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 “house” within the coronary heart of the town when the twenty third staging of the long-lasting 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 Highway with three races – the 4km enjoyable run, the 10km street race, and the basic 42.195km marathon distance – following discussions between occasion organizers, the Dubai Sports activities Council, Dubai Police, and the Dubai RTA.
“The Dubai Marathon is nicely established as one of many largest annual sporting occasions on the calendar and is a agency favourite with runners of all ages and skills, so it is vital the town will get absolutely behind it,” stated Dubai Sports activities Council Secretary Normal His Excellency Saeed Hareb.
“With our governmental colleagues, we’ll proceed to work intently with the organizers to stage one other memorable occasion that brings worldwide working into the guts of the 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 Highway near the Dubai Police Academy with the 42.195km distance taking in Jumeirah Seaside Highway and passing within the shadows of the long-lasting 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 in style 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 serious problem for the governmental departments, notably with Dubai now being house to some 3.6 million folks.
“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 assist.”
The 2024 Dubai Marathon might be seen by high athletes, rising stars, and debutants as the proper alternative to report an Olympic qualifying time simply over six months previous to the staging of the Summer season Olympics in Paris.
The course is called being notably benign for each elite and common runners, so fast occasions are anticipated, notably 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 season Olympics in Paris.
“Worldwide athletes are nicely 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 means of the official web site dubaimarathon.org.
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