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May 1st, 2018
Run For Those Who Can’t
WFL World Run, providing funds for spinal cord research, will be held in İzmir on 6 May. The race with no finish line starts simultaneously in 12 countries.
Wings For Life World Run is organized by the non-profit Wings For Life Foundation, and the full revenue raised from the event is transferred to scientific spinal cord researches. The race will be held under the slogan “Run For Those Who Can’t” once again in its fifth year. Across its first four editions, the Wings for Life World Run attracted 441,021 people from 193 nationalities covering 4,276,640 kilometres. Besides the 12 countries that the event will be held, it is also possible to participate virtually by a smart phone application developed for the purpose. Detailed information can be reached at www.wingsforlifeworldrun.com.
In each of the cities the Wings for Life World Run is held, the competitors who are caught by a car are considered to have finished the race. The Catcher Car gives the runners a 30-minute head start, then takes off. The last runner to be caught by the Catcher Car in İzmir will be the Turkish winner, the last participant remaining in all cities will be crowned the world champion. Last year, the global winner was Aron Anderson of Sweden who covered 92,14 kilometres in Duabi before he was caught by the car. Veysi Aslan with 57,51 kilometres was the winner in İzmir.
Timing services of Wings For Life World Run in İzmir is provided by Depar Timing in cooperation with the German company Datacapo. Depar Timing utilises different timing systems that it owns, and the system used in Wings For Life World Run is ChronoTrack, which times also Paris and New York marathons.
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April 27th, 2018
Clubs To Compete in Çorum
International Hittite Run will see a clubs classification in its fourth edition. The event, organized by Çorum Municipality, is on Sunday, 13 May.
Being staged since 2015, the International Hittite Run attracts national and foreign elite athletes in the 10km race while a 3km run receives large participation from the locals. This year will be the first time that an inter-clubs competition will take place within the 10km. The finishing times of the best placed three runners of each club will determine the classification, in which the top three teams will be awarded trophies. The individual male and female winners of the 10km race will pocket 5,000 Turkish Liras, and the master athletes are offered prize money in a total of 15 age categories. There is also prize money in 14 age groups in the 3km public run.
Detailed information and the entry form can be found at www.hititkosulari.org, the official website of the event.
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April 25th, 2018
528 Guests For Carettas
Dalyan Open Water Swimming Race will be held on 29 April. A total of 528 swimmers will participate in the event, promoted as “Swimming with the Caretta Carettas”.
The entries for the Dalyan Open Water Swimming Race were closed on 30 March, and 528 swimmers were qualified to take part. The event is scheduled to start on Sunday morning, 29 April, from the İztuzu Beach where the Caretta Caretta sea turtles go ashore to lay their eggs. The participants will make a turn around Delikada, the island across the beach, and swim back to where they started.
In the race organized in 12 age categories, Hüseyin Levent Aksüt, who has turned 88 last month, will be the oldest participant. The youngest of the entrants is Ceyda Şevval Çelenli who will be 14 next July.
Dalyan Open Water Swimming Race is staged by Dalyan İztuzu Tourism and Introduction Foundation, and the timing services are provided by Depar Timing.
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April 24th, 2018
“Everyone Is Running To Bodrum”
5th Global Run Bodrum is set to be run on 29 April. Entries for the 5km and 10km events are processed online until 27 April.
Organized at Bodrum Cruise Port by Global Yatırım Holding, the operator of the port, the Global Run summons the road runners to Bodrum under the slogan “Everyone Is Running To Bodrum”. Registration is possible via the official website of the event at globalrunbodrum.com
Bib numbers and transponders for the event, where the timing services will be provided by Depar Timing, are to be distributed on Saturday, 28 April. The organisers offer the participants a boat trip, pasta party and a pop music concert on the same day. 5km and 10km races are scheduled to 9:00 on Sunday, 29 April, starting from the Bodrum Cruise Port, and will be followed by the Tiny Steps, a 500m race for kids in four different age groups at 10:45.
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April 17th, 2018
Ekiden Time For Toyota
The sixteenth edition of the traditional ekiden race, organised by Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey, will be held on 22 April.
The relay competition, open to Toyota staff, employees of its subsidiary industry partners, and their families, is staged on the 950-meter running course at the company’s Sakarya Facilities. Timing services for the event where no less than 138 teams competed last year is provided by Depar Timing.
The word ekiden comes from the combination of the Japanese characters for “station” and “transmit”. Team members pass the “tasuki”, which is the sash that each runner wears over one shoulder and under the other arm, to each other at a transition zone. Although ekiden races are not very popular outside of Japan, Toyota carries on the tradition in Turkey since 2003.
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