DUBAI MARATHON ROUTE CONFIRMED FOR JANUARY 7, 2024
– Runners Set for Return to Acquainted Course –
Dubai (UAE): The Dubai Marathon will return to its conventional “residence” within the coronary heart of town when the twenty third staging of the enduring sporting occasion is held on Sunday, January 7, 2024.
Sanctioned by the Dubai Sports activities Council, the 2024 Dubai Marathon will begin and end on Umm Suqeim Street with three races – the 4km enjoyable run, the 10km highway race, and the traditional 42.195km marathon distance – following discussions between occasion organizers, the Dubai Sports activities Council, Dubai Police, and the Dubai RTA.
“The Dubai Marathon is properly established as one of many largest annual sporting occasions on the calendar and is a agency favourite with runners of all ages and talents, so it can be crucial town will get totally behind it,” stated Dubai Sports activities Council Secretary Normal His Excellency Saeed Hareb.
“With our governmental colleagues, we are going to proceed to work intently with the organizers to stage one other memorable occasion that brings worldwide working into the guts of town.”
Runners registering for the 2024 version of the primary and oldest worldwide marathon within the Center East will begin and end on the Umm Suqeim Street near the Dubai Police Academy with the 42.195km distance taking in Jumeirah Seashore Street and passing within the shadows of the enduring Burj Al Arab and Madinat properties.
“We’re very grateful to the Dubai Sports activities Council, in addition to the Dubai Police, Dubai RTA, and Dubai Municipality, for working with us to facilitate the staging of the 2024 Dubai Marathon,” stated Occasion Director Peter Connerton.
“Whereas it’s a longtime route that has proved to be common with locally-based runners in addition to the rising variety of worldwide marathon vacationers from exterior the area, we all know that staging a metropolis marathon is a significant problem for the governmental departments, significantly with Dubai now being residence to some 3.6 million individuals.
“We merely couldn’t function on the streets of the emirate with out the assistance of our metropolis companions, and we thank the Dubai Sports activities Council for his or her invaluable coordination and ongoing help.”
The 2024 Dubai Marathon can be seen by high athletes, rising stars, and debutants as the right alternative to report an Olympic qualifying time simply over six months previous to the staging of the Summer time Olympics in Paris.
The course is called being significantly benign for each elite and common runners, so fast occasions are anticipated, significantly in early January when Dubai’s temperatures are conducive to distance working. Women and men have till April 30, 2024, to qualify for his or her international locations and obtain the usual set by the Olympic Committee and by their nationwide federation to compete within the marathon on the 2024 Summer time Olympics in Paris.
“Worldwide athletes are properly conscious that Dubai is a race that may put them within the international highlight and open doorways to a profitable profession in long-distance working,” added Connerton.
These seeking to compete in any of the three race classes – 4km, 10km, and the marathon – can register on-line now by the official web site dubaimarathon.org.
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