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Manipal Marathon – 2017 Stroke Awareness Run to be held on Mar 5

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Udupi: Running as a sport has been taking over the imagination of lakhs of people around the country. Students at the Manipal University also have found the joy in distance running and have a community of runners known as Manipal Runners Club, spearheaded by the students. They proposed a world class distance running event to the authorities at Manipal University. This idea caught the imagination of the board of the Manipal University and a decision to host a world class distance running event – Manipal Marathon, was taken, said Raghupathy Bhat, former MLA and President of Manipal Marathon Committee.
udupi1 Copy 1Addressing the media persons at Udupi Press Club on Monday, January 30, Raghupathy Bhat said that the first edition of Manipal Marathon would be held on 5 March 2017. The marathon will bring in the team from Protons Sports & Fitness, who have conceptualised and executed large marathon events across the country, he disclosed.

There will be four categories to choose from – Half Marathon 21.1km, the Timed 10K, 5K Fun Run and 1K Walk/Run. This event aims at introducing fitness as a lifestyle to the members of the entire community and hence has provided a large range of categories which caters to the beginners as well and seasoned runners who want to run their longest distance yet. This will be a timed event recording the timing of each participant in the event. The timing technology is being brought to Udupi region, where timing mats will record the time for every runner. Finisher’s medal with timing certificate will be provided to every 10k and 21k finisher. To promote running in the Udupi area, runners from Udupi Region completing the half marathon in 2.30 hours for men and 3 hrs for women will be awarded Rs 1000 each. The route will cater to the hydration needs of runners across all categories, while having the experienced team of Manipal Hospital to aid for any medical requirements.

Students from Manipal University will be looking at providing photographers and videographers across the route to ensure capturing of all candid moments of the participants. Each registered participant will be provided with a goodie bag which will include a t-shirt in addition to the running bib and timing chip. All registrations will be online, at www.manipalmarathon.com. Offline registrations will be available at Manipal University Campus.

This event is a joint effort of the Manipal Runner’s Club, Protons Sports and Fitness Pvt. Ltd, Manipal University and Udupi District Amateur Athletic Association. The route takes the runners from the University campus, to the greenery-filled Perampalli Road, heading towards Ambagilu Road and vice versa. The beautiful route was chalked out by the students of Manipal Runner’s Club.

Bhat said that Manipal Marathon will be a platform to raise awareness and funds for different causes, the primary cause being Stroke Awareness.

Half Marathon – 21 km: First prize Rs 70,000, Second Prize Rs 35,000 and third prize Rs 20,000. A prize money of Rs 5,000 will be given to 4th to 10th places.

10 km Run: First prize will be Rs 10,000, second prize Rs 7,000 and third prize Rs 5,000. In this case, there will be three groups like open group, Udupi district school college male and female students and third will be senior citizens.

The Udupi District high school students 5 km. and primary school students 3 km runs have been organised to support the athletes. For the high school division first prize is Rs 5,000, second Rs 3,000 and third Rs 2,000. For the primary school students first prize is Rs 3,000, second prize Rs 2,000 and third prize Rs 1,000.

Dr. Vinod Nayak, Sports Secretary and Secretary of Marathon Committee; Raghuram Nayak, Working President of UDAAA; Praveen Kumar Shetty, Secretary of UDAAA; Ashok Adyanthyaya, President of UDAAA and others were present during the press meet.

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