The 2024 Renshou Half Marathon starts this morning, and the first large-scale marathon after the Spring Festival, Renshou Half Marathon bears the brunt! Renshou Half Marathon is the only three gold standard half marathons in China, and it is also the first stop of the National Half Marathon Championships, and all domestic masters participated.
In the end, Tashi Tsering and Zhang Deshun both broke the national record with a time of 1 hour, 1 minute 58 seconds and 1 hour 7 minutes 56 seconds respectively! The men's half marathon record was 1:02:30 set by Peng Jianhua in the Tour of the Eastern Half Marathon, and Tashi Tsering performed brilliantly, breaking the record and breaking the 62-point mark.
Tashi Tsering, born in Shigatse City, ** Autonomous Region, studied in the key amateur sports school of Shigatse City from September 2013 to August 2015, and entered the ** Autonomous Region Middle and Long-distance Running Marathon Team after the enrollment and selection of the Autonomous Region Sports School in September of the same year, and quickly showed good strength. In November 2022, in the men's senior 6km race of the 3rd Huangshan Cross-Country Running Championships held in Huangshan City, Anhui Province, Tashi Tsering won the championship with a time of 18 minutes and 41 seconds and broke the meeting record. In the men's senior 10km race, Tashi Tsering won the championship with a time of 31 minutes and 37 seconds. In addition, Tashi Tsering has won a number of honors at home and abroad. Last year, he was successfully selected for the Chinese track and field team to participate in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and 10,000-meter races at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou.
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Zhang Deshun was also brave at the beginning of the year, with a large PB, running the national record into the 68-point mark, breaking the national women's half-marathon record created by Sun Yingjie that has been in the dust for more than 20 years.
Founded in 2017, Renshou Half Marathon was co-organized with the Chinese Athletics Association for the first time in 2018, winning the "Bronze Medal Event" and "Natural Ecological Characteristic Event". In 2019, it bid for the "National Half Marathon Championship" for the first time, becoming the first championship in Southwest China and winning the "Silver Medal Event"; In 2020, it will become the first stop in Sichuan and a "gold medal event"; In 2021, it hosted the National Half Marathon Championships and became the first "World Athletics Label Event" and "Sichuan Sports Industry Demonstration Project" in Sichuan Province. The race result was less than 10 seconds away from the national record, and it was the "second fastest" half-marathon in China. In 2023, "Running all over China", "Running all over Sichuan" and "World Athletics Federation Elite Label Event" will be combined into one and become the "first half marathon in Southwest China".
This year, it was upgraded again, becoming a double gold Renma, and the goal is also to point to the national record, last year's East Half Horse, Wang Wenjie's second difference regretted that he failed to break the national record, and today Renma Track can break through the previous 10 seconds difference, becoming the highlight.
In the end, Tashi Tsering ran in excellent form, lived up to expectations and once again opened the national men's half-marathon record, and accelerated again with Zhang Deshun in the double dragon year. In 2024, the number of registered participants in the Renshou Half Marathon reached 16,624. Among them, there are 17 foreign athletes from 7 countries, 19 professional teams from 18 provinces, a total of 139 athletes, and 210 elite athletes. In order to help set a new record, Renshou Half Marathon arranged 113 referees from all over the country to participate in the adjudication, and the track was set up with 18 timing points to ensure that the result data was authoritative and effective.