 floors. In the end, Shi Rongrong only took 11 minutes and 11 seconds to win the men's individual competition championship. The women's individual competition was won by Li Zhenling with a time of 14 minutes and 26 minutes.
Vertical marathon, as a mass sport in the form of "running stairs", is not limited by venues, time, weather and other factors, and is known as one of the most environmentally friendly and healthy sports methods in the world. Compared with ordinary marathons, the physical energy consumed is several times that of the same distance, which is not only a speed, but also a test of the perseverance of the runners.
Shandong Sports and Leisure Channel Liu Xiaoli.